Macrium Reflect Free Imaging Software

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June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment

Here’s another free disk imaging software alternative.  Macrium Reflect is a slick Windows application to create backup images for your XP or Vista machine.  Now, this runs in Windows so the user interface is nice and easy to use.  And it also includes scheduled backups to local, network, or optical drives.

The Ultimate Boot CD for Windows

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May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment

From time to time I have need to work with some clients remotely on some data issues. I won’t go into it, but we simply couldn’t boot one client’s machine. So, I headed over to the Ultimate Boot CD for Windows to test drive it. Now, mind you, I had never used […]

Recovering Laptop Hard Drive Data

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February 5, 2008 | 2 Comments

There are many ways to get data off of a non bootable drive.  One such technique is to utilize Live CD’s that run an operating system independent of the hard drive.  That way you can grab what you need from it and push it over to a network drive.  But, in my mind, an even […]

Iomega Never Down Ships with eSata Drives

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December 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Nestled into the behemoth drive package details is a nice, new feature.  Today, Iomega announced that it will start shipping what it calls “Never Down.”

Software RAID Versus Hardware RAID

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December 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Here is the typical scenario.  A small business is looking to provide itself with a bit of redundancy on its server.  Unlike a bigger business, the small business doesn’t have a ton of extra cash laying around.  And so, they are trying to figure out if they should go with either a software RAID arrangement […]

Seagate Drive Kills Macbook Data

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November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Retrodata data recovery firm is reporting a critical manufacturing defect in some revisions of Seagate drives that shipped with Macbooks.  The faulty drives were manufactured in China and contain firmware revision 7.01.  You can find the revision under System Profiler > Serial-ATA.  Apple has been contacted and is investigating the issue.  I bet we are […]

Free Mac Backup

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October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I have numerous friends who are Mac addicts (sorry, couldn’t resist the pic!). Yep, they’ve gulped down the Apple juice. But one consistent feature of most computer users is that they do not backup their data. There’s no shame in it - just pain. Think about the pain of losing all […]

Linbox Rescue Server

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October 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Linbox Rescue Server is a really neat linux application that could save your tail.  This package is similar to another product that I posted about on my PaulTech called SpiceWorks.  SpiceWorks is a Windows based product while Linbox only runs on linux.  Linbox can monitor your various assets on the network, perform full system […]

Amanda Backup Utility

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September 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment

According to the site, Amanda is:
the world’s most popular Open Source Backup and Archiving software. Amanda allows System Administrators to set up a single backup server to back up multiple hosts to a tape- or disk-based storage system. Amanda uses native dump and/or GNU tar facilities and can back up a large number of workstations […]