Home System Backup
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I've recently had to resolve some system issues (motherboard replacement) and its made me feel more vulnerable than usual. My current backup strategy (if you can call it that) is pretty weak -- a combination of USB stick, periodic DVD dumps, with a little web server backup mixed in. For a very modest investment I can scrap my inconsistent home-brew methods and do one of the following: 1) Purchase on-line backup from one of the many options (e.g. Carbonite[^], Mozy[^], etc.) ~$50/year. 2) Buy a USB2 hard drive with backup software. The other day Fry's had a 500GB external USB2 HDD (with SW) on sale for ~$90! What I really want is disaster recovery, which both of these options can do. I'm leaning towards #2 because I would always have the backup media on hand. Does anyone have other options, thoughts, or recommendations? Thanks.
IMHO, the first option is great as the dat is far away from your house and in case of fire it will be protected... But I don't know if you can use it as OBDR (one button disaster recovery) and option in some tape drives. The price is not very high, but you should be aware of the privacy that they will give to your data. The second option, in the other hand, is cheaper and it will give you the possibility to have a OBDR using a ghost system Acronis, Norton, or free software like DriveImageXML[^] work like charm. I've used DriveImage in some Win98 computers and I've been able to restore the configuration without any problem, and it is great to be able to navigate inside the backup image and to recover only one file... it is fast, free and works as charm. EDIT: I've just seen this in their web page: "You can run DriveImage XML from a WinPE boot CD-ROM." My two euro cents...
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IMHO, the first option is great as the dat is far away from your house and in case of fire it will be protected... But I don't know if you can use it as OBDR (one button disaster recovery) and option in some tape drives. The price is not very high, but you should be aware of the privacy that they will give to your data. The second option, in the other hand, is cheaper and it will give you the possibility to have a OBDR using a ghost system Acronis, Norton, or free software like DriveImageXML[^] work like charm. I've used DriveImage in some Win98 computers and I've been able to restore the configuration without any problem, and it is great to be able to navigate inside the backup image and to recover only one file... it is fast, free and works as charm. EDIT: I've just seen this in their web page: "You can run DriveImage XML from a WinPE boot CD-ROM." My two euro cents...
Joan Murt wrote:
I've used DriveImage in some Win98 computers
I used it on XP. I have also used it on Vista, but haven't attempted a disaster recovery yet. I would like to get Vista on a new desktop rather than a laptop, I prefer doing disaster recovery tests on alternate drives.
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I've recently had to resolve some system issues (motherboard replacement) and its made me feel more vulnerable than usual. My current backup strategy (if you can call it that) is pretty weak -- a combination of USB stick, periodic DVD dumps, with a little web server backup mixed in. For a very modest investment I can scrap my inconsistent home-brew methods and do one of the following: 1) Purchase on-line backup from one of the many options (e.g. Carbonite[^], Mozy[^], etc.) ~$50/year. 2) Buy a USB2 hard drive with backup software. The other day Fry's had a 500GB external USB2 HDD (with SW) on sale for ~$90! What I really want is disaster recovery, which both of these options can do. I'm leaning towards #2 because I would always have the backup media on hand. Does anyone have other options, thoughts, or recommendations? Thanks.
At $50/year I wonder if they let me upload 1TB of legal pvr recorded video. I guess the limit is how much data I can send them at 1Mbit/s and 24/7/365...
John
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I've recently had to resolve some system issues (motherboard replacement) and its made me feel more vulnerable than usual. My current backup strategy (if you can call it that) is pretty weak -- a combination of USB stick, periodic DVD dumps, with a little web server backup mixed in. For a very modest investment I can scrap my inconsistent home-brew methods and do one of the following: 1) Purchase on-line backup from one of the many options (e.g. Carbonite[^], Mozy[^], etc.) ~$50/year. 2) Buy a USB2 hard drive with backup software. The other day Fry's had a 500GB external USB2 HDD (with SW) on sale for ~$90! What I really want is disaster recovery, which both of these options can do. I'm leaning towards #2 because I would always have the backup media on hand. Does anyone have other options, thoughts, or recommendations? Thanks.
We've recently discovered the joys of the free physical to virtual machine utility from VMWare. We make constant data backups but it's highly useful to be able to start a virtual copy of a physical machine any time and check configuration etc.
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I've recently had to resolve some system issues (motherboard replacement) and its made me feel more vulnerable than usual. My current backup strategy (if you can call it that) is pretty weak -- a combination of USB stick, periodic DVD dumps, with a little web server backup mixed in. For a very modest investment I can scrap my inconsistent home-brew methods and do one of the following: 1) Purchase on-line backup from one of the many options (e.g. Carbonite[^], Mozy[^], etc.) ~$50/year. 2) Buy a USB2 hard drive with backup software. The other day Fry's had a 500GB external USB2 HDD (with SW) on sale for ~$90! What I really want is disaster recovery, which both of these options can do. I'm leaning towards #2 because I would always have the backup media on hand. Does anyone have other options, thoughts, or recommendations? Thanks.
I use Mozy's 2GB free account. I trimmed down my critical data to 1GB. Music, large development archives and some picture archives go on DVD-Rs and are stored in a fire resistant safe. I'm thinking of switching to a 32GB USB flash for the latter when the prices drop.
