need your help on finding backup solutions!!!

[agentq232]

ok well, my dad's comp went down last night, and he spent about 6 hours and tech support and ended up reformatting. HE IS PISSED at dell because the thing is only 4 months old. He need to find a way to backup his whole harddrive frequently. What is the best solution for him? i think setting up a raid mirroring system is out of the question at this point but what is a good backup solution that he can use if his computer gets messed up again?

[mikemean]

I say burn the important stuff onto a cd. Or use Norton Ghost which will backup EVERYTHING on the entire hard drive but that would take a lot of cd's or cd-rw's but that is better than losing everything.

[agentq232]

that seems pretty tedious but ill keep it in mind. Could he hook up a big 30 gig hdd up to the comp he has and use ghost to back up onto that hd? I would supervise the backup process and only have the backup hd plugged into his computer when we were backing up

[mikemean]

Originally posted by agentq232:
that seems pretty tedious but ill keep it in mind. Could he hook up a big 30 gig hdd up to the comp he has and use ghost to back up onto that hd? I would supervise the backup process and only have the backup hd plugged into his computer when we were backing up

YES YES YES backing up to another hard drive is a lot faster than cd's. I say hook up that other drive and use Ghost. That would be the best thing to do. Make sure when using ghost that you tell it to use compression.

[nightowl]

why don't you partition your HD, make a 3 gig partition (c:\) for your OS then a d: partitions for your programs and a e: for backup....that way when your OS goes down all you have to do is format the c: partition and you won't lose any data from your d or e partitions

[Hypnotik]

I would get a mobile rack. Great way of transfering or backing up data