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  • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday September 02 2015, @03:13AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Wednesday September 02 2015, @03:13AM (#231113) Homepage

    Yup, that's how I do it. I go to the C: folder, copy everything in that folder, then paste all that into a folder called "system image" I have on my USB hard drive. That way I can just copy and paste all that back into the C: drive of my Windows machine if I have to reinstall the OS.

    Works like a aisdhgpsdifjga;sdlfagm;sfkgmna;dlfmgsdfj gl;jsdfklg

  • (Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Saturday September 05 2015, @04:24PM

    by Hyperturtle (2824) on Saturday September 05 2015, @04:24PM (#232652)

    I do the same; even upgrading to bigger RAIDs as the situation may be depending on the machine... but google is not a part of that strategy. I did mention my tape strategy earlier, but that came much later than this method.

    Google's holding of user content sure is convenient, though, so don't let my ideals interfere with sound reasoning and logic!

    I do big backups mostly because I am copying VMs and it can be such a pain to merge snapshots if not managed carefully, and at home, I only have so much care to spread around when a different method may work for me. Managing other things is time consuming as it is.

    I also find it hard to actually identify how important to me some things are if they aren't in the super important category. So, if they survive a disk purge, then I back them up. Maybe only once [well, twice... I am not trustworthy of complete dependence on a rarely used alternative system]--no sense backing it up over and over -- but it won't get deleted unless it ends up on an easily accessible platform.

    And the missus may categorize something entirely differently (those creative types sometimes value some things that aren't as valuable as far as self-preservation is concerned... other people worry about that, I guess), so I have to deal with different strategies as far as what important means.

    • (Score: 2, Touché) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday September 05 2015, @09:30PM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday September 05 2015, @09:30PM (#232752) Homepage

      Er...you did realize that I was joking, right?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @09:27PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 10 2015, @09:27PM (#234920)

        ugh well its hyperturtle posting anonymously because of a brain failure.

        But yeah. I haven't been just replacing the raid with bigger drives over the years... I'm going to tape from the raid!

        But boot drives can be imaged as well as cloned, and it is easier to rotate a clone or two around to boot from than to try to pull a disk image from tape to a drive that could have had a month old disk image anyway :)

        *note, this is for home, not for work, and most people... don't have any solution, even if bad, so I condone, if not applaud, cloning disks even if it sucks for real professional backup purposes. waiting until you replace the drive is not when to back it up. But cloning a working boot volume on a regular basis beats just writing folders to a USB now and then.