Does anyone backup their CNC's PC hard drive?

[WayneHill]

It takes a few minutes to backup or restore your hard drives.

I used a USB cable from:
http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/s...roductID=12596

It connects to the CNC's shock mounted laptop harddrive.

The backup software used was True Image 9.1 from:
http://www.acronis.com/

I backed up to a spare laptop drive then booted up the control from the spare! Works great!!

[JRPOUX]

Yes

Do it.

[bobsch]

There's two kinds of people in this world: the one's that have already had a hard-drive crash and those that will.

There's no excuse for not doing backups. Unless you enjoy rebuilding your system and re-creating all your files.

DAHIKT!

[Al_The_Man]

Originally Posted by bobsch There's two kinds of people in this world: the one's that have already had a hard-drive crash and those that will.

I have been both kinds, the second time you get the message.
Now Acronis and a WD-Book are my friends.
Al.

[Drools]

Ditto what Al said. Acronis is one of the best.

[kanton]

A cheaper backup method is to purchase a retail hard-drive package that fits in your case and use the cloning software that comes in the package. Or if you only buy the hard-drive often you can download the cloning software from the manufacturer's web site.

[ImanCarrot]

Weird though (to go off at a slight slant), I have three laptops and three desktops running Xp through to Vista. These have all fallen over at some point requiring hours of "fixing".

I have two 386's (if anyone remembers them), one runs my CNC lathe, the other runs my measurement system... they have never fallen over once in ten years.

If I was a conspiracy theorist I would be thinking "obsolescence built in"...

[RomanLini]

Originally Posted by ImanCarrot ... I have two 386's (if anyone remembers them), one runs my CNC lathe, the other runs my measurement system... they have never fallen over once in ten years. ...

That's a point missed by the spoilt generation that think more ram is always better and more GHz is so much better etc. Those old 386's run slow at relatively low heat and low power, and the CPU and everything in the machine lasts many many times longer.

I had one machine here running close to 20 years, I rebuilt the PSU a couple of times and replaced a hard drive on it.

How many 2GHz whizzbangs (or these stupid Vista laptops that cook your legs while Windoze is doing NOTHING) are going to be running in 20 years from now... Progress.