How do you backup your system?

Quote from Catoosa:

Why not put all of your HDs in removable bays? That is what I did years ago. You can then swap, copy, and store HDs on the shelf as needed.
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This is a laptop and the primary HD is fixed :-)
 
Quote from ntfs:

Holmes,
I was thinking of doing the hd in a bay. When you want to clone the bay drive to the internal drive, do you have to go inside and change the settings on the internal drive from master to slave? I would like to do this without opening up the case.

tia,

nt
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Although my experience with desktops is getting satle (have been using laptops last few years) I never had to change the settings. Someone more familair with this may be able to give a more detailed reply.

Sherlock
 
Quote from nononsense:

"If you can't or won't cough up the dough for Acronis, get a livecd linux disc, like Knoppix. They have a program 'partimage' that does a very decent job. It doesn't matter that your system to be backed up is M$. You backup up disk-images, so it won't matter"

Very intriguing suggestion!

I never tought about it, and having had in the past bad experiences with images done while main system was in use, I like the idea to boot from the cd by Linux.

I have only a concern, and maybe you can avoid me lot of researches: I am using two SATA Raptor in RAID0 to get best performance (I really endorse them, I have systems running from a couple of years now 24/24 without a glitch). May I use knoppix to image it too (but how do it mount the volume?)? Else, do you know if Acronis or Casper do the job?

TIA!
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Quote from nononsense:

"If you can't or won't cough up the dough for Acronis, get a livecd linux disc, like Knoppix. They have a program 'partimage' that does a very decent job. It doesn't matter that your system to be backed up is M$. You backup up disk-images, so it won't matter"

Very intriguing suggestion!

I never tought about it, and having had in the past bad experiences with images done while main system was in use, I like the idea to boot from the cd by Linux.

I have only a concern, and maybe you can avoid me lot of researches: I am using two SATA Raptor in RAID0 to get best performance (I really endorse them, I have systems running from a couple of years now 24/24 without a glitch). May I use knoppix to image it too (but how do it mount the volume?)? Else, do you know if Acronis or Casper do the job?

TIA!
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Hi Gepard,

Your type of HD shouldn't make any difference, as long as it gets detected by Knoppix. There is no reason it shouldn't.

Read the partimage instructions carefully. It is some time ago since I used it. You have to specify the right file types in your naming scheme according to the compression you choose. If you don't, you make things a bit harder on you, if I recall. However, it have used it a lot more than a year ago and it never let me down. Give it a try!

Be good,
nononsense
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I use Acronis to make disc images.

When i make CD's the write speed is 48x.

But if i make an imgae from 1 HD to another HD the write speed seems to be 48x also. Is this normal? I should think that from HD to HD the speed would be much higher.
A 5Gb image without compression needs 12 minutes to be made from HD to HD.

I have a Plextor CD reader/writer (48 speed), a Maxtor 80 Gb with 8 Mb cache (6Y080P0) and a Maxtor 60 Gb with 2 Mb cache (6Y060L0).
 
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