backups

[mcsefinally]

I am going to using 2000 Professional in an office. I want to be able to do daily data backups of QuickBooks(small files-fits on floppy now) and another small database. Then weekly do a system backup- Does this sound feasible?

 

[RSeymour]

I don't see why not. The backup tools in 2000 aren't all that special but even they should be able to handle a simple routine like that. Just set them up and scheduele them.

 

[kellyla]

There's some good documentation on how to use the built in windows backup utility at geekgirls.com. One additional thing though. If you are using CD-RW's to backup your data, it seems to need you to trick the system into thinking that CD is a network drive in order to work in Windows 2000 Professional. So, you format a CDRW for read/write access (using some utility like Roxio Direct CD or something like that), you share out your CDRW, then you map a network drive to the CD on your machine. This will let the backup utility accept your CD as valid backup media. Kind of wierd, but it works great.