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Backing up the disk
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 9:17 am
by Czechnology
What would be your software choice for a disk backup?
I have an external drive (the same type as the one in my TP, in an external box with eSATA) and I'm thinking about how to do a backup the best way?
Thanks in advance!
(if the topic already exists, please point me to it, i was unable to find anything)
EDIT: Sorry for the wrong forum
Re: Backing up the disk
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2009 10:15 am
by Harryc
Not a 'How to or FAQ'. Moving to the General question forum.
Re: Backing up the disk
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 8:08 am
by bobones
I like ShadowProtect from Storage Craft. You can download a full 30 trial.
Re: Backing up the disk
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 9:15 am
by RealBlackStuff
I'd rather take an image, using Acronis TrueImage.
Way faster than a backup!
Re: Backing up the disk
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:10 am
by Czechnology
RealBlackStuff, but I guess for a (let's say) weekly backup, it'd take way too long to create an image of the disk every time, wouldn't it?
Re: Backing up the disk
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 10:52 am
by bobones
ShadowProtect is a disk image based solution like Acronis TI. A full image backup is suprisingly quick, but subsequent backups can be incremental/differential, where only changed disk sectors are copied, and these are amazingly quick. You can actually schedule continous incremental backups as frequently as every 15 minutes and they take a matter of seconds to complete. Hourly, daily or weekly backups my be more appropriate. Trial is here here
http://forum.storagecraft.com/Community ... try12.aspx.
Re: Backing up the disk
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 2:19 am
by paul*robertson
It depends on what you mean by backup. My backup strategy is this.
Each laptop i have a second HD and every so often using Easus (free) i clone the HD. Thats a perfect copy that you could just swap over if needed, Then i have memeo auto backup on each laptop which runs in the background. It scans selected folders ie email, my pictures, and backs them up to a network hard drive. On top of that every so often i save my photo's to a disc (the old fashioned way)
Re: Backing up the disk
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:31 am
by Czechnology
Paul, that's a nice strategy
I'm just worried, that making a 500GB image will take too long and soon I'll stop to backup because it simply takes so long...
Re: Backing up the disk
Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:21 am
by RealBlackStuff
For one thing, there is no 500GB of data on your HD!
You'll have 10-20GB for Windows, maybe another 30GB for programs, and the rest is data.
If you need that size HD, probably most of it is music or movies.
You only need to back up the whole lot once. Then incremental let's say every week.