Image Strategy

[Gary L. Hunt]

Using Drive Image 7 and Windows XP Pro SP1, I am trying to decide what is
best in doing an image of my system to DVD. I have A C drive where Windows
and programs reside and an E drive where data resides. Should I place both
drives on the same DVD or is this even possible in Drive Image 7? Or,
should I just be concerned with making an image of the C drive and not the
data? Instead, using Second Copy or some other program to back up data to a
removable drive?

Thank you for your help in this.

Gary Hunt

 

[Hilary]

Gary,

You might want to partition your hard drive to have a separate partition
for programs. That way you can back up prgrams separetely from the
system and from the data.

That being said. I use Drive image 7. There is no reason not to back
up to the same DVD except for spaces issues. Do separate backups of C
and E to the DVD. It should work fine. I am assuming you are using a
rewritable DVD format like DVD+RW or DVD-RW or DVD-RAM.

Remember like any disk DVD's do go bad so I would use several DVD's and
make successive backups to different DVDs.

Using Drive Image 7 and Windows XP Pro SP1, I am trying to decide what is
best in doing an image of my system to DVD. I have A C drive where Windows
and programs reside and an E drive where data resides. Should I place both
drives on the same DVD or is this even possible in Drive Image 7? Or,
should I just be concerned with making an image of the C drive and not the
data? Instead, using Second Copy or some other program to back up data to a
removable drive?

Thank you for your help in this.

Gary Hunt

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[I'm Dan]

Using Drive Image 7 and Windows XP Pro SP1, I am trying to decide what is
best in doing an image of my system to DVD. I have A C drive where Windows
and programs reside and an E drive where data resides. Should I place both
drives on the same DVD or is this even possible in Drive Image 7? Or,
should I just be concerned with making an image of the C drive and not the
data? Instead, using Second Copy or some other program to back up data to a
removable drive?

I'd use the latter strategy. If you've set everything up right, you
shouldn't need to image your C: partition as often as your E:. I image
my C: about once per quarter, or sooner if I've make significant changes
(new programs, etc.). Others will do it more frequently, but my setup
doesn't change that frequently.

My data partition, however, is backed up daily. Unlike C:, you don't
need an exact image of your data, though, you just need to save copies
of the files. But if you plan to use DI to backup your data, that means
you're doing full backups every time -- you're going to be burning
through a lot of disks, most of which will be redundant because a lot of
your data is unchanged from one day to the next. Instead, I use a
scheme that does incremental daily backups -- a periodic full backup
with daily incremental backups will take up a *lot* less space (and
time) than doing a full backup every day. I'm not familiar with Second
Copy, but if you like it and it allows you to do incremental backups,
then use that instead of DI for your data.

 

[Gary L. Hunt]

Thanks and I believe I will go with that strategy. Also, I believe I should
get the DVD+RW disks in stead of the ones that only write once. Does anyone
know if DI 7 has any problems using the rewritable disks?

Thanks again.

Gary Hunt

 

[R. McCarty]

Re-Writable disks are "much" slower than one-shot CD-R's.
If you use RW, then occasionally create a set on CD-R and
store them away as Point-in-Time Masters. You will find that
sometimes you need something from an older saveset.
Just this morning, I had to recover a program's .Ini from a
image created back in April.

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

You'll never get an image on "A" CD. You will need several just for the C:
partition.