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"Neil Maxwell" <neil.maxwell@intel.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 11:35:47 -0400, Yikes!ItsIke
> <Yikes!ItsIke@younameit.com> wrote:
> >
> >On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:38:53 -0700, Neil Maxwell
> ><neil.maxwell@intel.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>For full, simple, scheduled image backups, it's hard to beat True
> >>Image (www.acronis.com), but it backs up your whole partition. They
> >>have a demo version that you should try first to make sure it supports
> >>your hardware.
> >>
> >>For selective file backup, Second Copy (http://www.centered.com/) does
> >>an excellent job of file/directory-based backup, and will keep
> >>archival copies of changed files if you want.
> >>
> >>Both are pretty much transparent once you've got the schedules set up.
> >
> >
> >The disks I need to make backups for are on different drives and
> >partitions. For exampl my C:\Windows is on C, but the files I really
> >need to back up are on my F: drive, and my G: drive
>
> This is similar to how I run at home. I have 4 partitions: OS/apps
> (C
, games (D
, data (E
, local archive (F
, plus an external
> archive drive (Z
.
>
> True image does automatic weekly fulls and daily incrementals of C:
> and E: (and a weekly alternate backup in case something goes wrong
> with the first set), since this lets me recover quickly from a crash
> and preserves all my data. I also break the weekly alternate into DVD
> sized chunks and dump it to DVDs once a month or so to put in the
> safe.
>
> I don't care much about the games, and don't have the backup capacity
> for them anyway, so I'll just reinstall them if it comes to that.
>
> The F: local archive has lots of low priority big stuff I can get off
> the 'net again (videos, patches, etc), but also has all my MP3 files,
> which would be a lot of work to re-rip, so I use Second Copy to back
> them up to directories on the external archive drive. The rest of the
> stuff is too big to archive without buying another disk.
>
> I also back up a few other PCs over the 'net, including a laptop that
> takes about 2 hours over a wireless G card. This one is not real
> reliable about it, but the rest go just like clockwork.
>
> >I've been tracking a WD 200gb 2mb cache drive price. Its down to about
> >$106 or so.
> >
> >Am I correct in my thinking that because I'm only using this drive as
> >a backup, I don't really need a drive with 9mb cache?
>
> It's my experience that interface is more critical than cache
> (FireWire is a good bit faster on my system than USB2), but I haven't
> really researched it too hard, since it all happens in the background.
> Others here may have better feedback on that aspect.
>
> Reliable and big are my 2 main goals for a backup drive.
>
>
> --
> Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer
Hi Neil. I've been following this and have some questions about TI. For an
XP OS partition, will it really image the entire content, including all of
the open and hidden files used by XP while it is running? How does the
restore feature work? Bootable CD / DVD? Can it be run while in XP? If you
break the full image into DVD sized chunks will TI be able to "stitch" them
al back together during a restore?
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