ellarien | (no subject) (Reply)

Maybe 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.