I asked a week or so about this
But everywhere I seem to go
There are ALWAYS mixed reviews on almost every product i see, even the ones you guys recommend to me
On the same product
some say its fantastic
while others say it broke down and lost everything on it after only 4 months
isnt the whole point that this is for backup itself?
Sorry
that IOmega one you recommended looked great and was cheap
but then i saw couple of reviews saying it packed in for them
everywhere i go and look at every single hard drive
it always has at least 3 reviews saying it has failed for someone
How do you know which will be reliable?
Hard drives will always fail at some point, that's just a fact.
The key thing that most people don't seem to grasp is that if you are using the external drive as a backup... the files MUST EXIST ELSEWHERE. So you can't delete files from your primary drive in your computer just because they are on the backup drive, unless you have a second backup drive backing up that one.
What I've started doing is backing up all my machines across the network to one big internal drive on my Linux box, and then I have an automatic backup of the internal drive to a big external drive.
That way most of my data is in 3 places, so even in the event of a failure, I'm covered.
I'm considering augmenting that with online backup...
[edit] ... this would make a good article series. I think I'm going to start working on that...
That sounds like a good approach. I have 3 external drives and none has failed yet (knock on wood). But the same applies to internal drives. I have seen a few going south recently (none of my own though). That is why I am such a fan of Ghost. The one person that had Ghost was able to reset his system the way it was 2 days before the disk gave up - in no time. And that saves not only your data but your whole system and subsystems (like e.g.office) including all it's settings. The other 2 people were in for a weeks worth of work - and it was still not the same.
PS. long time ago I had started a thread regarding back-up stratgies. But the only person that seemed to be interested was Scott. I meant to gather inputs and then make a write-up. But it faded due to a lack of interest.
Yes whs, you saw mine go!
Although mine is virtually back up to speed, just lost a few pictures
Well, if you did that thread again I would be interested :)
Did you see Geek's suggestion about an article (maybe you could be a co-writer!)
And ghost does sound great, surprise surprise I still haven't got around to buying it
Yes but this is the US
everything technology-wise is cheaper over there :(
Did you not here about the whole Expensive Britain thing?
About half a yeart ago there was a load of press coverage about it
And i guess you know about the current credit crunch - even Marks & Spencers are struggling (i dont know if that means anything to you whs, have you ever lived in UK?)
Also whs
have you seen these? (read top first)
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews.....st-12.html
http://www.acronis.com/homecom.....trueimage/
Ya, I have heard about Acronis but have never really explored it. That may be an alternative, but one would have to study it some further. As far as the prices go, we are always disadvantaged in Europe. That is why I buy nearly everything in the US (except my desktop here that I was afraid to lug past customs).
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