Backup Restore plan

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I am trying to help a friend with a backup and restore
plan for her business computer.

She does not have the capacity to backup everything so he
has decided her critical items are to backup what she has
in her Outlook setup and My Documents that have her
critical documents. All of this should fit on a CD. She
has all her original Win2000 OS and application CD's.

My thought is to have her back up: the system state, then
Documents and Settings and My Documents.

The issue is what would be the best sequence to restore
assuming a full restore?

My thought would be: install the OS, install the
applications, restore the system state, restore Documents
and Settings and My Documents, Update OS.

Would the above sequence work? What would be the problems
that I would need to look out for?
 
Two years ago, I had a catastrophic Drive failure.
I was using a tape back-up system, and the back-up failed to restore.
I sent the drive out for Data Recovery, but was not recoverable.
I lost EVERYTHING except for what I had sync'd onto other computers, put on CD's, Zip and Floppy disks.

Since then, I've started using Norton Ghost to back up my entire system.
I simply CLONE the entire drive... even the system drive.

I don't think I have the words to express how successfull and reliable and STRESS FREE backing-up has become ! ! !
Honest... and the program is relatively cheap.

For every HDD, I have a matched pair.
I use removable drive cartridges to simplify swapping back-up drives around.
My computer has 6 HDDs and 2 spare cartridge slots for back-ups or moving drives around...
THATs allot of data to keep safe!

This method works beautifully, because it by-passes Windows completely.
The computer is booted with a DOS boot disk, and the program runs off the diskette in DOS.
Therefore, even when cloning the System files/partition/drive... ALL files are back-ed up... no files are skipped (as has been my experience with various other 'back-up' methods or systems or programs....)

It's also relatively simple to implement.
A small investment in HDD cartridges and an extra Drive or Two...

I reccommend that you seriously explore this option.

Oh... BTW... I use Outlook also... you can simplify keeping your outlook data safe by finding and moving the Outlook.pif file into your "My Documents". I put it into a sub-folder called "Outlook" (very original, huh?), and then make it a hidden folder.
After you move the file and start up Outlook, you'll get a message that it "can't find the da**ed thing" (paraphrased) and then you can browse to the new location.

----- myrt webb wrote: -----

I am trying to help a friend with a backup and restore
plan for her business computer.

She does not have the capacity to backup everything so he
has decided her critical items are to backup what she has
in her Outlook setup and My Documents that have her
critical documents. All of this should fit on a CD. She
has all her original Win2000 OS and application CD's.

My thought is to have her back up: the system state, then
Documents and Settings and My Documents.

The issue is what would be the best sequence to restore
assuming a full restore?

My thought would be: install the OS, install the
applications, restore the system state, restore Documents
and Settings and My Documents, Update OS.

Would the above sequence work? What would be the problems
that I would need to look out for?
 
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