Best way to backup stuff?

Question

wots the best i.e. the quickest and most comprehensive way to back up stuff on ur computer?

Answer 1

The most comprehensive way would be to backup the entire hard drive or partitions either to an external usb hard drive or cd/dvd media; if you choose compression it will be quicker than a 1:1 backup
Acronis True Image 7.0 is free here
http://www.acronis.com/mag/vnu-ati7

If you just want to make backups of selected files/folders, there are plenty of free tools
Cobian Backup
http://www.snapfiles.com/reviews/Cobian_Backup/cobbackup.html
Syncback
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/SyncBack.html
Back4win
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/back4win.html

Online backup for free (various storage limits) with
Mozy
http://mozy.com/
Diino
http://www.diino.com/
Xdrive
http://www.xdrive.com/

It's often wise to backup to both cd/dvd and external harddrives or a second internal drive; choose cdr/dvdr in preference to cdrw/dvdrw; choose the best quality blank media you can afford.

Answer 2

I use 3rd party software for that. Many people like Norton Ghost but I prefer Acronis True Image. Ghost can't create differential backups, it is more expensive and unlike True Image it can't backup certain files or folders (it operates only with full drives or partitions). After all True Image supports MS Vista. Here is a link to the True Image site: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

Answer 3

The Best and quickest way is to:

back it up onto:

CDS
DVDS
FLOPPY which is out of date
USB STICK

tip use burning software to make it even better

good luck

Answer 4

the best way is to use 3d party backup progs like true image, it's the most easy and reliable way.

Answer 5

Make backups to CD, or DVD's, using Ghost, or just simply burn your files to Disc.

Answer 6

Buy an external hard drive and back all your files an to that

Answer 7

save stuff on discs