Re: Back up seperate computers on 1 hard drive

John Saxon wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've decided I need to back up my desktop and laptop. My
> understanding is that I can do it on either a disk or a hard drive,
> though I don't know whether "backing up" something on a disc is
> different than "saving" it. As of now, my desktop does not have a CD
> burner. I don't plan to install one either. So, what should I do?
> Should I get an external CD burner for my desktop (my laptop has one)
> and some software like Norton Ghost or true image? Or should I buy
> another hard drive. If I buy, let's say, a 200G hard drive, could I
> use it to back up 2 seperate 80G computers? If so, what kind of
> software would I need? Or, could I do it with the hard drive and a
> built-in Windows program? Thank you for your consideration.
> John

Instead of calling it backup call it disaster recovery. Think of what could
go wrong, what data you could lose, and how this would affect you. Plan
accordingly. Putting all your eggs in one basket isn't a good idea. I
recommend a portable hard drive which can be used to image both computers
with a program like Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image. You could also use
the laptop to burn copies of the image files to CD. You may need another
program to split the image files into small enough chunks to fit on CD. I'm
not sure about Ghost but True Image can be setup to automatically split an
image into smaller files fo burning to CD or DVD. This would give you two
backup systems but you would only have to pay for one, an external hard
drive and an imaging program.

Kerry


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