Thanks Bob. You explained everything very torough. I'll get Acronis as soon as I get back to Yuma and do it.
George --- In [email protected], "Bob McCormick W1QA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 >
