After a recent IT disaster, the need to back up to more than one location has been driven home pretty brutally. After some work, and some help, I did manage to get back most of what I had before. The biggest loss has been the source code from previous jobs : some of that was quite neat, and always a useful reference.
So backups are back on a weekly schedule to alternating locations : this time one to an external hard drive on Sunday, and one from the primary computer to the server on a Saturday. I will need to organize the backups for the server's repository as well. Backups are through Genie 9's Genie Backup Manager Home 8.0. It's easy enough to use, but haven't tried restoring from it yet.
As part of the general effort to restore the PC, I decided to partition the C drive on the primary PC into 3 areas : C: for Windows and general family use, H: for development work and data, and I: which will eventually host Ubuntu. I use Ubuntu a bit at work, but it'd be useful to get more time with it.
This proved to a useful guide to partitioning a hard drive. From there I looked at SwissKnife, but in the end went for Easeus Partition Master Home Edition. I can't recommend it enough : easy to use, pretty quick, nice UI. If anyone knows any drawbacks on this tool, let me know, because at the moment, I'm sold.
