Re: Maxtor Backup failure - ping Anna! (about Acronis)

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"Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
Just to be sure about terminology - Acronis's True Image makes
image files (which may be compressed and stored like any file),
but it does not make "clones" (exact byte-for-byte copies that are
directly bootable). If your HD crashes and you have to make a new
system, you will have to "restore" the contents of the image file to
a new HD if you use True Image. Ghost and CasperXP, on the other
hand, can make true "clones", and you don't have to restore the image
to another HD - you can just boot the HD that contains the clone
(if that HD is IDE PATA or SATA). Be clear about what you want to do.

*TimDaniels*


Anna wrote:
Tim:
The ATI program does indeed create clones. While it also can be used to
create disk >> images for later recovery, there's no problem using the
program for cloning the contents of one HD to another HD similar to the
Norton Ghost program and I suppose >> the Casper XP program which you
use. We do this nearly every day.

Did you see the step-by-step instructions I posted to Barbara in this
thread which details the disk-to-disk cloning process?
Anna


"Timothy Daniels" <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:RNidndPRQ7RpTk_ZnZ2dnUVZ_sOdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sorry. Yes, you're right, Anna. The deficiency of True Image (version
8.0 at
least) in comparison with Ghost and Casper XP is that True Image makes the
contents of the old HD the entirety of the contents of the new HD.
According
to the .pdf version 9.0 User's Guide, chapter 12:

In Automatic mode,

"There will be only one difference between these disks ? partitions on
the newer disk will be larger. Everything else, including the installed
operating systems, data, disk labels, settings, software and everything
else on the disk, will remain the same."

In Manual mode,

"The manual mode will provide more data transfer flexibility.
1. You will be able to select the method of partition and data transfer:
? as is
? new disk space is proportionally distributed between the old disk
partitions
? new disk space is distributed manually
2. You will also be able to select operations to perform on the old disk:
? leave partitions (and data!) on the old disk
? remove all information from the old disk
? create new partitions on the old disk (and remove all the older
information)"

This makes no mention of being able to select one partition from among
several partitions on the old HD and putting that single partition among
several on the new HD. That ability is very handy for archiving several
versions of a single OS (taken at various times) and putting each of them
on a large archival HD and being able to boot any one of them at will.
The transfer of the entirety of a HD to another HD is exactly what one
wants to do when upgrading to a larger HD, but that capability is
available in free software offered by most HD manufacturers. To gain the
added freedom to clone just a single partition and being able to put it
among other previously cloned versions of the OS on the destination HD
remains for Ghost and Casper XP to do (among the major backup utilities).
So if the OP later wants to archive more than one version of the OS,
she/he will have to look beyond True Image.

Please tell me if version 9.0 of the True Image utility actually does
now enable cloning of a single partition from among several partitions
and putting that partition among several partitions on the destination
HD. I would be happy to buy a copy of True Image if it indeed does
enable that.

*TimDaniels*


Tim:
We've been working with the ATI 9 program for only a short time now but as
best as I can detect, the same limitation exists in the 9 version as it did
in the 8 version, i.e., there's no capability when undertaking *direct*
disk-to-disk cloning operations insofar as cloning individual partitions
between the disks (as you can with Ghost and I take it, the Capsper XP
program). AFAIK, this capability does exist in the ATI 9 program (to the
best of my knowledge - I haven't as yet worked with this specific situation)
in terms of creating disk images and subsequently using the recovery process
to restore individual partitons to the target (destination) disk.

Perhaps other users of the ATI 9 program may wish to comment on this.
Anna


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