The Fantastic 4 GL - Transcript - Hour 2, Segment 10

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David Lawrence: Yeah, no alright, okay. Let me, there is a guide that I put out a couple of years ago that is still selling like hotcake it's called 10 Quick Steps to a perfect backup. And it goes to sort of and this is really important to understand the philosophy, my philosophy of what a backup is for and the right way to do it. A backup is to plan for that worst possible moment, not to give yourself a false sense of security but to plan for that worst possible moment when you get a blue screen of death or nothing or you can*t get at the data and there is a bunch of gibberish on your screen. It is for that moment when your hard drive fails to get you back up and running with the least amount of effort and the least amount of time okay.

Rodney: Alright.

David Lawrence: If you decide to walk down the path of hey I know what*s important and I know what*s not important. And I don*t want to backup all my stuff. Then you my friend are in for a world of hurt.

Rodney: Well no that's not what I mean, what I mean like--

David Lawrence: Hold on, hold on, hold on. Rodney I am not just talking to you, I am talking to everybody.

Rodney: Okay.

David Lawrence: So it leads to the answer to your question. When you backup everything on your hard drive to an external drive using software designed to backup everything, you can then in the time of trouble get a new hard drive, get a new computer and pretty much instantly within an hour or so stream all the data back on the new drive or on to the new computer and bang you are up and running all over again right where you left off or atleast the last time you backed up. If you use Microsoft Backup that program runs at the same time that other programs are running on your machine. And it does not backup in intelligent manner okay. It backs up only the files that it can get at. #1 it doesn*t back up hidden files. It doesn*t back up files with applications that are running. It doesn*t backup files that may be accessed and are being reserved for use by hidden processes or background processes. There is a whole bunch of stuff that it misses that*s #1. #2 it does not put data onto an external drive or any other drive in such a manner that it checks to make sure the data was written properly or that it could be easily streamed back on to a new drive in an image format. So that when there is an error all you have to do is instead of hitting backup you hit the opposite button which is restore and it streams all that data back on. So what it is really good at is making people think they are secure and people are often in for a vicious surprise. So what I recommend is that you use a piece of software like Retrospect which knows exactly how to take all the data on your hard drive no matter whether it*s been used or not. All the data on the hard drive and accurately back it up to an external device and on a daily basis take snapshots of any new data that*s been backed up and back that up as well. And here*s why that*s important. Suppose your drive starts to degrade, there starts to be little tiny errors here and there and that affects the backup of that data because a lot of people will say I will just Ghost to my drive or something like Norton Ghost and I will copy my whole drive using Ghost. Well if you start to do that, you have got to replace the old version because it*s you know your hard drive is pretty big. What if you start backing up bad data. Then when you go to restore you have, you are right where you started and you are going to crash again. So what this does is it allows you to check a snapshot from the very data there were errors that had begun. Now the Maxtor external hard drive the OneTouch external hard drive comes with a copy of Retrospect on it absolutely free and--.

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