Re: Best Drive Imaging Program?

From: Natéag (PasPolitus_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 05/31/04 

Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 01:39:27 -0400

I wonder if it will do emergency recovery from a diskette or CD
from or to a SATA drive. There does not seem to be any way
of loading the required drivers.

I know that is possible with (Norton/Powerquest) Drive Image 7.

"Edward W. Thompson" <thomeduk1@btopenworld.com> a écrit dans le message de
news:%23r4j0%23sREHA.3344@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> If you use Acronis True Image it will do incremental backups.
>
> "NobodyMan" <none@none.net> wrote in message
> news:e2rkb0dg3inlk27i91dehe1bl63vc0deu0@4ax.com...
> > 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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