What if\u00a0your Ghost backup fails? \u00a0Of course the external drive could fail mechanically. \u00a0But another possible weakness in a nightly snapshot of your system is that it doesn’t protect against a gradual corruption of your system by say adware or spyware. If you find your system is messed up and you want to restore it to a clean state you would not want to restore yesterday’s snapshot (of this corrupted configuration).<\/p>\n
If you were careful enough to create and save a snapshot of your system that you know is clean (from say 6 weeks ago), you could quickly restore the clean configuration of 6 weeks ago and then just recover from your nightly backup any data that has recently changed.<\/p>\n
Another option is to buy two external drives as your backup devices. You can take a snapshot of your clean configuration onto drive “A” and stick it on the shelf (or in a safe deposit box), and then you use a second drive “B” for your nightly backup.\u00a0 But it is also more pricey since you have to buy double the hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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