Backing up 500G Data

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Jacky Luk

Hi,
I have some 500G Hard disk which is partially filled. I still have a 80G
Empty disk space to use. What software would you recommend to backup the
live data?
Thanks
Jack
 
420 Gigabytes is a lot of data to preserve. Keeping that in an Image
format might be impractical. You didn't mention what constitutes the
data ( Multimedia, Pictures..) and data type has different levels of
compression. Using DVD-R (Dual-Layer Media) you'd still need 47
disks to burn directly. Does this data all exist on a single partition ?
 
My general advice for data that large is to use either a SAN array, a high
speed DLT tape system, or a another massive harddrive.

The second massive hard drive would be the most affordable by several
thousand dollars.
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and those who don't.
 
As mentioned earlier disk image is not partical. The best way would be
to categories the data and burn them to DVD disc or tape drives is the
next options.
Even HDD is a good backup device.. just load os in a different hdd and
keep the back up in your 500 gb hdd.
 
With that much data to backup you need to plan your backups to minimise
impact on performance. It will take a while to backup. What i usually set up
in similar situations would be a network drive that can hold the data.
Depending on what the data is I would use a batch file to copy the files to
the network storage or ntbackup. This would be done at night by a schedued
task. I would then set up some means of copying the data from the network
storage to a tape drive. This gives you two seperate backups. If you need to
restore a single file it is easily done from the network storage. If a
disaster happens you have the off site tapes to fall back on.
 
Kerry Brown said:
With that much data to backup you need to plan your backups to minimise
impact on performance. It will take a while to backup. What i usually set
up in similar situations would be a network drive that can hold the data.
Depending on what the data is I would use a batch file to copy the files
to the network storage or ntbackup. This would be done at night by a
schedued task. I would then set up some means of copying the data from the
network storage to a tape drive. This gives you two seperate backups. If
you need to restore a single file it is easily done from the network
storage. If a disaster happens you have the off site tapes to fall back
on.
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Perhaps Windows has a utility similar to RSYNC?
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

HTH
 
Jacky said:
Hi,
I have some 500G Hard disk which is partially filled. I still have a
80G Empty disk space to use. What software would you recommend to
backup the live data?
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Are you planning on backing up what's on your drive to another place on the
same drive?

If so, I urge you to reconsider that plan. That's better than no backup at
all, but just barely. I don't recommend backup to a second non-removable
hard drive (or worse, to a portion of the only drive) because it leaves you
susceptible to simultaneous loss of the original and backup to many of the
most common dangers: severe power glitches, nearby lightning strikes, head
crashes, virus attacks, even theft of the computer.

In my view, secure backup needs to be on removable media, and not kept in
the computer. For really secure backup (needed, for example, if the life of
your business depends on your data) you should have multiple generations of
backup, and at least one of those generations should be stored off-site.

My computer isn't used for business, but my personal backup scheme uses two
identical removable hard drives,I alternate between the two, and use Acronis
TrueImage to make a complete copy of the primary drive.
 
Ken Blake said:
Are you planning on backing up what's on your drive to another place on the
same drive?

If so, I urge you to reconsider that plan. That's better than no backup at
all, but just barely. I don't recommend backup to a second non-removable
hard drive (or worse, to a portion of the only drive) because it leaves you
susceptible to simultaneous loss of the original and backup to many of the
most common dangers: severe power glitches, nearby lightning strikes, head
crashes, virus attacks, even theft of the computer.

In my view, secure backup needs to be on removable media, and not kept in
the computer. For really secure backup (needed, for example, if the life of
your business depends on your data) you should have multiple generations of
backup, and at least one of those generations should be stored off-site.

My computer isn't used for business, but my personal backup scheme uses two
identical removable hard drives,I alternate between the two, and use Acronis
TrueImage to make a complete copy of the primary drive.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
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Would Acronis work backing a laptop system up onto a desktop drive via a router based network? I have four drives on the desktop with a lot of space and a laptop that only has a cd-rw dvd-rom. I would like to be able to fully restore the laptop from the desktop, but when i have tried to use nt backup, it doesn't want to write to another network place. ???
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frogeye said:
Would Acronis work backing a laptop system up onto a desktop drive
via a router based network? I have four drives on the desktop with
a lot of space and a laptop that only has a cd-rw dvd-rom. I would
like to be able to fully restore the laptop from the desktop, but
when i have tried to use nt backup, it doesn't want to write to
another network place. ???
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I'm a relatively new user of Acronis TrueImage, and don't claim to be an
expert in it, but as far as I can see, it won't work across a network.
 
Are you planning on backing up what's on your drive to another place on
the same drive?
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And how would he fit 420GB of data on to the remaining free 80GB?
If so, I urge you to reconsider that plan.
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I guess he'll have to. Not that he was dumb enough to suggest it in the
first place. That was your silly assumption.

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I am using TI 8.0. I assume 9.1 works the same. With TI 8.0 you can create
an image to a mapped drive or a network share. I haven't tried restoring
from a network share.
 
NoStop said:
And how would he fit 420GB of data on to the remaining free 80GB?

I guess he'll have to. Not that he was dumb enough to suggest it in
the first place. That was your silly assumption.
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It wasn't an assumption at all; it was a question. Moreover, he said nothing
about backing up 420GB to the remaining 80GB. He said he wanted to back up
"live data." I have no idea what he considers live data and just what (and
how much) he wants to back up. That's why I asked the question, *instead* of
making an assumption.
 
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