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Tom Piwowar wrote:
I'm running one server here using s $69 linux-based appliance
and 2 $100 drives and it is positively a joy.
Tom,
What
This probably seems a stupid question (though I don't believe there are
really any stupid questions except those you already know the answer to),
but if you are regularly backing up to an external hard drive (as I've now
started to do, scheduled for automatic daily back up) is it still important
I image c: daily to my internal second hard drive. Monthly it makes a
full independent image to that drive also, then I connect my external
drive and offload it. I alternate 2 drives monthly, one kept off site.
I use backups mostly to retrieve earlier file versions. i.e., I
accidentally rename a
you may want to back up to something that is 99.9% pure. that is not a single
HD, and it is not using MS software.
failure rates on hd's are much higher than the 0.001%
per year claimed and MS software does not transfer from one os to another.
a lot of fragments of the
Have Tom buy your HD's, he found a place where they don't fail like when you
buy them at Toys R Us.
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 1:45 PM, gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
you may want to back up to something that is 99.9% pure. that is not a
single HD, and it is not using MS software.
failure
Thanks,
I don't have a 2nd internal hard drive. Is that important to have, even if
you have an External drive? By offload, do you mean copy and then delete on
the original HD? How often do you do backups?
Randall
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 3:14 PM, Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I image c:
No, you don't need a second internal hard drive. I just find it more
convenient to have it there than mounted externally.
I already said how often I image (backup) - see the quotes. I should
add though, that I also do Jungle Disk (Amazon S3) for the company
database, and for some project files
