Backup Strategies

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Branden Wolner

Hi,

I have a win2k (currently SP3) laptop and I am exploring different backup
strategies. My original hard drive fried out on me and I only had backup
copies of some items. I lost a lot of stuff and it pissed me off. I have
Ghost 2003 and my hard drive (40GB) currently has a primary partition of
8GB NTFS. I have other partitions on the drive but they are all empty. All
my files are on c:. I also have an external firewire harddrive (180GB). I
have made a couple of Ghost images of my primary partition so far - takes
about 15 minutes. I'd love to hear about ways other people backup their
stuff - and whether you keep some stuff in particular partitions.

Thanks.
 
Branden Wolner said:
Hi,

I have a win2k (currently SP3) laptop and I am exploring different backup
strategies. My original hard drive fried out on me and I only had backup
copies of some items. I lost a lot of stuff and it pissed me off. I have
Ghost 2003 and my hard drive (40GB) currently has a primary partition of
8GB NTFS. I have other partitions on the drive but they are all empty. All
my files are on c:. I also have an external firewire harddrive (180GB). I
have made a couple of Ghost images of my primary partition so far - takes
about 15 minutes. I'd love to hear about ways other people backup their
stuff - and whether you keep some stuff in particular partitions.
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Ghost 2003 works well and it's fast. Good tool for making a full
backup of everything. And being back in business "right away".

With there being that much free space on your HDD, you could
use one of the partitions to store a local backup of your data (my
documents, downloads, etc). It obviously won't help if the hard drive
packs it in, but it would give access to a previous version if needed

I use Ghost 2003 on the full HDD to a second, removable laptop HDD.
Also sync the data files with the desktop, under Windows. And
periodically make a full backup of the data files only. Onto a
dedicated HDD and using the W2K copy function. I think the latter
procedure is important as a faulty sync operation or reverse ghosting
could cost me my data.

You are using encryption, I would recommend making a non-encrypted
backup of the data files and storing it in a secure location.

Roger
 
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