[dba-Tech] Drive Copying

Well I used windows backup!!!

Instead of backing up to a tape you can also backup in a file located on
another physical disk. 
This way you could have a week rotating (every day one file) overwriting
the file depending on the day...

It's easyer to restore a specific file then when using an image.
Disadvantage is when windows is crashed you first need to reinstall
windows.
I haven't seen many XP crashing so...



Erwin 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 10:13 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Drive Copying

Ouch!  No, you are entirely correct, this is not a backup but a file by
file copy to another drive. It copies anything NOT on the other drive
and anything there but newer on the older drive. It's not for everyone.
The biggest defficiency from my standpoint is that it doesn't have
GENERATIONS. So if something changes multiple times but keeps the same
name I only have the one version.  Perhaps I should be using GHOST or
something to create images of the entire disk....hmmmm?


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 22:00:11 +0100, Erwin Craps - IT Helps
<Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be> wrote:
> I wanted to point this out because I once had an issue with a 
> accountancy software that  re-imported files again creating double 
> records when restoring from a backup like this.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 9:55 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Drive Copying
> 
> Yes, good point Erwin. And that's a good thing in my case. I'm 
> constantly out of space on my main drive, so I delete older files 
> there when I need some space and they are still on the external drive.
> My external drive is my archive. If I want to delete something 
> permenantly from it I have to do that manually.
> 
> But eventually you run out of space on the Archive - I'm getting close

> now - and then you have to 1) delete some things or 2) get a bigger
> one and start over - the way I'm leaning    ;-)
> 
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 20:48:09 +0100, Erwin Craps - IT Helps 
> <Erwin.Craps at ithelps.be> wrote:
> > One small remark when using xcopy.
> > Delete files on the source drive will not be deleted on the 
> > destination drive.
> > At my knowledge there is no solution for that, except for delete 
> > everything first on the destination drive.
> > Best to works with two copies because if you delete everything 
> > first, you don't have a backup during that time.
> >
> > Erwin
> >

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