Solutions for backing up computer

[Sbud]

I'd love some input on an idea for backing up a computer. First a little background, I had a hard drive go bad on me and was without a computer for nearly 5 days before getting the new drive, installing windows and all my apps and restoring the data. Don't want to do that again, so I thought I needed a better way.

Went to a computer store and was advised to purchase a normal internal hard drive, enclose it in a USB 2.0 enclosure and mirror (would likely use True Image) my internal hard drive to it. The idea supposedly is that if the internal drive goes bad, I take the other drive out of the enclosure, swap it with the bad one and I'm ready to go.

Does any one think this will work? Or better yet, anyone doing this or have any other ideas?

Thanks for your feedback.

 

[oog]

i think that it's a great idea to put your backups on a drive inside an external enclosure. others here have disagreed in some previous similar threads. as for how to do the backup, i personally have found that using ntbackup to do a full backup gives you what you need in order to restore the system. additional software for doing backup is a bonus, but it does add to the overall cost. i've heard good things about dantz retrospect, but i haven't used it.

 

[happyshopping007]

maybe you can Raid 0 .

 

[TSDible]

Originally posted by: happyshopping007
maybe you can Raid 0 .

I think you mean raid 1.

Raid 0 would be less secure.

 

[DnetMHZ]

External hard drive and a copy of Acronis True image would work very nicely.