Re: Image of boot disk SATA

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Anna wrote:
Cliff Wild wrote:

What is the difference between a clone and an image and what would
be any
advantage of using one method over the other? I keep clones ready
to swap installed in drawers and can't think of a faster way. 30
seconds tops. Cliff


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Malke
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Cliff:
First of all, contrary to the final sentence of the Acronis FAQ that
Malke referred you to...creating a disk clone of your day-to-day
working HDD on a routine basis *is* a viable backup strategy for many
users. There's a lot to be said in favor of having a clone of your
working HDD and one that is instantly bootable without the need of
some recovery/restore process. If you're comfortable with such as
*your* backup strategy, that's fine. The crucial point is *having* a
backup strategy and employing it on a systematic basis.

The advantage of creating disk images in lieu of (or in addition to)
creating disk clones as a backup strategy is (at least from my point
of view) twofold...
1. The image(s) are compressed files so there is a substantial
savings of disk space when the disk image file is copied to either
another internal HDD or an external device, and,
2. There's a substantial reduction of time in creating incremental
disk image files as compared with the disk-to-disk cloning operation.
Creating the initial backup disk image takes about the same amount of
time as creating a disk clone. But the real time-savings occurs when
the user creates subsequent incremental disk images. Done on a
reasonably routine basis, those incremental backup files take only a
fraction of the time it would take for the user to create a disk
clone. And, most importantly, in our experience, because of this
substantial time-savings feature, the user is thus inclined to backup
his/her system on a more frequent basis than he/she would otherwise
do with the disk cloning process.
Why don't you give disk imaging a try? See how you like it. You can
still use your disk cloning operations as well since one process
doesn't negate the other.
Anna

Oh I will. I believe it is a good idea to have as many back up plans as
possible. In spite of all my plans I ended up with a drive that somehow
became un-readable. Disk management reports it as being "unallocated". I
know it is about 75% full but have no idea how to retrieve my data. I guess
that isn't bad odds considering I have over 20 others that have never
failed.

Cliff


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