Well my rear was saved this morning and I want to tell you all about the product that saved my A$$.
Background:
In 2002 we moved from Hawaii to Oregon and our house got robbed right when we moved here. Being in the "digital" age we use the computer for everything. Quickbooks, school papers, work, and digital pictures. The jerks that robbed us stole our computers and all our cd's. Why? Who knows but we lost everything. All the pictures of the kids as baby's and pics from vacations, all the electronics can and were replaced but the memories that those jerks stole are irreplaceable. That is when I became a archive Nazi!
I started with Ghost and that worked fine but took a long time to archive. Working in the medical industry we started using Disk Jockey a while back. Again this tool worked well but was a bit time consuming. About 4 months ago we discovered Acronis and this is the bomb.
http://www.acronis.com
Using a SATA/IDE to USB adapter and connecting the drive to your PC you can backup your entire PC via Acronis True Image in minutes rather than hours and recover in minutes too (Took about 22min for 71gb). Now I use a couple external drives for archiving and with Acronis it is soooo easy.
So last night I was at the airport and while I was waiting decided to work on a research paper for school. Booted up the computer and *blue screen of death* appears. Now I've been traveling for a week and doing my school work in hotels, all my research is on my PC from the last couple of months, plus all my software to do my job. Luckily I backed it up before I left and archived my draft paper via the internet. Got home late last night, woke up this AM and connected my laptop drive to my home PC, ran Acronis, recovered my last backup and everything is working fine!
If you archive, or are looking for a product to start backing up I highly recommend Acronis, it's easy, fast, at a reasonable price.
Acronis: $49.99
SATA/IDE to USB Cable: $35.00
Seagate Free Agent External Drive USB 80GB: $100.00
Piece of Mind: Priceless
Background:
In 2002 we moved from Hawaii to Oregon and our house got robbed right when we moved here. Being in the "digital" age we use the computer for everything. Quickbooks, school papers, work, and digital pictures. The jerks that robbed us stole our computers and all our cd's. Why? Who knows but we lost everything. All the pictures of the kids as baby's and pics from vacations, all the electronics can and were replaced but the memories that those jerks stole are irreplaceable. That is when I became a archive Nazi!
I started with Ghost and that worked fine but took a long time to archive. Working in the medical industry we started using Disk Jockey a while back. Again this tool worked well but was a bit time consuming. About 4 months ago we discovered Acronis and this is the bomb.
http://www.acronis.com
Using a SATA/IDE to USB adapter and connecting the drive to your PC you can backup your entire PC via Acronis True Image in minutes rather than hours and recover in minutes too (Took about 22min for 71gb). Now I use a couple external drives for archiving and with Acronis it is soooo easy.
So last night I was at the airport and while I was waiting decided to work on a research paper for school. Booted up the computer and *blue screen of death* appears. Now I've been traveling for a week and doing my school work in hotels, all my research is on my PC from the last couple of months, plus all my software to do my job. Luckily I backed it up before I left and archived my draft paper via the internet. Got home late last night, woke up this AM and connected my laptop drive to my home PC, ran Acronis, recovered my last backup and everything is working fine!
If you archive, or are looking for a product to start backing up I highly recommend Acronis, it's easy, fast, at a reasonable price.
Acronis: $49.99
SATA/IDE to USB Cable: $35.00
Seagate Free Agent External Drive USB 80GB: $100.00
Piece of Mind: Priceless