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An example. I have 2 servers clustered over a WAN. One of the apps is to
retrieve all kinds of data. PCs and laptops are mirrored to the data.
Whenever they're connected, the user has current data. There's virtually no
maintenance and if a PC fails, a user only has to login with another PC (or
laptop). The servers I rent for $30/month, but its my software running on
them. They're in datacenters. (see serverpronto.com for more information). I
have Ghost, Casper and some other stuff like that, but I haven't used them
for a few years. They're out-dated or redundant, to me at least.
In addition, PCs and laptops automatically backup to these servers every 12
hours. I've actually been out of state, lost a laptop in a hotel lobby,
bought a cheapie replacement, restored what I needed and carried on. No
sweat.
I'm all ears to improve in this area though.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jimmy Snowden [mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 4:52 PM
To: Michael Guess; Omega-List
Subject: Re[2]: HD Backup software
Casper will do what I call a full copy of a drive like we used to do in DOS.
So what that means today is you can boot from that other drive. I've been
doing it for a couple of years using SATA drives.
If one dies then I just shut down open the side door of my machine up and
disconnect the cable to the main SATA drive and move it to the second SATA
drive then boot up. I can do this in the same time it takes to just do a
reboot. Now USB could be a problem as you probably can't boot to it. I
don't know as I have not had a interest in a USB drive. So you would have
to have a bootable drive you could then recover your info from the USB
drive. Not a really good or fast way to do it.
I simply copy data from my laptop to my main machine via network. Not much
on it that isn't on the main one just data.
Jimmy
Hi Roger,
Do you or Jimmy know if I can clone my internal HD to an external HD that's
connected via USB? I believe I asked this before but don't recall getting
any encouragement <g>. I've got the version just before this upgrade. I've
got a laptop and a new Dell that I'd like to clone.
Thanx,
Michael
At 11:40 AM 7/18/2005, Roger Shepherd wrote:
>Hello Leslie_George,
>I have used it for some time with good results.
>Their latest version 3.0 now allows for backing up only those files
>which have changed since the last backup which, greatly speeds up the
>backup. I have 2 17 gig drives on my TS8 machine and do a daily backup
>after the market closes in about 2 minutes.
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