Comment from Bob Morris on 2011-01-27

2011-01-28T00:03:48Z

I have no idea how this could have happened but it did. I had 2 external hard drives. I go south in the winter and have a desktop at each location. Last April, when I got back north, neither external drive could be read. I figured I'm only missing 6 months data and I'll get it back when I go south in the fall. Got down here in October and my desktop hard drive is fried. I don't know whether to scream or cry or what. So, now I'm going to use an external drive and dvds, put most important files on a thumb drive and the top 2 gigs on a free online storage. I don't know what else I can do.....

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Comment from Steve Davis on 2010-08-18

2010-08-18T19:55:22Z

I agree this needs to be done and already have a process to achieve it. I note that you recommend Acronis. Personally I find it difficult to understand and instead use Ghost 14.

The most important point to me is that for disaster recovery backups you should NOT be reliant on products using propietary file systems (e.g Ghost, Acronis). I use GFI backup (there are several others) as it saves files in their native format. In the unlikely event you have to restore them, you only have to copy them via Windows Explorer.

If you are already in deep trouble there is no point in compounding things by having to install (and possibly buy) software to decode essential stored data.

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Comment from Bob Morris on 2011-01-27

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