Re: Casper 5 - One for Anna

On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 23:10:13 -0700, "Bill in Co."
<not_really_here@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ONE MORE TIME: I think Casper is a FINE program, and no other program
does what it does better than it does. I LOVE IT. But I ONLY use it
to cover me in case a very specific situation arises: if my system
drive completely dies and I want to get back up and running in mere
seconds.

Which (admitedly) is not my principal use for it, and so I'm using ATI.

My principal use for it is some of the stuff you already enumerated, chief
of which is all the software tests, and messing around with the software
that I do. And I need several complete system image backups for that. (I
have often restored a specific image to get back to where I was before I
tried something out that didn't pan out so well)

And - I want to have readily available several different, dated, backups
with ready file access if I want to copy or just look at those files for
some comparisons, etc. So my backup hard drive has one large partition it
it, with multiple backup images of my system in it.

Same here. I have no fewer than a dozen "old" backups covering the
past 30 days or so. Those "old" backups include 4 complete backups
along with their incremental backups (which can also be used to
restore to the date of the incremental backup).

Those different, dated backups are ALSO very nice to have on hand in
case you've inadvertently backed up a hosed system where you haven't
discovered that it is hosed until after your most recent backup has
been made.

Can't do that with Casper, because it only has ONE "backup" to restore
from.

Incidentally... I am in the midst of another ATI incremental backup
right now. When that's done, I will use Casper to update my clone.

Richie Hardwick
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