12-17-04 12:29 AM
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 08:30:13 -0500, "Richard E. Thiess"
<rthiess@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>I have just purchased an Iomega 160 Gig USB External HD. The
>software include an Iomega backup program and Norton Ghost 2003. Running
>both seems somewhat redundant. To date, I have run Ghost once and have the
>Iomega backing up "Documents and Settings" every night. Is running just
>Ghost sufficient protection? How often should I run Ghost? If I run Ghost
>too frequently, wouldn't I expose myself to the possibility of backing up
>corrupted files? I guess my questions are more philosophical than
>technical. TIA
>
>Richard Thiess
>Norcross, GA
Richard, I can only tell you what I do and I am sure you will receive
other suggestions as well. I use Ghost 2003 and it has work flawlessly
for me and it has saved me from disaster twice. Here is how I use it.
I have 35 gigs on my harddrive and I bought a 200 gig external
harddrive on which I put (4) 45 gig partitions.So I can get (4)
separate disk backups on the external harddrive and have 20GB left for
anything else I might want to specificially back up. That should be
enough to prevent backing up corrupt files.
I boot to Ghost with a floppy and only a floppy. Twice a week, I back
up my entire harddrive to a partition on the external harddrive. It
really doesn't take very long to do the backup and the integrity
check. Remember, Ghost will let you not only to restore your entire
disk but also any partition or folder(s) you may desire.
In my early days, I tried incremental backups but I find the way I
back up now to not only be simple but dependable.
I am not familiar with Iomega but if you wanted to, you could still
backup nightly. There would be some redundancy but I would think you
would like having the ability to restore you entire harddrive in the
event a harddive crash.
So much for my thoughts.
Simon
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