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by darrell 1 view

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I know that there are many tools out there for this, but I would like to here from the IT guys. I have a PC that I just installed a second serial ATA 120GB drive. I would like to backup my system and system state files so that I have a recovery point on the second drive. What have you guys used with great success and or what is your recommendation?

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by cg it

non network, non server, personal PC backup, I would recommend a 3rd party application [Roxio comes to mind but there are alot of other ones] and utilize DVD OR you can try tape backup. Seagate Tapestor Travan 20/40 is pretty good, works with the built in Windows NT backup and the tapes are around $30.00 ea USD in 3 packs.

In this day and age, your system files and system state can take up a log of

by cg it

In this day and age, your system files and system state can take up a lot of space. Many choose to backup to another HDD or try ghosting due to tape costs, or because of the amount of CDs or DVDs it takes for backup and the time involved for backing up.

Because of the shear size of stored information both in operating systems and applications, removable media backups like to CDs,DVD, tape, zip have fallen out of favor because of costs and the limited amount of storage each individual removable media can store. Using actual hard drives has become the norm nowadays simply because you can store the entire computer on it instead of dozens of tapes, CDs DVDs Zip disk.

by willcomp

If I read your question correctly, you want to backup boot drive to another hard drive.

I have used and recommend Backup My PC for single PC backups. It is very flexible as to what is backed up and where data is backed up. Handles hard disks, CD and DVD RW drives, tape drives, Zip disks, and other media types.

For more info, see link below.

http://www.stompsoft.com/backupmypc.html?SourceID=afc_cj_backup

Dalton

by willcomp

ReWrite,

Thanks for the info. Checked them out and they look good, especially Simply Safe Backup.

One can learn a lot here.

Dalton

by wlbowers

If you are doing a drive to drive backup, you can use Partition Magic 8, Drive Image, or Ghost to do a complete partition copy.

Lee

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