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Make is a very functional, free and useful tool that can do what you wan't.
You will need to do some initial setup, but once you setup the makefile, the
rest should be a cinch. If you are using windows, you can get make with the
cygwin package, www.cygwin.com .
20GB of data? That's gonna be about 30+ cds, yikes! If you are going to do
this regularly, I'd recommend a different media (even though you said not
tape), and wouldn't discount the value of retail tools. If you have the
fastest retail CD-RW (10x I think), you are still talking about 6-8 minutes
to record a 650MB cd. Multiply that by 30, and there goes the afternoon just
swapping discs out of the drive.
Sure recovering from tape is slow, but it seem like a pick your poison
situation. Spend more time doing the backup, or more time doing the
recovery. Since you must back up all the time, and recover (hopefully)
infrequently, there is a huge time savings in using tape.
Another thing to consider is an ATA-RAID controller and some new hard
drives. For not much more than a fast CDRW drive, you could probably get a
pair of 20GB drives and a controller. You do lose the advantage of taking
the tape/cds off-site though.
Best of luck.
Richard Smith
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> Subject: OT - Backups
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> I need a free but reliable backup program to backup some 20 G of data on
> Personal PC - this will be to CD not tape. Any advise or recommendations.
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> A quick Search - reveals more than a 1000 relevance results on backup -
> thus the request for help.
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> Thanks
> Tron
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