What are the pros and cons for placing image on external hard disk?

[Guest lisen]

I use acronis to backup and recover the system and partitions, but sometimes

I found that the image has been corrupted in one of the partitions.

Now I placed the images on one external hard disk which is IDE but attached

in the USB box. Acronis told me that I could not

recover these images unless I use the rescue bootable media.

 

What are the pros and cons for placing images of backup on dynamic hard

disk?

[Guest S. Pidgorny]

In your situation the plus is - portability (you can detach the

USB-connected disk and put it away), and the minus is that you'll have

additional complexity in recovery process.

 

My suggestion is this: test your recovery scenario. Declare your system dead

and see what it takes to use those images to recover. Then test the other

setup. You'll be much better positioned to make a call on the proper setup

then.

 

--

Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP - Security, MCSE

-= F1 is the key =-

 

http://sl.mvps.org http://msmvps.com/blogs/sp

 

"lisen" <null> wrote in message

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>I use acronis to backup and recover the system and partitions, but

>sometimes

> I found that the image has been corrupted in one of the partitions.

> Now I placed the images on one external hard disk which is IDE but

> attached in the USB box. Acronis told me that I could not

> recover these images unless I use the rescue bootable media.

>

> What are the pros and cons for placing images of backup on dynamic hard

> disk?

>

>

> </span>