Posted by Trevor on 11/04/48 11:42

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:51:01 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
<spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote:

>On 3/15/2006, Ken Moiarty managed to type:
><SNIP>
>
>> Hard drives are vulnerable to erasure by magnets. They are therefore not an
>> ideally secure back up medium.
>
>My advice: don't take the hard drive with you when you go in for that
>MRI or on your visit to a cyclotron.
>
>Seriously: an external hard drive coupled with a robust drive imaging
>program such as Acronis True Image is an excellent option. Furthermore,
>you are truly unlikely to carry your hard drive near a field strong
>enough to erase it.

My thoughts exactly. In fact, I'll even go so far as to say Acronis is
"better" (in my opinion) than Ghost, having used both. It has a very
small memory footprint, is fast and easy to use, and has been rock
solid for me going on 2 years now. I used to use Ghost.

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