New Backup School site

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Mark

I just started a new non-commerical, educational site all about data
backup. It's called BackupSchool.com at http://www.backupschool.com

I've just been working on it for a couple weeks so far and have a lot
of new writing and rewriting to still do, but I'm interested in your
comments and suggestions.

Thanks,

Mark
 
Mark said:
...I'm interested in your comments and suggestions.
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Mark;

Your site, http://www.backupschool.com/, loads quickly and is easy to
navigate. Visually, things seem a little crowded but I thinks that's
because of the number of items listed in your TOC column. Overall, it's
definitely a function-over-form design style that I appreciate a lot.

Wrt the content itself: the two articles I read (recommendations:
backup for individ & backup for lan), are clear and easily understood.
But, your editorial decision not to discuss backups (vs your preferred
method of imaging) is going to disappoint a fair amount of potential
readers.

Especially considering your website's moniker.

This becomes a bit of a linguistic headache as you do start using the
terms interchangeably. But on to the "crux of the biscuit" (as the
illustrious Dr. F. Zappa would say). Drilling down to your actual
recommendations for "backup," I find only options which require $$$.

In general, this is an easily digestable site (bandwidth and prose)
which promotes imaging as a backup strategy. If one is already an
advocate of imaging over backups or would like to understand the
distinction, this site can be useful.

Two omissions in the site's discussions keep me from bookmarking it.
There is no coverage of backup/imaging in a heterogenous or non-windows
situation and more surprisingly (considering the group in which you
posted): Freeware and/or Open Source are not mentioned *once*.
"Recommending"

Overall, very good start. But to be a reference that I'd pass along to
clients & family members, it'd need to treat the above-mentioned
deficiencies.

hth,

-Craig
 
Craig said:
Your site, http://www.backupschool.com/, loads quickly and is easy to
navigate. Visually, things seem a little crowded but I thinks that's
because of the number of items listed in your TOC column. Overall, it's
definitely a function-over-form design style that I appreciate a lot.
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I agree with this. I love your site, because there are no optical
gimmicks, bells and whistles. Its pure content.


Because of actual issues at work, I checked your page about Media
Lifespan. I found your table much too optimistical. Just do the
following test: Record 10 DVDs from different vendors on your
drive. Then put 'em for 6 weeks into a cool, dark locker.
Now take a DVD-drive from a different vendor (because in case of
hardware wreckage you cannot use your original drive) and restore
the data. If you loose just one single file, your DVD-method is
not recommendable for backing up your OS. And I guarantee, your
will lose more than one file. (Murphy says, this one file will be
the registry hive of your Windows OS.)

So please give us the sources, where you get your knowledge from.

And BTW: I fully agree with your recommendations for the backup
for stubborns! :-)


Reinhardt
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Ironie ist für dich ein Fremdwort, gelle?
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Wenn du kein Grieche bist, dann dürfte Ironie auch für dich
ein Fremdwort sein ... (Sharky in de.soc.politik.misc)
 
Mark said:
I just started a new non-commerical, educational site all about data
backup. It's called BackupSchool.com at http://www.backupschool.com

I've just been working on it for a couple weeks so far and have a lot
of new writing and rewriting to still do, but I'm interested in your
comments and suggestions.
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I did agree with the comments posted so far.

I did look at some of your recommended BU software (Acronis (not
free)). It extrapolates in length about how to BU, but does not go
into great detail about backing up an image. It describes how the
software works, but not what to do with a new hard drive once installed
and whether the image would be permanent or temporary?



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Thank you all for your great comments and think that they are valid. I
do know it needs lots of work. It was a struggle just to get this much
up so far in my spare time.

You're right, this is the freeware forum--can anyone here provide a
list of the top freeware products in this segment?
 
Thank you all for your great comments and think that they are valid. I
do know it needs lots of work. It was a struggle just to get this much
up so far in my spare time.

You're right, this is the freeware forum--can anyone here provide a
list of the top freeware products in this segment?
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Hi Mark,

Sure we can; my favorite:

EZ-BackItUp
Selectable backup-sets (jobs); destination (Partition, Disk, CDRW, Stck,
whatever, as long as it has a drive letter assigned); scheduler,
independant of OS-scheduler. No restore available, nor necessary (as the
files and the directory structure are copied to the destination.

Available from: http://www.rdcomp.net
 
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