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Windows Desktop Backups

nipper

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I have 5 computers at home with various OS's (Win2K Win98 Win ME and WinXP)

I figure backing those up would be a good idea.

Frey's Electronics has a 1 Terrabyte filesystem that I can hook up to my system and copy
stuff over.

My question is what is the best way to backup the OS with a reasonable hope of recovery ? Can
I use Ghost to create an image to a device like that ? Even better, over the network ?

Currently for my laptop I use ghost to copy one disk to another, that is a real pain.

Andy

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Migrateduser

What about using Windows' backup program? All of those versions should have it already installed. I've attempted to recover from a Windows backup that way and it worked quite well, actually.

DISCLAIMER: This modicum of excitement for a Microsoft product does, in no way, establish approval or general fuzzy feelings for Microsoft's products as a whole on the part of the first party.

Dave

Current Environments:
(1,2) TS 6.5 on W2K3
(3) Vignette V7 Portal on Solaris 9

Migrateduser

1 TB? How much?

Current Environments:
(1,2) TS 6.5 on W2K3
(3) Vignette V7 Portal on Solaris 9

nipper

$750, firewire interface (among others)

BTW, can Windows backup program backup over the network ? What do you need to
recover then ?

Thanks DOS-lover

Migrateduser

Dammit, I hate Windows... my signature file here used to say how much I missed Unix but they have size limits here on signature files.

ANYWAY, I haven't tried to back up over a network but when restoring, you have the option of restoring to either an absolute path (from which the files were backed up in the first place) or a relative path. And, I would imagine that restoring over a network would be just fine.

Something to be cautious of when backing up any Windows platform is the registry and other system-hidden information. Their backup program does a good job of that, but I doubt that you would be able to accomplish that with this program.

Dave

Current Environments:
(1,2) TS 6.5 on W2K3
(3) Vignette V7 Portal on Solaris 9

Migrateduser

i buy external enclosures and hard drives, cheap & effective. also, you can run raid if any of yer systems support it.

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