TSGL: External USB HDD for Backup??

[Russell W. Coover]

H,

I do a daily full and complete backup, copying every bit, every byte on the
hard drive. This is not an incremental backup. I do it overnight. It is
scheduled to begin at 4:00 AM and takes less than an hour for the 90 GB
presently on the drive. I do, however, have a very fast machine with more
than enough very fast RAM. I suspect that other machines may not run this
program as quickly.

Russ 

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From: list-bounces at tsgserver.com [mailto:list-bounces at tsgserver.com] On
Behalf Of H Davis
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:00 PM
To: Tech Support Guy Mailing List
Subject: Re: TSGL: External USB HDD for Backup??

Tilman,

Largely true I guess. I've never used Acronis so I can't speak with 
authority but I have another issue with the Acronis type backups and 
maybe some of you that have used it can enlighten me.

I suspect that backups using these "imaging" programs take a while. The 
reason I suspect this is that they probably have to inspect every file 
on the drive to determine what's changed. They seem to be geared toward 
total backups.

Being an impatient type, I've preferred the selective, file/folder type 
backups where I can reduce the amount of stuff backed up to a minimum so 
it will complete fairly quickly. I've found that my nature is to skip 
the backup "just this once" because it's late and I want to go to bed 
rather than waiting 30 minutes for a backup to finish.

Yes, I know I could just go to bed and let it run but that's just not 
the rut I'm in so..... Have I been mistaken about how long it takes to 
do a backup with the Acronis type programs?

H Davis

Shyamal Gupta wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Tilman Brandl <tbrandl2 at chello.at> wrote:
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>> Lee,
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>> I don't know whether this has been mentioned already: An external USB for
>> backups is not a bad idea. BUT:
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> I doubt that you could do this from an USB drive if there are no USB
drivers
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>> installed before
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> It can be done with a Bart's PE disk which supports USB. I do it
> occasionally.
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H Davis   hdavis1 at gmail.com

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