Re: Back up data to USB?
- From: "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 23:36:48 -0400
"CLS" <CLS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I've been reading many posts on the different back up SW. Looks like
Acronis
is a good one. Is it a good idea to back up to a USB jump drive? I have
a
small business with 3 pc's. I'm looking for something simple and
automatic
so
my partners don't have to touch it (program or any external drive).
Also, I'm not yet familiar with saving images of systems. Will the
imaging
be compressed so I can save it to a 2 or 4G jump drive? Or should I
save
the
program images to a larger externdal HD let frequently as the data?
Thanks for the help,
PR
"CLS" <CLS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks YKW,
That's what i need, is something easy and handy. I don't wan't my partners
to have to deal with plugging in external HD's, nor do I wan't to go to 3
diff pc's everday to run back ups.
CLS:
First of all, forget about using the Acronis True Image program (or for that
matter any disk cloning/disk imaging program) for backups to flash (jump)
drives - even those flash drives having substantially greater capacity than
the 2 or 4 GB models you've mentioned. I'm assuming that your objective is
to create routine backups that will be comprehensive in nature, i.e., that
will back up your operating system, all programs & applications and, of
course, user-created data. In effect a copy of your day-to-day working HDD.
That's what you want right? And a program like Acronis *is* ideal for that
purpose.
But while a disk cloning/disk imaging program is ideal to meet that
objective, it is fundamentally designed to create those kind of backups to
another HDD - internal or external. Obviously that is probably clear to you
should you be using the program for cloning the contents of one HDD to its
destination drive.
But even if you were using the program's disk imaging backup capability
instead of its disk cloning function - for all practical purposes you would
still need a HDD to serve as the destination for the disk images (both the
original image and the subsequent incremental images). While there would be
some disk compression it would be in the order of 20% to 25% based upon our
experience. Not a heck of lot in most cases. Surely not enough to consider
today's flash drives for this purpose unless the contents of your source
drive are miniscule.
Acronis does have what they call a "scheduled tasks" capability. It's not
quite the "automatic" feature I think you're looking for, but it might meet
your needs. As you probably know Acronis does have a trial version available
so you could try it out to determine if the program does meet your basic
needs.
Anna
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