Prepared for disaster ?

MooseJam

I spent the day reorganising and I reckon I am fairly safe now
Have two backup folders, each on seperate disks with copies of all my software
Have two Ghost images of Vista 32 bit, each on seperate disks
Have two Ghost images of vista 64 bit, each on seperate disks
Have two copies of ghost on CD

theres not much that could go wrong that I can't fix in 5 mins, barring major hardware failure

Jonathan

Whats this all about?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

it doesn't matter, it never matters. you're going to know exactly where they are at all times up to the point where you actually need them, that's when they sprout wings and fly around your room.. hovering directly out of vision no matter how fast you spin around.

Overheal

oh noes, nuclear strike: im afraid your efforts have gone to waste: you are ded.

keep one backup off-site.

kaimera

pfft; half the the fun of a disaster is re.installing from scratch

MooseJam

Overheal wrote: »

keep one backup off-site.

not a bad idea hmm

MrVestek

MooseJam wrote: »

I spent the day reorganising and I reckon I am fairly safe now
Have two backup folders, each on seperate disks with copies of all my software
Have two Ghost images of Vista 32 bit, each on seperate disks
Have two Ghost images of vista 64 bit, each on seperate disks
Have two copies of ghost on CD

theres not much that could go wrong that I can't fix in 5 mins, barring major hardware failure

Wow well done
*pat on back*

Sorry man but I'm all out of gold stars...

MooseJam

Achilles wrote: »

Wow well done
*pat on back*

Sorry man but I'm all out of gold stars...

haha thanks dude, I'm pretty chuffed myself

MrVestek

MooseJam wrote: »

haha thanks dude, I'm pretty chuffed myself

Heh at least you find it funny, there are some dry ****es on this board.

humaxf1

MooseJam wrote: »

I spent the day reorganising and I reckon I am fairly safe now
Have two backup folders, each on seperate disks with copies of all my software
Have two Ghost images of Vista 32 bit, each on seperate disks
Have two Ghost images of vista 64 bit, each on seperate disks
Have two copies of ghost on CD

theres not much that could go wrong that I can't fix in 5 mins, barring major hardware failure

i hope you remembered to include a regular backup of your documents, photos, music, internet favourites, desktop items, download program folders, email data files such as pst, dbx, thunderbird etc etc...

Well done on the OS images. Very useful and practable to get your system functioningi back to day one in the case of virus infection or hardware failure...but your data is the most important!!! anyone can reinstall an OS with a bit of knowledge and without an OS image, but you can't reinstall your docs after a HDD failure

mukki

are all these disks in a pc and accessible from windows if so a virus/hacker/power surge could wipe the lot

best to take a backup disk drive out and store it in ESD bag and a padded box

MooseJam

mukki wrote: »

are all these disks in a pc and accessible from windows if so a virus/hacker/power surge could wipe the lot

best to take a backup disk drive out and store it in ESD bag and a padded box

that it a good point, might invest in an external drive

conzy

MooseJam wrote: »

that it a good point, might invest in an external drive

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and bury it in the garden

darkskol

hhmmm HDD making strange clicking noises think it would be a good idea to backup data soon!

mukki

MooseJam wrote: »

that it a good point, might invest in an external drive

nah, i have seen a lot of those usb hard drives dying, they are for transpoting files, no good for backups,

best to plug in a sata drive once a week and copy your documents and settings folder and the ghost image to it