Apart from disk imaging, how do others manage their systems in event of a HD crash?.....reinstalling Windows is not too bad, its finding and reinstalling all the other programs that takes forever.
Drive Snapshot: At the time I got it 2 years ago it had a number of features reviewers liked over others: -can do backups while working (says hooks into the I/O subsytem to get files at the state they were at the beginning of the backup...still I don't tend to push my luck on that one! -can mount the backup image and browse using Windows explorer. -can boot system from boot floppy (FREEDOS) with NTFS driver and command line reinstall C partition....haven't actually had to do this fortunately. -can reinstall other partitions eg D from Windows -image files split into cd size chunks of 650MB -fast .... 12 GB disk data to external USB disk in around 5 minutes. -was about the cheapest good one Norton Ghost did require reboot to DOS to do backups and restores... More lately best reviews are for Acronis....simplest to use, but I notice they advertise saying: "Based on the exclusive Acronis Drive Snapshot disk imaging technology, Acronis True Image CWS allows you to create an online system disk backup without reboot to keep the system productive. The product provides the fastest bare-metal restore dramatically reducing downtime and your IT costs." So I am wondering if they purchased Drive Snapshot?? Anyway Snapshot is still available but looks to be same version as 2 years ago - I still use it, its fast and simple. Another good backup idea are to zip up critical files being worked on and email them to your gmail account. Offsite without getting out of your chair... John -----Original Message----- From: Alister Christie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2006 4:36 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Windows troubleshooting John Bird wrote: > I use DriveSnapshot for backups (disk image to exernal disk)...I > wonder if anyone reckons its better to do that before or after doing a > surface scan with CHKDSK etc? Is this DriveSnapshot from http://www.drivesnapshot.com ? It looks to be quite good, I'll try it out tomorrow. Previously I've been using Ghost 2003, which is fairly good but requres you to boot into dos. What backup systems are other prople using? Alister Christie _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
