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Main => Software Forum => Topic started by: processedmeat on October 29, 2013, 03:42:11 pm
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After getting all of the software e.g. Windows XP, Gameex frontend etc. on my mame cabinet all up and going, how do you guys backup the setup?
For my Windows 7 HTPC, I would backup the drive every time before I would make a change so that in case anything got screwed up I could reload the drive in its entirety.
I would appreciate any advice, thanks!
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I personally use a Bacula server/client setup for everything on my network.
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I use Acronis WD Edition (free) to make backup images.
As long as you have a Western Digital drive connected to the PC, it works.
I only back up the entire PC after making major changes.
I keep all emulation stuff in one folder (C:\Emulators).
I copy that folder to a smaller external drive more often, after smaller changes.
It's nice to be able to drop files from it onto my laptop to work out issues and test stuff.
I also keep an external drive of full romsets since I don't keep full romsets on the machines.
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I don't bother will all that crap. I buy a drive and clone it. Wrap it up in an anti-static bag and store it in my closet. Room temperature is best.
Drives are a cheap as chips. Why wait forever for a backup to a NAS when you can have a direct replacement?
The more you have (drives) the better.
Really, how much is a backup worth to you these days? $1000 or more for everything you have collected?
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Hell I don't even do that much.
I've yet to have a harddrive completely fail.... they always just start getting screwy and you have have to replace them. I've had failures over the years.... you buy a new drive, setup the old as slave, and recover the data. After all these years I've never lost a significant amount of data. I've still got projects for this site on my current pc... some date back to 99.