[G4] Backup Strategies

[Ruby Appling]

RE; I have tried to back-up a bootable replacement system for 
emergencies to an external hardrive with no sucess, May I ask if a DVD 
back-up would be different? I suspect it may be something I have third 
party that doesnt copy, but still should that ruin the rest of the 
system? thankyou in advance



On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 08:20  PM, Mel wrote:

> Anne,
> I am a firm believer in Retrospect. Retrospect backups have saved me 
> on a couple of occasions from hard drive failure. You can get a much 
> better deal on the backup setup, though. The Maxtor unit has a button 
> you press that launches the backup automatically, but Retrospect will 
> do scripted backups at a certain time each day or week, so that is not 
> really necessary. I have seen pre-assembled 60GB Firewire drives for 
> $169 and Retrospect Express sells for $50 and Retrospect Desktop for 
> $139 if you need more flexibility or network backups. Retrospect will 
> do incremental backups for you so that you don't have to back up the 
> whole drive every time. An external drive is good for full backups and 
> will provide faster restores in the event of failure, but CD-R will be 
> more reliable for long-term archival. Neither the hard drive nor the 
> CD-Rs would be bootable from an Retrospect backup, but they would 
> restore a working system. CC Cloner will duplicate a bootable system, 
> but I think you have to copy the whole disk every time, which is a 
> very tedious backup strategy. I do a full system backup to DVD every 
> month or so and do nightly incremental CD-R backup for email, Quicken 
> and essential documents. That way I can restore the system from DVD 
> and then restore the things that change from CD-R. You could do the 
> same thing with a hard disk and CDs. Based on your description, 
> Retrospect would work pretty well for you.
> Zip disks will be much less reliable than either hard drives or CDs. I 
> wouldn't trust anything really important to storage on Zip disks.
> Mel
>
> On Tuesday, April 1, 2003, at 03:02 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: