From: noone@nowhere.noway.con   
      
   On 05/06/2013 15:15, Tim W wrote:   
   > On 05/06/2013 15:04, philo  wrote:   
   >> On 06/05/2013 08:51 AM, Tim W wrote:   
   >>> I used a free 'easeus' backup frogram for years to make data and system   
   >>> backups to an external hard drive I bought for the purpose. Last week I   
   >>> discovered I had inadvertently deleted some files so I went to try to   
   >>> recover them from my extensive backups. Easeus would not open even one   
   >>> of the backup files it had made. It seems I was wasting my time - and   
   >>> those backups were really slow too.   
   >>>   
   >>> I turned to MS Backup in System tools and it won't write a file big   
   >>> enough to be useful - is it a 4Gb limit? I could backup onto 20 DVDRs   
   >>> with that if I wanted to but I don't. I want a nice simple way of   
   >>> backing up all my data before the Hard drive fails on the old machine   
   >>> and if it helps me recover from system failure then that's good too but   
   >>> the data is really important. If I have to set it running and go to bed   
   >>> that is fine, as long as it actually works.   
   >>>   
   >>> At the moment I have no backup of anything. I don't want to spend the   
   >>> time going through the whole drive copying individual folders all day.   
   >>> How do I back up my data from XP? How can it be so difficult?   
   >>>   
   >>> Tim W   
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   >> Is your file system Fat32?   
   >> It has a 4gig file size limit   
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   >>   
   > I had not thought of that.   
   >   
   > It is ntfs on the C Drive and Fat32 on the external drive. Easeus split   
   > the the backup into 4gig files but it turned out it was then unable to   
   > read any of them. Windows backup writes until it gets to 4gig then stops   
   > and says it can't complete the task.   
   >   
   > Tim W   
      
   I use Acronis TrueImage and make partition backup images.  They can   
   be restored back to other/replacement drives, or opened and   
   individual files retrieved.  Automatically split into chunks which   
   work on whatever filesystem the backup device is formatted with.   
   Not free, but you can get a free version from some of the HD   
   manufacturers websites as they provide a limited version for   
   cloning to new hard drives.   
   --   
   Rob   
      
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