It's 2006 and Backups For Home User Still Tricky?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday August 30, 2006 @02:35PM from the backup-data-density-still-lags-behind dept.

CranberryKing asks: "What is it about backups that always seems so difficult? I am trying to do a simple backup on my home XP system/s (about 30GB of files) that will write to my DVD burner. I don't want compression (most of it is MP3s, which don't compress well). I want a routine to simply write my selection to the DVD writer and spread it across however many discs are required (rather than me manually approximating and copying to each disc). I want the files on the disc readable from any system, so no proprietary backup wrapper or DAT files, please. My last attempt was using a free program that looked good called Simply Safe Backup, but it created two coasters before crashing with an unknown error. If I can just get a full backup to work smoothly, then I'll worry about scheduling, incremental, and encryption. This seems like a very common scenario for home & small offices. Is there an elegant, reliable & cheap (free) solution to this?"

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Re:OS X 10.5: Time Machine by Achromatic1978 · 2006-08-30 17:18 · Score: 0, Flamebait

even though the functionality is only in Windows Server 2003

And that makes it what, nonexistant? It is there. The reality distortion field isn't that strong, is it?
Vista's version is nowhere near as easy to use or as intuitive as Time Machine

And this is based on what, an objective and in depth review of Time Machine and Vista? Or the carefully scripted and brief presentation in Jobs' keynote? Or just rabid Apple fanboyism?
Because though no-one had/has done it yet, you've still leapt on the opportunity to refer to them as rabid fanboys, completely ignoring your rabid Apple fanboyism. I love it "easy to use and intuitive (because I saw Steve do it on stage via a Quicktime video and it looked simple!)".