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October 6th 04, 07:14 PM
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Question backup and storage
I'm looking for a backup solution for my desktop and notebook hard disks.
Can I clone both on one usb external hard drive? Is this the most convenient/cheapest solution? Thanks all. -- ************ All email scanned by Norton AntiVirus 2002 
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October 6th 04, 07:59 PM
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A good idea might be to install the external drive and run ghost to create
an image file of each system.
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October 6th 04, 08:26 PM
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"Captain Ron" wrote in message ... A good idea might be to install the external drive and run ghost to create an image file of each system. That's the plan...but with Acronis True Image 7.0. So there's no problem "installing" the same drive in two different systems? Thanks.
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October 6th 04, 08:44 PM
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tom wrote:
"Captain Ron" wrote in message ... A good idea might be to install the external drive and run ghost to create an image file of each system. That's the plan...but with Acronis True Image 7.0. So there's no problem "installing" the same drive in two different systems? Thanks. Isn't that one of the uses of an external usb hard drive: hot swapping between systems? As long as the drive is big enough to receive image files from both systems, where's the problem (aside from the data transfer time over USB)? -- spammage trappage: replace fishies_ with yahoo
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October 6th 04, 08:57 PM
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That's the plan...but with Acronis True Image 7.0. So there's no problem "installing" the same drive in two different systems? Thanks. There's no problem with acronis true image. When you create your backup image, the program asks you where you want it stored. IF the drive is visible to windows, then acronis can use it. -Dave
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October 6th 04, 09:21 PM
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"tom" wrote in message ink.net... I'm looking for a backup solution for my desktop and notebook hard disks. Can I clone both on one usb external hard drive? Is this the most convenient/cheapest solution? Thanks all. You have the optimal solution figured out. Use TrueImage from www.acronis.com to do the backups. If the desktop and notebook are on a LAN together of 100BT or faster then a less expensive alternative is a removable HD in a shock mounted tray in the desktop.
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October 6th 04, 09:22 PM
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"spodosaurus" wrote in message ... Isn't that one of the uses of an external usb hard drive: hot swapping between systems? As long as the drive is big enough to receive image files from both systems, where's the problem (aside from the data transfer time over USB)? USB2 is plenty fast.
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#8
October 6th 04, 09:29 PM
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A USB drive is plug and play. It will work fine on any machine.
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