Backup Strategies

[SnowWhite]

On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 08:12  AM, Anne Keller-Smith 
<earthpigz at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Does it make sense to have something that will only backup
> changed files, or backup the whole drive each time it is
> scheduled to back up.

You could just buy a second internal drive (Maxtor 80 gig 7200 rpm with 
8MB cache comes to mind) and set your machine to mirror your main 
drive. This would make both drives identical and if one crashed out you 
move on to the second. And no extra wires on the desk, it's all inside. 
This suggested drive is faster, bigger, quieter and uses a larger cache 
than stock HDs. Other than that-if ever you decide to get a new 
computer, just pull the second drive before selling the old one and 
install it into your new machine to become your boot drive-no other 
transfers of data necesary.

jj