[Ham-Computers] RE: How to back up a HD

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

Great galactic gas attacks! That thing on my hard drive called "ghosts" is 
not a haunted apparition that the manufacturer put them to terrify customers 
who might think of doing something naughty, like install borrowed software? 
I feel better already! I was plotting my plan of attack for October 31st, 
Halloween, and also the day the greatest Escapologist, that means Escape 
Artist for the non-Legerdemain minded among us, Harry Houdini, AKA Enrich 
Weiss of Appleton, Wisconsin, died in Detroit, MI in 1926 at age fifty-two 
after being sucker punched in the abdomen by a Cub reporter in Toronto, 
Ontario, Canada in his motel room. Harry had an infected appendix, it 
ruptured and he died about two weeks later. Antibiotics did not exist in 
1926, otherwise he might have lived.

I had the same thing happen to me in March 1987, Friday the 13Th! My 
appendix ruptured because a surgeon pushed so hard on it feeling around that 
he caused it to burst. What he did was excessive and bad medicine. I nearly 
died. Fifteen days with nothing to eat.

The interesting part: that doctor who was so horrible and cruel, did not 
make it to the hospital the following morning for my surgery. In fact, he 
did not make it there at all! He was replaced by a different surgeon. 
Sometimes, just sometimes, 'Life' has a way of leveling the playing field 
without our help.

Thank you Aaron for turning my 'Ghost' into a harmless spook in a bleached 
bedsheet with evaporated milk and Ghoast Toasties on his breath!
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)" <aaron.hsu at nbcuni.com>
To: "I>Ham-Computers" <Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:03 PM
Subject: [Ham-Computers] RE: How to back up a HD


> Two ways to do this, but both require some capital expenditures...
>
> 1.  Via software - use a program like GHOST.  You'll need to boot to a
> DOS prompt (via floppy, bootable CD, USB Flash, etc) to run the backup,
> but it gives you a file-exact copy of the original drive including the
> boot sector.  It's not an exact sector-by-sector copy (which would take
> *MUCH* longer), but some apps give you the option to do it, if you wish.
>
> 2.  Via hardware - buy a RAID controller and let it mirror the drives.
> Check your motherboard's manual - it might already support RAID.  If so,
> enable it and run a "rebuild" on the 2nd drive against the primary
> drive.  Same is true if you get a RAID card.  The advantage of the RAID
> setup is simplicity...everything is automatically backed-up on the fly.
> Put each drive on a seperate IDE channel for best performance.  There is
> a possibility of a slight performance hit as the controller needs to
> write to both drives.
>
> Both options will cost about $30-$50 for the least expensive "stuff".
> If you're getting an inexpensive RAID controller, I would recommend
> something based on the Silicon Image 311x chipset vs the ITE 8212
> chipset (slightly better support).  For software, I use GHOST, but other
> apps are just as good for this purpose.
>
> 73,
>
>  - Aaron Hsu, NN6O
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Isbell,
> W5JAI
> Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2006 5:50 PM
> To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] How to back up a HD
>
>
> I am running XP and have a pair of 80GB HDs on it.  I want to make a
> copy of C: to D: so that D: is then a bootable HD and it could then be
> swaped for C: and would work exactly the same.
>
> Since XP doesnt even have a "real" DOS mode, I am lost as to how to do
> this.
>
> Can anybody help????
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