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    Question Hard Drive Backup

    Hi,

    I have been asked by my boss to find a solution to backing up all the company files. now normally i wouldn't be so unsure what to do and cautious, but since it's the man who pays my wages asking i though i should get htis 100% right!!!

    this probably has a simple answer of 'yes', but here goes.

    I am looking at the product below:

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    All i need to do is back up completely an 80gig hard drive with all the data on it. With this external drive will i be able to make a like for like copy of the master disk. I.e. if all the data was lost on the master would i be able to use the backup to plug into the rebooted main system and just use the various files (excel, system etc) as if off the internal hard drive?

    Also how long would it take to transfer roughly 20 - 30 gig of info on to this?

    Thank you in advance.

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    Personally I'd go for a good quality tape drive, a handfull of tapes for daily/weekly/monthly seqential backups. Plus a copy of say Backup Exec & a good fire safe
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    I agree with 0iD, tape drives are fast and reliable and you would end up with a series of backups rather than one.

    You could of course just burn them to a CD or DVD

    And there is always windows backup to backup the whole system to the external drive

    For 30GB of data over usb2 then it should take about 8.5 mins (assuming maximum trasfer rate of 60 Mbytes/sec (not likley though).
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    thank you for the replies.

    have been looking at tape drives, they look a little pricy. Does anyone know any good retailers?

    However it's not really important that we have a series of backup's just we can update the backup say one a week, i get the feeling a tape drive might be a little complex for the job in hand, however i might be wrong.
    Any thoughts?

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