ECN Forum Forums Technical Discussion Re: Computers and the Internet Archive / Backup [.ZIP] utilities

Hello all,

Looking for suggestions on a good and powerful Backup / Archive utility that has compression ability [.ZIP], or can be used with a ZIP utility.

Need to install on a few clients' small sized LANs [about 8 workstations max].

They are simple Peer-To-Peer networks [Win95], and each has a dedicated "File Server" machine that is used only to host a logged drive for workstations and archive important files [on a slave drive].

I installed PKZIP by PKware [common .zip utility], but it's not easy for them to figure out, or use it.

I do part time administration [if you could call it that ], which involves routine maintenance and manual archive / backup updates. This is once every few months.

Looking for a good utility that can be configured to save daily stuff at an off time, plus backup / update archives - all that good stuff! and it needs to be something that a typical end user [non-geek] can work with, so I don't get those panic - emergency calls because something is too hard to understand.

By the way, it needs to be somewhat "Dummy Proof" - to keep the tweekee gremlins from screwing up stuff

Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!

Scott SET

Scott,

I would take a look at reviews at ZDNET.com
I have used PK Tools myself, not too much experience with Winzip so no recommendations there. I'm not sure where it came from (possibly the PLUS PACK) but I've got a utility that's integrated into the right click menu (win 98) that lets you either extract from a zip file or select files and send them to a compressed folder. This is in Win 98 - I've had that for years (beta testing), I don't know if 95 had anything like that as I went from 3.11 to 98 I never had 95.

I don't know if any of this is any help or not, but you convinced me to add yet another category to this BB.

Bill

Bill,

I'll check out ZDNET and post results.
Thanks for the new catagory!

Scott SET

Norton's Ghost by Symantec seems to be the cure all for back ups. The reviews are good, but I've had no experience with it.

Go to: http://www.symantec.com/ghost/