Never been a fan of clone backups, unless it's a primary server and you have identical machines available. As for backups in distant cities or protected storage vaults, I'd sorta think that depends on what you really need...
Another issue with clone backups of system drives, is that I've seen more Windows internal-corruption failures then pure drive/computer failures. And if your OS is already starting to die when you made your last backup, it doesn't help very much. I've got a USB bookshelf drive, together with an old workstation with big drives for a duplicate backup. For most apps, I don't try to clone a drive, but backup the install for the apps, together with any keys. Given Window's scattered installation stuff, critical apps are in VmWare sessions, that can easily be backed up and restored to any machine. Any work-in-progress gets backed up every few hours to a memory stick. I feel those two types of backup are really needed, especially having one that's easy and very fast to do. Gerry _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
