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 not kept on my c drive. On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Ranbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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: 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 project template file. Easy to go into a >> previous backup and restore the template. I've used images to restore >> Windows after malware or file corruption. >> >> >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Ranbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > 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 >> > to do regular back ups on the computer itself, or is it less important to >> do >> > this very often or regularly? Maybe what I'm really asking is what does >> the >> > back up on the computer actually do and what and how does it prevent >> nasty >> > things from happening? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
