Acronis lets you mount a backup image & restore a
single file from the image. Even
when I can't get a customer to invest in Acronis & do
their own backups, I still use
my copy to make the backup & burn it to DVD knowing
*I* can restore a file for them
from my boot CD if need be.
Then there's the Maxtor/Seagate version which does not
do compression and a few other
features but is free for systems with one of those
drives attached.
To each his own, but this kind of backing up is
problematic at best IMHO.
Joe User wrote:
> Hello j,
>
> Friday, March 28, 2008, 12:20:16 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Personally I would not clone a drive via file
system
>> copy but if I was I guess I'd
>> use Robocopy.
>
>> I know you said not image, but Seagate/Maxtor now
>> licenses a LE version of Acronis
>> that is free. It does no compression and requires
that
>> a maxtor/seagate drive be
>> attached to the system.
>
>
> Yeah, all I want to do here is make a total and true
copy of the
> persons old drive and place it on the new drive...
>
> xcopy d:\*.* c:\olddrive\*.* /r /i /c /h /k /e /y
>
> They wouldn't boot to the copy or anything but if a
couple months go
> by and they remember oh I wish I saved that pic or
golly what was
> that persons email address, wish I had that plugin,
etc...
>
> This is why Drive Image / Acronis won't work for me.
>
>
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