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RE: Re: How many PCs do you have at home?


  • Subject: RE: Re: How many PCs do you have at home?
  • From: "Mark McCall" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 12:19:32 +0100

> Another good question would be how many of these PCs are regularly
backed
> up!  :-)

Indeed.

>  Of my 11 only my own PC, the Mail  and the Media Server are
> regularly backed up (nightly). Even then they are only backed up to
hard
> drives on some of the other PCs on the network.

Yep, that's the way mine are done too.  No good for a theft, fire etc (just
posted a question about remote ftp/sync).

> The others would have to
> be rebuilt from scratch on HD failure - a frightening thought.

All my data is on the central servers which backup to each other at night
(NTI Backup).

I have Ghost images of all my main machines so they can be rebuilt quickly
and easily in the even of disk failure or corruption (although I should
probably update them now SP2 is on them).

M.






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