Community weekly poll: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure?
- 9/21/05 4:11 PM
RE:Online Storage
by zigjig - 9/23/05 5:24 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
I use streamload.com which is really good
Online storage
by ladybuggsy - 10/2/05 8:04 PM In reply to: RE:Online Storage by zigjigI use yahoo.com to store everything. This way if computer goes I have everything on the WWW. I can use any computer to get my info. What do you all think about this solution?
External USB
by Ukexpat - 9/23/05 5:24 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
I have a 160GB external USB drive which I use to save the "Transfer Files and Settings" operation. If I have to I can recover my exact system to a new Hard drive.
Unfortunately, although my Motherboard supports USB boot, XP will not allow me to put a boot sector on a USB drive. My original idea was to do an emergency boot from this drive.
Someone told me tat if I use Ghost I can get a USB XP Boot. anyone know if this is true ?
RAID 5
by drapal - 9/23/05 5:33 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
I have my disk drives in RAID 5 configuration.
This protect my drives from one drive fatal defect.
RAID, NAS and Tape
by amackay - 9/23/05 5:44 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
I have hardware RAID 5 on my system, which backs up to a NAS Unit, which in turn backs up to tape. Toi date, I've never lost data. Knock on wood.
backup on external drive
by susanscott1989 - 9/23/05 6:23 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
I have a 40GB Maxtor external drive that I bought last year. I use it to store anything I can't afford to lose. For software I have the disks.
Susan S.
NAS, RAID and prayer
by Iowarth - 9/23/05 6:27 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
I have a small (3 PC + 1 laptop) network at home. Data is initially stored on the local Windows PC being used. All PCs then have automated overnight backup to a LINUX file server with RAID - two mirrored disks. I would therefore need at least three disks on at least two machines to crash to lose all but the most recent data. Similarly this gives a measure of protection if a virus should sneak past the firewall or anti-virus software if only because it is unlikely to affect both Windows and Linux.
RAID 5
by TAFinley - 9/23/05 6:27 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
I use a four-drive RAID 5 array. If any one drive fails, the entire array can be rebuilt with no data loss in about an hour.
BACKUP USING EXTERNAL DRIVE
by Avgenackis - 9/23/05 7:00 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
I use a Western Digital 120MB external drive to back up data from a PC with an 80MB hard drive. Works well, although as in the case of many backup routines, I haven't gone through the "Restore" process. I'm hoping I never have to restore the hard drive. I probably should have "tested" a small backup and restore to make sure everything works.
RAID 1 and other computers
by gary hall - 9/23/05 7:11 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
I use a RAID one (primary and mirror drives) and further back up to another networked machine with critical Quick Book data after I finish with the QB session.
This ARCO RAID 1 solution can be applied to ANY machine with a ~ $ 275.00 plug-in device and an extra hard drive. Sweet and slick – easy to install.
Some things like my digital photographs are saved to 3 different machines and or CD / DVD.
Warm regards,
Gary
Backup
by walcott - 9/23/05 7:13 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
Thenk you for your online newsletters and surveys.
We run two servers. A SCSI Unix for our financial data and four mirrored stripped hard drive running Windows 2000 for our marketing and image files.
The Unix machine (which has been very stable, these files were started in the mid 1980's) gets a tape backup (Mon. Wed. Fri.), (Tues. Thur. Sat.), (Sunday), (Monthly) and (yearly). the tapes are kept in small, very fireproof container in a different room from the Unix server.
The Windows machine, automatically backups weekly using "Retrospect" onto two external USB drives. This includes all marketing documents, price lists, notes, and programs on the Windows server plus a complete backup of our Unix server, since that contains all of our inventory, client files, order tracking and accounting. USB backup set one and two are rotated weekly. The most recent set is kept in a safe in another building.
For added safety the building has surge supression at the service entrance and the wiring is double grounded. Every wire that connects to a computer goes through surge supression or higher end battery backup equipment from Power Management Solutions.
Regarding your newsletter. Try eliminating some material. It's gotten so long I don't have time to look at most of it.
Thank you for listening.
john@walcottstudio.com
USB FireLite hard drive
by Dennis5900 - 9/23/05 7:23 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
It works great, is very small and fast, holds 40 GB.
Maxtor USB using Retrospect
by bobsocks2 - 9/23/05 7:32 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
Maxtor USB using Retrospect
External Hard drive
by George B. Lockwood - 9/23/05 7:36 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
I have one IBM 3" external USB-2 hard drive to use when I am on the road with my notebook. No data on the notebook so I work directly off the USB-2 drive.
One 5" external desktop which is partitioned. I use one area for a complete backup, the others for assorted folders I may want to access (Photos, etc).
Back-ups
by Joseph61 - 9/23/05 8:11 AM In reply to: How do you prepare for a major hard drive failure? by Marc Bennett
I used to make BU's on an extra dedicated HD, but got recently a HP SureStore DLT80.
Now my BU is this on Tape.
Have a nice day! Joseph.
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