[elky] Re: [OT] Backup: Mirror or File by File
- From: Aren Cambre <aren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 08:46:16 -0500
I have an old XP laptop with a 750GB USB hard drive. I have about 82 GB of
data backed up on Mozy. I maintain cached copies of portions of those files
on my newer laptop with Vista's Offline Files feature. When the old laptop
is off or unavailable (e.g., I am not at home), I can still access the
cached files just as if they were shared on the laptop.
It is very, very difficult for a home user to do daily incremental backups,
daily ship all backups outside one's home, and have enterprise-standard
redundancy. Having one spare USB hard drive is not an effective backup
strategy.
BTW, I use SyncToy to push a backup of my work-related laptop files to my
work PC. Nice utility. Upgrading to Windows 7 tomorrow--SMU can get the RTM
then--so I'll be using it today to refresh my backup.
Aren
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Lindh <chrislindh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Do you use Mozy? Do you backup your entire hard drive(s)?
>
> " You can't get backups that good with your own equipment." Why not?
>
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Aren Cambre<aren@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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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