Incidentally I have just a suspicion that Acronis may have purchased the Drive Snapshot technology from Tom Ehlert (DriveSnapshot) because he has not offered many updates for about 3 years, and because of the following text copied from the Acronis Web Site:
"Expanded Acronis Drive Snapshot technology - We've expanded the no reboot feature to include backing up specific files and folders. We can even backup system files and open files with no issues. No matter which option you select, you can continue to use your PC during backup." So it may be the two products share some technology and I suspect the logical thing is to buy from whichever gives the best deal... I note the www.DriveSnapshot.com site says for operating systems: NT/2000/XP/2003/PE/x64 And Compatible to all Windows file systems (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS) supports Linux EXT2/3/Reiser I don't know if that means it can do linux as well??? John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alister Christie Sent: Wednesday, 8 March 2006 12:15 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: [DUG-Offtopic] Backups 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. -- Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic __________ NOD32 1.1433 (20060307) Information __________ This message was checked by NOD32 antivirus system. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic
