On 2015-02-02 6:16 PM, Rick wrote:
> In article , x@y.Invalid
> says...
>>
>> Some years ago - when I had a teenager banging on my PC a couple hours
>> every day - I went adopted a policy of never saving data to the System
>> drive.   Always partitioned the internal drive to C: (System) and D:
>> (Data).
>>
>> I soon discovered that, even in my determination, I was managing to save
>> data to the System drive - not much, but enough....
>>
>> So I added one more twist: before re-imaging, I take a temporary image
>> via a utility that allows browsing the image later (I use ShadowProtect,
>> but there are others - some free).   Then, if I remember to take the
>> temp image before restoring from the "Good" image, I'm covered against
>> my own foulups.   Of course, sometimes I forget to take the temp
>> image....-).    There's a place for a written procedure with checkboxes
>> here....
>>
>> For data backup, I do incrementals to a 1-TB drive that I rotate out at
>> the beginning of each month.  Six drives...    Not my favorite scheme,
>> but the backup utility I've gone over to (Macrium Reflect) needs to have
>> the Full backup and all incrementals on one drive.
>>
>> My preferred backup scheme was a file copy utility called SecondCopy
>> which let me swap out drives at will; but it got weird under Windows 7
>> and I gave up on it.
>
>
>   I don't claim to be one of "Those who know" but I'll toss in my 2 cents
> worth. I have a Surface Pro, a laptop, my main workstation and a 3TB NAS
> (6TB total set up in a RAID 1 config) on a home network behind a Zywall
> firewall device. I do a monthly full disk image of the 3 computers to
> the NAS using Acronis True Image. I keep the last three months worth of
> those images at all times. I also do a daily data file backup to the NAS
> using Karen's Replicator. I set up several "Jobs" in Replicator that
> create mirror copies of several folders such as my Desktop, Docs and
> Pics folders, etc. on the NAS. Then once every 3 months or so I copy the
> NAS contents to a portable HD which I normally keep off premises.
>
>   Each of the computers is running NOD32 as a resident AV program. The
> laptop also runs a paid version of MBAM as a 2nd opinion scanner while
> my workstation runs a paid version of SAS as a second opinion scanner.

Very reasonable level of paranoia IMO. ;-)

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