Re: Backup / System State Restore
From: John Barnett MVP (freelanceit_at_mvps.org.nospam)
Date: 05/17/04
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Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 01:17:25 +0100
Ghost, Drive Image, and Acronis true Image takes an Image of the whole of
your hard drive - that means operating system, applications and data.
You are backing up your data files but that is all. What happens if a
problem occurs with the operating system and system restore is unable to
correct it? The simple answer is you are stuck. The easy solution is to
reinstall xp. How long does it take to reinstall xp? depending on your
machine anything from 30 to 45 minutes. Add to this a couple more hours for
installing your software applications like office, anti virus etc etc and
you have a total down time of 2.5 to 3 hours. You also have to set xp up the
way you like it - desktop, screensaver etc. With drive image software they
take an accurate copy of the whole of your system. Any problems all you have
to do - we'll take Powerquest drive image as an example - is put the drive
image disc into your cd-rom and bootup. At the main interface select the
option to reinstall the image backup. Browse for the backup file, (you may
have saved it to a second hard drive or a set of cd's) and then let drive
image get on with the job. As an example my drive image backup is saved to a
seperate hard drive. It takes me, on average, 20 minutes to reinstall. That
means the reinstallation of xp, all updates, office, adobe acrobat,
photoshop, paintshop pro, anti virus, and a load of other stuff. I'd rather
spend 20 minutes reinstalling than 3 hours or more.
-- John Barnett MVP Associate Expert www.freelanceit.glowinternet.net "VictorD" <victord@istar.ca> wrote in message news:dcb801c43b9d$601eec00$a101280a@phx.gbl... >I have been looking at various system restore products, > Symantec Ghost and Acronis True Image. They look like very > good products, but I do a weekly backup of my data files > and system state. I store this backup on a cd. My > question is: If I can recover my pc from this weekly > backup, why should I get one of these system restore > products? What will they do that the WinXP backup/restore > utility can't do? > >
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