Re: recommendation for mirroring software
- From: "HEMI-Powered" <none@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:35:31 GMT
=?Utf-8?B?TWFyYw==?= added these comments in the current
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Thanks much for the response. While I take your greater
expertise and experience without question, my own situation is
that in that last two years, I have fought no less than two
h/d failures on two older laptops and now a Dell desktop that
was only 16 mos old -- at my two homes. I have had to
re-install due to a corrupt system in the long past, but not
nearly so often as h/d malfunction: h/d's are cheap, my time
is not. My data b/u's and reinstalls are easy, system s/w is
not (for me). If I were to accept the risk you cite, I would
still appreciate s/w utility recommendations from you or
others that aim at keeping a fully updated/patched OS and
system s/w in "hot" standby.
Do you mean "mirror" literally, as in be able to create multiple
new PC loads from a pre-determined build set, or do you mean
"image" meaning to copy the entire partition so that you can do a
faster restore in event of a HD failure or some other problem?
I've never done a mirror but prior to retiring, our IT staff
would create what they called "slams" which worked fine for the
basic load because all PCs of a given order were identical. For
imaging, I evanluated both Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image
and chose the latter. Thankfully so far I've not had to actually
recover my HD but I did test that at least TI 9.0 could find it
on my external HD
"Shenan Stanley" wrote:
Marc wrote:
Hello: Would like to implement a complete mirror h/d for
my Win XP SP2 machine so that all system software (eg Win
update) and hardware driver u/d, etc are automagically
reflected into a secondary disk that is immediately
bootable, fully updated assuming a complete crash of the
primary boot disk. Am not a techie so ease of use would be
an asset. Question: any recommendations for EZ s/w that
performs this?
I recommend against a mirror situation. The majority of
problems that are ran into are *not* hardware ones - but
software. In the case of a mirror RAID - you are just
duplicating the problem as it occurs *unless* it is that
small chance it is a hardware failure.
Not only that - I would recommend avoiding any software
solutions to RAID. In most cases there is a performance hit
(however small it might be) as the software has to process
and implement the replication/RAID functionality - using up
your processor time/memory/other resources to do so instead
of an inexpensive RAID hardware card doing the work for you.
Overall - I would recommend a good backup plan above (or
supplementing) a RAID setup.
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