I love ghost but I have never been able to get it to work with Vista or Windows 7 and on occasion will not see a SATA drive. At least my version (8)
fp At 05:56 PM 3/9/2011, Bobby Heid Poked the stick with: >I like Ghost. ;-) > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] >[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske >Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 12:54 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [H] Backup Software > >There is no other choice to make a decent backup than to save your >irreplaceable data and just re-install. Backup software sucks! Backup tape >drives suck! Norton Ghost sucks! There is no reliable method to backup >your hardrive other than to make an ISO of it and store it on an other >hardrive. Backups just plain suck period because the computer world >changes too fast and operating systems change too fast to make a reliable >method that has legs! Get a second or third hardrive and a couple of 8 or >16 gig thumb drives and save your irreplaceable info and just accept it. >I've been trying to find a reliable method to backup my data for years. I >once spent a considerable sum of money on a tape drive that would not work >period. Duplication of irreplaceble data is the only method that I've >found that saves my ass. I once had a daily log that I had updated >religiously for years and lost it all because my hardrive failed. That >data can never be replaced. It is gone forever. Still pissed about that! >LOL > > >On Mon, 07 Mar 2011 19:12:49 -0600, Steve Tomporowski <[email protected]> >wrote: > >> I recently picked up a 3TB GoFlex drive and the Memeo 'free' 'instant >> backup' software made me puke. Crippleware always affects me that way. >> How is it crippleware? It will only backup drive C, no other drive or >> folder on another drive, unless, of course, you pony up the bucks for >> the 'advanced version'. Also the Memeo doesn't seem to be incremental >> or differential, as long as it has stored a file by that name, it don't >> care, make another full backup! >> [end rant] >> >> The real purpose is to find out what's out there for backup software >> (preferably free) which can do incremental and work with a USB drive. >> Gizmo has got a couple of recommendations, but it would be great to hear >> from someone with experience. And, yes, between TV, Movies and Music, >> 3TB would just about do it. Yeah, I know I'm on the low end....;-) >> >> Thanks....Steve > > >-- >Using Opera's revolutionary email client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ > > > >__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature >database 5940 (20110309) __________ > >The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > >http://www.eset.com -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Equality of the sexes leaves women standing on buses.
