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Terry,
>From what I recall, Windows 2000 has hard drive mirror capability. All you
need to do is set it up. This would avoid the
hassle of doing a back up etc, the only tinkering is to fuss with the boot
ini file, If I remember correctly if the first drive fails.
One can also run three drives and have a RAID5 Array, if one fails the other
two disks have the information to rebuild the
failed third.
Don Thompson
----- Original Message -----
From: "Terry" <terrence@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 8:27 AM
Subject: [RT] RE: Off Topic: Backup/Restore using USB hard disk under W2000
> > 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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