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Gabriel Knight
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 Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 3:14 am Post subject: What is best when backing up question |
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Hi all
Ive been reading posts here about hdd's burnt out and so and got me thinking
I should do a backup of my hdd. at the moment it has 51 gig of stuff on it
and its a 160 gig disk, would it be best to use a backup program or to just
select everything and right click it and "copy" and "past" it to the
backup??
Thanks
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John Doe
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 11:16 am Post subject: Re: What is best when backing up question |
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"Gabriel Knight" <fakeemail@hotmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Hi all
Ive been reading posts here about hdd's burnt out
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This group is like a wailing wall. Not very often but often enough to
firmly reinforce the practice of backing up any important files from
your hard drive.
And it's not just a dead hard drive that can happen at any time
without notice. Files can be unintentionally deleted/destroyed. If
trouble strikes and you do not have a backup, having a backup of
whatever is left becomes even more important and at the same time the
process of making a backup can become much more difficult.
| Quote: | and so and got me thinking I should do a backup of my hdd.
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Directly proportional to your value of the files on your hard drive.
| Quote: | at the moment it has 51 gig of stuff on it and its a 160 gig disk,
would it be best to use a backup program or to just select
everything and right click it and "copy" and "past" it to the
backup??
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Recently I noticed that 4 GB namebrand flash drives are about USD50.
You just need to backup anything of high personal value (like anything
you require that's very difficult to replace), and do it now. I guess
if you don't know, if you don't know which files are most important,
then maybe you don't really have anything of significant value.
A flash drive is so easy to use, there's no excuse for not having a
backup of important files.
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peter
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| Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 4:48 am Post subject: Re: What is best when backing up question |
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I dont know if this is the best but it works for me...............
I use Acronis True Image and a External HD in a Portable Case...it hooks up
to my USB or External SATA port.
I use Acronis to create a Recovery CD...it does not need an operating system
when you boot from this CD you can enter Acronis directly and restore
backups or images.
I Image the whole hard drive to my external HD and keep it
safe.........every 2 weeks I re image.
When I have had a problem I have been able to restore that image to my HD
and be up and running within a 1/2 hr.
I also Backup incrementally to a 2nd HD installed in the
computer.........using Acronis it will automatically do this at 2AM when I
am asleep.
think about it
peter
"Gabriel Knight" <fakeemail@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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| Quote: | Hi all
Ive been reading posts here about hdd's burnt out and so and got me
thinking I should do a backup of my hdd. at the moment it has 51 gig of
stuff on it and its a 160 gig disk, would it be best to use a backup
program or to just select everything and right click it and "copy" and
"past" it to the backup??
Thanks
GK
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