On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Arkady wrote: > I found SuperDuper > http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html > > To be the easiest, simplest Backup Policy for me... > > Clone your entire Hard Drive = sleep nice! The 1st Backup of my 80GB worth > of Data took abut 1.5hrs, after that Smart Replace is 10-11 minutes to > Update the Clone... And it's one of the easiest and best supported apps I > have ever seen...
That's great if you have a whole spare drive for it. And it's a reasonable solution for some issues. Do you keep the drive off-line and fully disconnected at other times. It's not impossible for some glitch to simultaneously kill all you drives at once. And if plugged in, lightning could fry everything at once. What if your house burns down? As I mentioned in another note, one of my backups is done to DVD and taken off-site. Different risks require different strategies and they're somewhat mutually exclusive. I see three main risks: Loss of the system or disk; loss of a file (inadvertent deletion, etc.); loss of the site. For loss of a file or a disk, you want your backups close at hand. For loss of the site, you want your backups off-site. You could cover that all three with one backup kept off-site but then for that inadvertent deletion risk, your recovery time will be much longer. -- Larry Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
