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| Thread ID: 77337 | 2007-03-06 03:42:00 | USB HDD's as Backup on small network server | kwaka (10149) | Press F1 |
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| 530558 | 2007-03-06 03:42:00 | Greetings all, In the past I have used SCSI Sony AIT2 tape drive units and Novastor 7.0 as a backup regime for a few Windows server 2003 systems locally. Am now going to use USB 2.0 external drive units in a few situations. I am asking if anyone out there has gone down this path and can recommend software that is reliable and capable of this type of backing up. Probably Novastor is the one, past experience shows ntbackup isn't. But opinions from people who have walked this path would be appreciated. | kwaka (10149) | ||
| 530559 | 2007-03-06 04:24:00 | Backup Exec supports backup to drives folders! Are u using an Ext HD due to the amount of data to backup? | SolMiester (139) | ||
| 530560 | 2007-03-06 09:18:00 | I use the free Drive Image XML myself. It images the whole drive so a restore is fast and easy. Boot to Bart's PE boot cd to restore the operating system partition. Any other partitions can be restored just by running Drive Image in windows. It's much faster than copying all files on a drive, but will take a while for large drives if you need to compress them. I've got my 300GB drive backed up to a 200GB USB external drive using compression and that takes all night. It will also restore an image to any size drive/partition as long is there is enough space (in other words, the partitions don't have to be the same size). I just restored the operating system partition on my laptop, about 30 GB, and it took 40 minutes. |
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