Show Notes:
- Mike Petro joins up from Petro Computer Solutions
- Decide what you need to backup
- Optical Backup - CD/DVD - CD's store o ly 700MB, DVD's can store up to 8GB. Optical storage media doesn't last forever however.
- Redundancy is the key to backup prepararion
- External hard drives are great way to backup your info
- Flash/Thumb drive probably not the best way to back up your hard drive.
- On-site vs. Off-site backups: Your first off-site backup may take a while becasue of slow upload speed. On-site backups are faster are more lilable at to suffer same damage as original copy if located in same spot.
- JungleDisk or Carbonite good services for off-site backup.
- Mike's backup plan for customers: Insatll external drive. Back it up every night, with weekly differential recovery using SyncbackSE from 2BrightSparks.com. Fridays -task scheduler burns CDs of data that is being backed up on external drive using CommandBurn.
- Cobian Backup great program for backups and is free.
- Difference between Full, Incremental, and Differential backups. See this page on the Acronis Resource Center for full explanation.
- Great method of backing up is cloning/imaging, because it creates an exact duplicate of your existing hard drive.
- Norton Ghost - Mike uses for cloning/imaging drives
- Acronis True Image - Steve uses for imaging, and is another great tool for backups, cloning, and any hard drive maintainance and manipulatipon.
- Mike's cool car computer - pictures on the way...
- MP3car.com - greate site for car-puter enthusiasts.
- And Steve made a coffee table computer with this coffee table.
- Hard Drive Art
- Check the box to verify files after copying/burning/cloning.
- Great idea to upsell the customer with a backup service.
- Data recovery - when you delete a file it is still on the computer usually and can be recovered, until it is written over.
- ALWAYS use a different drive to perform the data recovery. If you use the existing drive, you may be writing over the files.
- PC Inspector is a free data recovery program that works ok. Steve uses Recover My Files with more success.
- Disaster recovery - services exist to recover data you cannot get back by normal means, like Datadoctors.com.
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