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ellarienMaybe it's just me, but the XP backup tool does not seem to be the sharpest knife in the drawer. Usually I just hand-copy the files I care about, but I took a fancy to do a real backup of the Butterfly laptop tonight, all 60+Gb of it. I should have known it wasn't going to work when it wanted me to put a floppy in the drive, but I managed to get it pointed at the half-Tb external HD. After which it churned cheerfully away, backing up temporary files and internet cache and junk like that, until the backup file exceeded 4Gb, then gave up. I ended up just copying my "My Documents" folder the old-fashioned way.
Vista, on the other hand, has a backup utility that actually seems to be useful.
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Date: 2007-10-04 04:53 am (UTC)Hahahaha. Oh well. :)
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Date: 2007-10-04 05:22 am (UTC)I am just about old enough to remember computers that could be backed up on a couple of boxes of floppies; I've even done it, a time or two. There is, in fact, a floppy drive attached to my peripheral hub -- I keep it around in case I ever need to rescue an ancient file -- but I'm not convinced the backup program knew that.
Also, I seem to remember an antivirus program that kept wanting to create a rescue floppy on a system that was not and never had been floppy-enabled. They don't seem to do that any more.