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To: LTBH who wrote (760)	5/21/1998 9:18:00 AM
From: Spots	Respond to of 14778

Did I really say "Notworm"? Sorry. You are definitely da WORM <GGG>. Yes, if you have irreplaceable data generated daily you have to take it off-site daily. My needs are less severe. Generally here's my scheme (note carefully I said "scheme" not "practice" <g>). Daily incremental backups to networked harddrive. The increments themselves are important to me for some things; in other cases they are important only to allow a roll-forward from a full backup. Monthly backups to CD-R. Periodic backups to CD-R of critical data which is moved offsite. For me this is financial and personal stuff. The last few weeks or even few months would be reproducible eventually. For business stuff (delivered software, in my case), I deliver that periodically to corporate network locations rather than my own safe deposit box. This sounds more organized than I actually carry out, but that's the plan. (In truth, my daily backups are usually local, only periodically dumped to a networked drive, because the objective is FIRST to protect them from my next stupid update rather than from hardware or sofware errors). One of these days I really MUST get better organized <GGG>. Spots

To: LTBH who wrote (760)	5/25/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: Zeuspaul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14778

System Restoration When my computer is kapoot beyond my ability to fix it I use the "Quick Restore" disc that came with the machine. I put it in the CDROM drive and turn on the power. It boots, I answer yes to English, type in Microsoft's secret number and an hour later my machine looks the same as the day I bought it. Then I start loading my software and start configuring things and a month later it resembles the machine I had before an incident. I want a total system restoration capability once I have the machine the way I like it. Daily backups would not work for me as the machine sometimes degrades over time. I can handle the critical data backups with selected directory backups. When things are working just right I want to preserve the moment for future restoration. The RAID solution seems to address a different backup concept. If everything is mirrored on the fly how does one protect against ones own stupidity? If I answer a question incorrectly during a software installation or uninstall (uninstalling IE4.0 totally crashed my system, Win95 "blue screen of death") procedure how do I get back where I was before I started? The first question for a system restoration scheme is the selection of the media. The only option I see is another harddrive. The harddrives always seem to be ahead of the other media types in size. How does one put 4 GB + on CDR? Tape is the only thing that comes close but why use tape when harddrives are a superior media? I can buy a second 6 GB harddrive for less than the cost of a tape drive and its media. If I have the second harddrive residing in the computer with the complete backup of the C drive at my selected point in time do I have a viable system restoration scheme? Can RAID or anything else accomplish the same thing? Zeuspaul