Re: Drive Image software and external hard drives

From: Dr. Indera (dr.indera.bugoff_at_cant.spam.me)
Date: 06/30/04 

Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:34:38 -0400

hi al,

that sounds like a great plan, except for the fact that i have a laptop
<smile>
i'll pull out drive image over the weekend, dust it off, and try it out. i
hope it works for me.
i do have version 7.

thanks
indera

"Al Smith" <invalid@address.com> wrote in message
news:ce0Ec.65608$Np3.3104140@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca...
: > someplace in my house i have drive image. i was wondering if i can use
it to
: > place the images right on an external hard drive. the last time i looked
: > into doing this, you had to partition your C drive, put the image there
and
: > then copy the image to the external drive. i didn't have enough space on
my
: > C drive to partition it, so i didn't go any further.
: >
: > if you are doing this, what brands of external drives work best with
drive
: > image? i get the feeling that some work better with the software than
: > others, but i could be wrong.
: >
: > thanks
: > indera
:
: I use Drive Image all the time. It's a good backup program. It
: will write its images of hard drives either to other hard drives,
: or to CDs or DVDs. I assume it will write directly to removeable
: hard drives but haven't tried this, since I don't have a
: removeable hard drive.
:
: The easiest method is to do a compressed image of the drive you
: want to back up and save it to another hard drive, then copy that
: compressed image file to wherever you want to save it.
:
: If you wanted to save your compressed C drive to CD-R disks, or
: DVD-R disks, for example, you could set Drive Image to cut its
: compressed image file into chunks that would fit on the disks you
: are using, have Drive Image write the image file to a backup
: directory you created on the second hard drive, then simply copy
: the parts of the compressed image to the DVD disks. It's quite
: fast and easy that way.
:
: My own practice is to keep two full backups of my C drive on
: another hard drive on my computer, both up to date to within a
: couple of weeks, and every six weeks or so, to copy one of the
: backup sets to DVD-RW disks (the kind that can be erased and used
: over and over). That way I have three full compressed image files
: of C, two on the computer itself and one on DVD storage.
:
: I also use a DVD-RAM disk to backup my most valuable data files,
: uncompressed, by simply copying the data folder to the DVD-RAM
: disk. I'm a little more serious about backups than most people,
: though. :-)

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