NeutralAxis

Earlier this month I described how to make an image of a drive in a new computer using Clonezilla.  Today, I reversed the process and restored that image onto a new drive.  This thing looks so dangerous, it might eat children. (continue reading…)

Awhile back, I bought two Western Digital Mybook World Edition 1TB network drives.  The first lasted just over a year before it died.  The second one went today, taking down my office backup.  There’s a redundant backup, so I wasn’t really hurt by the failure but at least this time I was able to use some linux knowledge to recover all the data on it. (continue reading…)

After any new computer purchase, I always use whatever means is offered to make restoration discs since none of the manufacturer’s include them anymore.  But restoration discs actually aren’t enough to get you back to square one in all circumstances, such as if you have to replace a hard drive.  That’s where an actual drive image comes in handy.  Norton Ghost is a common commercial program that can do this.  If you don’t want to spend the money, give Clonezilla a try.  Unfortunately, its not particularly user friendly. (continue reading…)

I’ve used Carbonite for a few years ever since having to cross my fingers that some data could be recovered from a crashed hard drive.  The weakness in their system has always been that backed up files could only be accessed from the computer they originated from.  No longer.

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