Don't forget you can boot from a USB flash drive on most modern
systems. It might sound more expensive,
but I think you'll find their shelf life to be superior to most [ie,
non-archival] CD & DVD media. They should not
break down significantly due to mere oxidation, however they are more
susceptible to EMF, as opposed to optical storage.
I mention this in the context of booting utilities, such as imaging or
recovery tools. Good info Silver, thanks :)
~ben
On Dec 16, 2007 7:17 PM, silver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If you want an straight forward Windows based backup application that
> connects to the one-touch button on mass produced external USB hard drives,
> "Retrospect" seems to be bundled with most of those external drives. But
> that is backup software, not hard drive imaging/cloning software which I
> think you are looking for ("backup" software does not equal "imaging"
> software).
>
> As suggested in a previous post you may want to investigate Acronis
> TrueImage. IMO much better than Ghost and runs on Win and Linux (best to run
> from Linux boot disk to image your hard drives). Personal and administrator
> and enterprise editions available.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dooger watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 11:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] good backup/restore software
>
>
> Kool. Thanx Ben,
> m
>
> Ben Barrett wrote:
> > rsync - archival
> > tar and gzip/bzip2 - bundling & compression
> > ssh - secure transport
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