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Originally Posted by nynor
glen, what software do you use to back up your hard drives/files?
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When it comes to backup I am beyond a belt & suspenders guy. The main backup is done with Acroness. It will make me a CD that is bootable and I can put in a new hard drive and restore my files from a DVD, or external drive, or the other place that will hold the one big files it makes of my current system. I have had to test and it worked perfect. Second that same program does a continious backup to my external drive so I can decide I hate some new program and roll my system to the way it was before I installed the program. That works way better than the windows restore feature built into windows.
Third, I run Norton 360 as my anti-virus. It is a bit of a resource hog, but it is very intutive and it does a lot of other things besides bullet proof anti-virus protestion. One of the things it does is allow you 5 gigs of space to backup important files. I excluded the photos and music and I have it back up my Quicken & Quickbook files so even if my house burns down those are backed up.
Then just to be sure
I have a thumb drive that has a backup program and it will back up those same important files. I tend to do that about once a week. At the same time I use an app on my iPhone called Air-Sharing. It will let me copy a file to or from my computer right to a folder on my phone. Since I have a 32 gig iPhone I can backup a lot of important photos and those same finanical documents to my phone in a protected folder. I just make a ZIP file on my computer of the stuff I want to backup and copy that one zip file.
I learned a long time ago never trust just one method of backup.
Oh and on top of all of that or maybe as a base line of defense my boot drive is running as a mirror. If one drive fails all the data is on the other drive, so just swap in a new drive and I am golden.
See what I mean, way past belt & suspenders to hold up my pants or data