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Shane:
I use the better version of Acronis True Image on my customers servers. Mainly for the universal restore feature. Where I can restore the image to all new hardware. Very good and worth the money on servers :-)

Shane

Samson:
Thanks, Acronis it is then  :cheesy:

Enjoy your weekend.

Samson:
Update:  Both machines now have a 2nd HDD installed and I have backed up the master drive on each. I feel alot better knowing that the kids' schoolwork is safe and secure for the future. I also created a small partition at the start of each 2nd HDD for the page file. Again I am grateful for your help and advice Shane,

Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.

Shane:
If your able try to get either a usb thumb drive or external hard drive and every now and then backup the really important things only to it. Then have that drive unplugged.

2 reason for this.

1. In a bad enough storm, if a lighting strike hits the power lines close it will fry everything in the system, including both drives (This is rare but I have seen it happen. One friend sent me a picture of a hole burned through his motherboard from a lighting strike, the whole was the size of a golf ball).

2. Viruses, unknowing users or just bad luck. With both drives being in the system any one of these things could delete the files.

So by having a backup that is not hooked to the system you keep it that much safer. Myself, I have 2 external drives. 1 stays in a small water proof and fire proof safe while the other is backing up. Worse case situation my work is safe :-)

Shane

Samson:
Yup, gotcha, I do use a couple of small USB drives (one each for the kids, a blue one and a pink one, sexist I know, but we know whose is whose that way  :cheesy:)

There is a parcel under our tree right now that I think may well be a 500GB external drive, but we don't want to spoil the magic do we 
 :wink:

Thanks again my friend.

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