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Backup methods.

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I was wondering if its not to hard to make a backup of a hard drive spanning multiple DVD-RW's.

My dive will be about 60 - 80 gigs used space after I clean it off and 25 DVD's at even just 4 gigs would be able to store 100 gigs.

I have Norton Ghost 2005.

If this won't work or is to much trouble then whats a good inexspensive backup method to backup about once a month?
 
A cheap way to do it would be a extra HD. You can get a 200-300GB disk for $100 AR. Make the backup and store the drive away.
 
Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
A cheap way to do it would be a extra HD. You can get a 200-300GB disk for $100 AR. Make the backup and store the drive away.
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Precisely, in fact my extra drive is explicitly called "backup." 🙂

You could also try a filesplitter/winRAR approach. Never done it myself though.
 
Echo the duplicate drive. It is always ready to go - just switch the cable or get a switch between them. Mine is no longer made (Romtec) - but it sure is slick.

I have three computers, and each has a dulicate HDD - I call it a "Reserve Drive."

I clone them every week with TI8's bootable CD.
 
Yeah that would be a better way, but I thought Ghost had a way to break the backup into parts and then mabye burn as it backsup?

I think i'll go with the second drive though. Just curious.

Thanks.
 
no, save ghosting for imaging o/s only. its impractical to use that many dvdrw. and if one gets corrupt...oh man. windows should be on its own partition next time u reinstall. 10~gb is enough. keep games/media away. windows+ office is about 600mb compressed ghost image.
 
If you want to protect against house fires, store the backup drive in a closet at a friend's house, or in a safe deposit box or something.
 
I do not recommend using DVD media for archiving files. While I have not experienced data corruption with any DvD+RWs yet I have alot of backup DvD+Rs of my DvD collection. After 1 year I am starting to get read errors which is not good.

A 2nd, 3rd or 5th hard drive for backup is the way to go.
 
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