Re: [tlug] Hard Drive Failure (Was: Help! Total hardware failure)

[Dave M G <dave@example.com>]

TLUG,

Thanks for the helpful suggestions.

I was wondering about the feasibility of buying a second drive, and then 
doing a complete copy once a day. I think it's called "ghosting" when 
you copy an entire drive to another right down to the boot records and 
everything, so that if one fails, you can just replace it.

My problem up to now has not so much been the frequency of backups, but 
the completeness. I'm always creating new documents and folders and data 
that I don't remember to include. So really I want a system where every 
now and again I can just slam the entire contents of a drive onto 
another drive.

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Dave M G