Quality of an NTBackup

[Q852913745]

I am using NTBackup on XP Home but would like some information of the extent of
the backup. I have backed up C: partition to a seperate drive, the backup
includes Windows, Program Files, System Information ... etc.
From what I understand so far is, "you can't restore over an active system" (it
must be done from outside windows), but NTBackup allows restore from windows
(with a restart) so I am wondering if it does actually perform a 'full' backup
and restore. I understand that I can't restore from a windows failure (only
re-install XP and NTBackup and then restore) which is fine.

 

[Rock]

I am using NTBackup on XP Home but would like some information of the extent of
the backup. I have backed up C: partition to a seperate drive, the backup
includes Windows, Program Files, System Information ... etc.
From what I understand so far is, "you can't restore over an active system" (it
must be done from outside windows), but NTBackup allows restore from windows
(with a restart) so I am wondering if it does actually perform a 'full' backup
and restore. I understand that I can't restore from a windows failure (only
re-install XP and NTBackup and then restore) which is fine.

I would recommend forsaking NT backup for a disk imaging program like
Symantec's Drive Image, Norton Ghost, Acronis True Image or BootitNG, or
something like Stomp, Inc's Backup MyPC.