Microsoft Backup program with OS W98SE

[brit54]

Hi all,
I am struggling to find a usable backup program that is not too complicated to use. I tried Backup Plus and Retrospect 6.5 and finally the backup program provided by Microsoft with their OS W98SE.

Both the first two were too complicated and expensive to buy (about $100) after a 30 day free trial. Microsoft's program says I need to aadd more media after backing up about 4 GB of the 15 GB on my C drive.

I am backing up to a new 60 GB external hard drive from Buslink identified by my system as drive D. It's tied into my system via a USB cable connection.

My onboard system is a PIII 700 Mhz 30 GB single hard drive system using W98SE. There is about 15GB of data on the hard drive that I want to backup, and then schedule regular backups thereafter of modified/new files.

The backup program halts after about 4 GB of files have been backed up and asks for more media. I don't understand as the extenal hard drive has nothing else on it and is showing to be about 25% full in My Computer.

Help please with this program and also with your recommendations for other backup software I can try out.

Thanks in advance.
Peter E in Tucson AZ

 

[brit54]

Good day all - well I am now trying out a backup program originally from Veritas who sold it to Stomp Inc. BackUp MyPC (Formerly Backup Exec Desktop by Veritas). It seems simple enough for this ignoramous..however on my W98SE PIII 700 Mhz machine which uses the FAT 32 file system, you cannot do an unattended backup of a large amount of data (my C drive contains 15 GB right now) because the backup program halts every 4,300,000 GB or so for you to enter a new continuation file name for the backup in order for it to continue. I am told that the only way to overcome this problem so it will perform unattended backups is to convert the file system from FAT 32 to NTFS. Where can I learn how to do this and is it a good idea ?
Thanks
Peter E.
Tucson, AZ
(Geez it's hot - DAMN HOT as Robin Williams would say
And Mount Lemmon outside my front door is burning !