Awhile ago I asked what software people were using for doing backups.
Of particular interest to me was disk imaging - as this is the easiest
way to get up and running again after a serious failure. Previously I
have been using Ghost 2003 - but it required a couple of reboots and
took over an hour and a half to backup my notebook.
I took a close look at
Drive SnapShot (http://www.drivesnapshot.com/)
Acronis True Image (http://www.acronis.com/)
Ghost 2005 (http://www.symantec.com/)
Ghost was too bloated and added quite a bit to my laptops startup time
True Image also added a background task, but was not as thursty as Ghost
Drive SnapShot was what I decided on. It is small (I mean really small
- 200k). Adds no background tasks.
All three allow you to backup while you work (which scares me a little)
and mount backups as a drive. Which makes restoring a single file easy
- just copy it via explorer. All took about 40 minutes to do a backup
(about 17GB) to a network share.
Anyway, hope someone finds this useful.
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Alister Christie
Computers for People
Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266
http://www.salespartner.co.nz
PO Box 13085
Johnsonville
Wellington
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