Re: Creating a Recovery Partition

houghi wrote:
ian lincoln wrote:

It amazes me that people still use external devices for backup. The
chances of anything going wrong with an external one are larger then
with an internal one.

easier installation. can move between my 3 machines.


Yes, I have heard all the explanations of why an external device might
be better and it all sounds copy and paste from people who sell them

Just plug in a second hard drive and use something like StoreBackup to
do your backups automaticaly.

bloody hell! almost useful advice!


An external device is ideal to move something from one place to another
place. Because you know what will happen when your HD burns dows? Your
backups won't be there, because the cat touched the cable and
disconnected it? Oh, you do manual backups? Well, you forgot to do so
the last three weeks, and now do not have that importand file you need.

i do that cos i'm a newbie. Which is why i'm here asking about doing it properly. tsk for god sake think before you open your huge great gob!

If you need something external for whatever reason (most likely your
urge to please the manufacturor of said product) buy a networked one
that is NOT directly connected to your computer, but sits in a different
part of the house, connected to a seperate part of the power in your
house, with powersurges between the PC and the device.

That way when lightening hits, at least one device will survive. If all
that is too costly, then you do not need an external drive. In all the
other cases, the chances are hight you also do not need an external HD
for backups.

wot a load of sarcastic juvenile dross!


I do understand that people ave bought them and are now not very willing
to admid that they bought something they should have, so people generaly
will start to find excuses as to why it was a good buy.

Well, I have had several of these things and although oit looked cool,
they were all useless in the end.


bit like you then.

houghi
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