Re: Complete Backup

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"Steve Hawkins" <steve.a.hawkins@ntl(nospam)world.com> wrote in message
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> It's a real nuisance not having a boot (trunk) light in my friend's Nissan
> Micra (buyer beware!). The 'overhead' light is crap and in the wrong
> place too.
>
> Now what about that complete back up?
>
> Christmas is coming: what is the best buy for backing up one's entire
> system and personal files?
>
> Lots of us (I'm sure) would like to know.
>
> Regards,
> SteveH


Steve:
This thread (like so many that have gone before and so many that have yet to
come)has taken a number of twists & turns since Marilyn's (I believe she was
the OP) original query re a backing up strategy. While her query generated a
considerable number of responses, I can't recall whether they ultimately
satisfied her objective. Apparently it didn't satisfy yours.

When you inquire about a "complete backup", could you flesh that out? Are
you primarily or exclusively concerned with backing up the entire contents
of your day-to-day working HD, including the operating system and all
programs & data? In other words, are you interested in creating a "clone" of
your working HD so that in the event you needed to restore that drive should
it become dysfunctional because of system files corruption or other
problems, you could use the "cloned" HD to accomplish this? Are you familiar
with disk imaging programs such as Symantec's Norton Ghost or Acronis True
Image which have this disk cloning capability?

Or are you simply interested in backing up the data files you have created?
In which case there are myriad backup programs out there that will
accomplish this.

As you can probably guess from my above comments, I am a strong advocate of
using a disk imaging program to clone the contents of one's HD to another HD
in order to create & maintain an effective backup strategy. Using primarily
the Norton Ghost 2003 program and occasionally the Acronis program, I find
those programs relatively easy to use in a routine manner and quite
effective in maintaining a comprehensive backup system. What we are talking
about here is basic disk-to-disk cloning.

There's a huge amount of information on the net re backup strategies. A
Google search will keep you occupied for many moons. And of course you can
get help from newsgroups such as this one. But please be specific & detailed
re your objectives so that you can get meaningful responses.
Anna



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