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| 367567 | 2005-06-28 00:49:00 | Hello to you all I am looking for a new backup harddrive system. Till now I had one of those retractable/removable drives and it has been working ok. Just because the opening is often empty(drive is stored away except wenn backing up) and exposed to dust influx I like to change to a USB. Has anyone experience with such a HDD. And what are the good ones? As much as I remember they come with a backing up soft like Ghost9? Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks Gion |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 367568 | 2005-06-28 04:43:00 | Hello to you all I am looking for a new backup harddrive system . Till now I had one of those retractable/removable drives and it has been working ok . Just because the opening is often empty(drive is stored away except wenn backing up) and exposed to dust influx I like to change to a USB . Has anyone experience with such a HDD . And what are the good ones? As much as I remember they come with a backing up soft like Ghost9? Any help is very much appreciated . Thanks Gion What they are is a normal hard drive inside a USB enclosure . So any hard drive will do . And I find its an excellent idea . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 367569 | 2005-06-28 04:52:00 | I use a 120 Gig Seagate External HDD. It comes with a Seagate Backup Application. It can be connected using USB 2.0 or Firewire. | danv802002 (8402) | ||
| 367570 | 2005-06-28 08:19:00 | Thanks guys Has anyone of you or any others used Ghost9 to image via usb? To me it sounds like a good solution, but I need some reasurance? Are those drives easy to remove to store if the office is unatended for a period of time and reasonably quickly placed back? :( Gion |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 367571 | 2005-06-28 15:21:00 | Depending on what type of HD you use. If you go for the expensive and small in dimentions notebook 2.5" drive, they dont need a power cord, just one USB cord. The other option is to use a standard 3.5" drive, all the ones I have come accross have needed a power cord as well. But either way, you just plug it in and it goes, no need to turn the computer off. How often do you think you will need to restore the image?? I would just copy the files you want backed up to the USB drive. When you need to fix your OS, nothing beats a fresh install. |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 367572 | 2005-06-28 19:57:00 | Hi Rob Thanks At the moment I backup(image)once a week for all the documents . And once a week for system(due to having the design prog folders within C; Program files . What I like to do is also backup of my work more often, twice to three times/week just less risk of loosing data and have to do it again . As for backup system; if I would have a hdd failure(which I had allready once) It would be a fast back on track method with restore image back on a new hdd? How good are those 2 . 5i" drives? Would be nice to have the external hdd without an extra power cable? Any particular brands? Gion |
notechyet (4479) | ||
| 367573 | 2005-06-28 20:56:00 | Hi Rob Thanks At the moment I backup(image)once a week for all the documents . And once a week for system(due to having the design prog folders within C; Program files . What I like to do is also backup of my work more often, twice to three times/week just less risk of loosing data and have to do it again . As for backup system; if I would have a hdd failure(which I had allready once) It would be a fast back on track method with restore image back on a new hdd? How good are those 2 . 5i" drives? Would be nice to have the external hdd without an extra power cable? Any particular brands? Gion I have one image of my C: drive in case of total loss so I can reimage to a new HDD . Then I just backup my documents and stuff regularly . The 2 . 5"s are great, work really well . As for brand, its the hard drive inside which is the main thing . I have a Seagate 3 . 5" drive with an IDE to USB adapter . A friend has a 2 . 5" . Seagate 20Gb . In a 2 . 5" enclosure . The main thing is we both use Seagates (5 year warranty) . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 367574 | 2005-06-28 22:41:00 | you could set up a RAID 1 hard drive system (en.wikipedia.org) | Prescott (11) | ||
| 367575 | 2005-06-28 23:24:00 | Thanks guys Has anyone of you or any others used Ghost9 to image via usb? To me it sounds like a good solution, but I need some reasurance? Are those drives easy to remove to store if the office is unatended for a period of time and reasonably quickly placed back? :( Gion Yep, I've done it many times with laptops with good success and it's saved my ass a few times I find it easier though, depending on the model of Lappy to remove the drive and hook it up to my test machine along with the spare/new drive to reghost as I've had a few failures re-ghosting over USB Also read the "read me file" for issues using hubs and USB etc and the section on using the -FDSZ switch in advanced mode if you are 'cloning' a drive I like it though, overall it works very well |
bartsdadhomer (80) | ||
| 367576 | 2005-06-29 09:44:00 | Hi ..homer So what was the problem by reloading the image back. Gion |
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