Hi - I'd like to set up a fool-proof backup method, meaning that if I've got no one very 'computer literate' available, and we have a hard drive crash, do you have a suggested means of backup?
I'm thinking RAID 1, OR have a USB hard drive attached which is bootable, which is getting nightly copies of the SM database and Dazzle on it. The idea being that if the primary drive fails, one could simply enter the BIOS and reset the drive order.
I'm not sure how this works with RAID 1 - apparently windows 7 Pro had this as a feature (Windows 8, which has unfortunately appeared on my new computer, has something called 'drive spaces', which seems more of a Microsoft debacle ... OR, it seems possible to simply install Windows on the USB drive, and have backup software again wrote backup copies of SM and Dazzle DB's on it.
One other question - is there any issue of making a copy of SM's DB IF it happens to be making a duplicate at that time itself?
Cheers and Thanks,
Eric
I'm thinking RAID 1, OR have a USB hard drive attached which is bootable, which is getting nightly copies of the SM database and Dazzle on it. The idea being that if the primary drive fails, one could simply enter the BIOS and reset the drive order.
I'm not sure how this works with RAID 1 - apparently windows 7 Pro had this as a feature (Windows 8, which has unfortunately appeared on my new computer, has something called 'drive spaces', which seems more of a Microsoft debacle ... OR, it seems possible to simply install Windows on the USB drive, and have backup software again wrote backup copies of SM and Dazzle DB's on it.
One other question - is there any issue of making a copy of SM's DB IF it happens to be making a duplicate at that time itself?
Cheers and Thanks,
Eric