Backup methods.

[Zero Plasma]

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?

 

[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.

 

[homercles337]

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.

Precisely, in fact my extra drive is explicitly called "backup."

You could also try a filesplitter/winRAR approach. Never done it myself though.

 

[corkyg]

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.

 

[Zero Plasma]

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.

 

[0roo0roo]

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.

 

[Red and black]

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.

 

[YoshiSato]

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.