I just read the following article in PC Magazine about backup: pcworld/article/2065126/the-absurdly-simple-guide-to-backing-up-your-pc.html. Its a decent article although I think it misses the mark on the most important point. If you want to poor a liquid from one container to another, the biggest factor is the flow by which the liquid can be transferred from one container to another. In a similar way, when youre backing up your PC, the following three factors determine the flow: (1) the speed by which the information can be read from the current device, (2) the speed by which the information can be transferred to the other side, and (3) the speed by which the information can be written on the other side. People dont backup usually because a full backup takes too long. So, how does one overcome that? The answer is simple: Make the process as fast as possible. The fastest way to do a full backup is simply to use a second internal drive because thats the fastest pipe thats available on your PC (an array of internal drives laid out in a RAID is even faster, but thats more for businesses and such an array is obviously more expensive). Once you have a full backup, you can do incremental backups regularly via the various methods indicated in the article. And you can do regular full backups periodically, depending on your needs, to make sure that your incremental backups are short and sweet. Also, as Ive been saying over and over again, an image backup of your system drive is also crucial because such an image allows you to bypass any malware that the bad guys might have surreptitiously downloaded onto your computer, including, but not limited to, any zero-day exploit that leaves you totally vulnerable until your operating systems vendor or the application software vendor involved becomes aware of the security flaw in question and offers a security patch for it.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Nov 2013 15:34:51 +0000
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