Hi Josh
Our response to this question was to do exactly what you speculated ....we
put hard drive drawers in all our CPU's, keep 3 spare hard drives ('surfing'
machine, gaming machine and server) and keep the last good copy of each of
those machines in a locked cabinet....Also gives us the ability to take a
'good' image before we play around with something, knowing we can return to
start at any time.
Seems fairly efficient even for the big machines (20gig) and gives us very
quick 'disaster recovery'. We use Norton Ghost btw.
Rick
The Virtual Coffee Bean
Richmond, BC, Canada
www.virtualcoffeebean.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 6:31 PM
Subject: [cc] Disk Images & Backups
> Speaking of ghost, what are all of you using for disk images/backing up?
>
> I've toyed around with the personalized version of Norton Ghost, but
> network restores are not much of an option. Is burning an image to a
> cd-rom, or using hard drive carriages really that efficient? Especially if
> you have a LOT of disk consuming applications/games that would need to be
> installed later, after you'd put the image back onto a machine? (10gb's of
> games doesn't work to well with imaging software & cd-rom's:) I'm
> considering putting hard drive carriages in each machine, then having a
> couple spare drives around, either with an image, or just creating a
> complete and actual duplicate of the drive in actual use.
>
> This should work for the majority of the machines, as we try and stay
> consistant with all the hardware. Does anyone here have any preferences
as
> to what kind of back up system/disk imaging software they use, and why?
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Josh Williams
> - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> >Thanks anyway, Lee. The problem is that I didn't ghost it in the 1st
place
> >;-) Simply bcoz I'm 2 lazy, but I'm definitely gonna ghost all my PCs in
> >very near future.
>
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