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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (1149)	6/8/1998 1:45:00 PM
From: Sean W. Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Even the good ones fail. How long are you willing to be out of business and how much time are you willing to spend reloading software and reconfiguring from scratch? I suggest a backup solution. Best and my recommendation. Get two 4 GB hard discs ( Maxtors are $140 each Price Watch, or stick with delicious IBM) Use one as your operational disk. Use drive copy to make a duplicate ready to use fully functional working hard disc. If the first one fails or your configurations become corrupted for whatever reason, boot the system, go into the ASUS bios and change the boot drive. You should be up and running in the time it takes to boot your system. This is a terrible a idea that I would not recommend considering. Mirroring disks is basically on good to preserve access after failures in a required high availability environment. It fails miserably in serveral key features that a backup system should contain. 1. Cost per Megabyte 2. Ability to make multiple revisions or timeframes of backups. 3. removeability. Machine gets hit by lightning and both drives die. Your house burns down. 4. Disaster recovery. You need a removable solution with a large selection of media. You also need a fire safe in your house to store your tapes in at ALL Times. Third you need a bank safety deposit box to store backups offsite. The choice of the physical removable media is entirely personal whether is be zip, jaz, syquest, Travan, Dat, elliptical, etc..... They key is that you can protect your data from disaster. The proposed solution is very poor at doing that. Backup software wise for 95/NT I like Cheyenne Backup (complex), seagate backup (simple) Disk Image 2.0 from Powerquest is essential IMO. Stac's replica is excellent as well but requires much more expensive TAPE drives... Sean