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I pretty much only deal with loosing my data when I think backup.
RAID is great for a drive failure but not useful if your data gets
messed up. I've had corrupted data too many times in the past so RAID
is little help, it works too fast. Offsite bup wont work for some
of us as we have too much data to export. Restore points are great
but pretty much every time I use them I loose something, but usually
the loss is not real important. Viruses and worms have never been a
problem for me.
Jimmy
Yuk!
Jimmy, with RAID 0, if a drive fails, all you have to do is swap it for a
new drive without turning off the PC. This you conceptually know, right. No
rebooting, cloning, etc. It couldn't be easier.
If a virus has corrupted anything, which seems to be a rationalization for
doing images from which to recover, you have 2 choices if you can't manually
fix the corruption. From offsite bup restore the corrupted folder or
registry, or restore to XP's last restore-point. Either way takes 2-3
minutes. With offsite bup you can go back several iterations if necessary.
These are no-brainers. No swapping cables or disks etc.
Respectfully of course, I'm still at a loss as to why anyone would want to
do it the hard way! Btw there are tools that'll do restore points
periodically or whenever there's a change to the registry.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jimmy Snowden [mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:52 AM
To: Leslie_George; Omega-List
Subject: Re[2]: HD Backup software
If you really want to test your brain use BOTH. With Serial ATA drives you
can have RAID. Then you can have a ATA or serial drive in addition to the
two serial ATA drives back up on.
I didn't use RAID but did use two Serial ATA drives that Casper cloned one
to the other. Then I also had a bootable IDE type ATA drive that had
everything on it including a nightly backup using Windows XP's shadow
backup. The beauty of this is you can, depending on your BIOS options, boot
to the IDE drive instead of the Serial ATA drives by simply making a change
in the BIOS during your reboot.
Sorry to complicate things,
Jimmy
Thanks for all the advice. Will consider RAID but probably will go with
Casper.
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