best cloning method?

[Beemer Biker]

The California Highway Patrol and the L.A. Police Dept.
dropped Harleys decades ago because of performance

HD sells an image. CHP could possibly use a better image, but HD wont help.

and reliability problems and went with Honda and Kawasaki.
That still wasn't reliable enough for the CHP, so they
eventually went with BMW. It seems that the Chippers don't
like their ride sitting in the shop or breaking down out on the
road and the Bimmer's higher price was worth it. I for one,

yes, but the one like I got is air cooled and would quickly overheat when
left running (which the cop normally has to do). I see those CHP beamers
(bimmer is a cage) sold on ebay all the time. They are cheap, but have been
modified and you got to add a rear seat, but the price is good.

though, dread the congestion of L.A. traffic and the crazies

texas did not get the lane sharing bill passed. even though our gov rides a
motorcycle, he didnt support the lane splitting bill nor much else
motorcycle related. Of course, when he does go out for a ride, he gets a
police escort to clear the way for his harley http://tinyurl.com/mr7jp

who try to run you off the road, and I've resigned myself to
driving a cage.

*TimDaniels*

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[Bob Davis]

I have the boxer 1100 http://tinyurl.com/5c7uk and have put 60,000 miles
on it, mostly commuting to work, since '99. I spent the last weekend and
this one looking at new bikes. Spring is starting, and Harley and others
dealers near san antonio are having open houses and freebies. I stopped
at two harley dealers, honda, bad dog, american iron horse, and yamaha.
Also stopped at bmw. I thought that bmw was always overpriced although
their bikes are good, but American Iron horse and Bad Dog start where bmw
leaves off I cant see putting down $25K for something that wont make it
past the first gas station and no room on the seat for the wife.

A fellow biker and friend has a GS, and my ride is a '96 Road King, now with
101k trouble-free miles. It's been in 33 states in the U.S. and Canada and
we're making a trek to the Hill Country of Texas in two weeks. Great bike,
and the best I've owned so far.

 

[Bob Davis]

The California Highway Patrol and the L.A. Police Dept.
dropped Harleys decades ago because of performance
and reliability problems and went with Honda and Kawasaki.
That still wasn't reliable enough for the CHP, so they
eventually went with BMW. It seems that the Chippers don't
like their ride sitting in the shop or breaking down out on the
road and the Bimmer's higher price was worth it. I for one,
though, dread the congestion of L.A. traffic and the crazies
who try to run you off the road, and I've resigned myself to
driving a cage.

In Baton Rouge they've stayed with Harley primarily because they can resell
the heavily used Road Kings for about the same price they cost the City new.
They claim they are having good repair results with these as they did with
FXR's years back.

As for breaking down on the road, I think this is an exception rather than a
rule. My Road King now has 101k and has never stranded me, except once when
I had an irreparable flat tire. In the past 10 years, the only Harley I've
ridden with (out of thousands) that has broken down is one Sportster that
suffered a broken clutch cable. The days of leaking and unreliable Harleys
is a thing of the past, although I'm sure a lemon slips through from time to
time.

 

[alanm]

Fact. Its lan support is completey ****ed, it cant do incremental images,
its user interface is quite ****ed, its hopeless for simpler users if the
image creation goes bad for even the simplest reason, etc etc etc.

Lan support isn't necessary with mobile racks. Incremental images are
irrelevant to cloning. The user interface is simple. The image creation
doesn't fail.

 

[Beemer Biker]

A fellow biker and friend has a GS, and my ride is a '96 Road King, now
with 101k trouble-free miles. It's been in 33 states in the U.S. and
Canada and we're making a trek to the Hill Country of Texas in two weeks.
Great bike, and the best I've owned so far.

You will not be disappointed. Watch out for deer at night and buzzards in
the road eating them during the day. Some maps are here:
http://stateson.net/ResearchRiders/photogallery/maps/maps.htm
I recommend the gruen stop and the ride along river road. Fredregsburg is a
nice town to visit. Willow city loop should be in full bloom, but dont eat
at Harrys On The Loop BBQ. It has really gone down hill since it got
written up in texas monthly. Enchanted rock is nearby that willoow city
loop and you can camp there. It helps to have a GPS in that area or you can
easily got lost and run out of gas (cruser problem only, touring should be
ok)


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[Rod Speed]

Lan support isn't necessary with mobile racks.
Incremental images are irrelevant to cloning.

And anyone with a clue gets an app that can
do more than just cloning with mobile racks.

The user interface is simple.

Its quite ****ed.

The image creation doesn't fail.

Wrong, as always.

 

[Timothy Daniels]

The days of leaking and unreliable Harleys is a thing of the past...

That's what I hear, too. And I seem to remember seeing a
city cop on a Harley a few weeks ago. The CHP may be still
using the BMWs for performance and maneuvering between
cars on congested freeways.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Roger Layton]

I don't seem to be able to get the MBR onto the

It sure sounds like the MBR isn't being copied over. But since
True Image is supposed to do that automatically when cloning,
I can't imagine why.

True Image versions older than 9.1 did not save or restore the MBR
unless the entire disk was captured in the image. The latest release
now captures the MBR regardless of the partitions being captured, and
offers the option to restore the MBR if desired. Additionally, 9.1 now
offers the Universal Restore option, which allows restore to dissimilar
hardware, especially useful when migrating to new hardware.

http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATICW/universal-restore.html

 

[Timothy Daniels]

True Image versions older than 9.1 did not save or restore
the MBR unless the entire disk was captured in the image.
The latest release now captures the MBR regardless of the
partitions being captured, and offers the option to restore
the MBR if desired.

Does this mean that True Image can now directly clone
single partitions rather entire hard drives?

*TimDaniels*

 

[Rod Speed]

No it doesnt. The new drive can be
booted with the old one connected.

True Image versions older than 9.1 did not save or restore
the MBR unless the entire disk was captured in the image.

We're discussing CLONING, not imaging.

The latest release now captures the MBR regardless of the partitions
being captured, and offers the option to restore the MBR if desired.

Irrelevant with CLONING.

Additionally, 9.1 now offers the Universal Restore option, which allows
restore
to dissimilar hardware, especially useful when migrating to new hardware.
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATICW/universal-restore.html

Again, its CLONING that is being discussed.

 

[Rod Speed]

Roger Layton wrote

Does this mean that True Image can now directly clone single partitions
rather entire hard drives?

He isnt talking about cloning, just restoring images.

 

[Roger Layton]

Correct, I was referring to image capture and restore, not disk
cloning. Although I kinda like the idea of being able to clone a
single partition.

I have always had much better success with imaging, plus it gives me a
file I can keep around in case a drive craps out later.

 

[Rod Speed]

Correct, I was referring to image capture and restore, not disk
cloning. Although I kinda like the idea of being able to clone a
single partition.

I have always had much better success with imaging, plus it
gives me a file I can keep around in case a drive craps out later.

And imaging allows incremental images and images can be
highly compressed so you get to keep more than one copy too.

 

[alanm]

And anyone with a clue gets an app that can
do more than just cloning with mobile racks.
Nonsense.


Its quite ****ed.

So are you.

Wrong, as always.

Perhaps it only fails for IDIOTS.

 

[Rod Speed]

So are you.


Perhaps it only fails for IDIOTS.

Any 2 year old could do better than that pathetic effort, child.

 

[alanm]

Any 2 year old could do better than that pathetic effort, child.

IOW you have nothing to say. Excellent !

 

[Rod Speed]

IOW you have nothing to say. Excellent !

Any 2 year old could do better than that pathetic effort, child.