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Customer onsite backup before recovery

Mar 2, 2011 1:07AM PST

I'm about to start a small business of onsite computer repair. One of my greatest concerns is carrying a portable HDD for performing backups that may possibly fail before the data can be put back on the customers computer. I've gotten liability insurance planned but I'd rather not have to deal with that situation.

Can anyone provide good hardware and/or software solution? I was looking for something external with dual HDD's for doing a mirror across both.

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External raid enclosures
Mar 2, 2011 3:05AM PST

I have found the following devices. Is there anything better for a comparable price? Drobo is a little spendy for me right now.

Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition 2TB USB 2.0 Black External Hard Drive WDH2U20000N

LaCie 2big Quadra 2TB USB 2.0 / IEEE 1394a / 1394b / eSATA External Hard Drive 301352U

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What I use now!
Mar 2, 2011 7:48AM PST

CLONEZILLA (see google)

The only problem is that you need to give it hours to clone the drive. I find most folk in a big hurry so THERE IS A SOLUTION!

Don't backup the drive. REPLACE IT. Hard drives are CHEAP compared to data loss and even ONE HOUR of backup!

Think about it.
Bob