Why don't you direct all your questions to the manufacturer -
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/support/forum/
I'm personally using Acronis and I'm very pleased with the product much more
preferable than Norton's Ghost and much easier to use.
I had no problems when recently I had to restore my computer from the backup.
K
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"John Google" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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| Hi,
|
| I have some basic questions with regard to restoring the C:\ drive in
| the event of a major failure.
|
| My current setup is a single hard disk with a 2G recovery partition and
| a 74G NTFS partition which contains Windows XP and all my data. I have
| an internal CD-ROM and an external USB DVD-RAM drive. Luckily, I have
| never had to restore my system (touch wood) so have never used the
| recovery CD. In fact, up to now, I've been quite cavalier about backing
| up my data.
|
|
| I'm thinking of buying 2 new disk drives.
|
| 1. A cheap internal drive used purely to contain a disk image of the
| C:\ drive to be used to restore that drive in the event of a hardware
| or major software problems.
| 2. An external massive hard disk to contain MPEG videos etc and various
| backups / differential backups for 'Documents and Settings' and other
| data folders.
|
| I've searched the newsgroups and have seen recommendations for Acronis
| True image 10.0. Is it a good bit of software? Would you recommend it
| or can you suggest a better piece of software?
|
| My main requirements are:
|
| a) To be able to schedule a regular (weekly?) 'image copy' of my C:\
| partition which will only be used if the disk crashes or a catastrophic
| user error (i.e. me screwing something up) requires me to restore the
| C:\ drive so that the O/S, All Applications etc work exactly as they
| did at the time of the last copy.
|
| b) To be able to backup various folders (both full and differential)
| which contain my data. I'm happy that ATI 10.0 does this to my
| requirements.
|
| c) As much as possible should be done via the XP scheduler. I'm not too
| concerned about archiving to DVD automatically as I'll do that manually
| whenever I feel it is required.
|
| So my main concern is how good it is ATI 10.0 at doing a).
|
| How does it do the image copy of a drive? Do you need to reboot and run
| from a boot-able CD? Can it do this while XP is running? If so, how
| does it handle files held open by the O/S and applications. I can make
| sure I'm logged off but I don't want to stop a load of services.
|
| Also, if the C:\ drive crashes do I first need to install a clean copy
| of XP before I do a restore of drive C:\? If I replace the C:\ drive
| with a much bigger drive does ATI 10.0 handle this automatically or do
| I need to manually recreate the exact partition sizes on the C:\ drive
| myself?
|
| Are there any other problems I haven't though of?
|
| TIA.
|
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