Backups - Here we go again
This is probably my third post this year about backups, but it's sooo important.
If you have been following my twitter feed, you will know that I've recently experienced a hard drive failure of my boot (C:) drive on my main multimedia computer tower which is actually composed of two uber fast hard drives
The drive is covered under the 5 year warranty so I will get a free replacement from Western Digital, but what isn't covered of course is any loss of data.
Here's my current backup scenario for the main tower.
My backup system for the C drive is composed of an Acronis True Image Home edition backed up weekly to my Netgear ReadyNAS NV+
When I am ready to restore, all I need is access to my image files (copy them over to a local drive probably), and my restore CD created within Acronis.
For my drives containing data, I use another external hard drive for immediate backups using Acronis True Image
I should note that I have multiple computers that also serve as backups to this main computer I work on. So in case nothing is working right on this computer, I have a few more I can jump on to get work done. Although sometimes with licensing issues, I experience some downtime while I transfer a license or program over - same thing with settings and macros.
I haven't decided if I want to go all flash storage yet for the C drive, especially since my drives set in RAID 0 is pretty darned fast already and Black Friday is coming around the corner.
I think I'll wait.
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