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re: Back up Inquiry..
Saturday, March 5, 2005 at 1:02 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Matthew D. Healy
(1255 messages posted)
Indeed, it works fine, I've used it myself to restore
onto a new hard drive. The old one was still OK,
but I chose to backup onto external USB hard
drive and then restore for several reasons. First,
the old drive sitting in a closet is itself a full backup
as of the last date of use. Second, I figured this
was my chance to practice a bare metal restore
without risk, since during the restore the old drive
was twenty feet away from the computer. Third,
now I know the full backup from
which I restored was usable.
It is a little tedious, because I had to first install a
temporary instance of XP in a secondary partition,
then restore onto the primary partition, but it
worked fine. The reason for putting the temporary
instance on a different partition is to avoid issues
with open Registry hives and other system files
during the restore.
I make full backups from time to time onto two
different USB drives, of which only one is at any
time connected -- by swapping them, I protect
myself against something like a lightning surge or
fire that could take out both my internal hard drive
and any external drive connected to the computer.
Also I regularly archive my document files to CDs.
Multiple copies of multiple backups, and regularly
testing those backups, are
vital for me to have confidence in the safety of my
data.
On Friday, March 4, 2005 at 1:40 pm, Dan Sarandrea, MCSE wrote:
>Ntbackup has its shortcomings (can't write to CD), but as a traditional backup program
>it's not all that bad for the price.
- Written in response to:
- re: Back up Inquiry.. (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Friday, March 4, 2005 at 1:40 pm)
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