Having played around with the different Rollback/Timeline software available I decided to look again at my backup procedure.
I'm just installed Win XP 64 on one drive but wanted to keep Win XP 32 up and running on another just in case the transition wasn't successful. I decided to put my valuable data on a third drive to keep that separate and back up to an external drive.
I've always used a Maxtor One Touch which has served me well but in the last few months it's decided the software won't run so is now just a stand alone external drive. It used to be very useful having the incremental backup and sync software, worked a treat but never mind...time to move on.
Having bought Acronis True Image Home 2011 I've only really used the Clone drive option. I don't like the way the backup works and it uses a little too much CPU for my standard spec. system. So I started to look at other backup software. It quickly became apparent that none of the software I was looking at did what I wanted. After searching I realised that maybe I should be looking at Synchronisation software rather than backup.
This search led me to a few programs but the two that have impressed the most are SyncBack and Goodsync. Suncback is my preffered option at the moment and scheduling regular sync across drives is pretty painless and not too cpu intensive. You do have to make sure you get your options set up correctly or it ends up emptying directories and shifting them elsewhere!
Two free programs then that are certainly worth a look and offer something most bloated backup programs don't
