Give away of the day

[kinetica]

You normally get pretty mediocre stuff on this site but occasionally there's a little gem. This is one of them - today they're giving away Paragon Drive Copy SE. Rush down and pick up a free copy now because tomorrow they'll be all gone! It's a great hard drive copy and backup program.

(I keep that site open in a tab all the time - really is worth it for free utilities)

[jvila]

for me the best to do that task is Symantec Ghost

[kinetica]

Sure, but most people don't think about ghosting and backups, and this little gem is free for a few hours only

[pauland]

for me the best to do that task is Symantec Ghost

Maybe, but can it beat the price?

[Burpee]

So, now I need another drive to put it all on

I've got a My Book 232G but it's only got 91G free already and I just got a Verbatum portable drive (think it's 240 too) but moving anything to it takes FOREVER!!!! It's like a flash drive, I guess. It came with no instructions and I found that it had Nero installed to it. I was going to put all my gigs of 3D content on it but just one folder took 1-1/2 hours to copy to it. If I ever lose the 3D folders it would take months to get it all back.

In any case, how much room would I need for the backup? It says it's fast. Would it be fast copying it to the Verbatum drive?

[kinetica]

I'm afraid the data transfer speed to and from your Verbatim drive is limited by the drive itself, not the backup software. The only thing that would make it (marginally) faster is decreasing the size of the data with compression. I've had a look at their site and if it's like this one then it's certainly not a flash drive. But, either way, gigabytes of data will take a long time to transfer. But once you have a full backup, thereafter you just need to take incremental backups, which should be much, much quicker.

[handrawn]

agreed

I use USB external drives [which I believe the verbatim to be?] and data transfer is definitely slower than with internal drives