Re: Restore vs Backup

Not sure about TI 9. I use TI 8. When creating an image you can specify the
image size. There are several choices appropriate for Zip, CD, DVD etc. or
you can specify a size. The image will be split into files of the size you
specify. After the imaging process is complete you would use Nero to burn
the files to CD/DVD. When restoring the image TI will read the data directly
from the CD/DVD. TI can also write the image directly to CD/DVD using UDF
(InCD) and RW disks.

Kerry

Pete B wrote:
OK, now that brings up a few further questions: by "third-party
software" required, are you talking about that being required to burn
an image directly to a DVD? As I said, I have Nero installed, it can
burn data DVDs, would that suffice? I looked at the documentation
(available on the website as PDF), and it mentions that requirement,
but it is not exactly clear about doing it to a DVD.

I assume I could make an image to my HDD first, and then use the Nero
app to transfer that image to a bootable DVD, but is there some other
means in the product for doing this automatically or more directly to
the DVD without the HDD involved? I did not really see much stated
about this particular function, although I see it does explain things
in the general process quite well.

Various sections of the manual state as follows:

". 2.1.3 Supported storage media
Hard disk drives . Networked storage devices . CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW,
DVD+R/RW* . ZIP®, Jaz® and other removable media . P-ATA (IDE),
S-ATA, SCSI, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and USB 1.0 / 2.0 drives, PC card
storage devices. * - requires third-party DVD recording software to
be installed. . floppy disk drive or CD-RW drive for bootable media
creation....
...........

Sizeable archives can be split into several files that together make
the original archive. A single archive can also be split for burning
to removable media. The default setting ? Automatic. With this
setting, Acronis True Image Home will act as follows. When backing up
to the hard disk: If the selected disk has enough space and its file
system allows the estimated file size, the program will create a
single archive file. If the storage disk has enough space, but its
file system does not allow the estimated file size, Acronis True
Image Home will automatically split the image into several files. ...
FAT16 and FAT32 file systems have a 4 GB file size limit. At the same
time, the existing hard drives capacity may reach as much as 160GB.
Therefore, an archive file might easily exceed this limit, if you are
going to back up the entire disk. If you do not have enough space to
store the image on your hard disk, the program will warn you and wait
for your decision as to how you plan to fix the problem. You can try
to free some additional space and continue or click Back and select
another disk.
When backing up to a diskette, CD-R/RW, DVD-RW or DVD+R/RW: Acronis
True Image Home will ask you to insert a new disk when the previous
one is full. Alternatively, you can select Fixed size and enter the
desired file size or select it from the drop-down list. The archive
will then be split into multiple files of the specified size. That
comes in handy when backing up to a hard disk with a view to burning
the archive to CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW or DVD+R/RW later on. Creating
images directly on CD-R/RW, DVD-RW, DVD+R/RW might take considerably
more time then it would on a hard disk....."


I assume you would select that Fixed Size option to make the archive
for burning to a DVD later on, but the manual seems to indicate that
one can directly burn to a DVD and the app will warn when to insert
another DVD because the current one is full, or something like that. Is
that what happens, if so how does that involve third-party
software doing the burning of the DVD? If it just makes the
fixed-size files, that would be sufficient, I know how to burn them
to a DVD, but is that the exact way it does it, to your knowledge?

Also, does this software require a separate partition for that
Security Zone it sets up, or can that zone be part of the same
single-partition C drive? Currently I only have the single
non-partitioned HDD.

Appreciate this further explanatory help if you would be so kind,
before I invest in this product. It is a very modest price, but I do
not want to buy something I find I cannot use easily unless I am on a
network. In my business, every penny counts....


"Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m> wrote in message
news:uH0pkgfKGHA.3936@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Pete B wrote:


Anyway, one thing, I looked at the choices of software Mr. Zieglar
wrote about, abd I really do like that second suggestion, the
Acronis products. I may get that Image 9 package, as well as a
couple of their other apps, they seem to be the best I have seen. So my
thanks to Mr. Ziegler, I had never seen that company's
products before. Like I said, my big problem with imaging is simply
what to use for the backup storage media, but I will think of something,
and those
products do allow using DVDs.

I have used Acronis products for years. They work very well. You do
need 3rd party software to burn Acronis images to CD or DVD. They
process is quite easy and explained well in the documentation.

Kerry



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