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tak
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Reinstalling -- Backup questions and stuffs
#9232628 - 11/12/08 06:22 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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My current install's have become a little too unorganized and what not. I am going to do a fresh install and was looking for a little help on some backup solutions.
I currently run OS X, and Windows XP -- Thinking of possibly moving to Vista this time around.
I have a 250GB drive, and (2) 500GB drives.
The drives are partitioned as follows:
250GB Boot Drive: 1: Acronis OS Selector 2: Mac OS X 10.5.4 3: Windows XP
500GB Storage: 1: Production 2: Media 3: Personal
The other 500GB drive is not currently hooked up. I am planning on using this drive as a backup device for both the 250GB and 500GB.
I plan on doing a fresh install on the 250gb for both OS, installing drivers, and applications that I will always need, and patches, etc.
This shouldn't take much of the 250GB and the 500GB drive is not even close to full, so I think number wise this should work.
I am just curious what the best solution for backing up all my data would be. I would like to keep the 250GB backup independent of the 500GB of course, as this image should not change at all. I would even consider using something like TimeVault on the 500GB so it only syncs the backup instead of creating a whole new backup each time.
Since I am dual booting, and running Acronis OS Selector on my primary boot partition, am I going to be able to do a 100% backup in 1 solution, or will a recovery not include data written to the MBR, and/or have trouble with the multiple partitions, etc.
Maybe it would benefit me to keep my images seperate so I can restore one OS, and not effect the other if it is still functioning well.
Just would like to keep this as simple and effective as possible.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I'm probably going to move forward using Acronis tools unless anyone has any other suggestions.
Thanks
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Re: Reinstalling -- Backup questions and stuffs [Re: tak]
#9233378 - 11/12/08 08:09 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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i would think you could split it into 2 partitions, and use something like acronis to make an exact copy or mirror or image or whatever they call it of your entire OS disk, then use the other partition to just backup data...is this what you are going for?
Or, you could split it into three, and make an image of each OS on its own partition, then use the extra for general file storage, this way you could use the correct file system for each os as well. I wouldn't worry about the MBR, its really small and easy to setup again if you needed to.
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tak
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Re: Reinstalling -- Backup questions and stuffs [Re: supra]
#9233527 - 11/12/08 08:31 PM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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It just sucks configuring it all ---
I have to boot into linux, and partition my drive
then install windows then install osx then boot linux and set windows partition as bootable again then install acronis os selector
then figure out what i did wrong and repeat those steps again till it works right
then like right now when i want to reinstall windows it fails after the first reboot onto the drive to finish install because of the modified mbr,
Once i get this working i dont want to ever fuck with it again =[
I might just run everything i need through VMware or parallels. seems to be much easier that way
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Re: Reinstalling -- Backup questions and stuffs [Re: tak]
#9235583 - 11/13/08 03:17 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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In the past, I used multiple disks, one to hold each OS. It was difficult finding a boot manager that could boot to multiple disks rather than multiple partitions on a single disk, but I doubt that is an issue anymore.
The nice part about the above system is that the OS install becomes trivial. Do windows like normal, remove the disk, add the boot manager to the next disk, along with the OSX, re-add the windows disk, configure the boot manager, done.
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Re: Reinstalling -- Backup questions and stuffs [Re: Seuss]
#9236153 - 11/13/08 08:53 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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Yeah man, that is what I am thinking.
Do they make a hardware selector of that sort? It would be cool if I could hit a button or turn a switch to choose between sata/power between two or more drives.
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Re: Reinstalling -- Backup questions and stuffs [Re: tak]
#9236191 - 11/13/08 09:03 AM (15 years, 4 months ago) |
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