Re: file Backup strategies?
- From: adykes@xxxxxxxxx (Al Dykes)
- Date: 28 Feb 2006 09:23:52 -0500
In article <7cl80210cfpnkm31ku4fsu8ai5u5388itd@xxxxxxx>,
nesredep egrob <SantaClaus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 15:12:35 -0800, usenet@xxxxxxxxxx (Paul Mitchum) wrote:
frankg <sorry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have hundreds of 8 & 16 bit psd /tif files to backup to an external usb
hard drive.
I dont like the program that came with the drive much (retrospect express)
and dont like the fact that it uses a propritory compression as in the
future on another machine it may pose a problem to access the files. I was
wondering about just using Windows Explorer to copy the files across, or
using a popular zipping program (winzip or winrar) to compress the folders
and then copy them, or use the built in Windows backup utility, or if
there's another very popular and standard backup program to get?
I've been looking at rdiff-backup, which is a script in Python. I
haven't built up the courage to try it out on my files yet, though. It
copies your files, and then on subsequent backups records the
differences between the current backup and the previous, rather than
keeping the old version of the file as a whole.
<http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/>
It might not be available in a Windows distribution, but I'm not sure.
I use Acronis and store the files directly to an external USB2 storage 200 GB
disk. Just as well to have plenty storage and avoid compression.
Try it for free and it is not too expensive to buy.
I'm a big fan of Acronis. The software is called TrueImage and I use
it on many systems. Mostly I do full image backup. I also burn lots
of CDs to save copies of work product. TI (or any crash recovery
backup tool) needs to be tested completely with *your* hardware if you
expect to recover with a bootable CD. That's what 30 day trials are
for.
I'm not a fan of external backpack disk drives. They are subject to
to many faults and failures, IMO. At the very least, you need two of
them and have to flip-flip between them and keep one off-site. This
is necessary because a system or device faiilure while you are writing
on your only (or latest) backup is a worst case scenario. sh*t
happens.
I distrust large disks in tiny, hot, boxes powered from wall warts,
connected with crappy USB cables. Call me paraniod.
I've got several computers on a LAN and the big desktop has two 200GB
disks in it. One use of these disks is to store generations of images
of all my machines done over the LAN with TI. The Desktop does it's
own backup backup disk-to-disk with TI. I flipflop between disks on
alternative days. TI does it all.
I've got my really important stuff off-site on CDs. Don't get me
started about CD lifetimes except to say that my CDs, properly stored
will outlast your non-name USB disk drive.
--
a d y k e s @ p a n i x . c o m
Don't blame me. I voted for Gore.
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