Thank goodness for Firewire

[sbisson]

My desktop PC's data disk is dying - so I'm updating everything on it to my firewire backup disk (including the stuff I don't normally backup).

Proabbaly time to rethink just how I use this machine. I'm considering dropping it down to a single disk system, but with a much bigger drive. Following a suggestion from jonhoneyball, I'll be running scheduled backups to two firewire drives - and (as ramtops suggests) handing one to a friend when we go on holiday (or sticking it in the car when we're away in the UK).

I have to remember - this PC is my whole livelihood now. And I need to treat it as being that important.

And there are things on it which may not be work, but are still important to me. So I need to back them up as well.

Comments

Re: So can Windows NT/2000/XP

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

If I was working with those volumes of data, I'd invest in a hardware RAID card and probably put six 120GB drives with one for striping and one spare on standby, giving me 480GB of space available (RAID 5).

Windows 2003 Server has a rather cool sounding option that you can tell it to keep previous versions of every file, so if you accidently erase or overwrite a file, you can get it back. Previously you'd have to go looking for your backups (or call the network administrator and try and sweet talk them into restoring it for you). Now you can just right-click and restore previous version, and the OS will say "which previous version would sir like?" Of course, this is all in theory. I haven't tried it, but that's the way I'd like it to work in practice. And I'd like it to be available on the desktop versions.

Re: So can Windows NT/2000/XP

[tanais.livejournal.com]

those big old photoshop files, scans, backups ot altered images plus quark files and uncompressed pdfs at 2400dpi really eat into your hdd space but i'm glad i'm back just jockeying word. If my hardware reflected my usage I'd probably be using a speak and spell these days. Or rather I feel like I have a really flash car solly being used to do the grocery run...

yeah time to sell this thing and get me a laptop. Easier when I'm having a gimp day