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mytymaus007:
I would like to here how everyone is backing up there Arcade cabinets? Are you doing a windows back up and restore? Are you just Copying files over to an additional hard drive the same size? Well I have a 4TB hard drive running over 50 emulators with Hypersin FE just about MAXed out. I didnot do any sort of back up yet. If I just copy files over to another 4TB hard drive ill be able to save all my artwork and games but what about all my settings plus the expense of another 4TB HD. If I do a windows 7 back up it should compress all files on the HD to another smaller HD. I did a test with another PC i have. Windows 7 backup compressed 60GB of data to 10GB Wow. IM thinking of purchasing a 2TB HD and backing up 4TB of data with a windows 7 backup. I think this should work and also should restore it back to exactly the state before the crash if the systems crashes. Let me know if anyone has ever done this before

BobA:
I would use a backup program that creates an exact image of your hard drive.  This would save all settings and all work you have put into getting the emulators to function properly.   You can create an exact image on a larger hard drive and the extra space will be added to the drive as useable disk space.

mytymaus007:

--- Quote from: BobA on September 09, 2012, 10:38:15 am ---I would use a backup program that creates an exact image of your hard drive.  This would save all settings and all work you have put into getting the emulators to function properly.   You can create an exact image on a larger hard drive and the extra space will be added to the drive as useable disk space.

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Any suggestions on what backup program and have you ever restore it to a new PC other then the one you backed it up on.

cigardude:
Second on using a program that makes an exact image. I personally use Acronis at home to backup my system drives. My data drives get backed up using RoboCopy. With Acronis you can restore to a bigger drive in the same system. There is also a universal restore option that you can purchase and it should restore the image to a totally different system. If you have some IT knowledge, it would come in handy restoring to totally different hardware because drivers are going to be needed. Doesn't always work that great.



Thenasty:
+100 on Acronis. You can check out Symantec Ghost also.

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