Hi all,
I'm looking for some advice on creating some backups of my system. I'm mainly interested in making backups of my Win 7 boot drive (90Gb Vertex 2 SSD) and my application drive (320Gb hdd) as I have all my data copied onto multiple drives anyway.
Hardware wise I have a NAS unit (DLink DNS-320) with 2x 1TB drives in RAID 1 configuration and an external 1TB USB drive.
For basic data (photos, music etc) I use Windows SyncToy to keep duplicate copies on both the NAS and the USB drives but I don't currently have any proper way of restoring my system in the event of either of the internal drives failing.
I suppose the most basic approach would be to use something like Acronis Disk Image and just take full images of the drives and store them on the external drives but I was wondering if there is any other better way? At this point I'm only looking for software solutions (just had a baby so the finances wont stretch to new hardware
) but in the longer term I may consider a hardware approach.
So, anyone have any experience in this area?
TIA,
Ross
I'm looking for some advice on creating some backups of my system. I'm mainly interested in making backups of my Win 7 boot drive (90Gb Vertex 2 SSD) and my application drive (320Gb hdd) as I have all my data copied onto multiple drives anyway.
Hardware wise I have a NAS unit (DLink DNS-320) with 2x 1TB drives in RAID 1 configuration and an external 1TB USB drive.
For basic data (photos, music etc) I use Windows SyncToy to keep duplicate copies on both the NAS and the USB drives but I don't currently have any proper way of restoring my system in the event of either of the internal drives failing.
I suppose the most basic approach would be to use something like Acronis Disk Image and just take full images of the drives and store them on the external drives but I was wondering if there is any other better way? At this point I'm only looking for software solutions (just had a baby so the finances wont stretch to new hardware
) but in the longer term I may consider a hardware approach.So, anyone have any experience in this area?
TIA,
Ross
