From: J. Michael Stolp (mstolp_at_xelan.com)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2000 - 10:19:54 EDT
>From personal experience I am well aware of the practical issues
involved with making backups of laptop hard drives.
Backups are not particularly the problem - it seems more the issue
of emergency restore of the entire hard drive.
I am also aware of the ongoing discussions about different
strategies, including backup to network, backup to cdrom, etc. etc.
It seems all these alternatives involve some degree of
"bootstrapping" an operating system to the point where the laptop
can find the backup set on the network or whatever.
As a practical observation, it appears OS/2 Warp is less of a
problem to deal with than WinXX; however, even Warp poses backup
restore issues in the context of a laptop.
What are the pluses and minuses of the following proposed approach?
I would like to have 2 identical hard drives for the Thinkpad. In
some manner I would like to cable the 2 hard drives together,
perhaps connected to or hosted by my desktop, and then clone
exactly the one hard drive to the other. In this manner, if
ANYTHING happens to the primary hard drive, one merely slaps in the
backup HD.
One of the local computer shops did this for me using a rather
expensive machine to "dup" the one HD to the other - 12gb in 30
minutes or so.
Is this approach reasonable or possible in the home or small office
environment? What cabling is necessary? Where does one get it?
Would one use the desktop as the host? What software? Norton
Ghost? Other software?
Thanks for any thoughts.
-- Warmest Regards. MikeJ. Michael Stolp, C.P.A., Managing Partner <mstolp_at_xelan.com> Registered Investment Advisor
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