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Get Norton Ghost for your Windows setup. It works and is a no-brainer. Once a month do a full image on both Windows and OSX systems. Save the images to anoth

Get Norton Ghost for your Windows setup. It works and is a no-brainer. Once a month do a full image on both Windows and OSX systems. Save the images to another backup drive and take that backup to a safety deposit box at your bank. If you want to be really paranoid, find a provider that offers fireproof storage for media. If you can't, go to your local storage facility and rent a small unit (maybe $30 to $75 per month, depending on where you live). Buy a fireproof safe and stick it in there. Once a month (or whatever) rotate drives through the safe. You can also avoid the storage unit rental expense and locate a fire-proof safe at a trusted friend's or family members home or garage. Be creative. In other words, creating a system that will virtually ensure the security of your data isn't hard or expensive --particularly when compared to the value of the data you are trying to protect.

drivebyacct2 14y ago
This is wildly inefficient and over kill for most people. Imaging my hard drives would require terabytes of storage when in reality my unrecoverable data is small enough to back up to Amazon for less than a dollar a month.
- robomartin 14y ago
  > This is wildly inefficient You need to have context before you say something like that. Just ONE of our engineering machines probably takes two or three weeks to setup from scratch due to the amount of software and configuration it requires. It has some 600GB of valuable data, without counting the OS and applications installed. So, in that context, taking the time to make multiple redundant disk images is invaluable and, yes, very efficient. If the system drive dies and no other hardware failure is present, you can be back up and running within an hour or two. That's worth money. > over kill for most people Absolutely true. Every situation is different.

drivebyacct2 14y ago

This is wildly inefficient and over kill for most people. Imaging my hard drives would require terabytes of storage when in reality my unrecoverable data is small enough to back up to Amazon for less than a dollar a month.

robomartin 14y ago
> This is wildly inefficient You need to have context before you say something like that. Just ONE of our engineering machines probably takes two or three weeks to setup from scratch due to the amount of software and configuration it requires. It has some 600GB of valuable data, without counting the OS and applications installed. So, in that context, taking the time to make multiple redundant disk images is invaluable and, yes, very efficient. If the system drive dies and no other hardware failure is present, you can be back up and running within an hour or two. That's worth money. > over kill for most people Absolutely true. Every situation is different.