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I use 2 methods of backup.<br>
<br>
Not fussed about a system crash, you can restore from OS recovery disks
anytime, or re-install from original CD.<br>
<br>
I backup across 3 x USB HDD's using Synctool my email/My Documents
folders.<br>
<br>
I save everything under My documents so as I only have to backup that
one folder.<br>
<br>
I also from time to time copy backuped files to DVD, however, that
becomes rather a long process with all the downloads<br>
that we do these days.<br>
<br>
regards<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
Paul van den Bergen wrote:
<blockquote
cite="mid:c826c3821003220252u14f67f38h5fde1300375b5393@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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....<br>
<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Mark Aitken
<span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:nodegxt@yahoo.com.au">nodegxt@yahoo.com.au</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk" target="_blank">http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk</a><br>
><br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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>
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> J<br>
><br>
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