I received many many replies from my off topic posting. I love ham radio and the generosity of people to others in need. THANK YOU. My investigations reveal that this would be the single largest expe
While somewhat off topic, there is an excellent program available called "Second Copy 2000". The website for it is www.centered.com. Basically you can set the program to automatically backup any of y
Sorry you had to learn this hard lesson. Until the last couple of years, I never backed up. Now our two main computers both have an identical 2nd hard drive that is used to store nightly backups. I a
This sounds similar to Iomega Automatic Backup which I have used for several years: http://www.iomega.com/software/autobackuppc.html I have a two-tiered backup approach. When a file on my ham PC chan
_________________________________________________________ I see you've been given some good suggestions on how to back up your data, but the method many IT professionals recommend has not been mentio
Author: "Gary Ferdinand W2CS" <w2cs@bellsouth.net>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:15:33 -0400
I'll toss in one further comment to the excellent input given here. "Just" having nightly (or whatever) backups in my mind is necessary, but not sufficient. I need to have some degree of protection a
The latest version of Norton Ghost supports DVDs. 73 de Goetz dj3iw@t-online.de -- Original Message -- From: "Bill Turner" <wrt@dslextreme.com> To: <writelog@contesting.com> Sent: Thursday, July 08,
You can also, if you have partitioned the drive, place the image of each on the 2 partitions. However, a warning about Ghost. I use a dual boot 98 SE XP+ machine in the hamshack. C is the 98 hd with
_________________________________________________________ This is risky because you are placing the image on the same drive as the original. If the HD dies, you lose both the original and the image.
_________________________________________________________ A good point. This is why it is not good to re-write over a previous backup until a long time has passed and you're sure the older copy is no
I realise this thread is off topic but it is very useful indeed as I have often wondered what I would do if my hard disk crashed. A question - sorry if it is naive. If I have a HD of say 40Gb that is
The reason professionals use imaging is faster recovery... and I have encountered difficulties with it in the past when restoring to a different drive geometry. NT4 was troublesome in this way... it
For me the secret to backing up is to make sure that all of the files that I have created are located in "My Documents," and to back up only "My Documents." If the hard drive fails, I just resign mys
Likewise, sorry to hear it - and the impact. And though OT for this group - I'll share a couple of thoughts on the topic. PCI based IDE RAID adapters are quite cheap: a nice Promise card can be had
The Windows backup program isn't automatically installed with XP. With XP Home Edition, it's on the CD-ROM in the \VALUEADD\MSFT\NTBACKUP folder. Once you install it, you can locate it in Start-->All
Keep in mind that backup programs only work when you RUN THEM! Does the Microsoft Backup support automatic, unattended operation? If you manually have to initiate backup, I can almost guarantee that
Yes. Most right hand tab (at least on Windows XP Professional) is the Scheduled tab - uses built-in Windows scheduler to run backup scripts you setup at the times/dates desired. I guess that's becau
_________________________________________________________ When you create the image, you have the option to compress it, which I always do. In my case, I have about 5.5 gb on my HD which compresses d
_________________________________________________________ Dave has a very good point. It depends partly on your "style" of computing. If you are a person who rarely installs new (untested) programs a
Likewise, sorry to hear it - and the impact. And though OT for this group - I'll share a couple of thoughts on the topic. Some months ago I picked up (at a CompUSA store) a Western Digital external