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Skriven 2005-11-21 21:44:00 av JAY EMRIE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av GORDON HUFF
Ärende: Re: True Image
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GH> JE> Well, yes and no. It would take a VERY large external USB drive to back
GH> JE> up my desk top AND my laptop on just one drive.

GH>Well ... yes ... but hard drives are getting enormous. The rep from
GH>Acronis (True Image) spoke last Thusday. He's on normal stuff - a 
GH>pair of 80GB drives and a 80GB USB backup. He does a daily increment
GH>and a weekly full backup ... and it takes about a year before 
GH>he runs out of space. (You can operate "True Image" three different
GH>ways ... turn on "compression...)

I seriously doubt that statement! I do use default compression.

GH>A speaker at the Linux club described how to do this with a script
GH>driving the common utility "rsync" - same kind of performance.

GH> JE> I have TI set up to do
GH> JE> a full backup on Sunday, then incrementals on that backup Mon. through
GH> JE> Sat. Then it repeats the process the following week, etc, till the
GH> JE> drive is full, then deletes  to OLDEST full and incremental set and
GH> JE> starts over again. Therefore I always have about three complete sets.
GH> JE> No room for the laptop backup there. This is on a 120Gb BU drive.

GH>Hmmm ... there may be a flaw in your organization. My XP systems are
GH>about 2 GB in size - so my 300GB USB backup will hold 150 full backups
GH>without compression. Are you backing up blank hard disk space?

But I am NOT backing up just the XP program, I am backing up the ENTIRE
HD:  XP, programs, data and all. After all I do not want to lose my
programs, data, etc. any more that I want to lose the XP system.

Jay
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