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Rod Speed
brett said:
Basically nothing will work. You'd have to have the spare waiting in case its needed.
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Basically nothing will work. You'd have to have the spare waiting in case its needed.
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brett
Basically nothing will work. You'd have to have the spare waiting in case its needed.
That's what I mean. I'll have an hard drive in some type of case with
some type of connection up in the closet. When the primary hd
crashes, I'll copy the backed up image (from 2nd pc) onto the spare
hd. Then connect the spare hd up to the laptop and use it until the
replacement hd arrives.
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Rod Speed
That's what I mean. I'll have an hard drive in some type of case with some
type of connection up in the closet. When the primary hd crashes, I'll copy
the backed up image (from 2nd pc) onto the spare hd. Then connect the
spare hd up to the laptop and use it until the replacement hd arrives.
You cant do that, you need to have the replacement in the closet too.
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brett
You cant do that, you need to have the replacement in the closet too.
So basically I'll need to purchase a backup internal HD and put it up
in the closet. When the primary crashes, I get the backup HD out, put
it in the USB cradle and copy the image from the 2nd PC onto the
backup HD. Then put the backup HD into the laptop. That sound right?
The only problem now is that HP requires you to send in the laptop for
HD replacement (under warranty). There's about a 4 or 5 day turn
around time. So the backup HD really won't come into play while the
laptop is under warrenty. I guess in this scenario, I can keep doing
the images and also backup certain data files. While the laptop is
away getting fixed, I can access the data files (MS Money, Outlook) on
the 2nd PC. Once the laptop arrives, I copy the image onto it and
restore the modified data files from PC2.
In regards to incremental imaging (Acronis TrueImage), if I'm doing
incrementals every night and on Tuesday I copy a 4GB file onto the HD,
then on Wednesday delete it and then do an image restore on Thursday,
is the 4GB file restored? I imagine it isn't since the last
incremental doesn't have it.
Thanks,
Brett
So basically I'll need to purchase a backup internal HD and put it up
in the closet. When the primary crashes, I get the backup HD out, put
it in the USB cradle and copy the image from the 2nd PC onto the
backup HD. Then put the backup HD into the laptop. That sound right?
The only problem now is that HP requires you to send in the laptop for
HD replacement (under warranty). There's about a 4 or 5 day turn
around time. So the backup HD really won't come into play while the
laptop is under warrenty. I guess in this scenario, I can keep doing
the images and also backup certain data files. While the laptop is
away getting fixed, I can access the data files (MS Money, Outlook) on
the 2nd PC. Once the laptop arrives, I copy the image onto it and
restore the modified data files from PC2.
In regards to incremental imaging (Acronis TrueImage), if I'm doing
incrementals every night and on Tuesday I copy a 4GB file onto the HD,
then on Wednesday delete it and then do an image restore on Thursday,
is the 4GB file restored? I imagine it isn't since the last
incremental doesn't have it.
Thanks,
Brett
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Rod Speed
So basically I'll need to purchase a backup internal HD and put it up
in the closet. When the primary crashes, I get the backup HD out, put
it in the USB cradle and copy the image from the 2nd PC onto the
backup HD. Then put the backup HD into the laptop. That sound right?
Yes.
The only problem now is that HP requires you to send in the
laptop for HD replacement (under warranty). There's about
a 4 or 5 day turn around time. So the backup HD really won't
come into play while the laptop is under warrenty.
Yes, you basically have to give up on the warranty if
you need to have a working laptop quicker than that.
I guess in this scenario, I can keep doing the images and also backup
certain data files. While the laptop is away getting fixed, I can access
the data files (MS Money, Outlook) on the 2nd PC.
Yes, that will work fine.
Once the laptop arrives, I copy the image onto it
and restore the modified data files from PC2.
Yep.
In regards to incremental imaging (Acronis TrueImage), if I'm doing incrementals
every night and on Tuesday I copy a 4GB file onto the HD, then on Wednesday
delete it and then do an image restore on Thursday, is the 4GB file restored?
I imagine it isn't since the last incremental doesn't have it.
Correct. But if you do want it, you can restore the second to last incremental image.
You cant if you use differential images instead of incremental images.
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brett
Yes, you basically have to give up on the warranty if
you need to have a working laptop quicker than that.
Yes, that will work fine.
Correct. But if you do want it, you can restore the second to last incremental image.
You cant if you use differential images instead of incremental images.
Thanks again Rob. Very good thread.