| Kelleher 2005-02-12, 2:45 am |
| I'm wanting to implement a strategy whereby if my hard disk crashes,
then I can fairly quickly get functional again at a state close to
that prior to the crash. I've got a couple of ideas in mind and would
like to get some comments please.
The system is Windows 2000 Pro, and I have a backup internal hard disk
installed and ready to go. I also have a copy of Norton Ghost 9.
The disk I want to copy is 60GB and has two partitions: small one for
the OS, and another one.
Idea 1
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* Firstly, using Ghost, make a disk copy of my current disk to the
backup disk.
* From then on, at the end of every day run some kind synchronizing
utility to keep the disks identical.
* As long as I make a bootable partition on the backup disk during the
initial copy, then I'm thinking that in the event of a catastrophic
crash, I can tell BIOS to boot from that partition and be back
functional almost immediately. (?)
Idea 2
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* Firstly, using Ghost, make a base image backup of the entire current
disk to the backup disk.
* Then, at the end of every day, make an incremental backup image.
* If I do it this way then in the event of a catastrophic crash, I'm
thinking I can restore the image backup to a third hard disk (or maybe
even the backup disk itself ?). This way wouldn't get me functional
again as soon as the first way.
Anyway, I would appreciate any thoughts about the feasibility /
desirability of either of these options.
Many thanks
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