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dneilson, I believe that photolady is going to store an image of her C drive onto her old HDD.
Then as her HDD gets full she plans to store photo's onto DVD's.
I see nothing wrong with this method, although I would store the photo's on an external HDD as well.
Philgo--I see nothing wrong with that method either but I didn't read her post as that was what she was going to do. Old age is truly hell. Whatever she does let's wish her well.
I know how you feel, some days I'm 138:D
Back ups by burning to disk can be accomplished as the last step of a maintenence, malware dertection, and backup session which when set up does not take as long as you might think.
In other words clean out your computer files, run malware programs, and back up in that order. I guarantee your computer will be a happy optimum running computer. (Not so apt to lose a HDD either) :)
Actaully, phil I have no intention of putting my photos on anything other than a DVD or CD, depending on sizes of folders. The originals are still in film format not digital. If I ever get around to this, I wanted them on DVD to start a "card catalog" for easier finding. Looking through thousands of negatives for one photo isn't my ideal conditions. ;)
GG1 I always run spyware/malware software.......at least twice a week, if not more. Depends on if I download and install programs I'm not familar with.
I plan to ghost the drive I'm using now to the 80gb, and would like to have a backup several times so as not to have to do what I usually do, and that's wipe and painstakingly reinstall all programs/drivers.
That should explain my questions better. ;)
Photolady, Don't forget the first step - maintenence- which gives the best results in how your machine runs. You don't back up junk this way. Keep it as lean and mean as you can.
And when you work with photos you're working with alot of MBs.
:) ;) :)
Yes, GG1 I will run maintenance on this before I do the ghosting. I have lots of photos on here now that need burning but wanted to scan more first....photos folder only has 304mb so far...not even enough for a cd yet. ;)
Plus I'll probably just burn what's in my documents folder then empty that before starting.
From my experience,even a backup 'program' can go wrong. I had this happen with Acronis TI once. Tried to restore from dvd's using the boot cd I created with TI. The boot disk worked ok,but when the dvd was put in,it gave an error that it couldn't read the disk. Same with the second disk. Thought about it awhile,then did this. Wiped the C drive. Did an XP-Pro install from scratch. After it was up n' running,installed TI. Copied over the backup from the dvd's to a partition on my second HDD. Did a restore from Windoze and it worked fine. At the Acronis forum,read where others had the same problem. Nothing is infallible I 'spose.:(
Photolady, with 'me' it's music and ol' time radio shows. I keep these on a second HDD. I also burn them to dvd with the udf format using Nero. What used to take up 30+ cd's can be put on about 7 dvd's.
Not all that familiar with ghost 2003,but with TI, I can do incremental(add-on) backups to the primary backup on a schedule or whenever I like. Depending on whether i've recently installed a program update or made other changes. A snapshot is taken of the C drive and only the 'changed' portion(s) is re-written to the original backup.
If I consider it important enough,such as a service pack or M$ hotfix, I also re-copy it to dvd. Try to keep my C drive uncluttered enough so it fits on 2 disks. Oh yeah, TI also lets you 'split' the backup into sizes that will fit on more than one disk. I tell it to use a 3GB split. Works well for me...:)
If ya use Ghost how i have done in the past, you wouldn't need to do any maintenance, cuz if you don't use or abuse the PC prior to Ghosting then there is nothing to be maintained... In other words, start off by making an image of a clean unused install, then install your software, drivers, settings, tweaks etc and create another image... at this stage there would be no junk on your system and no reason for any maintenance, then at any point in the future when the PC needs any kinda TLC just restore this image you made and everything will be back to clean and lean again...
As time goes by and the software within this image becomes outdated, you update it by just restoring it, then install/update any new software/drivers etc and create a new image for use next time things go to pot... It's so easy to do, and restoration is very fast, one of the main downsides to disk imaging is the amount of disk space you will require for storing these backup images, the other downside is for those that have more than one system.
Don't forget about unattended installations guys/gals, it's totally free and can achieve pretty much the same goal as disk imaging, but cleaner... It's of more benefit to someone with multiple systems too, or someone that installs systems for a friend/customer, but would work just the same no matter how many PC's you own... It's much easier to maintain than Ghosting (ie, new version of a program just means swapping an executable, old for new), it don't require any extra disk space for storage of many backups and with just a single disk you can restore every PC you buy even if they all have different hardware... I'm sure some of you appreciate the power of unattended installations already, but for those that don't I'd say it's worth looking into at-least, however, if ya don't know what a batch file or VMware is then it's probably best you use Ghost or something else.
Philgo, i know you already do unattended installations of windows, just wondering if you'd got around to including drivers, tweaks and all your software yet? I'm still using it here and wish I'd have known about it earlier.
Regards :)
Hi Lotus, no I still haven't got around to it, I'll give it a go next time I'm sitting at my computer wondering what to do.
You'll have to put them on the HDD first:DQuote:
Originally posted by photolady
Actaully, phil I have no intention of putting my photos on anything other than a DVD or CD, depending on sizes of folders. The originals are still in film format not digital. If I ever get around to this, I wanted them on DVD to start a "card catalog" for easier finding. Looking through thousands of negatives for one photo isn't my ideal conditions. ;)
Lotus, you are as sad as me, using your computer this time in the morning:D
LOL, true :D
BTW, good to see one of these type of threads again.
So you'll be making one of these unattended CD's next time ya switch on your PC then? :D
Yes, I'll definately give it a go.
Cool, you'll probably enjoy the challenge, it's real nice when it does just what you want and all's going to plan, takes a bit of trial and error mind (well, for me it did)... but that's all part of the fun... :)