[ale] OT. Dead harddrive on laptop

[Ron Frazier]

Alas, practicing the religion is harder than having it.  I really need 
to get around to my after vacation backups.  Backing up 4 computers to 
external USB is a very tedious process which takes the computer out of 
service for about 5 hours and takes about 1/3 hour of my time on either 
end setting up the backup and then verifying it and rebooting the 
machine.  Gotta do it.  Gotta do it.  I prefer image backups, so, if I 
have to put the backup drive into service, I just swap it into the 
computer, reboot, and I'm back up and running.  Or, at the very least, I 
can connect the backup drive to an external enclosure and immediately 
access all my data.  I prefer to have the backup drive disconnected when 
not in use, which prevents things like a virus or power spike from 
hurting it.  Unfortunately, it also prevents automated backups.  I have 
Jungledisk --> Amazon Web Services online backup for data only every 6 
hours, but one computer needs to be resetup on that as well.  Oh, the 
pain, the pain!  Such is ... computer ... life.

Ron

On 1/24/2012 12:48 PM, JD wrote:
> worth it. It has been to me a few times, though I have backup religion. If it
>    

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