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One method of backup is not enough.
1) You need a software that backup your important data
to multiple devices at different intervals.
http://www.backtec.com/minman.htm
Is a good one.
2) Back to DVD and take it home daily in case of theft
or fire.
3) Backing up your hard drive is a good extra power to you.
MinuteMan Data Backup is very useful to backup your important data,
such as your Favorites, Email, Notes, customer information,
your personal documents, pictures, etc.
It would have been a catastrophe for me without it, because
somewhere along the line a drive would take a dive, data gets lost,
or get infected with a virus.
I do rotary backups of the same backups to network computer,
local drive, CD-R/DVD-R, and external USB drives.
Using a drive image software for if my drive froze is great
but can't rely on it 100%. Actually it could fail you on the day
you need it. Because it has failed making a mirror, because
you are having problems with the current drive.
An addition of Raid 1 (requires two hard drives) is more power
to you, for if the master drive took a dive, then you can boot from
the second drive instantly.
But remember to separate your important data from your operating
system and what software is installed in it, because all that can be
re-installed.
If you do mirror to an external drive:
Use a USB drive kit with a drive of your choice that has
been partitioned and set as bootable.
Mirror to it, take it out of the drive kit enclosure, install it
in the computer, and see if it boots up.
Not all mirroring software can guarantee to make an external
drive bootable.
"Joe" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>>This looks like a reasonable product. From you previous
> posts it sounds like
>>you want something that will mirror your internal drive.
> You could set this
>>up via a software mirror between your internal drive and
> a volume on the
>>external RAID. You may find too much of a performance
> penalty because the
>>external drive enclosure uses Firewire or USB 2.0. You
> may have to use a
>>disk cloning package like Norton Ghost and image your
> drive at the end of
>>the day, or schedule it for a time when you are not
> using the PC. A better
>>solution would be a internal SCSI drive mirrored to an
> external SCSI drive.
>>I've never actually tried setting up a software mirror
> to a external
>>Firewire or USB drive so I would be interested to hear
> how it works if you
>>try it. As mentioned in other posts RAID gives you fault
> tolerance but is
>>not a backup solution. What happens in the event of a
> fire, flood, theft,
>>file system corruption from a virus, or just
> accidentally deleting the wrong
>>files?
>>
>>Kerry Brown
>>KDB Systems
>>
>>
> You are close. The drives would be used to back up files.
> I have 3 internal hard drives. 1 for OS and applications,
> 2 for data storage (mostly video/images/DVD authoring). I
> need a way to back up the files to another drive in case
> my internal drives go down. I work within a hospital but
> don't have enough network drive space to back them up.
> The hospital wants 7,000 dollars for 500gb of additional
> server space from our department. I think that is a too
> much money considering I can buy 2TB for half that. I was
> going to just buy a 1TB external hard drive to archive
> the files to, but thought this would be a more secure
> solution. I am not going to work off of the drives. I am
> just going to copy files to them. I thought that if one
> of these drives should break I can get another one and
> have the others rebuild it (the reason for the Raid). I
> usually sit down once a year and back up everything to
> DVDs but it takes a lot of disks and DVD burning is still
> pretty slow. I am not really concerned about the speed of
> the drives. They do however make a SCSI version for about
> 400 dollars more, which I could get.
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