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Question about backups with Ghost
Timothy Daniels wrote
Rod Speed wrote And you really need full duplication of the PC anyway, because drive failure is only one of the failure possibilitys. Thats something Timmy has never managed to grasp. Multiple PCs and a router are something Timmy hasn't the space Bull****. and the money for, either. More bull****. |
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Question about backups with Ghost
Bob Davis wrote
Rod Speed wrote I've never believed that clones make much sense instead of images. Clones do allow you to come up a little more quickly on a drive failure, but you wouldnt get that with your quite complex backup system, it would be just as quick to restore the image instead. What I like about a disk clone is that I can insert the drive and extract one file quickly. You can do that with any decent modern imager. Perhaps you can do that with the image file, too, but using Ghost 2003 it would be more difficult. Nope, just as easy. Yes it is. It'll go flat on its face with a failure of the raid hardware for starters. I tried to explain why that isn't so, And you got that just plain wrong. While the basic system can come up quite quickly, the secondary backup mechanism will go flat on its face within the hour if the raid hardware has failed. If you used True Image for the complete backup system, it wouldnt. but I give up. Yeah, you're clearly too thick to be able to work it out for yourself. I don't need the RAID hardware at all to recover, just a working IDE controller. The clones are all on IDE single drives. Pity about the secondary backup mechanism which will go flat on its face within the hour in that config. |
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Question about cloning
Timothy Daniels wrote
If you choose to install several HDs as I have, give a thought to using "round" cables - they save a lot of room inside the case and they allow for easier cable routing and better case ventilation. These cables have a ground wire twisted together with each of the 40 signal wires to emmulate the 40 ground wires in 80-wire ribbon cable, and I haven't experienced any problems with round cables in 3 years of use. I use the ones with the aluminum braid for extra shielding, and I've found SVCompucycle to have a good combination of selection and price: http://www.svc.com/cables-ata-100-133-round-cables.html . Makes a hell of a lot more sense to use sata drives. That way you get even thinner cables and dont flout the standard. In spades with removable bay kits. |
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Question about backups with Ghost
"Rod Speed" wrote in message ... Yes it is. It'll go flat on its face with a failure of the raid hardware for starters. I tried to explain why that isn't so, And you got that just plain wrong. While the basic system can come up quite quickly, the secondary backup mechanism will go flat on its face within the hour if the raid hardware has failed. I've done it before and it didn't "go flat on its face." Yeah, you're clearly too thick to be able to work it out for yourself. Okay, thanks for the useful input. |
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Question about backups with Ghost
Bob Davis wrote
Rod Speed wrote Yes it is. It'll go flat on its face with a failure of the raid hardware for starters. I tried to explain why that isn't so, And you got that just plain wrong. While the basic system can come up quite quickly, the secondary backup mechanism will go flat on its face within the hour if the raid hardware has failed. I've done it before and it didn't "go flat on its face." Dont believe you have WITH RAID HARDWARE FAILURE. The problem is that while you can certainly replace the boot drive that used to be a raid0 array with a simple IDE drive, without the RAID HARDWARE the other raid0 array that is used for the secondary backup is no longer there anymore. |
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Question about backups with Ghost
"Rod Speed" wrote in message ... Bob Davis wrote Rod Speed wrote Yes it is. It'll go flat on its face with a failure of the raid hardware for starters. I tried to explain why that isn't so, And you got that just plain wrong. While the basic system can come up quite quickly, the secondary backup mechanism will go flat on its face within the hour if the raid hardware has failed. I've done it before and it didn't "go flat on its face." Dont believe you have WITH RAID HARDWARE FAILURE. The problem is that while you can certainly replace the boot drive that used to be a raid0 array with a simple IDE drive, without the RAID HARDWARE the other raid0 array that is used for the secondary backup is no longer there anymore. I see where you're coming from now. First, the C: drive is on the ICH5R controller, and D: (interim backup, 1st archive) is on the Sil3112 controller. I suppose both could die at once, if the mobo blitzed out for example, but that wouldn't render the second array useless. Another mobo of the same model or a PCI Sil3112 controller would bring the array to life again. But even without those options I'm covered. My business databases are copied to my notebook (on the network) frequently and, something I failed to mentioned earlier, the important ones to the PDA every time it syncs (continually when on the cradle). I likely wouldn't lose anything, as when I'm finished editing photos I immediately put them up on my FTP site for clients to download, so that is also a backup. They usually stay up there at least one month. That said, it would take more time to recover if both arrays died, and yet a better way would be set up a cheap desktop and connect it to the LAN, setup another firewire drive or something like a Buffalo Terastation and keep it up continually. |
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Question about backups with Ghost
Bob Davis wrote
Rod Speed wrote Bob Davis wrote Rod Speed wrote Yes it is. It'll go flat on its face with a failure of the raid hardware for starters. I tried to explain why that isn't so, And you got that just plain wrong. While the basic system can come up quite quickly, the secondary backup mechanism will go flat on its face within the hour if the raid hardware has failed. I've done it before and it didn't "go flat on its face." Dont believe you have WITH RAID HARDWARE FAILURE. The problem is that while you can certainly replace the boot drive that used to be a raid0 array with a simple IDE drive, without the RAID HARDWARE the other raid0 array that is used for the secondary backup is no longer there anymore. I see where you're coming from now. First, the C: drive is on the ICH5R controller, and D: (interim backup, 1st archive) is on the Sil3112 controller. I suppose both could die at once, if the mobo blitzed out for example, but that wouldn't render the second array useless. Another mobo of the same model or a PCI Sil3112 controller would bring the array to life again. But even without those options I'm covered. I didnt say that you werent covered, JUST that the secondary backup mechanism WOULD FAIL until