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Old December 18th 05, 04:05 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
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Default Recovery from 3rd Party Backup Software

yogi wrote:
I think what you are talking about here is an external usb hard
drive. Let me know if i'm wrong here. If it is it should
automatically be detected by windows as a hard drive which it can
boot from. To address the case of an image backup and to have the
shortest downtime i would prefer to use the xp's internal mirroring
capability.

yogi


Mirroring is not a viable backup method. Many of the things that may damage
one hard drive will also damage the other drive. There are many reasons not
to use software mirroring. If one drive quits you will not be able to boot
from the other drive. In any case the point is moot. Software mirroring is
not supported by any version of Windows XP. It is only supported with Server
2000 & 2003. Hardware mirroring is possible with many newer motherboards.
Again this is not designed as a backup method. It is designed for servers to
keep a system up and running until downtime can be scheduled to replace a
defective drive.

Kerry


"Sen" wrote:

I am thinking of getting either Ghost or Acronis True Image backup
software to image my C: drive to reduce down time if my hard disk
crashes. I have been told that I need to re-install my external
backup drive as an internal primary drive to get my computer to
recover. In such an emergency, can't I restart the system from just
the external backup drive for the shortest down time? Appreciate
your advice.




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