Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I need to backup a partition on my hard drive. Currently, I am trying to get > CDRW-Taper to work. Is that the best, or does anyone recommend anything > else?
There is no 'best' for all cases. It depends on your needs. For a single computer mainly used by one person at at time I use and recommend backup to external usb-drives (depending on the size a usb stick may work as well): 1. They are much faster than burning a CD. You want to backup often, so this will be an important consideration, especially if there is a lot of data to be backed up. 2. Since you will want to backup often, they are usually cheaper, since they can be written many times. > Also, how does software RAID level-1, with a partition on another hard > drive, compare with backup onto optical disk? I carry my hard drive around, > and will not be carrying the backup hard drive. A Raid is *not* a backup. A raid is a mechanism to avoid data loss in case one disk fails. It cannot prevent data loss for any other mishap that may happen to your computer. HTH, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
