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Hello cwest,
I'm not a pro at this backup stuff but the software recommended by
biloselhi called System Guardian from http://www.duocor.com/xc2k/
seems to provide a darned good approach. I haven't bought it yet but
as I understand it will backup your files and OS to a second hard
drive. In the event of hd1 failing, you can switch to hd2 quickly.
Best regards,
Jim Johnson mailto:jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxx
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Sunday, December 22, 2002, 8:01:51 PM, you wrote:
c> Interesting comments Mike. I've yet to find any tools that adequately
c> addresses backups, imo. My experience has been that file by file backups are
c> useless if a disk fails, unless you have nothing else to do for a few days.
c> Image backups seem to be the only kind of backup from which you can recover
c> within minutes.
c> It would be great if there was a product that did image-diff backups. That
c> is, insert changes into images. Powerquest have a product that'll do this
c> (they say), but the Admin user account is hard-coded to SA without a
c> password, which exposes a PC to worms. I asked them about that and they said
c> the work-around was not to connect your LAN o the Internet, They're a
c> smart/dumb company, imo.
c> Has anyone really solved the backup issue better than Mike's experiences and
c> tested it in real-world situations?
c> Colin West
c> -----Original Message-----
c> From: Mike Symth [mailto:mqsymth@xxxxxxxxx]
c> Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2002 4:45 PM
c> To: Omega Users Group
c> Subject: OffTopic Backup Redux
c> I've been following the thread on backups and here is
c> my experience.
c> I have two computers using win98SE networked through a
c> linksys router.
c> At the end of each day or during the day I use
c> Synchromagic by www.gelosoft.com to synchronize the
c> files and directories that I consider important
c> between the two computers. I use both computers
c> during the day and I like both computers to be
c> up-to-date. In case one computer goes down, I have all
c> the info from my TS files, internet files and etc
c> ready to go on my other computer.
c> I also had GoBack 3.0 installed on both computers.
c> All was well until one of my computer's disk directory
c> got wacked. GoBack was worthless and even made things
c> worse on the computer that had the problem. Maybe
c> GoBack was the culprit when it failed it might have
c> messed up the c: directory.
c> I was able to continue work on the good computer
c> without a problem, but it took me considerable time to
c> bring back the computer drive that failed.
c> Since disk drives are cheap, I bought 2 new drives and
c> installed them as drive D: on both computers. On one
c> computer, at the suggestion of this group, I'm using
c> XactCopy by www.duocor.com. This is a great piece
c> of back up software, however you can't use drive d:
c> when using Xactcopy. Xactcopy hides drive d: and uses
c> it only for itself.
c> On the other computer I used Drive Image 2002 to make
c> an exact copy of drive c: on drive d:. In addition, I
c> was going to use Drive Image 2002 to make a compressed
c> backup image of drive c: on drive d: but it takes
c> Drive Image 1 hour to create an image of a 40gig drive
c> every time you want to backup drive c: While this
c> method gives you full access to using drive d: the
c> backup time is onerous.
c> What I finally decided to do on computer 2 is to use
c> Synchromagic. Synchromagic has a backup mode that will
c> backup every directory and the files in them in drive
c> C: to drive D:. You even have the option of excluding
c> any directories or files you don't want to back up.
c> Synchromagic is also fast. I would say it backups
c> faster than XactCopy.
c> In addition, I still use Synchromagic to synchronize
c> directories and files between both computers.
c> Synchromagic will also synchronize more than one
c> computer across a network and will ftp synchronize
c> across the internet (I haven't used that option).
c> Hope this helps.
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