Re: Restore

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On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:56:05 -0700, Newbie
<Newbie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The employer owns the PCs.

We like to setup 2 partitions for each PC.
Then backup partition 1 image to partition 2.
If system crash, then we can restore image from partition 2 to partition 1.
Like HP does.


If that's your backup scheme, you're kidding yourself. It's better
than no backup at all, but only slightly.

You're perhaps protecting yourself against the operating system itself
crashing, but that's far from the biggest danger there is to your
data. You need to protect yourself against the more common dangers:
hard drive crash, user error, nearby lightning strike, virus attack,
even theft of the computer. Any of these can cause the loss of
everything on your drive.

If you're serious about backup, your backups need to be on removable
media, and not kept in the computer. For really secure backup (needed,
for example, if the life of your business depends on your data) you
should have multiple generations of backup, and at least one of those
generations should be stored off-site.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP - Windows Desktop Experience
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