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To: Sexton O Blake who wrote (73517)	12/31/2010 9:13:53 PM
From: Cheeky Kid	Respond to of 110654

My back up day is Saturday morning. Takes about 3 hours to image and copy data over to my hard drives during the back up procedure. I don't use a program to back up data, like photos, video and other media, I just drag and drop on the back up drive (USB hard drives). This is because I copy that data to my other computers, to spread my data over many hard drives. This week, I did almost no work on my projects, but I did have photos and videos from Christmas that were spread over 2 computers and one external USB drive and one USB Thumb Drive. There is no reason to do anymore back ups this week, until tomorrow. If I need email, well I use POP3 email and leave email on the server for 21 days, in case I copy an older image I still can download my email. Sent email would be lost, but I don't really care about that. When I was saying I restored hundreds of images over the years, they were full images. I found a back up routine that works for me, I prefer full images and am 99% confident that restoring an image will put me back where I was before disaster struck. Only 2 times I had failed images, that was Jan 2010. No one could figure out why they failed. I have a number of posts on here about that story. It's a mystery story. My back up routine is an evolving one, that now I am backing up to another USB hard drive and it's stored off site. Everyone has to find their own comfort level when backing up. And if people are imaging, they need to restore that image to make sure it will work in case of disaster. No use imaging if a restore will fail. Validating the image does not guarantee it will restore. I know, cause the failed restores I had passed validation. For more on that failed image, see: blog.unicus.com