So all the catastrophic issues lately have me trying to figure out a cost effective way of backing all the machines up.

I've considered a raid card and dual mirrored drives...nope because if something happens it happens to both drives and I'm screwed no matter what.

So I'm thinking of a large (500gig) external firewire drive. Thoughts/issues?

Ideas of what to use for software? Local geek guy says he likes Norton backup/restore standalone edition. I don't like Norton since they've caused more problems on previous computers...

Would like at least once a week backup only for catastrophic stuff...don't really care about day to day stuff.

Backup all computers? Windows Home Server with 2 large 640GB WD Drives in RAID1 :bl: - Doing it, loving it, though I'm virtualizing it :bl:

Are you talking about data or the operating system as well.
Do your devices change on a daily basis or do you make a change say once a month?

Are you talking about backing up your Data or the entire image of the hard drive?

Symantec System Recovery is pretty slick for backing up an image of a PC/Server

I've been using it on my citrix boxes at work and loving it. If I make a change to the box that causes grief I can roll it back to an earlier dates image.....takes all of 3 minutes to do too.....

I don't think its that expensive either.....maybe $90

Scott,

Have you looked at the Drobo system at all? Pretty interesting alternative, and it has received lots of praise for being easy to use.

http://www.drobo.com/

-- Tom

Scott i have been using Genie backup for files and Shadowprotect for disc images.Even a fool like me can run these easy set up and you don't need a degree in geek.

IOMEGA - terabyte NAS backup system

Are you talking about backing up your Data or the entire image of the hard drive?

Symantec System Recovery is pretty slick for backing up an image of a PC/Server

I've been using it on my citrix boxes at work and loving it. If I make a change to the box that causes grief I can roll it back to an earlier dates image.....takes all of 3 minutes to do too.....

I don't think its that expensive either.....maybe $90

And this, this is pretty slick