[edgar]

Automated backup of my laptop - secondary to my carbonite subscription.

This is a very nice on the road alternative for backing up when the internet isn't always available or the cost is prohibitive. I NEED this. I have critical files I am constantly manually backing up. MS just doesn't provide a satisfactory solution, and most others are proprietorially tied to their hardware, or reduced versions.

[edgar]

Automated backup of my laptop - secondary to my carbonite subscription.

This is a very nice on the road alternative for backing up when the internet isn't always available or the cost is prohibitive. I NEED this. I have critical files I am constantly manually backing up. MS just doesn't provide a satisfactory solution, and most others are proprietorially tied to their hardware, or reduced versions.

[wynand32]

I (frighteningly so) have 7 systems on my home network. I hate backing them all up, so the network backup capabilities would be nice.

[John Lane]

I lost my hard drive with all my photos on it, and most were not backed up. Worse, my nephew was killed in a car crash shortly thereafter. I plan on having the hard drive professionally fixed one day, but I just can't spare the cash yet.

[mamoleh]

I've been terrible! Just backing up, period, would be an improvement!

[awinner]

Getting my dauters to backup thier sysems on the network would save me from having to hear them whine when they get some Malware on thier computers and I have to rebuild the OS, but they have to rerip all thier CD's. Not to mention the lost homework, photo's,.....

[haveblue128]

I am the absent minded professor type to the core. In the past, I have totally failed to arrange a good backup plan for both PCs.

In my third year of grad school-well into writing a dissertation-while working late one night, I heard the sound of impending disaster: My hard drive suddenly stopped working and my system was unable to ID it. Next, my entire PC began to vibrate. It sounded like tiny beer cans were bouncing around inside. The hard drive was dead albeit it sounded like it threw a tie-rod.

While most of my research and 140 pages of my dissertation had already been printed out, I lost nearly three months worth of work as I write directly to my PC. Beyond that a full 80 gig HD was lost with a large picture library. Wedding pix, our golden retrievers and fun shot of my pals. While in "Backup Rehab" since that time, I am of a mind that you can't backup your work too much. The NTI software would help as a "one-size-fits all" backup is less than perfect.

[txa1265]

My horror story was when my wife's laptop died hard, and since she was terrible about keeping her PDA charged it was completely dead as well - and the only backup was on a Jaz disk that had become corrupted.

Our resulting systems is crappy but effective - periodic full backups, and multiple continuous manual backups of critical files.

Per machine!

So the #1 feature I saw was the net backup for all computers: both my laptops, my wife's PC and the kids laptop ... all together. *that* would be cool!

[dave_p_1]

Encryption is the key feature I'm looking for. I've been lucky. I upgrade computers often enough that my hard drives don't have time to fail. But I did have a scare when my latest PC wouldn't boot. It turned out to be a broken SATA cable but I decided to try to be good with backups. The generic solution I have, though, doesn't do encryption and I worry about having all sorts of personal information on a CD.

[KevinM10]

All features, in fact I don't have backup software, just RAID and an additional hard drive that I manually backup files.

My son accidentally deleted the entire music library off the primary "server" using itunes delete. (I've got all the music on one PC and all household PC's map to it.) He thought he was only deleting from his local library.

Worked out since I started the effort using WMA ripped with Windows media player (mistake-quality) while I-Tunes is, well I-Tunes. Decided to re-rip everything with exact audio copy in MP3 format universal compatibility. Also changed the naming scheme to keep everyone happy. We're about 45% re-ripped.

Joy

[Jason Dunn]

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