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Backup your data with Second Copy

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by gregmitchell2k

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Several articles I read this week suggest that one should use a second hard disk to backup their data files. In additional to the local hard disk backups, one should also backup the data to a remote computer or to a removable media for offsite storage. I researched and tried over a dozen backup utilities and I settled on Second Copy. It is the easiest and the best designed automatic backup utility in its class. You can schudule the backup jobs daily, at a certain time, on startup as well as at shutdown. It also has a built-in compression utility that can compress files to save disk space. Once you setup the Second Copy profiles, you simply sit back and be assured that you will always have a "second copy" safe somewhere else. You can checkout their evaluation version at http://www.secondcopy.com And the best part is that it is under $30.
Greg Mitchell, San Jose - CA.

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by maxwell edison

..... in your sales/marketing position with Centered Systems (the creators/distributers of Second Copy).

However, I do have a couple of systems using a second hard drive as a backup drive (in addition to an additional third-tier, off-site backup for the data), but I use the second drive to image the entire c-drive (something Second Copy apparently can't do) so that, in the case of a hard drive failure, I can actually boot up on the backup drive as well. Changing the first boot device in the system BIOS could get such a system back on line in seconds - much better than simply backing up data files.

by gregmitchell2k

I don't work for Second Copy, but I thought it was a nice piece of software at a fair price. I use it with Windows 98SE and it does allow me to copy the entire C drive to D drive including the registry files. Here is how I use it for registry files: I use "ScanReg.exe /Backup" command to make a backup of the registry before the profile runs using the Second Copy 2000's Run Before feature. This copies the user.dat, system.dat, Win.ini and System.ini files to a rb*.cab file in Windows\SysBckup directory. Then I use Second Copy to backup the rb*.cab files that can be used to restore the registry files.

by andrewsbm

I use Second Copy to copy up files from our remote sites over Frame Relay and the software works well.

by djent

This a limited solution to data loss and a bad solution to drive failure. Anything short of redundant full backups with off site storage is fools gold, shiny but worthless.

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