Re: Best Drive Imaging Program?

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From: Edward W. Thompson (thomeduk1_at_btopenworld.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 06:25:35 +0100

If you use Acronis True Image it will do incremental backups.

"NobodyMan" <none@none.net> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 30 May 2004 14:54:20 -0400, "Gene K"
> <genekRE@MOVEolivianc.net> wrote:
>
> >Fred,
> >I take Alex Nichol's reply simply to mean that "Image for Windows" will
not
> >copy directly to the external Hard Drive [as is true of many other
programs;
> >they have not caught up to the existance of externals as yet. Rather you
> >copy to My Documents [or whereever] on the existing drive and then send
it
> >to the external. I would think you would then delete the copy on the
> >exixting internal drive [usually C] to avoid clogging your system with
> >fairly useless stuff.
> >That said, what is a GOOD backup program? In my view, you need both
types.
> >That is, drive imaging [once a week, month, whatever?] plus a good
backup
> >for every day.
> >--
> >Gene K
>
> Good summary. Daily imaging just to keep copies of your files that
> changed since the last image is like using a 2 ton piece of marble to
> smash a fly. It's overkill.
>
> We use Imaging programs (specifically Drive Image) for system
> deployment and OS repairs. It's quick and easy to take a stock
> system, put the image on it that contains the Enterprise standard
> OS/Apps/Tools, then deploy it. It also works great to quickly repair
> machines that have become heavily infested with viruses/spyware to the
> point they are practically useless to the end user.
>
> Daily backups are good for those few files that do change on a daily
> basis. Most of our users don't do it; they keep their critical files
> in their mapped Server folders. However, those files are backed up
> daily since we back up the servers every night.
>

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