I use Macrium Reflect. Excellent product at a reasonable price. Free version for personal use.
John John Weller 07976 393632 01380 723235 Sent from my iPhone > On 15 Jan 2016, at 00:50, Ken McGinnis <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have used Acronis for years. I stopped updating with v10 because they > ruined the user interface with the 'feature creep' so I can't find anything, > but it works ok if you spend enough time to weed through all the useless > garbage. > > I would like to see any responses you get because I definitely will not > upgrade to the new Acronis garbage user interface (just my opinion). I would > like something open source that allows incremental backups so that I can make > one full backup one day a week and then incremental backups the rest of the > week and them move those 7 files to a folder and start a new series so I > never have to go back more than 1 day and the backups are quick. > >> On 1/14/2016 16:43 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> I realize VMs are a super cool thing but I've not gone that route yet, and 2 >> machines seem like a better risk than just having 1. Of course, a good >> backup is a MUST. My backups are usually only of the Development folder >> (which includes all customer correspondence too). Always wanted to have a >> backup "image" but years ago I became disenchanted with Norton Ghost as it >> seemed to not deliver on imaging the same thing to the new machine. Been >> too long to recall the details, though. >> >> What do you folks use to safeguard your systems in case of hardware failure? >> Any Norton Ghost users? >> >> tia, >> --Mike >> >> >>> On 2016-01-14 17:54, Ted Roche wrote: >>> LOL. Yeah, long-term plan is always a challenge. >>> >>> However, keeping VMs around with the last few OSes is pretty necessary >>> if you have to support clients with a couple of different versions. >>> >>> Had a bugger of a problem recently that I was struggling to repro >>> until the client mentioned they were on WinXP! >>> >>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> On 1/14/16 8:50 AM, [email protected] wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Decisions, decisions....what would you do? I'm guessing "just buy the >>>>> 2nd machine for a better long-term plan" (due to hardware life >>>>> expectancy). >>>> >>>> >>>> "long term plan" with regard to Windows makes me LOL. :) >>>> >>>> Paul [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
