You'd get more out of a customized windows installer
if "Windows is gonna need
one every 6-12 months" than simple backups.
Customization like nLite, setup.txt,
or even just some custom .INF's beat a image backup
IMHO since they can recreate
their magic selectively. Then you have WPI which is a
good way to script
re-installs of apps but time consuming to setup.
Yes, you most certainly can mount .TIB's & recover the
file. No more complicated
than mounting a ISO. If kept near-line on a hot
external HDD, daily incremental
backups would protect from accidental deletions and
could be combined with DVD
based differentials if that's what you want. Also if
you made the TIB's in 4.5GB
parts rather than 1 big .TIB you COULD back them up by
from the external HDD by
burning them to DVD with an DVD burning package.
Brian Weeden wrote:
> I think one of the questions you need to ask is why
are you doing the
> backups? What do you want from the solution?
>
> For me, my primary reason is in case my boot HD
fails. Secondary is to
> speed up reinstalls because you know Windows is
gonna need one every
> 6-12 months. Recovery of accidentally deleted files
was not something
> I needed so my solution doesn't allow for that
easily. I think I can
> mount of the .tib images and recover a file from it
but I've never
> tried and it would certainly be more difficult than
another backup
> solution, say Time Machine.
>
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