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Here's my method, for what it's worth:
Daily, or, often, a few times a day, backups of the whole drive with
System Guardian to a dedicated backup hard drive. Monthly, backup of
all important files and data to an external USB hard drive in an
enclosure, using Nero software. Once or twice a year, burn all
important files and data to CDs to be kept long term.
If there is a software oriented trashing of the system or a drive
failure, I'm up and running in less than five minutes, though I've
lost up to a few hours of data. In case of a power related wipeout of
both internal hard drives, I would reinstall Windows and programs and
transfer all the important stuff from the external hard drive. In
case there is a problem with the external drive or something bad
happens during restore or I forgot to backup a file, I have the CDs.
I've thought about storing the CDs and the external drive (one of two
of them, for rotation) in a deposit box at the bank, in case of a
house fire. I'm not quite that paranoid yet, though I have experienced
two hard drive failures and a tape drive that ate my backup tape with
all my tax info on it during restore.
On 7/19/05, Code 2 <code2@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm neither paranoid nor implying anything. There is nothing unusual
> about encryption software having this. In fact, PGP offers it as a
> feature called Additional Decryption Keys for organizations' security
> officers. At least PGP is up-front about it.
>
>
>
> From: cwest <cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 12:15:02 PM
> Subject: HD Backup software
>
> If the world thought that or was as paranoid as you're implying you are, it
> wouldn't be :). I think you might be watching too much TV, LOL.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code 2 [mailto:code2@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 12:08 PM
> To: Omega Listserver
> Subject: Re[4]: HD Backup software
>
> > Respectfully of course, I'm still at a loss as to why anyone would
> > want to do it the hard way!
>
> I guess it's whatever lets you sleep nights. With an offsite backup
> service, you are trusting the service does not have backdoor access to your
> encrypted backup files. This is kind of like wondering if your bank is able
> to open your safe deposit box without your key.
>
>
>
> From: cwest <cwest@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: 'Omega-List' <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 10:15:32 AM
> Subject: HD Backup software
>
> Yuk!
>
> Jimmy, with RAID 0, if a drive fails, all you have to do is swap it for a
> new drive without turning off the PC. This you conceptually know, right. No
> rebooting, cloning, etc. It couldn't be easier.
>
> If a virus has corrupted anything, which seems to be a rationalization for
> doing images from which to recover, you have 2 choices if you can't manually
> fix the corruption. From offsite bup restore the corrupted folder or
> registry, or restore to XP's last restore-point. Either way takes 2-3
> minutes. With offsite bup you can go back several iterations if necessary.
> These are no-brainers. No swapping cables or disks etc.
>
> Respectfully of course, I'm still at a loss as to why anyone would want to
> do it the hard way! Btw there are tools that'll do restore points
> periodically or whenever there's a change to the registry.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jimmy Snowden [mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:52 AM
> To: Leslie_George; Omega-List
> Subject: Re[2]: HD Backup software
>
> If you really want to test your brain use BOTH. With Serial ATA drives you
> can have RAID. Then you can have a ATA or serial drive in addition to the
> two serial ATA drives back up on.
>
> I didn't use RAID but did use two Serial ATA drives that Casper cloned one
> to the other. Then I also had a bootable IDE type ATA drive that had
> everything on it including a nightly backup using Windows XP's shadow
> backup. The beauty of this is you can, depending on your BIOS options, boot
> to the IDE drive instead of the Serial ATA drives by simply making a change
> in the BIOS during your reboot.
>
> Sorry to complicate things,
>
> Jimmy
>
>
> Thanks for all the advice. Will consider RAID but probably will go with
> Casper.
>
>
>
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