Backups Galore

By James Gaskin, NetworkWorld.com, 08/03/06

After my tales of PC woe, the fact a new SonicWall CDP (Continuous Data Protection) appliance was sitting in my office, still in the box, just adds an extra twist of the data loss knife. But I'm unboxing the 3440i tonight and plugging it in.

This is a revamping of an earlier Lasso Logic CDP device. SonicWall bought Lasso Logic last year to add to their product list and cover all the important parts of "data security" including backup. I also believe backup belongs in the critical list of security functions. After all, if a file is gone, it matters little if you were hacked or just lost the file by more boring means: you no longer have the file.

Reader Wayne says he backs up his computer two ways: data (traditional) and drive image (less traditional but effective). If he loses a file, he goes to the data backup. If he loses a hard drive or disk partition, the drive image recovers everything. Making a drive image takes extra time and trouble, but I'm trying the new Acronis True Image version 9.0 as well.

More backup stories are welcome. Those with stirring tales of data heroics should send them along for us all to appreciate.

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