[dba-Tech] Drive Copying

Andy,

I used to use Acronis True Image until Ghost 9 came out.  They both do about
the same thing, but Ghost will allow you to keep X number of generations of
backups and will then automatically delete the older generations as that
limit is met.

What I do is to Ghost my C Drive Sunday morning, then I have it make
incremental backups every morning other than Sunday.  I have it keep 2
generations for that.  Every Wednesday evening, I make another full backup
of my C: drive to a different HD from the above, but the difference is that
every other week, I back that backup off to DVD.  For the Wednesday backups,
I keep 2 generations on the HD.  For my "download files" drive, I have Ghost
back it up once a month to another HD with incremental backups twice a week.
This I also let keep 2 generations (at least for now).  I back off this
drive's backups about once every 2-3 months (10 or so DVDs).

Another utility I use is Karen's Power Tools Replicator.  This allows you to
keep a folder (including subs if you want) that stays in synch with another
folder.  It can (and this is the way I have it set up) keep a daily backup
of a given folder for every day of the week.  At the beginning of the next
week, it starts over again.  It can mirror deletions.  I have 4-5 jobs
running under this: source code, wife's business docs, family docs, email,
etc.  So at any time, I can easily get back to the prior 7 days worth of
data for these particular documents.

As for problems with Ghost, I have not had any.  Been using it for about 4
months now.

Bobby

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Andy Lacey
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:29 AM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Drive Copying


Afternoon folks

Ok so I decided to beef up my backup capability (been using Disk2Disk to
backup essentials to CD), get a second HD, a USB 2.0 caddy for it and backup
my entire disk to that. Was going to get Ghost 9 to do it but then read some
horrendous reviews of the product which aside from many and various problems
agreed on only one thing - if you need tech support forget it. So I thought
I'd better canvas opinion among the best-informed set of people I know - yes
folks it's you. So who can recommend the greatest, most reliable, easiest to
setup, easiest to use disk imaging software? One requirement I'd have would
be to schedule overnight backups and not to have to come out of Windows to
do it.

Any thoughts?

--
Andy Lacey
http://www.minstersystems.co.uk

PS If we've had this before I apologise but I couldn't find anything in the
archives.

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