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Vista backup best practice?
I have been using Vista backup for a year and have 12 dvds from it. Can any
of these be tossed? Do I have to manually do a full backup every so often? Thank you |
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Vista backup best practice?
You can safely toss all but the last backup.
You can schedule Vista to automatically backup. Frequency would depend on how often you add or edit whatever. "Tony Linguini" wrote in message ... I have been using Vista backup for a year and have 12 dvds from it. Can any of these be tossed? Do I have to manually do a full backup every so often? Thank you |
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Vista backup best practice?
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I would sya that there is two process involve from what i read of your comment.. Backup Issue Archive issue It is very important that you make the difference between those two. Most of the poeple mix the two, both have different point of view for the way we handel the information. If you talk about twele DVD i assume you are talking about backup. This action is to recover from a crash of the hardware. So their is no need to to keep them. Only the most recent is essential. On the other hand if you want to keep information on the long run we talk Archive, this mean we want to save information for the long run. If we whant to go depther their is a third process betwwen those two that is Storage. Meaning that it is intent to give acess ( live acess) over a certain period of time (ex 3 month, 6 month one year etc...) Once the time delay is pass file/information is store in a place where if informatin is not acess anymore it will be archive. Live acess equal usually a hard drive direcly connet to the network that you can acess easily. The contrary of that will be offline acess that could be on cd/dvd/tape or a in betwwen stage that will be USB hard drive not connect to the network. So on a per base usage we connect harddrive to gain acess to information but eventually information on that USB drive will be transfert fo a longterm storage to another media that is usually DVD. P.S. Do not forget to rewrite your dvd one every two to five year to keep the integrety of the information on the dvd. (depending of the importance of the data this ould be done evry 10 year also). This process is call refreshing archive. Little more that what was ask but i thing this could be a nice to take a peak at the process.. Here a brief resume of the lifecycle data. Time for each stage of the life cycle will vary for each individual and organisation. creation of the data---- acess on a period of time to work with data--- backup data ( on one day, week or monthly basis)----store data (usually we look at the legal time we must keep data like credit card bill we keep it one or two year)----archive data (long periode of time)----Delete the data ( this part involve some sentimental attachement ) |
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Vista backup best practice?
Be very careful if you only keep one backup copy. If you buy crap media the chance that the backup is corrupted can be high and some media with degrade in a year or less. If your data is important use quality media like Verbatim or Taiyo Yuden or use both. I don't trust backing up directly to DVD to many chances of problems later on, I use Acronus and store a extra copy on a USB hard drive. Just something to think about. -- MegaDETH Core 2 Duo E6600 (L629F) @ 3.690GHz ASUS P5K DELUXE/WIFI 4X2GB A-DATA PC2 6400 eVGA E-GEFORCE 8800 GT 512MB Superclocked 22\\" Hanns.G HDMI LCD LG GGC-H20LI BenQ 1655 LiteOn DH20A3P Samsung 203N LG GSA-H42N LG GSA-H22N |