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Originally Posted by zing
but if all your eggs are in one basket it might be fuller than one of my baskets
Incidentally its always a good idea to run full disc cleanup and delete all but last system restore points to save on backing up unnecessary data
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Lol Zing I think I can safely claim that my 'baskets' are definitely fuller than yours! Seriously though, good idea to run a full disc cleanup, haven't tried that one yet (sigh)! Didn't realise that I could delete system restore points, yet another thing I have learned on CF. Many thanks Zing!
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Originally Posted by Bender
buy an external hdd and run a backup to that using something like 'SyncToy 2' (free from the Microsoft site) if you are just after things like Photos and music. set the job up as a contribution and away you go. you can then leave the external drive locked in a work draw or something until you next run a backup. this means it is off-site, so if your house burns down, you still have the important data elsewhere. you buy external 2.5" hdd nice and cheap these days. although backing up to media such as dvd/cd-rw does away with mechanical failure on its part, it is very unlikely that 2 hard drives will fail at the same time, meaning you lose everything. plus, it's sooooo much faster to run the jobs and much less hassle.
I also agree with Zing on having a physical drive for OS and a separate physical drive for data. I have done that since around 1998 and would never change that.
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Wish I was as clever as you guys, you make it all sound so simple. Thank you Bender for your help.
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Originally Posted by Mick Fisher
If you are using TruImage and only have a single HDD don't forget about making a backup to a Protected Partition. Simply activate the "Manage Secure Zone" wizard and follow the prompts to create a protected location to save to. Using this method a back up of the Operating system only takes about 20 minutes.
Other possibilities for back up locations are creating a new "Data" partition or acquiring an external HDD.
Of course if your internal HDD goes down so does your backup. 
External HDD's are relatively cheap and so get my vote.  |
Unfortunately for me Mick, I (on reflection) stupidly uninstalled my copy of TruImage. I simply use the backup facility of my OS. At the moment I will have to content myself with only one HDD, Mr Tink thinks I already spend waaaay too much on my pc. Will have a crack at what Zing says about disk cleanup, and also use DVDs for backup, see how that goes. Thank you for your interest and your help.............................and now for my next problem
