Suggestions please for backup programme to use on 2 PCs. Both PCs have CD/DVD drives. I want to backup both desktop and laptop pc's onto the same DVD+RW disk and add incrementals weekly or so. Must be able to add data to the same disk but backing up from 2 pc's and obviously restore to both pc's if necessary. Also, I need Vista Support. Thanks!
My favorite back up program was Seagate BackupEXEC which got bought out by Veritas, now I think STOMP Inc bought it out. I just use Norton GHOST now to back up everything to either DVDs or an external hard drvie.
You can use Paragon Drive Backup (http://www.drive-backup.com/). I completely restored my computer with the software. It worked flawlessly and completely restored my C drive and all applications. The program has saved me countless hours of rebuilding, no doubt - it is one of the best backup products I have ever worked with! I really do not advise Norton Ghost, I had a bad experience... even more it has no vista support now.. Hope I could help you!
You need the most reliable program. The last thing you need is problem when you need to restore your data. Norton and others have problems. I used Acronis to completely restore my computer. It is not problems free, but much better than others. See http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
Acronis and Retrospect. Acronis definitely has the better user-interface, but both are very quick, very reliable, and used in large corporations (read, accepted, well-established product!). HTH.
In the past, I have tested back-up situations in an IT environment with both Acronis and Ghost. I prefer Acronis as the better backup software. - Greg
I am using this free backup software. http://www.runtime.org/products.htm It works well except you cannot schedule it. Edit: Sorry, you can schedule it to run backups.