MCBastos wrote:
There's not much point in backing up the ENTIRETY of drive C: with standard backup software. That would include all of Windows itself, and the installed programs -- which are hard to restore without having Windows running in the first place. Although the Windows 7 built-in backup tool apparently does so. If you really want to backup all of that, you are better off with a disk imaging software rather than a backup software -- that will copy even non-file structures such as the boot records. ...
Modern backup software (and I prefer not to promote any one of several viable options) is quite capable of doing either or both of the tasks of backing up by file or backing up a disk image including the registry. My point in my earlier post was that on those rare occasions where I had a disk or computer crash and had to start over, it took anywhere from several days to over a week to locate all the install disks for all my programs, reinstall them all, update and customize them all, and get to the point where I could actually run the new or repaired computer. I don't know what your labor costs, but for me it was a major expense and inconvenience, and I was ecstatic that I could skip it the last time thanks to a good backup program. In that recent case, I was up and running normally within hours, and most of my customers never knew anything had happened until I told them.
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