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Would a usb external Hard Drive work?
They now have them up to over 60G.
You may even be able to partition them and back up many different things or
systems on one large usb hard drive.
Is this possible? Does anyone do it now?
If it can be done. Seems to me to be the easiest way to go.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Johnson" <cmjohnsonxx@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "ian" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxx>; "Daniel A. Poiree" <danielpoiree@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 12:59 PM
Subject: RE: Backup headaches - off topic
> I use Norton Ghost to take a snapshot of my system in a pristine known
good
> state, minus data. I use Veritas Backup Exec Desktop to back up data.
This
> product is now called Backup MyPC and is marketed by someone other than
> Veritas; I think the Veritas site points you to the link.
>
> I use a CD burner and get a little over 1 gig on each 700 meg CD with
> compression.
>
> The user interface on Ghost is slightly flakey but once you learn how to
use
> it, it works well. It is operated by floppies; I have one marked "BACKUP"
> and one marked "RESTORE."
>
> The Veritas product is very nice. It lets you easily select which files
you
> want to backup and restore, and set up backup jobs. By default it reads
the
> media right after the backup to verify that the files were correctly
saved.
>
> Using both of these makes it easy to recover from weird system problems
that
> require reinstalling the OS+apps.
>
> Tape is said to be less reliable as CDs and presumably DVDs. If I had a
lot
> of data and didn't want to keep swapping CDs I might invest in a DVD
writer.
>
> By the way, Mitsui (not Mitsumi) apparently makes the best blank CD (and
> DVD?) media. I've researched it, but have been using lesser brands. And
> Plextor apparently makes the most reliable CD burners (fewest errors).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ian [mailto:ian@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 1:07 PM
> To: Daniel A. Poiree
> Cc: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Backup headaches - off topic
>
>
> I use veritas backup exec, though not quite in the same way. The 2
> methods I use are:
>
> backup the main machine to a tape drive, about 15 GBytes for a full
> backup and daily differentials
>
> backup the other networked machines to the disk of the main machine's,
> though these save sets are only about 3 GByte.
>
> So I can't answer the question about a possible 4 GByte limit. I use
> win 2000 with ntfs disks.
>
> Veritas software does everything I need it to and has proven to be rock
> solid. The backups are automatic and handled by its scheduler.
>
> Sounds like you might want to invest in a tape drive. One big enough to
> more than swallow your data.
>
> I Smith
>
>
>
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