I think one of the questions you need to ask is why are you doing the backups? What do you want from the solution?
For me, my primary reason is in case my boot HD fails. Secondary is to speed up reinstalls because you know Windows is gonna need one every 6-12 months. Recovery of accidentally deleted files was not something I needed so my solution doesn't allow for that easily. I think I can mount of the .tib images and recover a file from it but I've never tried and it would certainly be more difficult than another backup solution, say Time Machine. On Dec 12, 2007 6:56 AM, Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sounds RAID like but without the continuous backup of RAID, or > are you backing up to an external drive? In my case, I was more > concerned about data backups that can be easily taken offsite, so CD > or DVD is the best choice (since I can't get people to spring for > $1200 tape drives.) But after reading your comments and Brian's, I'm > thinking they need a two fold system - weekly or daily system backups > for catastrophic failure, and daily data backups. I had read some > good things about Retrospect, and Genie Backup Manager > (http://www.genie-soft.com/products/gbmpro/default.html) - any one > have any comments on either of these? > > T > > > At 08:29 PM 11/12/2007, FORC5 wrote: > >FWIW I use System Guardian ( Standby Disk ) > >Back up daily to a second HD, fully bootable without having to go > >thru a restore. Much more convenient then restoring from server or > >disk, and faster. Has saved my bacon more then once ( and my > >customers ) least amount of downtime of ANY backup SW. Overkill for > >home use but not business, I back up my business system every 12 > >hours. First is full, others are only what has changed so goes fast. > >IMO is nothing finer. > >fp > > > >At 04:45 PM 12/11/2007, Brian Weeden Poked the stick with: > > >If you are looking to make backup images of installed OSes, I have been > > >using Acronis Disk Image tools to backups images of my windows systems for > > >about a year now. I made a primary image when I first installed and then > > >once a week Acronis builds a differential for me automatically and I have > > >it > > >store them on a networked server, although it can image to CD/DVD as well. > > >When I need to restore I pop the rescue CD into my computer, boot to it, > > >connect to the network drive, and about 10 minutes later it is back up and > > >running. > > > > > >It's not the cheapest software in the world but I find it simple and easy. > > >Once I set it up the only problem I have to worry about is running out of > > >space on my backup server. > > > > > >On Dec 11, 2007 3:22 PM, Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> I'm looking for a rock reliable backup program that will allow me to > > >> schedule backups to CD and DVD. Any suggestions? > > >> > > >> T > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > >-- > > >Brian Weeden > > > >-- > >Tallyho ! ]:8) > >Taglines below ! > >-- > >Remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty? > > -- Brian Weeden
