Re: Death of a Computer...

I only disagree with the separate partitions thing in that when the drive
fails it will take *all* the partitions with it anyway.

BTW Acronis will do incremental images. That means once you get an image
created (and stored to removable media) you can 'add' to it thereby
keeping it up to date. You can even set up MS Synctoy to do scheduled
backups of your image to your removable drive/media.

I backup my stuff to extra drives (figuring that they won't all fail at
once -- where's that lightning rod?). Nonetheless back ups to removable
media taken off site (a safe deposit box?) is the gold standard.


-Mark0


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On Aug 14 2008 2:19 AM, sittingduck wrote:

lfigueroa wrote:

I am going to Best Buy first thing tomorrow and buying Acronis and a
thumb drive and putting THAT into the safe :-)

I'm not sure Acronis will do backups to flash memory. You might want to buy
a
small external USB HD. (laptop drive in an enclosure)
Acronis is the NUTS, once you figure out how to use it and what it can do,
you will be very stoked.
One thing I would recommend, is setting up your PC with several partitions.
I have one for windows, one for most of my programs, another for backups and
documents, and then the rest is for temp files, downloads, archive creation
and extraction, video editing, etc.
That way you can make small image files of your critical data without also
copying a bunch of extra junk.
Windows will also run better when it doesn't have a bunch of other stuff
going on. Less need of defragmentation, and quicker defrags when it does
need
it.

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