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> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 21:35:42 -0700
> From: "Gary Funck" <gary@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: RE: Off Topic: Backup/Restore using USB hard disk under W2000
>
>Earl, I went down this path of USB drive as backup, but didn't take it
>to the point of a working solution. I came to the conclusion that you
>did that the USB drive would be problematic if you had to restore from
>ground zero after a system failure. What *might* work however, would be
>a two-stage approach, where you back up Windows, its system files, and
>registry using Ghost to a writeable CDROM, making sure to write it as a
>(DOS) bootable CDROM, with Ghost as one of the programs resident on the
>CDROM. You'd then direct Ghost to restore the system files to the hard
>drive, and then reboot into Windows from the hard drive. Then, you'd
>load the rest of the files from the Backup Exec (whatever) image written
>to the USB drive. One issue might be the registry. As I recall, Backup
>Exec would let you write the registry to floppies, and this had to be
>restored in DOS mode. It might be possible to write the registery to a
>CDROM, making the recovery set two CDROM's, and one USB drive. This set
>up would likely be more workable if Windows and its system files were
>relegated to an approx. 500 meg. partition that could be saved/restored
>in one fell swoop off a CDROM, using Ghost.
>
>Anyway, things got sufficiently complex that I finally just gave up on
>the whole effort. Unfortunately, for now, that also means I don't have
>a backup unless I want to use the parallel port Ditto(tm) drive, which
>takes about 24 hours to back up a 10G drive. :(
>
I struggled with this for months, then discovered that my computer has dual
booting capabilities. If you do too, you are home free. It is the only
solution I found that worked with W2000. (I also gave up on Ghost.)
I have two physical hard drives, both of which are bootable.
I run everything (under W2000) off several partitions on drive A.
On drive B I have the second bootable partition with W2000 in a *primitive*
form, nothing fancy, but with Backup Exec installed. I also have a second
large partition I call backup.
At startup I can choose to boot of drive A (normal) or drive B (disaster
recovery). Both can read from a CD RW drive through the USB.
I routinely backup in compressed form using Backup Exec from drive A: my
W2000 system files partition to file 1, my program files partition to file
2, and my data files partition to file 3 ... all backed up onto the backup
partition on drive B. Mine all fit together. Periodically I offload old
copies to the USB connected CD RW drive for older backups.
When drive A crashes, I can replace/repair it and then boot W2000 from
drive B, reformat drive A, run Backup Exec from drive B, and restore W2000
from backup partition file 1 of drive B or from the CD RW on the USB port.
(And this is MY version of W2000 with all software installed, not a virgin
copy needing all my software reinstalled.) Similarly, I can restore all
program files and data files from drive B to their partitions on drive A.
To guarantee success, I took out drive A and successfully booted from drive
B, ran Backup Exec, and opened the compressed backup files on the backup
partition of drive B.
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