Just bought a SSD, is there a program to schedule backups?

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tracerit

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I'm going to replace my 7200rpm 250gb Toshiba hard drive in my laptop with a Kingston V100 64GB SSD. I have a 1TB external WD Green for storage.

Ive been reading a bit about reliability issues with SSDs and I was wondering if there's a program out there that'll do scheduled backups of the whole SSD to my external hard drive.

Also, are there any special processes that I have to go through when I first install and use the SSD? Or is it pretty much just install it, install Win7, and done?
 
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Emulex

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no your reliability issue will be your 1TB WD green lol. the ssd are solid.

but you should backup like you do now for your hard drive
 
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Emulex

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I'll tell you that backup exec system restore 2010 is 100% solid with backing up a image of your drive and restoring it. while the o/s is live. it's solid enough to run a network backup job (two) one on-site - one off-site FULL IMAGE every night and not crap out after weeks. and it's solid enough to encrypt, skip error blocks(and let you know), and skip blank sectors.


So when that drive develops a bad sector, it won't abort the backup and rotate it; it will make it; notify you; and you can take action. this is important because sometimes backups fail and the machines hang leaving you with half finished backups. if you let them auto-rotate you could end up with no valid backups for quick restore. typical restore time is 45 minutes from dead drive to booting back up including taking apart the machine and swapping in a new drive which isn't easy on some OEM's.

The BESR program also includes pc-anywhere so you can have a 'tard install a new drive and you can steer the remote restore from another location.
 
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