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Tom Scales wrote:
I am in the process of setting up Syncback to backup to my Brother's hard drive in California (I'm in Florida) and he'll do the reverse. What are the odds of a hurricane AND an earthquake in the same day? Tom -------------snip------------- If it was MY luck you were going by, then I would say that the chances were extremely high!!! :-( Regards, John |
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It will support FTP servers, so I am going to run something like CuteFTP
server on both machines. For encryption, you need Syncback SE, which costs a whopping $15, which I plan on paying. As for bandwidth, it will run in the middle of the night, so slow is OK. Since I have a 4 megabit cable connection and my brother does too, I'm not too worried. Tom wrote in message . .. Tom Are you networking yours & your brothers boxes?? Do you use encryption? Does that eat bandwidth?? Tx Jim An Old Parrot Head In The Conch Republic Just South of Reality |
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Jim, I used LC Technology http://www.lc-tech.com/ when I had a SD card get
corrupted. If the free stuff at Ontrack doesn't work I would look at their products for HD. They have trial versions too. SanDisk recommends them for photo recovery, not sure if that's an endorsement though. I couldn't recover the photos on my card reader, but could recover them and about 100 others that had been deleted on another machine with a newer card reader. We finally agreed I needed a new card reader. But, I was shocked at the personal support from these guys. Emails and phone calls, plus a free download of another program to try, since the first one I bought didn't do the job. Pat wrote in message . .. Tom Looks like you came through again,, I think I should skip the forum and just go to your web page.. Thanks to all Jim An Old Parrot Head In The Conch Republic Just South of Reality |
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"Tom Scales" wrote:
the middle of the night, so slow is OK. Since I have a 4 megabit cable connection and my brother does too What's your uplink speed? For the OP, you might look at one of those external hard drives with the one-button backup, some of them come with Retrospect, which has gotten good reveiws here, though I haven't tried it yet (I use Ghost Enterprise for network backup of all my machines). Drive Image has also gotten good reviews here, though it's methods make me a bit nervous... |
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2)The drive that went south,, he's wants to send it to a data recovery service to see if
the data can be salvaged.. Anyone have any suggestions about a commercial recover service?? Commercial data recovery can cost upwards of $2500, so my usual reccomendation is to never need it. 8*| |
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"Tom Scales" wrote in message ... He doesn't need Raid, he needs unattended automatic backup. www.syncback.com I use it on all my machines. Freeware! Are you using it to produce bootable clones? |
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William P.N. Smith wrote in message ... "Tom Scales" wrote: the middle of the night, so slow is OK. Since I have a 4 megabit cable connection and my brother does too What's your uplink speed? Good point. Just tested and it is 366kbps. Adequate for the volume I'll be backing up. |
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"User N" wrote in message ... "Tom Scales" wrote in message ... He doesn't need Raid, he needs unattended automatic backup. www.syncback.com I use it on all my machines. Freeware! Are you using it to produce bootable clones? No, that's not its purpose. I backup the data. I can reinstall or Ghost back to the original config. Tom |
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First of all, it's important to know if he really wants a "mirror" solution
or just a backup that can be restored. I'm going to assume the latter, since ,mirroring requires a separate drive and RAID. While RAID can be done in software, it's best to have hardware RAID and that's going to be expensive and time complex to implement on an existing system.... You can create images that will restore a disk to the condition it was in when the image was created. Two packages that come to mind a Ghost and BackupMyPC. You can keep copies of files on the backup drive. There's a neat set of utilities called "Karenware" at http://www.karenware.com/powertools/powertools.asp. She has a tool called "Replicator that might be interesting. You could even create your own with a combination of XCOPY, batch file and scheduled tasks.... -- Regards, Hank Arnold wrote in message . .. My buddy lost his 80 gb HF two weeks ago,, with bunches of family pictures, his complete movie base,, and all his music,, ect,,ect He backed up some of his music & pictures to CD but his library had grown to be larger than one 700 MB cd,, so backups had slipped. As his system was an older 2GHz, he decided to get a new 8400, 3.4 GHz, w/160 GB drive... He would like to be able to schedule a mirror copy routine at 12 am, on to a redundant 160 mb drive. He uses XP as built, lets MS put things where it wants,, doesn't really know or care to know where XP puts things. He just wants a complete backup,, and if it was IPL'able by switching cables,, that would be great... I an working to help him buy another 160 GB drive, but I'm at a loss for the software.. 1)Any suggestions and/or antidotal stories about which packages work-don't, easy-hard,, cheap-expensive??? 2)The drive that went south,, he's wants to send it to a data recovery service to see if the data can be salvaged.. Anyone have any suggestions about a commercial recover service?? My system is the same age and the last time I looked, the anti-virus scan found 500K files, with 8.4 GB of digital film,, I also need to do some pre-failure planning.. Thanks Jim An Old Parrot Head In The Conch Republic Just South of Reality |
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My mistake for not reading properly I thought he wanted a mirror disk setup
"Tom Scales" wrote in message ... He doesn't need Raid, he needs unattended automatic backup. www.syncback.com I use it on all my machines. Freeware! Tom "Fixer" wrote in message ... If you want to mirror the disks then you need some sort of RAID controller PCI failing that software wise you could use VERITAS Backup software and as for data recovery the main one is Ontrack google for the url they have a few utils you can download and try to recover data yourself if the HDD is not totally bolloxed wrote in message . .. My buddy lost his 80 gb HF two weeks ago,, with bunches of family pictures, his complete movie base,, and all his music,, ect,,ect He backed up some of his music & pictures to CD but his library had grown to be larger than one 700 MB cd,, so backups had slipped. As his system was an older 2GHz, he decided to get a new 8400, 3.4 GHz, w/160 GB drive... He would like to be able to schedule a mirror copy routine at 12 am, on to a redundant 160 mb drive. He uses XP as built, lets MS put things where it wants,, doesn't really know or care to know where XP puts things. He just wants a complete backup,, and if it was IPL'able by switching cables,, that would be great... I an working to help him buy another 160 GB drive, but I'm at a loss for the software.. 1)Any suggestions and/or antidotal stories about which packages work-don't, easy-hard,, cheap-expensive??? 2)The drive that went south,, he's wants to send it to a data recovery service to see if the data can be salvaged.. Anyone have any suggestions about a commercial recover service?? My system is the same age and the last time I looked, the anti-virus scan found 500K files, with 8.4 GB of digital film,, I also need to do some pre-failure planning.. Thanks Jim An Old Parrot Head In The Conch Republic Just South of Reality |
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