I use Acronis True Image to create weekly drive images for my C: drive (SSD housing OS, Eclipse, etc.) and D: drive (2 TB Data) drives to a separate internal drive (E:), as well as nightly incremental images. Acronis is worth the money over the built-in Windows system image tool because it can verify the image (mandatory IMO), define any schedule you wish (such as mixing full and incremental), lets you browse and restore individual files from the images at will, and lets you perform a restore on different hardware if necessary.
Second layer is Carbonite, doing a full web backup of all critical data, as a last resort in the event of physical destruction of the system. Having learned a long time ago the brutally harsh lesson about backing up my data, the minor expenses associated with this setup is a steal compared to the time and effort I've wasted trying to recover data. On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:58 AM, Bryan Stevenson < br...@electricedgesystems.com> wrote: > > Carbonite eh.....I've seen it mentioned a few times....saw a commercial > for it over the weekend for the 1st time. > > Perhaps I didn't understand the offer, but it sure seemed like online > (i.e. the cloud) was the repository?? > > If so, I'm curious why the cloud is seen as a safe backup solution? > > The only use I can see for cloud based backups is a secondary backup in > case of say a fire at home (where you may not have a fire safe)...or > perhaps a flood. To use it as primary backup seems even more prone to > problems than a kid yanking on cords (given that it's beyond your > control....but it would be safe from your own kids...hehe). > > Anyways, just curious to see what folks think and to make sure I'm not > missing some silver bullet solution to backups ;-) > > TIA > > Cheers > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:347116 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
