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Comparison of tape drive transfer rates, capacities, and access times for ITIL Capacity Management. This information can be very helpful in determining which drive technology you need, but never forget these are all theoretical numbers and are given without taking into account the internal drive compression. Drive manufacturers advertise compression rates for the different drive technologies. These vary depending on the drive but are also theoretical numbers. These specifications can change with new firmware levels or versions of the drives.

1. I used the alt-boot full image method to create an image of the entire /dev/hda hard drive to an NFS mount on the new VMware server. (These images were typically 410 GB. They were old servers!)

2. I used VMware to create a virtual machine specifying a virtual IDE hard drive that was much bigger than the original, usually about 20 or 40 GB.

3. I used VMware to create a virtual CD drive that pointed to an ISO file that was actually a symbolic link to an ISO image of a Knoppix CD on the hard drive.

4. I booted the virtual machine into Knoppix using the virtual Knoppix CD.

Above free Excel based Online Backup Checklist that can be use both for your personal and company usage. This checklist contain bullet point that you should remember when choose an online backup as your backup strategy.