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backing up files/directories to CDs
With my maintenance plans for backup jobs, I can control how long the backup files will remain, days, weeks, months, before deletion. With my differential backup jobs, I do not seem to have the ability to control the residency of a differential backup file to disk, at least I am not aware of that capability yet,

OT Reminder: Back up your old backups
I have read that any little change to a file or folder will cause it to get listed for incremental backing up again, and that antivirus programs were a main cause of small changes being made. Since I changed my antivirus program in December from Norton to Avast, my incremental backups seem smaller and that perhaps

Question for backing up files.
My hard drive recently crashed and I had a windows backup files stored on another drive. I had my hard drive replaced and used my system restore disks to restore the original configuration which worked fine. Now I try to restore my backup files using the windows back up and restore wizard and it tells me when I try

backing up files with xp
I placed it in F:, the game plan being to copy c: folders c/w sub-folders & files to F:\Back ups. Once I got the hang of using it (I'm far from a pc whiz) things went well for a while. Then today I backed a few more folders, checked the destination drive & folder & saw that todays zips did not appear in the

backing up files with cd burner
Maureen Goldman inkslin...@FOGsunshine.net microsoft public windowsxp help_and_support "Desperate" <lcbsc...@yahoo.com> wrote: I have Windows XP and i don't know how to back up my files just incase my computer might crash. Please can anyone tell me how to backup my files? Desperate If you want to back up your

Installing SP2 without backing up files & docs
Joachim Feise jfe...@ics.uci.edu alt os linux comp os linux misc Rajesh Radhakrishnan wrote: Hi, thanks for your replies. i read the howto and created the .iso of the files/directories i wanted to back up. however some of the .tar and .tar.gz files that i backed up got corrupted and both tar and gunzip complained.

backing up files difficult in Win 98
In Windows 98 I could back up OE messages by copying the ".dbx" archive file contained in the folder: C:\WINDOWS\Application When I search for ".dbx" files I get a whole lot of them. How do I back up and retrieve my messages in Windows XP? Phil They are hidden files. You must set Windows Explorer and Search to

Backing up files on XP
Hi I have been having trouble backing up onto a cd, so I can then restore it on another computer. I am using a packet writing software, it seems to backup OK, but then when I restore, it takes about 1 second, and then says it can not open the file. I have tried backing upto cd drive then copying those files and

backing up files to cd
Tom Stiller tomstil...@comcast.net comp sys mac system In article <081220020030310073%sm...@ecoisp.hatespam>, Stephen Mack <sm...@ecoisp.hatespam> wrote: Hi all, I want to back-up my important files onto disk in OS X, easy enough. But many of the files are dynamic and need to be backed up on a regular basis,

Backing up files in XP
I'm trying to set it up to backup my files using "SmartBackup". When I try to backup my files "SmartBackup" gives me the message that my disk is full. This is a brand new disk! I can copy the files mannually by coping and pasting, so the drive and disk are good. I get a similar message, "ensure that you have

OT --- backing up files
Start now by backing up your My Documents folder. --- Leonard Grey Errare humanum est socks wrote: I always hear about backing up your system. I don't have a lot of things to back up. However, I would like to know if there is an automatic way of backing up files. If not, what is the best way to do a back up?

backing up files on CD-RW
Now, from time-to-time I back up important stuff. Basically, I have a file called documents on my removable media and I just generally delete the back-up folder documents and then just copy the whole mess from my hard drive and paste it to my removable drive. Are you maintaining multiple backup copies on separate

Question about Backing up files
As I look over the folders created each day, I notice tremendous variation in the size of each day's backup file: some days, it's 4mb; others, it's 30gb; others, it's somewhere in between. I can't see a pattern. The real problem, though, is that there are a lot of those 30gb folders, and they're filling up the hard

Complete PC backup
John Pollard inva...@invalid.com alt comp software financial quicken Steve JORDI wrote: Hi, I told Quicken (2008 in my case) NOT to backup files. I don't think so. I have a backup process on my computer that takes care of saving those files. But I don't want to back up the files I didn't ask for.

Backing up files
Maybe after making a backup it becomes invisible. I have no idea. Running Vista Ultimate 64-bit Polish version on my WD Raptor HDD. Really strange. P. "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote: I make it : start/all programs/maintenance/backup and restore center/"change settings" link below button for "Backup Files"/ click "Change

Error backing up files
We specify the name of the backup files, so the files are replaced by the new backup. When the backup is complete the same file names now contain the new backup and old backup is gone However, I'm actually more interested in how SQL Server handles the space when backing up a database over existing backup files.

Backing Up Files
If you have XP Home and have the complete XP Home CD, find backup on the CD, in \ValueAdd\MSFT\NTBACKUP and install it yourself by doubleclicking the file ntbackup.msi. If you don't have an XP CD, you can download ntbackup.msi at http://www.onecomputerguy.com/software/ntbackup.msi Also see

Backup File Sizes
Jean-David Beyer jdbe...@exit109.com comp os linux misc donba...@email2me.net wrote: I have a problem backing up files on my Linux machine. I have tried using tar and cpio but the file exceeds the 32 bit file size limit of 2 GB. Ideally I would like a backup that was a replication of the file system so I could

Backing up files
Ken Blake kbl...@this.is.an.invalid.domain microsoft public windowsxp general In news:8B27465C-ABD4-41A2-ADE7-A6565CD2A9BA@microsoft.com, Linda <Li...@discussions.microsoft.com> typed: Is it necessary to backup my documents and files before downloading and installing SP2? No, it's not strictly necessary.

Back up and restore utility will not restore back up
I want to just do a complete reformat and reinstallation of Win XP, but ideally I'd save some of the files. I can't get it to join my local home network -- possibly because of its damaged and corrupted state. ISTR that there was a way to hook it up directly to another computer so that I could transfer files from