Opinions Please: Good Backup System Using SATA Removable HD?

In article ,
lid says...
Rod Speed wrote:

HDD storage is so cheap nowadays, the best way to back them up is
becoming.....other HDDs

Sure, if you arent prone to dropping things.

I do both - backup to another HD 'cause it's so fast and easy.
Occasional backup to CD when I have the time.


I am also using two different backup programs.

I backup to a usb hard drive every night using Dantz Retrospect.

Every week or so, I use Ghost 9 and image to another external drive. I
started doing this because Dantz Retrospect was flakey, hanging every so
often, and I felt it wasn't adequate as my only backup.

Every month or so, as often as I can tolerate the process, I backup to
DVDs using Ghost 9 and leave those at a friend's house as my external
backup. I also try to backup important data more frequently and leave
it at her house - passworded via a zip file.

I'm trying to decide whether I should make Ghost my nightly backup and
Dantz Retrospect my "every week or so" backup - I now use Dantz as the
primary.

Am I too paranoid? I'm not sure. I really am trying to live a more and
more paperless life and the data is becoming more and more essential to
my life.

Louise

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In article ,
lid says...
Rod Speed wrote:

HDD storage is so cheap nowadays, the best way to back them up is
becoming.....other HDDs

Sure, if you arent prone to dropping things.

I do both - backup to another HD 'cause it's so fast and easy.
Occasional backup to CD when I have the time.


I am also using two different backup programs.

I backup to a usb hard drive every night using Dantz Retrospect.

Every week or so, I use Ghost 9 and image to another external drive.
I started doing this because Dantz Retrospect was flakey, hanging
every so often, and I felt it wasn't adequate as my only backup.

Every month or so, as often as I can tolerate the process, I backup to
DVDs using Ghost 9 and leave those at a friend's house as my external
backup. I also try to backup important data more frequently and leave
it at her house - passworded via a zip file.

In that case I wouldnt keep the backups kept at your place
in the soggy safe unless fire or theft is a significant problem.
Keep them in the book shelves for when the drive dies etc.
And use the presumably less frequent offsites if you are
unlikely enough to have a problem with fire or theft.

I'm trying to decide whether I should make Ghost my
nightly backup and Dantz Retrospect my "every week
or so" backup - I now use Dantz as the primary.

I'd use ghost as the primary myself given
that you have had problems with Dantz.

Am I too paranoid? I'm not sure. I really am trying
to live a more and more paperless life and the data
is becoming more and more essential to my life.

And so even a drive failure can be a major disaster.

No you arent too paranoid.