Image question

[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?

 

[JD]

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?

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".

 

[Ken]

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".

Images are often compressed as well, in that they might appear smaller
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.

 

[John Doe]

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.

 

[Paul Isaacs]

Got it. Thanks guys!

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.