Re: [ARSCLIST] creating access cd's

[Don Cox <doncox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 27/01/06, Richard L. Hess wrote:
> At 05:52 PM 1/25/2006, Don Cox wrote:
>> One of the biggest nuisances in Windows is that you cannot simply
>> back up C: in any simple way. Being used to the Amigas, where you can
>> simply copy all the files on the system partition to a CD, I find
>> this tiresome.
> 
> Indeed, but it doesn't have to be.
> 
> This is addressed in my writeup. You run Norton Ghost (or similar 
> program) and then I store the Ghosts on the dual redundant NAS boxes 
> located in two separate building.

But running Norton Ghost is not simple. You have to buy an extra program
and it doesn't AFAIK make a plain readable copy of the files.

> I think that I've produced a solution that works for me. I've gotten
> into discussions on other lists where people prefer multiple hard
> drives on shelves and, within some limits (including checking them
> annually) this might be OK. But I much prefer my drives attached. The
> only other choice to hard drives for large storage currently IMHO is
> LTO tape.
> 
> Currently, there are no media other than LTO tape and hard drives 
> themselves that are suspected of having adequate life AND have the 
> capacity to back up hard drives.
> 
> Here's the link to my discussions. I wrote them to be a departure for 
> discussion. But most things are doable.
> 
> http://www.richardhess.NET/data_storage/

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
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