Rick, Confused with your answer So, when you 1st make the backup, you store it to removable media in chunks? If so, what does NERO have to do with it? If not, are you setting a image split size in TrueImage, backing up to an HD and then burning to DVD with NERO? If so, what is your split size? If not, then you are using NERO to split the single backup image to multiple DVD?
My process: 1) System HD drive is monthly backed up as single image in a secure zone setup on a hard drive dedicated only for backups. 2) Data HD drive is monthly backed up as single image in the secure zone setup on same backup hard drive. 3) Incremental backups for the system drive and data drive are backed up on same secure zone on the dedicated backup hard drive. 4) The following month, the process repeats. I find that I currently can have two full sets of backup on the backup drive. My backup HD is a 250Gb drive. 5) I am in danger of not creating an image from the backup drive to DVD. I want to do this, but haven't found the best way. I can state that I have been very successful with the dedicated backup HD. I lost my system several times (testing things) earlier this year while running TI 8.0 and the bootable acronis disk with the backup drive worked fantastically. The real world tests that I had sure made me a believer in backup. R.Baker -----Original Message----- From: Rick Glazier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 10:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Acronis TrueImage 9 Mixed in... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Baker Randal" < > The "chunking" feature, as you call it, always seems pretty shaky. I have "always" used it that way, except in the past, I always made the pieces 650M. Note that, being from the "old school", I ALWAYS use the boot CD to store and restore image files to the HD. (I burn them later to DVD with Nero.) I always thought burning direct to a CD-R was the worse feature of programs of this type. (It seldom worked for me in this pogram, if ever...) > Question for you (sorry to semi-hijack the thread): Are you using > the secure zone? That is sort of a two part thing... I use Recovery Manager. (An "add-on" to Secure Zone.) I did not like the idea of storing my info on the same drive that I was hoping would not fail... (If the drive failed, what then...) >Do you know if it possible to copy the Secure Zone backup out > to DVD? I don't see why not, as long as it was small enough. It is just a partition, (a different type). To use it, you would have to restore it back where it was, or the program would not be able to use it... For the reasons above, I never needed or wanted to... Since you mentioned incrementals: See the list archives about doing a "re-set" back to the first full back-up image instead of just starting over. (Although starting over can have advantages if the full image was on eraseable media.) Rick Glazier -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
