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Re: [PLUG] Backup options?
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> How do you handle your backup needs? What options are available out
> there to back up around 15-20 GB of info?
There are 2 ...
1. Tape
2. Spare huge hard drive.
:-)
Seriously, when you're up around 15-20G of info that has to be backed up,
you need to either look at tape (OnStream supposedly has a 15/30G drive
that's relatively inexpensive - no idea of media cost, tho) - or .... You
could buy one of those new 80G hard drives, and just dump everything from
your current drive onto it. This would allow you to keep 3 or 4 different
full backups online. I personally like DriveImage or Ghost for situations
like that - both will do a bit-for-bit snapshot of one drive; compress into
a single image file; and store the image file on a 2nd drive.
Problem is ... restoring a single file, while possible (they give you tools
to extract a single file from the image dump) is a pain. Lot easier to
restore a single file from tape. This method is superb for full restores,
tho.
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