Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]My 2 computers have 2 partitions on their hard drive. C: is for the operating system and D: is for all data files. Having all my data on D: makes doing data backups very easy. As we know, hard drives always fail so I do my data backups on 3 different hard drives that I connect to the computer typically every week or so. By having multiple backup drives, I can be sure that a mother board failure that is killing the backup drive/data will not destroy all my backups. I have Windows XP and Windows 7 on my 2 computers. I use the Acronis program to cloan my entire hard drive to another hard drive every month or so. The Acronis cloaned drives will boot and run normally. I wrote a batch file to do the data backups that does the backup easily and quickly. WWP -----Original Message----- >From: Lew Schwartz <lew1716 at gmail.com> >Sent: Dec 29, 2011 10:10 AM >To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Data/image Backups. > >Carbonite won't back up a networked storage device unfortunately. > >On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Fred Holzapfel <fkh1950 at >frontiernet.net>wrote: > >> Ken was mentioning the need for easy data backups. In my 32 years of >> data >> processing the one guarantee is that you cannot have enough backups. >> Personally I use a product called "Carbonite". It is easy to use, runs >> in >> the back ground and keeps my PC and data reasonably current. In addition >> I >> use the standard widows backup to a data stick. I do the data stick >> monthly >> to have a personal backup in the event I cannot get on-line or there are >> issues with the internet. Today a multiple gigabyte data stick is only a >> few dollars making it very inexpensive backup. Most are easy to set up >> and >> use. By using both methods I am quite certain my images, e-mails, etc. >> are >> all reasonably safe. You can look at the "Carbonite" product at: >> http://www.carbonite.com/en/home/online-backup I have no relationship >> with >> Carbonite except being a satisfied customer. I hope that is of some >> help >> to those looking for a good backup solution. There must be others >> available. Happy New Year to the LUG! >> >> >> >> Fred Holzapfel >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information