Ideal Solution?<br>I have a 1TB External Backup for all data I don't want to lose. Pictures / Documents etc.<br>For data I might need at a moments notice, I actually use DropBox now (have just over 400MB of important personal information stored there now).<br>
<br>I plan on eventually getting another 1TB drive and regular sync the HDDs.<br>That is for all systems (except Mac and Linux as I don't know how they operate on external NTFS drives).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2010/3/22 Paul van den Bergen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul.vandenbergen@gmail.com">paul.vandenbergen@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
actually - backups count as my most common question I encounter when I'm used as tech support - at work we use industrial strength solutions -Veritas netbackup and multi-petabyte storage... kinda rather too much for home solutions...<br>
<br>I have no backups at all myself and need to do something about that...<br><br>so... what backup solutions do people recommend?<br><br>for WinXP<br><br>for Vista<br><br>for Win 7<br><br>for Mac<br><br>and perhaps most important - <br>
for Ubuntu....<br><br>that being the one I use....<br><br><br>for what it is worth - I have 2 identical 750GB drive spare on my machine - was hoping to use LVM to make a mirrored drive that then gets important data - but LVM is telling me I need 3 drives... I don't understand that....<br>
<br>My ideal situation for my home setup is to have that drive pair stripped or similar as a hardware-redundant pair with auto recovery and then a removable drive offsite backup...<br><br>for others I need a solution that does loal redundancy plus offsite backup - preferably not internet based - it is usually bandwidth challenged situations....<div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Mark Aitken <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nodegxt@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">nodegxt@yahoo.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
A big thank you to all of you.<br>
<br>
I was finally successful using Jason's suggestion, testdisk, this<br>
appeared to recover many more files than any of the previously used<br>
software.<br>
<br>
One very happy VCE student!!!<br>
<br>
Again, thanks to you all for your suggestions.<br>
<br>
Have informed him and his mother....BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP!!!!!!!!<br>
<br>
But then I am just a paranoid backup junkie!<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
<br>
<br>
Jason Clarke wrote:<br>
> Hi Mark,<br>
><br>
> Photorec/Testdisk<br>
> <a href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk" target="_blank">http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk</a><br>
><br>
> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_recovery" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_recovery</a> was where I started.<br>
><br>
> I've had some success with this.<br>
<div><div></div><div>><br>
> J<br>
><br>
<br>
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