Fragments From Floyd

Not quite an incremental backup - but have tried putting the stuff you want to back up in the windows briefcase, and them dragging the briefcase to the DVD drive? Not sure if will work - but future backups would back up only files that have changed - not perfect but the price is right.

Another idea - maybe free if you have an old computer laying around. Put a second hard drive in your PC and use Windows scheduler to copy everything to it periodically. Cheap and easy.

Finally, check here for shareware / freeware options.
http://www.tucows.com/backup95_default.html

wish I had some suggestions, but I'm not knowledgeable in this area (that means I'm dumber than a stick when it comes to such things). But one thing for sure, you've put the fear of Viroids into me. I'm awful about remembering to do backups.

You think I would have learned -- a few years ago I was burglarized and someone stole my computer. All the writing from approx 5 yrs was gone, because I had never backed it up. I remember vowing to never become complacent about backing up my data, ever again.

thanks for reminding me to keep my word to myself.

I'm spoiled because, at work, I have multiple drives that are on servers; thus, each of them is backed up each night. At home, I figure there isn't a lot that I couldn't live without so I put all of My Documents on a CD every 6-12 months (which is more often than I used to do before I got on the net--then, I backed up before I reformatted my hard drive. From experience, I had found in past years that backing up was a waste of time. Any time I really needed to retrieve the backup of my hard drive--it didn't work! Things are better now.)
As for the wormy things, yes, we all got hit pretty hard by them; but, mostly we've survived. I have set my protective software to "high security"--something I'd not done, before. I'll keep it there for another week or so (it's a real pain because it requires a lot of real-time action on the user's part), then set it back to normal.

I was expecting a lot of good responses to this one ;-)
I don't know of any good free backup solutions, but I have heard good things about Dantz's Retrospect Pro. might want to check that out if you can't find a less expensive route.

--Jeremiah

Okay...gonna try this again:

Here's an easy to use, inexpensive ($20) utility with a 14-day cripple-free trial.

Photo Backup!
http://www.onthegosoft.com/

Publisher's Description:
"Scans your hard drive for new photos (or other file types). It knows what's been backed-up before and only copies new or modified files to a CD. Uses multiple CD volumes and does incremental backup. It includes a complete set of tools to help you manage the backup, including detailed textual and graphical reports of where each file is stored, instant statistics telling you what needs backup and CD management tools to replace or re-label CDs."

They have been writing for Windows since Win98 so it should be stable.

Here's a fast download from ZDNet:

http://downloads-zdnet.com.com/3000-2242-10253374.html