Seperate partiton for Outlook
I currently have (2) 320GB drives in a raid 1 array, (Partition C: for my OS (xp pro) and programs and Partition D: for data. My third and forth drive are set up in a raid 1 partitioned as above and used solely for back up storage. I use Acronis and Genie back up manager Pro.
I’m about six months into my new system and it has a few quirks (a lot of hang Apps and slow initial start of windows). The system seems fairly stable now but I have done a lot of add/remove programs over time. (Programs and utilities that didn’t like each other) I have a "Basic Image of Partition C" that I restore when things get sluggish, and it work well except for outlook. After I restore my C: partition with acronis I update and patch than go to my outlook backup which is done daily using Genie back up manger and bring the outlook image current. When I open outlook all my folders, email accounts are duplicated (1 old image folder and 1 new up to date folder from Genie restore) instead of just updating the original folder. (Any advice on this would be appreciated)
I'm about to upgrade to office 2007 and I was going do a XP clean install and build a new "Basic image" of all the programs I like and use now. To ease in future restores I was thinking of the following:
Partition C: OS / programs
Partition D: data
Partition E: Outlook
This way I can restore OS/programs when they get quirky and leave Data and outlook alone. Will I have to install all of office 2007 on E: or can I separate just outlook? Are there cons to having things spread out on different partitions? Or is there a better solution all together?
Thanks in advance for all your Expert advice.
RWG
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.67GHz / 4MB Cache / 1066MHz FSB / Dual-Core
OCZ EL Dual Channel 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Gold Memory (2 x 1024MB)
Intel D975XBXLKR Intel Socket 775 ATX Motherboard / Audio / PCI Express / Gigabit LAN / S/PDIF / USB 2.0 & Firewire / Serial ATA / RAID
(4) Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB Serial ATA
ATI X1900 XTX 512MB
Sound Blaster X-FI
XP Pro
I’m about six months into my new system and it has a few quirks (a lot of hang Apps and slow initial start of windows). The system seems fairly stable now but I have done a lot of add/remove programs over time. (Programs and utilities that didn’t like each other) I have a "Basic Image of Partition C" that I restore when things get sluggish, and it work well except for outlook. After I restore my C: partition with acronis I update and patch than go to my outlook backup which is done daily using Genie back up manger and bring the outlook image current. When I open outlook all my folders, email accounts are duplicated (1 old image folder and 1 new up to date folder from Genie restore) instead of just updating the original folder. (Any advice on this would be appreciated)
I'm about to upgrade to office 2007 and I was going do a XP clean install and build a new "Basic image" of all the programs I like and use now. To ease in future restores I was thinking of the following:
Partition C: OS / programs
Partition D: data
Partition E: Outlook
This way I can restore OS/programs when they get quirky and leave Data and outlook alone. Will I have to install all of office 2007 on E: or can I separate just outlook? Are there cons to having things spread out on different partitions? Or is there a better solution all together?
Thanks in advance for all your Expert advice.
RWG
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.67GHz / 4MB Cache / 1066MHz FSB / Dual-Core
OCZ EL Dual Channel 2048MB PC5400 DDR2 667MHz Gold Memory (2 x 1024MB)
Intel D975XBXLKR Intel Socket 775 ATX Motherboard / Audio / PCI Express / Gigabit LAN / S/PDIF / USB 2.0 & Firewire / Serial ATA / RAID
(4) Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3320620AS 320GB Serial ATA
ATI X1900 XTX 512MB
Sound Blaster X-FI
XP Pro
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Unfortunately - I think that you are doing this the best thing you can for your system.
Perhaps you need to invest in a NAS box - and automate the backup procedure a bit - but other tjan that - using a raid system with retail software is not ideal...
Perhaps you need to invest in a NAS box - and automate the backup procedure a bit - but other tjan that - using a raid system with retail software is not ideal...
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On a side note I have acronis set up to do differential backups of my O/S weekly. They tend to always run about 13G even though I don't think I change that much weekly. (O/S drive is 22g used) When space gets low I delete all the backups between the image base and last differential. Is this smart or safe because it always makes me nervous?? My other thought was to just set up a full image backup to overwrite the old each time but I fear I might be left with a bad image if its schedule back up take place before I realize a problem. Do you have a better backup protocol I should use? You advice on this would be a great help.
Thanks again,
RWG