At 07:14 AM 12/12/2007, Al wrote:
I'm glad it works for you.
I see a point of weakness with this method. Both drives are hot all the
time. A errant power supply (power spike/lightening/fire
sprinklers/spilled cup-o-joe/...) could take out both drives.
I used to do something similar with Partition Magic, and a second drive
with it's own power switch. Turn on the second drive power switch, boot
from a floppy with PM and copy the drive. May still be vulnerable to
lightening. But the backup drive isn't hot all the time. Then I
discovered and used removable drive racks; which allowed moving
the backup to a safe location.
Always liked the full working copy instead of a restore routine.
Not to suggest it would work for T, as he was look'n for scheduled backups.
It seems to me that backup to another HD requires a set of external
HDs to be taken offsite - so the cost is higher than CD, but the
protection is greater (complete images rather than just data
backup.) So that's an option. Removable drive racks won't work for
me in every case, as I have a lot of customers who only use laptops -
so I guess a backup to external would be the way to go - the downside
I see is the time it takes to image an entire drive (I don't think
full plus a bunch of differentials is a good idea, since it makes
every backup critical to a restore.)
T
