I also use Drive Snapshot and agree with the comments about simplicity and reliability....I have used it to restore a D: partition with no problems - haven't had to restore a Windows boot drive yet, but the floppy boot option works, and contains everything needed.
Incidentally drive snapshot allows you to mount the backup image as a drive in explorer, and then use explorer etc to copy any files you want from it. It also now also backs up ext files systems (ie linux). Practical points - I copy entire disk images of each drive to external media, takes about 15 minutes to do 25 GB in 2 drives. I also added a folder containing all of the Drive Snapshot programs etc, and a copy of the licence number. This way if everything does go totally bad I have everything on the external media to restore and get working again. Every month or so I do an image backup, in between I zip up all my working files and email them to myself at gmail. This gives nice offsite backups. Thank you Google. Haven't used Acronis, but heard good things about it, and good reviews. John -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 27 June 2006 5:48 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Offtopic List Subject: Re: [DUG-Offtopic] Drive imaging Alistair wrote: > I've been using Drive Snapshot > <http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/index.htm> Yeah, I checked bought a copy after its earlier mention here, it works fine -- so simple, but effective. But I was wondering about the restore-to-another-drive/system issue. Interesting about the HAL-tweak restore in True Image, it seems from its docs that DriveSnapShot can't do that. cheers, peter _______________________________________________ Offtopic mailing list [email protected] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/offtopic __________ NOD32 1.1461 (20060329) 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
