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Options for Full External Backup of 3 installed Hard Drives
I have the following Hard Drives:
Internal Main SATA Drive C: 2TB with Windows 7 Professional 64 bit (70 GB used)
Internal SATA slave drive G: 150GB (data) (35 GB used)
Internal SATA slave drive H: 185GB (music) (65 GB used)
External USB back-up drive I: 2TB WD My Book 1130 (120 GB used - old historical data)
What I think I want to do is put all my backups on the external USB drive.
I am leaning towards a full system image backup of the C Drive, and data file backups of the G and H drives, that I would like to be accessible as data files.
Q1: Is this a reasonable objective for backups?
Q2: Can I do this within the Windows 7 Backup utility, or should I consider another program?
Q3: Do in need to partition the I drive to reflect these three backup drives, thus limiting the potential of backups competing for space?
Q4: I was thinking of C system image backups weekly, and the G & H backups done incrementally after an initial full backup. What do you think/suggest?
Vic