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I'm thinking a monthly block by block ghost image with a weekly backup of our production folder to take offsite will suffice. Thanks for the quick reply. &nbsp;
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I'm thinking a monthly block by block ghost image with a weekly backup of our production folder to take offsite will suffice. Thanks for the quick reply.  

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I'd like to ask for some advice on my current situation. I have 2 pc's setup on a workgroup that communicate with each other and are not linked to our main server/domian. What I would like to do is backup an image of each pc's hard drive once a week to a 1 TB external hard drive. I want to be able to keep a backup hard drive for each pc that if anything goes wrong I can swap the HD (worst case scenario) and shoot the image with little or no production lost. Is this possible and will the 1TB drive be large enough to save both images?<br />
Can I have the ghost image also record everything (saved files and software). Any comments will be helpful. Thanks
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I'd like to ask for some advice on my current situation. I have 2 pc's setup on a workgroup that communicate with each other and are not linked to our main server/domian. What I would like to do is backup an image of each pc's hard drive once a week to a 1 TB external hard drive. I want to be able to keep a backup hard drive for each pc that if anything goes wrong I can swap the HD (worst case scenario) and shoot the image with little or no production lost. Is this possible and will the 1TB drive be large enough to save both images?
Can I have the ghost image also record everything (saved files and software). Any comments will be helpful. Thanks

Backing up Ghost Image on an External hard drive

Disaster Recovery is the planning for and creation of policies and procedures related to the resumption or continuation of an organization's functions following a catastrophic event. The term is most frequently used in relation to failure of networks, but DR preparations also include other business systems and personnel considerations.

Disaster Recovery

The term "Backup" means the methods and processes involved to copy computer data (system data as well as application data) to media other than the ones where the data originally live (disk, tape, optical, cloud). "Restore" in turn means the methods and processes involved in data recovery, i. e., bringing back copied computer data to their original location. Backup/Restore primarily serves as a means of protection against data loss, be it due to disaster, corruption or sabotage. It can also be used for recovering data from an earlier point in time and even for cloning machines or applications. There is a wide variety of backup/restore software available, from expensive commercial products to free or open source tools.