[elky] Re: [OT] Backup: Mirror or File by File

  • From: Aren Cambre <aren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2009 15:06:43 -0500

Ditch that. Just use mozy.com. All backups go to the cloud for $5/month,
less if you do 1 or 2 year agreements.

Then if your house burns down, Mozy has a backup as recent as your latest
backup, which can be daily.

You can't get backups that good with your own equipment.

Aren

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Chris Lindh <chrislindh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have ~56GB of data on the home PC.  Some of it is important, so I've
> been backing up folders using Microsoft's SyncToy.  Now I'm wondering
> if I should have a mirror backup (an exact copy of my hard drive)
> instead of doing file by file, or maybe I should do both?  My backup
> external drive is 160GB, and I've got another 250GB I'm not using.
>
> A mirrored drive is nice since you can just plug it in and you're back
> in business, at least up to the point of the last backup.  With file
> by file you have more work to rebuild.
>
> If you guys are doing mirrored backups, what software are you using?
>
> Thanks!
> Chris
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