We're really beginning to stray here with all this talk of rare BIOS and boot sector viruses. And now a question about backups.
Disk imaging is the way to go, with some level of compression to save space. Ghost, Acronis, and many freeware apps will do this. They all have basic Windows PE cds that will boot enough of an OS to reinstall the images (Windows Preinstallation Environment). Some of these are further based around BartPE (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/). Anyway, probably the most important thing about system backups is that you keep your C (system) drive backed up daily, preferably without intervention. Make it a smaller partition than the others so you can just image it to a second physical drive. Do full monthly images also, and swap at least two backup drives so that one is off-premises at all times. > What is the "best" generic recovery utility boot device and program these > days?? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
