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I believe in hardware, I believe in Raid. Recently I had two 20gig drives left over from other projects, so I changed my work pc, which already had two 20gig drives setup as Raid1 thru a Promise Fasttrak pci card, to a Raid5 using 4 twenty gigabyte drives.
I used WinXP's backup program to create a compressed copy of my files to another machine on my network. Kinda worked, copied the data, kept rebooting due to an invalid Windows configuration until I re-used my XP cd to recover.
I'd like a good backup method, but I've tried one or two programs that had me burning 6 or more CDr disks and continually swapping between disk 6, disk 1, disk 5, disk 1, disk 6, disk 1, disk 4, disk 1.
Iomega is 'spose to come out with something new, 'WHACK'(iron pipe on head)
Sorry, shouldn't mention the 'I' word, but I need a method of inexpensive and reliable high density backup storage. I haven't tried DVDr high-volume backup burning yet, has anyone? I'm wary of finding that the DVD separated or bubbled while in a stored folder and the data is toast.
I've used Ghost many times over a network by Dos boot disk, I've not tried the most recent versions(in the past two years). Occasionally duplicates would get confused, when configuring twenty classroom PCs from the same image with limited number of network 'named' boot disks.
Edward
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