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In Reply to: RE: Good Thread For Me posted by Awe-d-o-file on October 21, 2014 at 17:31:29
> My SB server died as I posted. I'm going to find a new to me few year
> old machine w/7 and SATA drives. I'll ghost or back up to something
> either internal or USB. I guess internal will be cheaper and easier.
Yes, a bare internal drive will generally be a little cheaper, although probably not by a lot. External USB drives are are a popular consumer item and frequently on sale.
Easier? Not necessarily, as it entails opening up and installing the drive. That's pretty easy for many people, but not everyone. Attaching an external drive to a USB port is easy for anyone.
For backup purposes, though, using an internal drive in the same computer isn't a good idea. Something that goes terribly wrong in that computer and damages or wipes out the main copy of your library, could also wipe out your backup copy at the same time. Using an external drive and leaving it powered down (or better, unattached) between backups is a better solution. You could also backup your library across your network to disk space on another computer. Best practice, though, is to keep at least two backups, preferably one of them off site to guard against things like fire and theft.
Using Ghost or other imaging software to backup data isn't necessary, and my just make your backups very slow. You don't need an exact copy of the hard drive itself, just the files on the drive. A better solution may be to use file syncing software such as SyncBack or Robocopy (command-line) or SyncToy (GUI) from Microsoft.
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My Acronis software backs up a W8.1 W7 dual boot computer in 5 minutes and restores in less than 10 using a boot disk.
You don't need an exact copy of the hard drive itself, just the files on the drive.
Unless of course you want to spend the next eight hours reloading the operating system, downloading all the updates and restoring all your applications and finally all your data.
Not I, thank you. I ghost the OS. And used it the week before last when I moved from the original 750 GB drive to a new 2 TB drive. I didn't have to deal with any of that time consuming crap.
Your choice. :)
> > You don't need an exact copy of the hard drive itself, just the files
> > on the drive.
>
> Unless of course you want to spend the next eight hours reloading
> the operating system, downloading all the updates and restoring all
> your applications and finally all your data.
>
> Not I, thank you. I ghost the OS. And used it the week before last
> when I moved from the original 750 GB drive to a new 2 TB drive. I
> didn't have to deal with any of that time consuming crap.
>
> Your choice. :)
Yes, drive mirroring is a good backup approach for the system disk. I was assuming (perhaps incorrectly) that he was speaking of keeping the library on a separate drive. I would never keep my media files on the same drive as the operating system unless the server was strictly limited to a single disk drive.
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