Author Topic: I'm BAAAACK! (Read 2800 times)

TekieB · « **Reply #15 on:** October 09, 2005, 08:09:24 AM »

Quote from: "louber1115"

Do you mean a separate backup drive kinda like RAID 0?

I'm interested, as it seems computers do like to tank at big lan parties.

Its a cd/dvd set that you make with a program called norton ghost. It makes a bootable "image" of your hard drive in its current state. So to reinstall you just stick these cd's in, and all your stuff/settings are still there. Quicker than a manual windows install

The Shoctor · « **Reply #16 on:** October 09, 2005, 11:37:41 AM »

Radio 0 is not a backup! Raid 1 and Raid 5 have redundancy, but it will not protect you from bad installs, drivers, or you deleted things. They will only give you redundancy if a drive fails.

Please take a look at this.
http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/product/markeditorial.html?sess=no&prodkey=quick_explanation_of_raid

l4mby · « **Reply #17 on:** October 09, 2005, 01:25:42 PM »

pride was gone ? wow, didn't even notice. =P

Ryom · « **Reply #18 on:** October 09, 2005, 05:23:57 PM »

If you are willing to spend $100 or so you can get a very decent backup. Grab one of the USB or Firewire connected external drives that have retrospect backup bundled with them. Schedule a daily incremental backup around the times you aren't using the PC (sleeping or at work and such)

Any raid OTHER than Raid0 is simply fault tolerance, not backup. If a drive fails, you aren't Fudgeed and can continue operating w/o shutdown until you replace the dead drive... unless you have hot swappable drives

Raid doesn't protect you from accidentally deleted files and viruses... daily backups do. Raid reduces the impact of hardware failure only, backups reduce the impact of user failure and hardware failure.

sully! · « **Reply #19 on:** October 09, 2005, 09:32:02 PM »

Quote from: "Ryom"

backups reduce the impact of user failure and hardware failure.

I like that. I'll have to remember that one

Author Topic: I'm BAAAACK! (Read 2800 times)

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