Hi Dave I notice you are using Western Digital Hard Disks.
My findings in the repair side of my business are that Western Digital are the most unreliable Hard Disks. I have only once sold WD when without realising I got a few Toshiba External Hard Disk free with some Laptops. I sold these separately and of the five sold three have now failed catastrophically at around the 18 month mark. They were too bad to get any data from, using some special recovery software purchased at a price of over a thousand pounds. In the past month I have sent off a large no. of faulty hard disks to a data recovery firm (They use them for spares and send me certificates to say they have been permanently erased. In return I get some free use of their recovery services) Over 80 percent of those were WD despite as of never selling WD with the computers I supply. Cheers Peter P.S. You missed the best sessions which were on the Thursday morning. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier Sent: 13 July 2009 09:16 To: 'ProFox Email List' Subject: RE: [NF] Backup strategy Peter, Get yourself a set of WD Passport 200Gb drives and a copy of Syncback. That is what we use on a rotational fashion. The results are emailed wherever you want and Syncback uses shadowcopy so files that are open can still be copied. If you use the smartsync profile then only differences are copied over to the destination drive on a scheduled basis. It just works and you still have a small footprint backup that you can immediately load onto any pc or you can have it compressed into zip files if you want. As for thumb drives, I'd pass on that as they are simply too slow. Dave Crozier -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Cushing Sent: 10 July 2009 16:39 To: ProFox List Subject: [NF] Backup strategy Hi All, We are just reviewing our backup strategy after our REV drive died. The cost of replacing the drive is about £260, but for about the same price we can get 5 x 32GB memory sticks. We can then use these for Monday to Friday backup that can be taken home every night. The advantage of a stick being that you are not relying on the tape hardware when you need to restore, so in the event of a fire you don't need an extra drive. We do other backups including writing to DVD and FTP transfer but this is the main important weekday backup. Just want to find out if anyone has tried using these sticks and any problems comments they have. TIA -- *Peter Cushing * IT development and support Signature ---------------------------------------------------------------- Rajan Imports has changed - we are now Whispering Smith Ltd. For more information see our website at www.whisperingsmith.com Please update your address book with my new email address: [email protected] . This communication is intended for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. The contents are confidential and may be protected in law. Unauthorised use, copying or disclosure of any of it may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone or email. www.whisperingsmith.com Whispering Smith Ltd Head Office:61 Great Ducie Street, Manchester M3 1RR. Tel:0161 831 3700 Fax:0161 831 3715 London Office:17-19 Foley Street, London W1W 6DW Tel:0207 299 7960 [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/a57fa4cf19531343a2ee11b57db8e3af04c...@server.peterhartcomputers.local ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