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I've recently had to resolve some system issues (motherboard replacement) and its made me feel more vulnerable than usual. My current backup strategy (if you can call it that) is pretty weak -- a combination of USB stick, periodic DVD dumps, with a little web server backup mixed in. For a very modest investment I can scrap my inconsistent home-brew methods and do one of the following: 1) Purchase on-line backup from one of the many options (e.g. Carbonite[^], Mozy[^], etc.) ~$50/year. 2) Buy a USB2 hard drive with backup software. The other day Fry's had a 500GB external USB2 HDD (with SW) on sale for ~$90! What I really want is disaster recovery, which both of these options can do. I'm leaning towards #2 because I would always have the backup media on hand. Does anyone have other options, thoughts, or recommendations? Thanks.
I'm using IDrive[^] Free version gives you 2GB space but if you send a link to your contacts, you'll get extra 10GB
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I've recently had to resolve some system issues (motherboard replacement) and its made me feel more vulnerable than usual. My current backup strategy (if you can call it that) is pretty weak -- a combination of USB stick, periodic DVD dumps, with a little web server backup mixed in. For a very modest investment I can scrap my inconsistent home-brew methods and do one of the following: 1) Purchase on-line backup from one of the many options (e.g. Carbonite[^], Mozy[^], etc.) ~$50/year. 2) Buy a USB2 hard drive with backup software. The other day Fry's had a 500GB external USB2 HDD (with SW) on sale for ~$90! What I really want is disaster recovery, which both of these options can do. I'm leaning towards #2 because I would always have the backup media on hand. Does anyone have other options, thoughts, or recommendations? Thanks.
My 2c - my present system is fairly simple. I use an old DELL as a network fileserver/webserver/email server. It has 2x500GB external drives, one network accesible one not. They're mirrored at 4am every morning. Periodically I use a 3rd drive (an old 250GB external for now) and have it mirrored to the mirror and then keep it at work. Typically I'll never lose more then a few months of picture/video etc. I think 6 miles of separation between drives is sufficient :)
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I've recently had to resolve some system issues (motherboard replacement) and its made me feel more vulnerable than usual. My current backup strategy (if you can call it that) is pretty weak -- a combination of USB stick, periodic DVD dumps, with a little web server backup mixed in. For a very modest investment I can scrap my inconsistent home-brew methods and do one of the following: 1) Purchase on-line backup from one of the many options (e.g. Carbonite[^], Mozy[^], etc.) ~$50/year. 2) Buy a USB2 hard drive with backup software. The other day Fry's had a 500GB external USB2 HDD (with SW) on sale for ~$90! What I really want is disaster recovery, which both of these options can do. I'm leaning towards #2 because I would always have the backup media on hand. Does anyone have other options, thoughts, or recommendations? Thanks.
i do semi-weekly incremental backups to a local NAS. then full backups to a portable HD, which i keep at my day job, once a month.
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I've recently had to resolve some system issues (motherboard replacement) and its made me feel more vulnerable than usual. My current backup strategy (if you can call it that) is pretty weak -- a combination of USB stick, periodic DVD dumps, with a little web server backup mixed in. For a very modest investment I can scrap my inconsistent home-brew methods and do one of the following: 1) Purchase on-line backup from one of the many options (e.g. Carbonite[^], Mozy[^], etc.) ~$50/year. 2) Buy a USB2 hard drive with backup software. The other day Fry's had a 500GB external USB2 HDD (with SW) on sale for ~$90! What I really want is disaster recovery, which both of these options can do. I'm leaning towards #2 because I would always have the backup media on hand. Does anyone have other options, thoughts, or recommendations? Thanks.
I use a combination: Acronis TrueImage, with tib files copied to 500GB USB drive; and also whole directories burned to DVD.
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I've recently had to resolve some system issues (motherboard replacement) and its made me feel more vulnerable than usual. My current backup strategy (if you can call it that) is pretty weak -- a combination of USB stick, periodic DVD dumps, with a little web server backup mixed in. For a very modest investment I can scrap my inconsistent home-brew methods and do one of the following: 1) Purchase on-line backup from one of the many options (e.g. Carbonite[^], Mozy[^], etc.) ~$50/year. 2) Buy a USB2 hard drive with backup software. The other day Fry's had a 500GB external USB2 HDD (with SW) on sale for ~$90! What I really want is disaster recovery, which both of these options can do. I'm leaning towards #2 because I would always have the backup media on hand. Does anyone have other options, thoughts, or recommendations? Thanks.
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I've recently had to resolve some system issues (motherboard replacement) and its made me feel more vulnerable than usual. My current backup strategy (if you can call it that) is pretty weak -- a combination of USB stick, periodic DVD dumps, with a little web server backup mixed in. For a very modest investment I can scrap my inconsistent home-brew methods and do one of the following: 1) Purchase on-line backup from one of the many options (e.g. Carbonite[^], Mozy[^], etc.) ~$50/year. 2) Buy a USB2 hard drive with backup software. The other day Fry's had a 500GB external USB2 HDD (with SW) on sale for ~$90! What I really want is disaster recovery, which both of these options can do. I'm leaning towards #2 because I would always have the backup media on hand. Does anyone have other options, thoughts, or recommendations? Thanks.
We have a combination approach here: 1. Overnight backup to local and removable drives. 2. Automated foldershare sync from the backup folder to a server 3. Carbonite backup of the files in all backups 4. Scheduled mirroring of the drive in the server which contains the backups to a caddy mounted removable drive which is then taken offsite in rotation. So far, this scheme seems to be working quite well. It did take a while for the initial Carbonite backup to complete though.
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