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Once a month or so I GHOST the whole partition onto a separate drive.
This separate clone drive is temporarily connected via a separate Promise
IDE card for IDE hardware redundancy.
The Promise card stays plugged in  and I take away the second drive
In case of crash just swap drives and I'm back in business.
CD image of basic OS and key apps plus critical files as a second line of
defense.

At 11:50 AM 4/10/04 -0400, John J. McDonough wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gerhard Fiedler" <lists@CONNECTIONBRAZIL.COM>
>Subject: Re: [OT:] Backup Software - Your favorites?
>
>
> > You need to add at least the OS to the list of requirements :)
>
>You got that right!
>
>For WinXP I use Norton Ghost ... neither automatic nor free, but I have
>spent enough time recovering from crashed Windoze systems to know that a
>partial backup just doesn't cut it.  Yes, it can save you from loosing data,
>but rebuilding a Windoze system can take weeks.  I write the Ghost savesets
>to a DVD because XP is fat enough that CD's are a pain.  I do copy active
>projects off to a file share using Briefcase any time I do significant work,
>so the full backup is only about once a month.
>
>For Linux, I simply tar the directories into savesets of CD size and write
>them to another partition.  A little later I write them to CD.  Linux is
>slim enough that CDs are feasible, even though I use one of my Linux systems
>as a file server for the Windoze systems.
>
>72/73 de WB8RCR    http://www.qsl.net/wb8rcr
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