you could replace the raid hardware. So recovery isnt as EASY as you claimed. If you didnt have the secondary backup on a raid0 array, a hard drive or controller failure would be a LOT easier to handle. And if you had a more sensible approach to backup using True Image instead of that dinosaur approach you currently have, you wouldnt even need the secondary backup at all, and you could recover from any failure MUCH more easily. Your backup scheme is unnecessarily complicated for no good reason at all given that the speed of the backup ops are irrelevant when automated and happen in the background. My business databases are copied to my notebook (on the network) frequently and, something I failed to mentioned earlier, the important ones to the PDA every time it syncs (continually when on the cradle). I likely wouldn't lose anything, as when I'm finished editing photos I immediately put them up on my FTP site for clients to download, so that is also a backup. They usually stay up there at least one month. Sure, THAT part of your backup scheme isnt anywhere near as poorly designed as the backup of your main system. That said, it would take more time to recover if both arrays died, and yet a better way would be set up a cheap desktop and connect it to the LAN, setup another firewire drive or something like a Buffalo Terastation and keep it up continually. And simplify your backups by using True Image instead of the dinosaur approach you are currently using thats WAY past its useby date now and is unnecessarily complicated for no nett advantage what so ever. The only thing that makes any sense is to use True Image to do incremental images over the lan to that drive on the lan and you can get it to do some short term backups of stuff you are working on with the file level backup system it has as well. Then if anything dies, its just a matter of replacing what has died, with a spare hard drive if its a hard drive thats died, or the hardware if its something like the motherboard or PSU or raid hardware and run the images back into the replacement. |
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Question about backups with Ghost
"Rod Speed" wrote in message ... Bob Davis wrote: "Timothy Daniels" wrote in message ... "Rod Speed" wrote: Makes more sense to image instead of clone, ensure that a virus cant get into the system, and protect the images so that even a virus cant touch them if it does. It makes more sense to keep a clone available for immediate booting in case the primary HD fails if your needs are immediate - such as stock daytrading or software development assignments for college or taking an online course. There's nothing like just resetting the boot order and booting up a clone instead of rounding up another drive and restoring an image file. I like it so I can insert the mobile rack and extract a file quickly. On occasion I delete something and don't realize it in time to extract it from the recycle bin, and can recover it quickly from one of my five clones that go back five weeks. Although I'm using an image to copy my notebook's HD, I've never tried to restore anything, so I'm not sure if Ghost 2003 can extract one file. Yes it can, and so can any decent modern imager. Only the Windows version can do that. The DOS version can't In any case - If someone needed to recover one file, they'd have to be pretty stupid to begin with. In that case it isn't really important, as I don't keep anything important there anyway, and do the imaging to save time in case of a HD failure. It makes more sense to use images instead of clones, basically because you can keep more of them on the same number of hard drives. This does make sense Rod. I'm amazed again. |
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Question about backups with Ghost
alanm wrote
Rod Speed wrote Bob Davis wrote Timothy Daniels wrote Rod Speed wrote Makes more sense to image instead of clone, ensure that a virus cant get into the system, and protect the images so that even a virus cant touch them if it does. It makes more sense to keep a clone available for immediate booting in case the primary HD fails if your needs are immediate - such as stock daytrading or software development assignments for college or taking an online course. There's nothing like just resetting the boot order and booting up a clone instead of rounding up another drive and restoring an image file. I like it so I can insert the mobile rack and extract a file quickly. On occasion I delete something and don't realize it in time to extract it from the recycle bin, and can recover it quickly from one of my five clones that go back five weeks. Although I'm using an image to copy my notebook's HD, I've never tried to restore anything, so I'm not sure if Ghost 2003 can extract one file. Yes it can, and so can any decent modern imager. Only the Windows version can do that. The DOS version can't So use the Win version to do that, stupid. In any case - If someone needed to recover one file, they'd have to be pretty stupid to begin with. Wrong. It isnt hard to edit what you didnt intend to edit and discover that later etc or discover that you need the original again. In that case it isn't really important, as I don't keep anything important there anyway, and do the imaging to save time in case of a HD failure. It makes more sense to use images instead of clones, basically because you can keep more of them on the same number of hard drives. This does make sense Rod. I'm amazed again. Your problem, as always. |
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Question about backups with Ghost
"alanm" wrote in message ... In any case - If someone needed to recover one file, they'd have to be pretty stupid to begin with. Uh, well, I've done it before. I've seen a corrupted CDX (index) file in Foxpro that keeps the DBF from loading properly, rendering it useless--and by the time I've discovered it the bad files have been copied to D: by automatic backup (batch file). I'll simply insert the mobile rack with the most recent clone and copy the file group for that table over to C:. It may be a bit out-of-date, but keeping 99% of the records is better than nothing. In that case it isn't really important, as I don't keep anything important there anyway, and do the imaging to save time in case of a HD failure. It makes more sense to use images instead of clones, basically because you can keep more of them on the same number of hard drives. This does make sense Rod. I'm amazed again. I have opted for the disk clone method in the past because if the drive fails you've only lost one backup. Rod's right, though, that the image-file concept is more efficient. I am copying to image files now for my notebook in Ghost, but have never had to test it. I can see the value of using a Windows-based clone program, like a recent Ghost version or TI. From what I've read TI has some advantages over Ghost, price being one. I must say that I have found my old standbys, Ghost 2002 and 2003, to be reliable and trustworthy--and have bailed my butt out of big trouble more than once in that time. |
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