Terry’s Computer Tips newsletters November 12th
Terry”s Computer Tips newsletters November 12th
My weekly email and on-line newsletters are now available:
This week’s online articles include:
- Backing Up Your Computer & Data
- Updates Last Week discusses updates from Microsoft and other software publishers whom I track
- Backing Up to External Drives
- Firefox 2.0 Bookmarks
- HOWTO: Adding a SaveAs Button to Word/Excel/PowerPoint
- My Computer Security Software Recommendations updated.
- Dialup Internet Changes
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Did I not keep Karen’s Replicator long enough? I downloaded and installed it. Did a backup with it and compared the size with my winzip backup and the KR backup was much bigger for the same data. Did I not have some setting as it should have been?
I think you misunderstood the function of Karen’s Replicator. Replicator duplicates the file structure, starting at the directory level you specify. It makes copies of files and updates those copies when the originals get changed (assuming you rerun Replicator). It does not compress the files. You could actually open and work with any of the files — they’re just files in a different directory.
WinZip, on the other hand, encapsulates everything into one zip file. Each time it is run, it recreates the whole file (a zip file that it makes, that includes all the files and directories you specified).
Replicator would only update the individual file(s) that changed.
Terry is spot on about Acronis True Image. It is the best program to create drive images available. If you don’t have it you need it.
True Image offers incremental and differential backups where only the changed files are backed up. This results in a base backup file and one or more additional files containing the changes to create an image set. I suggest you only do full backups. Todays drives will store at least 2 complete images. A full backup creates one file, lessening the change of deleting part of a set, or other facts of life affecting your backup.
Great minds think alike, lol.