[DUG] Disk Image backups

[Neven MacEwan]

John

The only thing that scares me with these is "what do you do if it 
doesn't restore", I use subversion to backup critical data and for
everything else I expect to reload (give you an excude to Purge your PC)

Neven



John Bird wrote:
> Apart from disk imaging, how do others manage their systems in event of a HD
> crash?.....reinstalling Windows is not too bad, its finding and reinstalling
> all the other programs that takes forever.
> 
> Drive Snapshot:
> 
> At the time I got it 2 years ago it had a number of features reviewers liked
> over others:
> 
> -can do backups while working (says hooks into the I/O subsytem to get files
> at the state they were at the beginning of the backup...still I don't tend
> to push my luck on that one!
> -can mount the backup image and browse using Windows explorer.
> -can boot system from boot floppy (FREEDOS) with NTFS driver and command
> line reinstall C partition....haven't actually had to do this fortunately.
> -can reinstall other partitions eg D from Windows
> -image files split into cd size chunks of 650MB
> -fast .... 12 GB disk data to external USB disk in around 5 minutes.
> -was about the cheapest good one
> 
> Norton Ghost did require reboot to DOS to do backups and restores...
> 
> More lately best reviews are for Acronis....simplest to use, but I notice
> they advertise saying:
> 
> "Based on the exclusive Acronis Drive Snapshot disk imaging technology,
> Acronis True Image CWS allows you to create an online system disk backup
> without reboot to keep the system productive. The product provides the
> fastest bare-metal restore dramatically reducing downtime and your IT
> costs."
> 
> So I am wondering if they purchased Drive Snapshot?? Anyway Snapshot is
> still available but looks to be same version as 2 years ago - I still use
> it, its fast and simple.
> 
> Another good backup idea are to zip up critical files being worked on and
> email them to your gmail account.  Offsite without getting out of your
> chair...
> 
> 
> John
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alister Christie [mailto:alister at SalesPartner.co.nz] 
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 4:36 p.m.
> To: johnkbird at paradise.net.nz; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Windows troubleshooting
> 
> 
> 
> John Bird wrote:
> 
>>I use DriveSnapshot for backups (disk image to exernal disk)...I 
>>wonder if anyone reckons its better to do that before or after doing a 
>>surface scan with CHKDSK etc?
> 
> 
> Is this DriveSnapshot from http://www.drivesnapshot.com ?  It looks to 
> be quite good, I'll try it out tomorrow.  Previously I've been using 
> Ghost 2003, which is fairly good but requres you to boot into dos.
> 
> What backup systems are other prople using?
> 
> 
> Alister Christie
> 
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