Re: System restore fails

Tech Tip: Click here to run a free scan for Windows Errors and optimize PC performance

"Rock" <Rock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:%23e753XOkHHA.4516@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
As a side note, I also have system restore active. It is a useful tool,
but I suggest you look at disk imaging as another means to protect your
system. Acronis True Image Home, version 10 can create full, incremental
or differential, compressed images of drives or partitions. These can be
saved to an external hard drive. Restores can be done on a file,
partition or drive basis. Use ATI to regularly image the system, and then
you have a means to restore the complete system in cases such as this or
where there is hardware failure, like a drive dies. ATI also does file
backup and drive cloning.

External drives can be purchased pre assembled or you can easily put one
together for less money by installing a bare drive in an external drive
enclosure. Enclosures are in the $20 range. A 320 GB drive set up this
was can be done for under $100.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

My backup strategy is from a few years back, when hard drives were a lot
smaller and not so cheap. As I said, I always do a Ghost backup once I have
the system and applications installed, working, and updated, but from there
have depended on system restore (and it's done very well overall since it
began with WinME).

But imaging 20-25 GB of a system drive uses so little space for
current-sized drives, that maybe it's time I revamped my backup strategy, to
not just photos and docs, to the whole system drive. I'll see if my Ghost
2003 does OK with that arrangement, if not maybe I'll try the Acronis you
mention, or the new Ghost 12 which surprisingly seems pretty good. Thanks
for the suggestions.

(incidentally, the system restore is now working, after having gotten rid of
the last of the aspi.... trojan files...and with today's update, AVG free
also recognizes them as bad guys...day late and a dollar short, I guess 8^)

Gary


.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Moving contents from one hard drive to the other
    ... (including windows and all installed programs) ... Couple this with an external hard drive connected to the computer via USB, Firewire or eSata and you a low cost but very effective backup strategy. ... When making the clone or drive copy, the key element to after the cloning process but before booting up for the first time disconnect all drives except the new, cloned drive, jumper / cable it properly, and have it as the only drive in the system when the system first boots. ... Afterwards you can reinstall the old drive as a slave drive and use that for additional storage, or put in in an external drive enclosure. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
  • Re: Cloning a disk using dd
    ... the external 'one-touch' drives are too expensive- and if you cand do it ... DO NOT PUT THE CLONED DISK AND THE ORIGINAL DISK IN SAME ... Windows found a way to break both copies. ... It's clear that this isn't a great backup strategy. ...
    (comp.os.linux.misc)
  • Re: Colorado 5GB tape drive
    ... >I need advice about my 2 Colorado 5GB tape drives. ... > my current computers with Windows XP and I cannot find a Windows XP driver ... Should I change my backup strategy to just back up data and then ...
    (comp.sys.hp.hardware)
  • Re: Backup devices
    ... creating a backup strategy. ... than 80 Gigs of drive space on it, and less than half of that is ... Use a USB external hard drive. ... the size (you can get 500 GB USB drives at www.newegg.com ...
    (comp.arch.storage)
  • Re: Possible Sleeping Virus
    ... Remember that System Restore only tracks SYSTEM files - not yours. ... You should periodically defragment your hard drives as well as check them ... using Windows XP "prettifications". ... You should at least turn on the built in firewall. ...
    (microsoft.public.windowsxp.newusers)