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Paul Isaacs
What's the difference between backing up a drive and imaging it in terms of
what is actually copied to the backup or image location?
what is actually copied to the backup or image location?
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JD
An IMAGE of a drive is an exact copy of the information on the drivePaul said:What's the difference between backing up a drive and imaging it in terms of
what is actually copied to the backup or image location?
whereas the backup only contains the files that were specified to be
"backed up".
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Ken
Images are often compressed as well, in that they might appear smallerJD said:An IMAGE of a drive is an exact copy of the information on the drive
whereas the backup only contains the files that were specified to be
"backed up".
in size than the data in them once restored. Many programs that create
images will reduce 1GB of data from a HD down to approx. 600MB.
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John Doe
Paul Isaacs said:What's the difference between backing up a drive and imaging it in
terms of what is actually copied to the backup or image location?
Also possible is to image partitions, on the same or a different
drive. One difference in that case is the ability to restore the
Windows partition when all goes bad. It doesn't (or shouldn't) take
as long and requires less space.
It depends on the software you're talking about, but an image can
allow you to recover functionality and not just data.
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Paul Isaacs
Got it. Thanks guys!
John Doe said:Also possible is to image partitions, on the same or a different
drive. One difference in that case is the ability to restore the
Windows partition when all goes bad. It doesn't (or shouldn't) take
as long and requires less space.
It depends on the software you're talking about, but an image can
allow you to recover functionality and not just data.