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the other (preferably on other premises – for example, at work or at a friend's home, if you use the

backed up computer at home).

One more argument in favor of several backups: when starting recovery, True Image 2013 deletes

the target partition (or disk). If you have just a single backup, you are at great risk. The moment the

system partition is deleted on the computer being recovered the only thing you have is the image

being recovered. If the image is corrupted, you will not be able to recover the system.

7.2 Deciding where to store your backups

True Image 2013 supports quite a few of storage devices. For more information see Supported

storage media. Some of the supported storage locations are discussed below.

Hard disk drives

Since hard disk drives are now quite inexpensive, in most cases purchasing an external hard drive for

storing your backups will be an optimal solution. An external drive enhances the security of your data

because you can keep it off-site (for example, at home if you back up your office computer and vice

versa). You can choose various interfaces – USB, FireWire, eSATA depending on the configuration of

your computer ports and the required data transfer rate. In many cases the best choice will be an

external USB hard drive, especially if your computer supports USB 3.0.

If you plan to use an external USB hard drive with your desktop PC, connecting the drive to a rear

connector using a short cable will usually provide the most reliable operation. This reduces the

chance of data transfer errors during backup/recovery.

Home file server, NAS or NDAS

If you have a Gigabit Ethernet home network and a dedicated file server or NAS, you can store

backups on the file server or NAS practically like on an internal drive.

If you decide to use an external hard drive, NAS, NDAS, etc., you will need to check whether True

Image 2013 detects the selected backup storage. You need to check this both in Windows and when

booted from the rescue media.

To gain access to an NDAS enabled storage device, in many cases you will need to specify the NDAS

device ID (20 characters) and the write key (5 characters). The write key allows you to use an NDAS

enabled device in write mode (for example, for saving your backups). Usually the device ID and write

key are printed on a sticker attached to the bottom of the NDAS device or on the inside of its

enclosure. If there is no sticker, you need to contact your NDAS device vendor to obtain that

information.

The certain NAS devices can be detected by True Image 2013 only if Bonjour software is installed.

Optical discs

Blank optical discs such as DVD-R, DVD+R are very cheap, so they will be the lowest cost solution for

backing up your data, though the slowest one. This is especially true when backing up directly to

DVDs. Furthermore, if your backup consists of several DVDs, data recovery from DVDs will require a

lot of disc swapping. On the other hand, using Blu-ray discs may be a viable option.

Due to the necessity of swapping discs, we strongly recommend to avoid backing up to DVDs if the number of

discs is more than three. When there is no alternative to backing up to DVDs, we recommend to copy all DVDs

to a folder on a hard disk and then to recover from that folder.

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