[dba-Tech] External hard drive

Susan,

I do recommend that you do backup your entire C drive on a weekly basis,
with incremental backups daily.  This process should be automated.

This way you have duplicates of all your files, and you don't have to count
on yourself to remember which files were changed and which weren't.

In addition, if your C Drive crashes, you can quickly recover.  First put a
new C drive in.  Then start the PC using the Ghost emergency disk - I think
you can format the new disk with this (if not then format the new disk on a
working PC).  Then you can continue to use the emergency disk to do a
Restore of every file on the Backup disk, and you then have your PC right
back where it was at your most recent daily backup!

HTH!
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Susan Harkins
Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:46 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] External hard drive

So, you need backups for the backups. : )

Yes, I plan to move most of my digital photos to the hard drive, so I guess
that's a good plan Tina.

Susan H.

> Hi Susan,
> What I failed to do
> was to make backups of the external hard drive, too.  So, when it 
> failed last winter, I had a very big OOPS - one that a geek like me 
> should never have!  Thank God for SpinRite!  Long, long hours (days, 
> weeks, even months) later, virtually all data recovered but, oh my what a
hassle!

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