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Hello Hinton,
...and in the same vein, heres mine:
SystemGuardian backs up once a day. Backup drives are in removable rack
drawers and I keep one in a safe deposit box at the bank (all sensitive data
is encrypted), rotating the backups monthly.
Critical data is backed up as required then encrypted and stored remotely in
two places: a web server provided by my ISP and a Yahoo mail account, plus I
burn CD's each month which go to the bank with the backup drives.
Recovery strategies:
Normal screw-ups: restore as required from the backup drive. (Files/folders
or the entire drive.)
Worst case: catastrophic loss (fire/theft, etc) - I still have the primary
setup in the safe deposit box, albeit up to one month out of date, however
the updated critical data is stored remotely, so I can be up and running
quite quickly.
Not as sophisticated as Colin's solution but workable.
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Best regards,
Ross mail to: Ross.Bond@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Wednesday, July 20, 2005, 9:49:28 AM, you wrote:
> Here's my method, for what it's worth:
> Daily, or, often, a few times a day, backups of the whole drive with
> System Guardian to a dedicated backup hard drive. Monthly, backup of
> all important files and data to an external USB hard drive in an
> enclosure, using Nero software. Once or twice a year, burn all
> important files and data to CDs to be kept long term.
> If there is a software oriented trashing of the system or a drive
> failure, I'm up and running in less than five minutes, though I've
> lost up to a few hours of data. In case of a power related wipeout of
> both internal hard drives, I would reinstall Windows and programs and
> transfer all the important stuff from the external hard drive. In
> case there is a problem with the external drive or something bad
> happens during restore or I forgot to backup a file, I have the CDs.
> I've thought about storing the CDs and the external drive (one of two
> of them, for rotation) in a deposit box at the bank, in case of a
> house fire. I'm not quite that paranoid yet, though I have experienced
> two hard drive failures and a tape drive that ate my backup tape with
> all my tax info on it during restore.
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