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Hello cwest,
Tuesday, July 19, 2005, 1:15:32 PM, you wrote:
With RAID 0, if a drive fails, all you have to do is forget about your
data. Use RAID 5 instead.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RAID.html
c> Jimmy, with RAID 0, if a drive fails, all you have to do is swap it for a
c> new drive without turning off the PC. This you conceptually know, right. No
c> rebooting, cloning, etc. It couldn't be easier.
c> If a virus has corrupted anything, which seems to be a rationalization for
c> doing images from which to recover, you have 2 choices if you can't manually
c> fix the corruption. From offsite bup restore the corrupted folder or
c> registry, or restore to XP's last restore-point. Either way takes 2-3
c> minutes. With offsite bup you can go back several iterations if necessary.
c> These are no-brainers. No swapping cables or disks etc.
c> Respectfully of course, I'm still at a loss as to why anyone would want to
c> do it the hard way! Btw there are tools that'll do restore points
c> periodically or whenever there's a change to the registry.
c> -----Original Message-----
c> From: Jimmy Snowden [mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
c> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:52 AM
c> To: Leslie_George; Omega-List
c> Subject: Re[2]: HD Backup software
c> If you really want to test your brain use BOTH. With Serial ATA drives you
c> can have RAID. Then you can have a ATA or serial drive in addition to the
c> two serial ATA drives back up on.
c> I didn't use RAID but did use two Serial ATA drives that Casper cloned one
c> to the other. Then I also had a bootable IDE type ATA drive that had
c> everything on it including a nightly backup using Windows XP's shadow
c> backup. The beauty of this is you can, depending on your BIOS options, boot
c> to the IDE drive instead of the Serial ATA drives by simply making a change
c> in the BIOS during your reboot.
c> Sorry to complicate things,
c> Jimmy
c> Thanks for all the advice. Will consider RAID but probably will go with
c> Casper.
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