Re: Hard Drive Backup Options

Bob D. wrote:
> I used to back up my Win98 machine with Norton Ghost on CD-Rs. It's
> taking too many CDs to do this anymore. What is the best way to do a
> complete back up with today's BIG hard drives?
>
> I'll be upgrading to XP soon. I'd like to backup before I attempt
> this. I have a DVD burner now.
> I'm willing to purchase an external USB drive.
> I prefer to make a hard drive image, in case my drive crashes.
> I want to be able to retreive individual files from the image,
> without doing a complete restore.

I currently use DriveImage 7.0 which does all those things you list. You
can restore individual files/folders/data from the backed up image or you
can restore the entire image. I have my computer set to boot from CD if a
bootable CD is installed. That way if I can't access Windows for some
reason I can boot to my DI 7.0 CD and, using it, I can access my external
USB image backups for image writeover to my hard drive. My USB drive is
200GB so I keep 3 copies of my image and overwrite the oldest version on
each image backup.

I still use GoBack as my primary means to recover to a previous condition.
It wasn't until recently that I discovered you don't have to use the entire
GoBack re-write. If you want to recover a file to a previous condition you
can do that with GoBack just using the Recover Files option. You can choose
to overwrite an existing file to a previous condition, recover it to a
different folder and avoid the overwrite so you can compare the two, or you
can slightly change the name to avoid the overwrite. I like that best since
by simply adding a number or letter after the filename the recovered version
will be right next to the current one.

I backup my Quicken banking and bill paying info each time I use Quicken and
keep that backup on my external USB drive also.

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Darrell R. Schmidt
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