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Hi Gary,
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary Fritz" <fritz@xxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: [Off topic] RAID motherboards
> > >How do you back up? Could you use a product like ghost or drive
image?
> > >Thanks. That question has always kept me from RAID.
> >
> > I understand that Ghost works but will ask an "expert".
>
> I am no expert, but:
>
> My understanding is that Ghost basically copies an exact image of the
> drive to a backup drive, pretty much sector-for-sector. If you've
> spent some time optimizing your disk &etc, that could be useful.
>
> However that means you must have a backup disk that's the same size
> as the disk being saved.
Ghost allows you to copy to a drive of the same size or larger, or to span
multiple volumes if your destination disks are smaller than the original.
Ghost understands the file system directory and just copies the data, not
every sector.
Cheers,
Keith.
>
> I've been experimenting with Drive Image 5. It reboots automagically
> to DOS and creates a compressed backup file on another disk. If you
> want you can have it broken up into smaller files, e.g. CD-sized.
> (DI5 can also write directly to CD, but I prefer to have it run
> unattended during the backup phase.)
>
> I just installed W2k on a new system. After installing all drivers,
> all my utility software, and even TS4 (but without a tick database),
> I have about 2.5GB on the C: partition. I can run DI5 and back this
> up to another partition, where it fits in 1.5 CD-size chunks. Then
> at my leisure I can burn those chunks to CD if I choose. I have a CD-
> RW with underrun protection so I can burn the CD's while doing
> anything else during the day.
>
> Now if anything goes wrong with the system, I have a "standard base
> installation" that I can fall back on. It's also simple and fast
> enough that I can easily do it a couple of times a week, and I have a
> full history of my backups available on CD.
>
> This is a key part of the backup strategy recommended by Fred Langa
> in his newsletter -- see http://www.langa.com/backups/backups.htm.
>
> Gary
>
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