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Ok, another question, if you don't mind, the backup we are making is a 500 gb image file. I think I am going to set it to just overwrite each time on the destination drive. &nbsp;Wondering if the daily overwriting is going to toast the destination drive (the backup drive I am backing up to).
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Ok, another question, if you don't mind, the backup we are making is a 500 gb image file. I think I am going to set it to just overwrite each time on the destination drive.  Wondering if the daily overwriting is going to toast the destination drive (the backup drive I am backing up to).

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Not very likely unless it's a very poor quality destination drive. If it's a tape drive you're backing up to, you might end up with some faster degradation (tape drives are only rated for about 1000 hours of use), but if it's a hard drive, overwriting data to it on a daily basis isn't going to break it (they're designed to handle that, after all).
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Not very likely unless it's a very poor quality destination drive. If it's a tape drive you're backing up to, you might end up with some faster degradation (tape drives are only rated for about 1000 hours of use), but if it's a hard drive, overwriting data to it on a daily basis isn't going to break it (they're designed to handle that, after all).

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anyone familiar with Acronis, I am using Acronis Backup &amp;&nbsp;Recovery 11 on my SBS 2008. I am wondering if the daily full image backup is going to cause my drives to be overused and prematurely worn out by doing the daily full image backup. &nbsp;Since it has to read all the data on the raid every day to do the backup, got me thinking, hmmm, wonder if this will cause premature hard drive failure.
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anyone familiar with Acronis, I am using Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 on my SBS 2008. I am wondering if the daily full image backup is going to cause my drives to be overused and prematurely worn out by doing the daily full image backup.  Since it has to read all the data on the raid every day to do the backup, got me thinking, hmmm, wonder if this will cause premature hard drive failure.

acronis and my sbs 2008

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.

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