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I use Norton Ghost and back up to an external hard-drive:
1 full backup every week and incremental's everyday on my critical files.

I used to use Acronis Home, but it kept giving me trouble and didn't want to backup my data when scheduled...

Too many people on the message boards spend a lot of time searching for most value to build a new computer, but fail to address how they will backup data. Worse yet, they rely only on a RAID solution, which is a bad idea...]]>Jan 5th 2009 6:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 5th 2009 6:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/
The key is to not do stupid things.]]>Jan 5th 2009 8:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 5th 2009 8:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 5th 2009 6:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_(paranormal)]]>Jan 5th 2009 6:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 5th 2009 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 5th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 5th 2009 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 5th 2009 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 5th 2009 6:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 5th 2009 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/
Anyways, I use Time Machine for Mac OS X, and it has done a great job. I don't back up my Windows partition though... I haven't found any software that backs up any recently modified files or such every hour like Time Machine has. Granted, I didn't look very well, and I don't have critical files on Windows, but still...

If anyone knows, reply to this comment... please...]]>Jan 5th 2009 6:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Apr 6th 2009 9:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 5th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/
Of course, this assumes you have AutoRun enabled...]]>Jan 5th 2009 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 5th 2009 11:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/
This thing reminds me of that T-shirt: "go away or i will replace you with a very small shell script."]]>Jan 5th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 5th 2009 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/
Also, RAID 0 is striping, It improves performance but offers no data protection at all. What you want is RAID 1, mirroring.]]>Jan 6th 2009 7:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 6th 2009 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/
So what happens after you load up all your data and your machine suffers a power spike, and 2 of your drives are lost? That is why you need a backup that is located outside of the system, and preferably off-site. When you are dealing with that much data, it does become a serious problem. Depends on how valuable the data is and how difficult it would be to recreate.

That is why I said RAID is not a backup strategy. A backup is a separate independent copy of the data stored away from the original copy. If the only copy of your data is on a RAID array, you are still vulnerable to data loss and need a backup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID]]>Jan 6th 2009 9:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 9th 2009 5:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/05/clickfree-transformer-cable-gives-any-usb-hard-drive-auto-backup/Jan 10th 2009 10:39PM