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Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Chicago' for 'CDT/-5.0/DST' instead in /backup/qa/www/sub/rss/product.php on line 46
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The interface is complete as far as it goes. It is easy to select top-level folders for backup and to schedule jobs.

The product is quite a bit more capable than the documentation suggests. For example, a "job" is just a rather well-thought-out text file with simple sections in the manner of the old "INI" files. The interface won't let you drill down below a top-level folder (at least, on Vista Ultimate), but this is easily overcome: create a "job" by selecting anything you like from the choices offered, then save it. Next, edit it with Wordpad. It's perfectly obvious how to do that, and you can specifiy folders and files to any level.

I got into the zip backup game after going to Vista. Vista removes the friendly old NTBACKUP, which was a kludge, but reliable and not hard to use. The replacement is a poor-to-fair incremental backup system based on zip files. I am still learning how much to rely on that thing and I lacked NTBACKUP, so the next best thing was one of the umpteen thousand zip file products out there. After evaluating several, ZipBackup won.

Just as I did with NTBACKUP, I schedule Zipbackup to run every day at 3:00 AM. It takes a full backup of everything I care about to an external hard drive, clobbering the backup taken yesterday. Therefore I have 24 hours to burn a daily off to DVD. If I don't get around to it, there's not a lot of risk.

I never back up the OS, commercial programs, etc. I can always reinstall the OS and reinstall all the programs and tools I use. I do that about every 6 months anyway because Windows is awful about flushing the toilet. After 6 months or so, it gets gummed up with junk, no matter how many cleaners and scrubbers and things you use.

What I back up are files I can't recover any other way. My correspondance, finanacial records, etc.

ZipBackup goes in my toolbox as a welcome addition.
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The interface is complete as far as it goes. It is easy to select top-level folders for backup and to schedule jobs.

The product is quite a bit more capable than the documentation suggests. For example, a "job" is just a rather well-thought-out text file with simple sections in the manner of the old "INI" files. The interface won't let you drill down below a top-level folder (at least, on Vista Ultimate), but this is easily overcome: create a "job" by selecting anything you like from the choices offered, then save it. Next, edit it with Wordpad. It's perfectly obvious how to do that, and you can specifiy folders and files to any level.

I got into the zip backup game after going to Vista. Vista removes the friendly old NTBACKUP, which was a kludge, but reliable and not hard to use. The replacement is a poor-to-fair incremental backup system based on zip files. I am still learning how much to rely on that thing and I lacked NTBACKUP, so the next best thing was one of the umpteen thousand zip file products out there. After evaluating several, ZipBackup won.

Just as I did with NTBACKUP, I schedule Zipbackup to run every day at 3:00 AM. It takes a full backup of everything I care about to an external hard drive, clobbering the backup taken yesterday. Therefore I have 24 hours to burn a daily off to DVD. If I don't get around to it, there's not a lot of risk.

I never back up the OS, commercial programs, etc. I can always reinstall the OS and reinstall all the programs and tools I use. I do that about every 6 months anyway because Windows is awful about flushing the toilet. After 6 months or so, it gets gummed up with junk, no matter how many cleaners and scrubbers and things you use.

What I back up are files I can't recover any other way. My correspondance, finanacial records, etc.

ZipBackup goes in my toolbox as a welcome addition.
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