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| Thread ID: 31432 | 2003-03-21 12:16:00 | To Partition a Disk and Back-Up | dcloud (3422) | Press F1 |
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| 129940 | 2003-03-25 17:55:00 | Hi, Sometimes just common sense, can outwit any good product out there. Maybe consider an second hard drive? and use that as your backup storage there. Partitioning is especially useful, if you want to keep your data organised. We only learn from trial and error. |
The Student (3269) | ||
| 129941 | 2003-03-25 20:39:00 | I personally almost never backup to CD-R unless Im expecting a crash or a format soon.... Those are probably the words of a fool, however, with over 10 gigs of stuff Id wanna backup, it'd just take too long on CD-R. That's why I bought a couple of HDD's for that special purpose. Ive never had a HDD go corrupt on me, but it has to happen to somebody, luckily just not me yet. If you're doing large storage like I am (And Im going to follow through with this... hopefully within a month, maybe 3 at most...), then a DVD Writer might be on the cards. Otherwise, you can pick up a CD-R/W for $99 Brand New! see ]url=http://www.pricespy.co.nz]Pricespy.co.nz[/url] and you can find the cheapest local vendor. All up though, local backups are not really the way to go for security. Any company who backs up generally will do so off-site as well. I do recommend that you dont do it to CD-R/W as they are known to be not quite as reliable, and for the cost, it's about a dollar or less for most CD-R's now, so the advantage of using a CD-R/W is diminishing! Hope this helps ;-) Cheers Chilling_Silence |
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| 129942 | 2003-03-25 21:03:00 | > I personally use Partition magic 7 plus Drive image > 2002 does a good job and easy as well I recommend a > 10 gig C Go 8 Gig or 16, 32? so you get the largest partition and the smallest cluster size. |
E.ric (351) | ||
| 129943 | 2003-03-26 07:24:00 | >Those are probably the words of a fool, however, with over 10 gigs of stuff Id >wanna backup, it'd just take too long on CD-R. You actually have over 10GB of actual data you would be seriously gutted if you lost. I've got that amount as well if you could mp3s/oggs that I can rerip or download again. Or freeware and shareware that I've downloaded of which there is usually a newer version out of anyway |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 129944 | 2003-03-27 08:12:00 | I ALSO HAVE BACKED UP TO CDR PLUS ONTO A SEPERATE hdd, SO THIS FOOL AND HIS DATA WONT BE PARTED TO QUICKLY !! | kiwibeat (304) | ||
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