WD Rendezvous Express Backup Questions

[Gary]

A am asking for a friend who is not technically knowledgeable:

Re: WD External Hard Drive One-Button Backup using Rendezvous (EMC/DANTZ)
Express 6.5. You hit a button the WD external drive and Dantz backup
automatically backs up incrementally.

I personally use Ghost 9 on my PC, and it takes me less than 20 minutes to
backup two partitions, with verify. I am interested in working with
Rendezvous Express and getting it to work on my friend's PC, because it came
with his WD drive. However, he is more interested in disaster recovery in
which you boot a CD/DVD and completely restore your system to a known
previous state after a HD failure.

QUESTIONS:

(1) Why does Rendezvous Express backup actual files and not one compressed
file representing your partition, like Ghost?

(2) Following Rendezvous Express instructions, I could not find a backup set
name to create a disaster recover bootable CD. I am wondering if the "Out of
the Box" profile configured by WD is to just do incremental backups and not
make a backup set. Why?

(3) Is Rendezvous Express less a disaster recovery backup, like Ghost 9, and
more of a daily incremental backup strategy?

(4) Based on my limited experience with Rendezvous Express, it feels like a
mainframe computer backup utility that Dantz shoe-horned into the world of
personal computers. Is that true?

 

[Rod Speed]

A am asking for a friend who is not technically knowledgeable:

Re: WD External Hard Drive One-Button Backup using Rendezvous
(EMC/DANTZ) Express 6.5. You hit a button the WD external drive and
Dantz backup automatically backs up incrementally.

I personally use Ghost 9 on my PC, and it takes me less than 20
minutes to backup two partitions, with verify. I am interested in
working with Rendezvous Express and getting it to work on my friend's
PC, because it came with his WD drive. However, he is more interested
in disaster recovery in which you boot a CD/DVD and completely
restore your system to a known previous state after a HD failure.

(1) Why does Rendezvous Express backup actual files and not
one compressed file representing your partition, like Ghost?

Thats just the two different ways it can be done. Individual files have
the big advantage that nothing special is required to get the files back.

(2) Following Rendezvous Express instructions, I could not find a
backup set name to create a disaster recover bootable CD. I am
wondering if the "Out of the Box" profile configured by WD is to
just do incremental backups and not make a backup set. Why?

Same reason, in many ways its simpler to
keep what is effectively a copy of the original.

(3) Is Rendezvous Express less a disaster recovery backup,
like Ghost 9, and more of a daily incremental backup strategy?

There is no real difference, just a difference in how the files are stored.

(4) Based on my limited experience with Rendezvous Express,
it feels like a mainframe computer backup utility that Dantz
shoe-horned into the world of personal computers. Is that true?

Nope, its just a different approach with its advantages and disadvantages.

Ghost is showing its origins as an imager.