Re: Backing up my laptop

Sharing the laptop drive over the network shouldn't be a problem as long as your home network is behind a router, but you could disconnect the internet connection temporarily.

[There is another set of concerns if you have a wireless network, in which case you must be using properly configured WPA encryption to be reasonably secure. You may also want to implement MAC address filtering.]

Another option is to setup a partition on the laptop for the images and install ghost to the laptop, making the images entirely on the laptop. The images themselves can be password protected.

You will probably be better off making a "full" backup rather than an incremental backup. Indeed, a true image program doesn't support incremental images, since all that it is capable of doing is imaging an entire partition.


MikeG wrote:
I have Ghost on my desktop and would like to backup (image) my laptop with incremental backups once a week or so. How is the best way to do this. Sharing my C: drive on my home network for this purpose doesn't seem like a good idea?? 



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