George WA3PNT wrote: > 2. I understand the "bit image", but is Bob saying that Acronis does > not do this?
My connotation of "bit image" is a bit-by-bit copy of every sector on a disk whether or not it has any valid information on it as far as the file system would be concerned. By default Acronis True Image recognizes the disk partition's format and makes copies of information in that partition ... probably based on a table of allocated sectors. There is a box you can tick when making your backup selection to do that full disk copy - I've only used that on one occasion where the disk was corrupted and I was working on data extraction. > 3. Do you boot from the Acronis CD to run the program? Yes. Buy the product - which you can do easily on-line and download. Install on a system (even if temporarily). Create the recovery (boot) optical media. Optionally remove it from a system if you don't want it there. Use the optical media for your backup and restore needs. > 4. If #3 is not the case, does Acronis make a version > that will run under CentOS 5.1? http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ http://eqca.download.acronis.com/pdf/TrueImage2009_datasheet.en.pdf No - according to the aforementioned PDF. Supported file systems: - FAT16/32, NTFS, Linux Ext2/Ext3, ReiserFS, Linux Swap - Raw Images support for other partitions and corrupted file systems (the latter is maybe what you mean by "bit image"?) Here are some of the approaches I use with True Image Home where I typically dump my images to: - a dedicated backup disk running in the system - a IEEE1394 800b disk and interface - over the network to a server (SMB/FTP/etc.) HTH Bob W1QA
