After my recent hard drive failure, I decided to get a better system for backups. I have tried using the built backup program that comes with windows XP, but it is a pain to use. It also doesn’t work on schedule. It is supposed to. I set it to, but it never does anything at the scheduled time, so I gave up trying. I was impressed with Norton Ghost. When I was reinstalling my machine, I found the 3 disk set that came with my eMachines computer were created using Norton Ghost. I think the disks said Symantec Ghost, but Symantec is Norton…same thing. The install was easy, and painless. It didn’t take very long to restore my machine to the state that it came new, out of the box.
I was reading some descriptions of Norton Ghost, and it sounds like it will do what I want it to do. I want to be able to back the machine up to disks (CD or DVD). But my main backup destination will be to an external hard drive. Norton Ghost will work on a schedule, and it sounds like it has various options as far as compression, and whether it will do full backups, or incremental backups. So I broke down, and ordered a copy of the program. I would like to get it automated, so I will have grandfather backups on my external hard drive if something ever happens to my main hard drive again.
I do most of my work on my desktop computer. That computer makes me money. So I don’t mind spending a little bit. I can deduct it as a business expense anyway.

Posted by Rob in Whatever on June 2nd, 2006 |