"Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:2i66l6Fjcvh0U1@uni-berlin.de...
> mr.sumo.snr wrote:
> > Do you have a high-speed external back-up solution?  Makes
> > re-installation a breeze, well, worry-free at least.
>
> I do -- but do you have any mirroring solutions to recommend? I currently
> only back up my data only, but after a couple recent incidents am thinking
> about keeping the whole damn hard drive mirrored.
>
> I have Norton Ghost but IMHO it is a piece of crap.
>

I've tried Ghost - correction I'm trying Ghost - but since I too back-up all
data externally I've yet to come up with an efficient system partition
ghosting schedule.  I'm more than happy to re-install all my program files
and enjoy the speed boost - albeit for an ever-decreasingly short time.

Of course when I tried using Ghost to re-install after upgrading to a serial
hard disk I couldn't.  The ghost image was of a 120gb hard disk - my new
serial disk was smaller at 80gb.  Ghost told me to fuck off.  I'm sure there
was something I could have done - but nothing bleeding obvious stuck out.

I've tried Powerquest Drive Image too - but they are now part of Norton so
I'm guessing that product will be dropped.

The whole system back-up solution business is aimed at the corporate client.
They'll spend $20000 on auto-loading tape libraries and such basically
because their staff cannot be trusted to keep files anywhere but in the My
Documents folder.

BTW my copy of PCPRO magazine this month reviewed a 1 terabyte external
hard-disk - I doubt even Bryan could fill that up without some serious
torrenting.
http://tinyurl.com/2b7tn

--
jonathan