Do you back them up on too tape, dvd, etc.....? When backing up my hard drives using Windows Backup the file ends up being 9gigs, I'm trying to find a solution/medium to place that file on so I can delete it after making the backup.
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Ghost to dvd as well as I keep one back up on an external drive
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I have "raid 1" of two 320gb hdd. Makes data copying a little slower, but i can be sure that my data is more safe than with one disk.Comment
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I have a RAID5 array as my "master" drive. One drive can fail in that without losing the data (or interrupting the continuity of my work, too much)
Remember RAID isn't a replacement for backups. I back up regularly to a second RAID0 array, and also a removable hard drive. To lose my data completely the following sequence of events would have to happen (without any replacement/rebuild in the meantime)...
- two drives in the RAID5 array fail
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- one drive in the RAID0 array fails
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- the external drive failsComment
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BTW the advantage of using a hard drive is that you can do incremental backups - it will append files that have changed since your last backup. My backup file is typically 400GB and takes about 12 hours to do a full backup so the incremental option is very handy.
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I backup my important files from time to time on dvdsBogat mama ala cu loturi de traficComment
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That's a little overkill for me, that is why I would rather backup to a non-live medium like tape or dvd - and I can have months or years worths of full backups without having to worry about space. I need at least up to 6 months worth of backups because every now and then a file that you hardly use gets corrupted and if you only have backups up to a month or 3 backwards you won't be able to restore that file when you finally figure out it's bad.
But hey if it works for you thats great!
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Whats wrong with floppies...
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It may be slight overkill, but my motherboard supports everything so all it cost was the $ for the hard drives, which when you consider the importance of continuity (how much is a day or two's worth of downtime, and potential data loss going to affect you?) isn't really that much.That's a little overkill for me, that is why I would rather backup to a non-live medium like tape or dvd - and I can have months or years worths of full backups without having to worry about space. I need at least up to 6 months worth of backups because every now and then a file that you hardly use gets corrupted and if you only have backups up to a month or 3 backwards you won't be able to restore that file when you finally figure out it's bad.
But hey if it works for you thats great!
Now, back to you.
If your data backup file is only 9 gigs then why not use a HD? 500GB will store over a year's worth of full weekly backups, or you could do a full backup once per month plus incrementals every few days (or however much you feel is necessary). Even a 300GB drive would probably be sufficient for this, and it's gonna cost you like $150.Comment
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Mirror to external/network drives using various tools depending on what kind of backup and also backup network boxes to other drives in the box.
TrueImage is more than useful
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I save it to ext hds and store them.Comment
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I dump from the desktop and both laptops to an external Western Digital drive (as well as CDs/DvDs).
Also have two 180gb WD drives on RAID.
Camera originals are too irreplaceable to not make multiple backups for safety.Comment
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That's why I'm "mildly" fanatical about my backups. I don't depend on my images to make me $$$, but there's a shitload of time and work that has been involved in creating them. Some (such as images of my daughter growing up) are priceless and cannot be recreated.
Nice to know that one day my grandkids will be throwing it all away as I'm carted off to a nursing home.
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I have a drive image of my hard drive with a fresh OS installed. Then I have a cron job that rsyncs contents of my work directories to a NAS. I lived thru 6 drive failures in the last 6 months and haven't lost a thing other than my time.Comment
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RAID 1 (mirroring) on the home server side.
Scheduled backups via the 7zip.org with the AES encryption (+-50 GB now, and growing fast) to the external USB HDD and once per month, i'm burning the one set of the backups, to the TDK or Verbatim DVDs and storing it in the alternative location, to avoid losing data via the fire damage...
Which program do you using fot the incremental backups?
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I wonder if there's anything that can do a near realtime incremental backup: once a file on my PC is changed, closed and "untouched" for a given period, it is automatically archived. Kind of like auto save, but for every application and file on your PC.Comment
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I already use RAID, but that doesn't provide any sort of incremental journalling or "off system" functionality.
IMHO RAID is for availability, it will keep you going if a drive fails but it's not intended to be a backup. My power supply could go bonkers and fry all the drives.Comment
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Sounds like NT Backup? That's also supplied with Windows XP although it is not installed by default. One issue I've noticed is that an incremental/shadow backup sifts through every directory and saves the structure even though files haven't changed, I suspect it's because it is saving the "last accessed" data and the previous run of NTbackup modified that by traversing through. Vicious cycle, and a waste of CPU and HD space.
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I use Nortons Ghost and back up to an external hard drive.
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Never liked windows backup, shadow copy is seperate from the backup software that microsoft puts on the servers its more for in case you delete something thats important then to make backups to media you cant choose where the data is backed up windows hides it so you cant delete it by mistakeSounds like NT Backup? That's also supplied with Windows XP although it is not installed by default. One issue I've noticed is that an incremental/shadow backup sifts through every directory and saves the structure even though files haven't changed, I suspect it's because it is saving the "last accessed" data and the previous run of NTbackup modified that by traversing through. Vicious cycle, and a waste of CPU and HD space.
The only options i remember in shadow copy is how often and how much space can windows use
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RAID 1 isn't backuping, but create backup each second is stupid, you are not in the bank, so RAID1 + daily backuping to the LAN + weekly backuping to the other location (DVDs or HDD) must be good for the all adult business...
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until I get an external HD I have to use dvdsComment
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