What mirrioing/backup software are you using with X1?

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2011/03/27 10:34:56 (permalink)

What mirrioing/backup software are you using with X1?

Hi,
 
With all the problems with X1 I was just curious what everyone is using as backup/mirroring software?
 
For my system disk, I use an older mirroring product called Drive Image by Power Quest mainly because I am still on XP. This program has been a lifesaver a number of times - I can restore my C drive in about 15 minutes and it has been very reliable. I also like Power Quest because the restores are done from a non-windows environment (backups are created in Windows). This way, if your system non bootable, you can still do a restore.
 
For my data drives, I use a freeware product called SyncBack by 2BrightSparks which allows me to do sequential backups. Again, it has been very reliable.
 
The newer products I am aware of are Acronist True Image, Norton Ghost, and O&O Disk Image.
 
Is anyone using anything special for the newer solid state drives?
 
Thanks for the feedback
 
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    Re:What mirrioing/backup software are you using with X1? 2011/03/27 11:10:43 (permalink)
    Not sure what you mean by mirroring. True mirroring uses simultaneous writes, so it's not a good recovery method, as both drives have the same data always.

    If you mean disk image software, like Ghost, etc., I find Acronis to be very friendly and reliable. I don't use disk image software much, as total system crashes are relatively rare. I'm more out to protect against "pilot error" in deleting content and project files. I use JungleDisk and Amazon's S3 storage to dump data files up to the cloud.  If the Sonar app. ever gets borked, I'd try a windows system restore, but reinstalling the app. would probably be in my near future.

    It's the data files that I'm most interested in protecting. Good topic, I wonder what others use.                    
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    Re:What mirrioing/backup software are you using with X1? 2011/03/27 11:14:38 (permalink)
    Acronis True Image here. I only image my DAW once a week now mainly as it's music only and I only ever get a couple of days work in at most. I take separate images for system and another for data.

    It is a take away though, you never know.

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    Re:What mirrioing/backup software are you using with X1? 2011/03/27 11:14:53 (permalink)
    I use Acronis True Image. Works great.

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    Re:What mirrioing/backup software are you using with X1? 2011/03/27 11:38:29 (permalink)
    I also use Acronis True Image.


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    Re:What mirrioing/backup software are you using with X1? 2011/03/27 11:49:03 (permalink)
    Acronis True image here also

     
     
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