Backup vs. Clone?

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Hello Everyone.

I have a couple of questions for everyone here and I hope you can help me with them.

1) We have a computer at work that we would like to make a backup of the disk. Now, the data on the disk doesn't change. No new files or documents are added to this machine. It just sits there and records temperatures from probes and then prints out the results.

That being said, the program that reads the temperatures is a program that we cant reinstall if something happened to this computer. It is sort of a very custom job. Would I be correct in thinking that a clone is my best option here? If not, what would be?

If cloning is the option, do I just shutdown the computer. Install a new hard drive as the master, take the old hard drive and make it the slave, put in the TI 2010 disk and restart the computer and make a clone of the disk?

Thank you for your help.

lun 23/11/2009 - 15:12
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Cloning or backup would work just fine. Restoring from a backup archive file does take longer. You wouldn't need to pull the master drive at all. Just install a second drive and clone the original C: drive to the new one. Then put the new one in a safe place. Should the C: physically fail or get corrupted, viruses, etc beyond repair, just pull that drive and put the cloned one in its place. When you re-boot, it will come up like nothing ever happened. Completely transparent. If the old drive is still physically good, clone the "clone" back to the original C: drive for another copy. Be sure to power down the computer when removing/installing any drives. Also, you would not need a CD boot disk when cloning one hard drive to another and when doing a "restore" since you'd be physically swapping the drives. Now, you would need to create that CD to boot from when restoring a backup archive from an external hard drive back to an internal drive.

The only difference would be if there's anything new and/or there were changes in the interim between the initial cloning and installing the newly cloned drive. Same goes for any back-up routine. Only as good as the most recent backup.

lun 23/11/2009 - 15:24