When was the last time you backed up your home or work PC?
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My PC backs itself up to the internet every night using http://www.mozy.com as well as to my MediaPC and to an external hard drive
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Have two drives in my home PC C: D:
Have a ghost image of C: with my profile and data on d: drive.. data robocopy'd to C: each day..
Takes about 5 minutes to have it up an running again and a script runs I can add silent install to for anything not in image..
Bit of ball ache to setup but worth it..
Similar setup in the office..
Have a ghost image of C: with my profile and data on d: drive.. data robocopy'd to C: each day..
Takes about 5 minutes to have it up an running again and a script runs I can add silent install to for anything not in image..
Bit of ball ache to setup but worth it..
Similar setup in the office..
Yesterday, when I decided I'd pushed my luck far enough with my 2 disk Raid 0 array. Slotted in two more disks and reconfigured to Raid 0+1.
Other than that I only ever do work inside VMWare these days and back up the VMWare images to other PC's every once in a while. I do have a DLT tape drive, but my SCSI server died a while back. One day I'll move the SCSI card into another server and start using the DLT tapes I paid a fortune for.
Other than that I only ever do work inside VMWare these days and back up the VMWare images to other PC's every once in a while. I do have a DLT tape drive, but my SCSI server died a while back. One day I'll move the SCSI card into another server and start using the DLT tapes I paid a fortune for.
Plus One for the Time Machine crowd.
One of the really cool things you can do with this is boot off your OS X DVD, and it'll look for Time Machine disks and offer to restore your system from a backup. I'm going to be doing this shortly because 10.5.2 has introduced a really cool feature where my Mac periodically drops the wireless connection.
One of the really cool things you can do with this is boot off your OS X DVD, and it'll look for Time Machine disks and offer to restore your system from a backup. I'm going to be doing this shortly because 10.5.2 has introduced a really cool feature where my Mac periodically drops the wireless connection.
mft said:
Whilst on this topic, if I was to buy a network attached storage hard disk, is there an easy way of replicating OS X's Time Machine functionality in XP?
Short version: no.Long version: no, because Time Machine's regime of hourly, then daily, then weekly, then monthly backups (and the removal of superfluous backups as a result of daily/weekly/monthly consolidation) would take quite some time to set up and is probably impossible with the built-in Windows Backup tool.
You could do it with Backup Exec (I'm several years out of date with backup products) and even then it's the pruning of old backups that's the handy bit.
However, the real sticking point isn't the actual mechanics of performing the backups; it's the integration with the Finder (Mac OS X's equivalent to Windows Explorer) that's the real gem. I'm in a folder, and I want the files from an hour ago. Or last week. Or whenever. I either search for them (click on the searchy bits in the sidebar) or I just click the Time Machine icon in the Dock and I'm presented with a 3D timeline of the folder I'm in, from now back to whenever. At first glance it's cheesy as , but it's a visual paradigm that really works.
And, of course, in Windows, you've got no real prospect of being able to restore your entire computer from one of these backups.
Edited by CommanderJameson on Thursday 14th February 07:38
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