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Thread ID: 129757	2013-03-11 00:27:00	Hard drive for a small business	Digby (677)	Press F1

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1332200	2013-03-11 02:50:00	All true, which is why I said external backup device and not specifically a hard drive :) It depends on the level of the business and how important the backups are though. Having a pair of portable hard drives and backing up to one all week then swapping it for another in an alternating week about pattern and taking one home (or store it somewhere) though is really not that much of a chore. You can leave a backup device permantely connected and schedule to it and only need to do something once a week. If any one drive fails you replace it and restore the back-up and carry on. In the unlikely event two drives fail the most you can lose is a weeks worth of backups. Just a possible example of how you could do it, I'd leave actual backup decisions to the user.	dugimodo (138)
1332201	2013-03-11 05:35:00	Agree with above comments, for any user backups are a good Idea but for a business I'd call it mandatory. Best practice is an external backup device , stored securely or preferably offsite and a regular backup schedule. To get serious you'd keep 2 data backups and a system image with each. Yes, that is what I do, and I will be advising them to do the same. They have one external hard drive. I will be recommending a seconds one to rotate off site.	Digby (677)
1332202	2013-03-11 08:20:00	Thanks for the advice. I have decided that we'll go for a WD Black caviar and just get a 500 gig drive which is about the same price as the Barracuda 1TB.	Digby (677)
1332203	2013-03-15 05:49:00	The windows 7 backup is quite good, but there is the problem of it not supporting drive swapping - you can only have 1 backup drive. What does everyone here use?	Greven (91)
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