Where may I find "basics of getting started" for backup?

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Assuming my system has a 100 GB drive, of which the usual space is for Vista
Home Premium, and the rest of a 10 GB manufacturer (DELL) installed recovery
partition and the rest for user files, what size external drive should I be
using for backups?

From reading the posts and documentation, I understand the "first backup" is
"complete" and then following are incremental until backup determines it is
time to a "complete" again (using the decisions decribed in the flowchart in
this discussion group).

I've a "spare" 200 GB Seagate. Will this do?

How can I set up to have "duplicate" backups so that I can have one local
and one offsite?

Sorry for these very basic questions but I was not involved in the beta of
Vista and so am starting from a newly delivered laptop with Vista Home
Premium installed.

Daniel
 
DanielLipkie said:
Assuming my system has a 100 GB drive, of which the usual space is for
Vista
Home Premium, and the rest of a 10 GB manufacturer (DELL) installed
recovery
partition and the rest for user files, what size external drive should I
be
using for backups?
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As big as you can properly afford. There is no such thing as any hard drive
that is too small.
I've a "spare" 200 GB Seagate. Will this do?
Nicely.

How can I set up to have "duplicate" backups so that I can have one local
and one offsite?
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Someone else needs to answer that one. :)

[...]

Ken
 
DanielLipkie said:
Assuming my system has a 100 GB drive, of which the usual space is for
Vista
Home Premium, and the rest of a 10 GB manufacturer (DELL) installed
recovery
partition and the rest for user files, what size external drive should I
be
using for backups?

From reading the posts and documentation, I understand the "first backup"
is
"complete" and then following are incremental until backup determines it
is
time to a "complete" again (using the decisions decribed in the flowchart
in
this discussion group).

I've a "spare" 200 GB Seagate. Will this do?

How can I set up to have "duplicate" backups so that I can have one local
and one offsite?

Sorry for these very basic questions but I was not involved in the beta of
Vista and so am starting from a newly delivered laptop with Vista Home
Premium installed.
Click to expand...

You don' need to image the DELL recovery partition do you? That's a choice
you need to make. Sure a 200 GB drive should do fine. Create the backup
and then copy it to another media for off site storage or create two
backups, one after the other to two different devices.
 
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