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windows XP backups
Dear Genie,
In backing up my hard drive--data only, not my operating system or programs--onto an external drive, is there any reason to use the Windows backup utility (which generates that one big .bkf file) instead of just creating a mirror of my files? It seems individual files would be more useful because then if I accidentally delete an mp3 or something, I can just hook up my external drive and copy the one file back to my internal hard drive. I can't do that easily (AFAIK) from a .bkf backup, and I *think* the bkf file is about the same size as the individual files that its backing up.
Bonus question: do you recommend any particular free backup utilities (of the sort that will just mirror my files) that works with XP that I could run manually every so often to copy any new or changed files onto my external hard drive?
In backing up my hard drive--data only, not my operating system or programs--onto an external drive, is there any reason to use the Windows backup utility (which generates that one big .bkf file) instead of just creating a mirror of my files? It seems individual files would be more useful because then if I accidentally delete an mp3 or something, I can just hook up my external drive and copy the one file back to my internal hard drive. I can't do that easily (AFAIK) from a .bkf backup, and I *think* the bkf file is about the same size as the individual files that its backing up.
Bonus question: do you recommend any particular free backup utilities (of the sort that will just mirror my files) that works with XP that I could run manually every so often to copy any new or changed files onto my external hard drive?