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does this backup strategy make any sence?

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i have a laptop that i use for work and for play. since its used for work i need to have it backed up regularly and securly. i plan to start seting up ghost images to my media server at home as well as a tower in my office

does it make any sence to partition the laptops hard drive in half (80gb drive so 2x40GB partitions) and use one of them as the operating drive and use the other to ghost backup images to. this way i would have easy access to a backup image on the laptop. if the drive failed im dead. but its a brand new less then a month old seagate drive with a 5 year warrenty. so if im on the road away from my home or office computers i could potentially restore to a day old backup on the second partition

does this sound like it might work?
 
Bad back up idea.

Don't put back ups on the same system ever. New drives can fail just as easily.
 
as i said earlier i will have backups on both my home media server and one of the computers in the office

this is primarily so if im away from either of those machines
 
I'm guessing it makes sense only if you are expecting the first partition (the os install) to fail somehow......but aren't both partitions equally susceptible to viruses, adware etc...?
 
i dont think the second parition would be very vulnerable to viruses etc. as it would only have the ghost image on it no .exe to play with,

ive just been getting tired of reinstalling windows so if i had a day old ghost image on the same drive it would be easy to restore if windows goes tits up
 
ok,

in theory your setup could be a smart move, the problem is this: You want backups to be 'hard' to access without your knowing authorization, i.e. they have to be invisible or hard to find for the OS without prior knowledge. A virus/ spyware or the delete key would otherwise kill your backups. An option would be to hide the partition for the OS in some way (Dell does this on my laptop, which has some weird recovery partition) which I can see in windows, but cannot access or assign a drive letter to (EISA configuration it says, FAT filesystem). If you could somehow design your system in such a way that the partition is mapped as R/O or not allocated at all during regular opteration and only becomes available when the backup runs, it would greatly improve the design of the backup, protecting you against quite a few software threats.

If the backup partition is online during regular operation it is little (if at all) more secure than just having two copies of all files, with one being a day old. The only advantage may be that you'd be able to reinstall windows from the second partition without hosing that.
 
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