MP3 and Backup

So in an earlier blog I talked about including mp3 to be selected and played by the user on a web site, I suggested a couple of systems to do this, well now I have opted for a third option its called the webpod but the whole of the Search This Site should be interesting to most web developers, if you want to see what webpod looks like then visit our family web site and have a look at our music page.

Now on to backups ok for people like me I uses an industrial strength backup system to tape. so I Rarely look at backup systems aimed at the home users, it was only the other day when I was visiting my father in law that I took another look into this area. here the basic story, father in law purchased his first home PC when he retired. been a users for quite sometime in the office so can do the basics but has never had to install software or back up anything. its a big learning curve going from a total end users with support on tap to a PC owner, so over the last few months we have been slowly teaching him new stuff. now he purchased his PC from Dell and although I am not a lover of Dell in the corp Environment I think the PC's they make are fine for home uses. First problem came about a month ago when he kept getting out of disk space errors what is a scary thing after just a few months of a new PC so we set up a remote connect and I had a look, I discovered that Dell had create a 10GB partition and had by default configured Vista (yuk yuk yuk) back to backup all pictures all video and just about everything else and its dog to this 10GB partition, the second problem is Vista backup doesn't do incremental backups or overwrite old backups(that I can find) so 10GB went very fast.  So I cleaned out the old backups but within a month the error message was back. So I had a look to see if you could be more selective about what you backup, Simple answer not really, you can say only backup my pictures and Doc but you can't say Ignore this folder as I have the contents on DVD so it was time to go looking for something else and I found this Cobian Backup I have to say I was Impressed no end, not only can you do incremental backups and also select how many full backups you save but you can ask it to backup to a zip file saving more space but still easy to access even if you don't have the backup software installed scheduling is easy, good interface generally a very good all round produce and its open source too. So if your stuck with Vista dump Microsoft so called improved backup and move over to Cobian Backup, 10 out of 10 to the developer   

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