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Posted by P.Schuman on March 10, 2008, 11:00 pm
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with laptop disk capacity getting bigger and bigger,
wonder how folks are backing up their critical laptop information ?
I have Acronis loaded from when I installed a new disk...
but have not used it for creating backup images.
My laptop has all my financials, taxes, and business stuff,
along with photos, docs, email, music, videos, etc
SO - with a 30, 60, or 120MB laptop disk -
how and what can we use to back these up in a reasonable amount of time ?
Heck - it takes an hour just to perform a complete disk virus scan.
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Posted by - Bobb - on March 10, 2008, 2:30 pm
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> with laptop disk capacity getting bigger and bigger,
> wonder how folks are backing up their critical laptop information ?
>
> I have Acronis loaded from when I installed a new disk...
> but have not used it for creating backup images.
>
> My laptop has all my financials, taxes, and business stuff,
> along with photos, docs, email, music, videos, etc
>
> SO - with a 30, 60, or 120MB laptop disk -
> how and what can we use to back these up in a reasonable amount of time
> ?
> Heck - it takes an hour just to perform a complete disk virus scan.
>
I was thinking about this on Sunday - when I saw a 1 Terabyte disk for
sale at Best Buy for $230.
I bought an HP laptop just as Vista was being released, so I got it with
XP and was mailed the DVD's to upgrade to Vista. I prefer XP, but was
thinking - I could Ghost laptop to it as-is, then backup each of the 2
partitions, then upgrade laptop to Vista ?? If I don't like it could
then go back to XP using the USB drive and Ghost.
How long would it take to format a 1Tb disk drive ?
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Posted by Kalman Rubinson on March 10, 2008, 11:09 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:00:50 -0500, "P.Schuman"
>with laptop disk capacity getting bigger and bigger,
>wonder how folks are backing up their critical laptop information ?
>
>I have Acronis loaded from when I installed a new disk...
>but have not used it for creating backup images.
>
>My laptop has all my financials, taxes, and business stuff,
>along with photos, docs, email, music, videos, etc
>
>SO - with a 30, 60, or 120MB laptop disk -
>how and what can we use to back these up in a reasonable amount of time ?
>Heck - it takes an hour just to perform a complete disk virus scan.
I use a large USB-connected hard disk that does real-time backup
whenever the PC is on.
Kal
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Posted by P.Schuman on March 11, 2008, 5:29 pm
Please log in for more thread options Kalman Rubinson wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:00:50 -0500, "P.Schuman"
>
>> with laptop disk capacity getting bigger and bigger,
>> wonder how folks are backing up their critical laptop information ?
>>
>> I have Acronis loaded from when I installed a new disk...
>> but have not used it for creating backup images.
>>
>> My laptop has all my financials, taxes, and business stuff,
>> along with photos, docs, email, music, videos, etc
>>
>> SO - with a 30, 60, or 120MB laptop disk -
>> how and what can we use to back these up in a reasonable amount of
>> time ? Heck - it takes an hour just to perform a complete disk virus
>> scan.
>
> I use a large USB-connected hard disk that does real-time backup
> whenever the PC is on.
>
> Kal
my laptop has USB 1.1 - but I have a PCMCIA card for USB 2.0 that I use for
video editing.
If my laptop right now has about 30GB used,
then the Acronic backup software might be able to create a 2x compressed
backup file - 15GB -
I would need to create that on the USB external drive real time,
as I don't have another 15GB free on the disk.
The issue would be creating that 15GB file on the external drive via USB
2.0,
and how long it would take....
Guess I'll have to get an external disk + USB case.... and try it.
There seems to be a ton of these USB cases out there... hmmm....
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Posted by Robert Barr on March 11, 2008, 7:22 pm
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> The issue would be creating that 15GB file on the external drive via USB
> 2.0,
> and how long it would take....
Actually, I think the main issue would be whether or not your software
will be able to 'see' that USB backup file (especially with the PCMCIA
card) in case you need to restore from scratch. If it doesn't, well,
then obviously the scheme is useless.
With a 2nd hard drive, you could test your scheme and know for sure.
Use the 2nd as a scratch drive, so your actual system drive is safe and
sound on a shelf somewhere.
>
Even at 1.1, I don't think it would be an outrageous length of time.
I've backed up a 6 GB system drive, with USB 1.1, and it was only about
40 minutes (that's with Ghost 10). For 15Gb, I'd guess 90 minutes. If
that were necessary just for a catastrophic restore, it still beats
starting from scratch with your OS CD's and applications.
You won't be backing up the whole mess each time -- the incrementals
shouldn't be too terrible.
> Guess I'll have to get an external disk + USB case.... and try it.
> There seems to be a ton of these USB cases out there... hmmm....
>
>
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