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Use XP Restore or Backup data?
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| jtsnow 2005-03-19, 8:45 pm |
| If I do image backups and daily incrementals using Ghost....is there a
reason I should also keep the XP System restore feature on? I do a baseline
once a month and then daily incrementals with Ghost 9.
Turns out if I have the XP Restore on, then Ghost wont do incrementals, only
the large baseline backups.
My thought is that doing it by Ghost means I restore everything, even apps
from the date chosen, whereas XP Restore only restores system data...drivers
and such. So the only problem may be a longer restore from my backup drive
vesus using the XP Restore.
What do you think?
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| I have XP restore turned on and incrementals work just fine...
XP restore has been a mixed bag - when it works, it's nice. Say you install
a driver and it kills your system, it's easy to recover. But it is prone to
failure because of the way it restores and sometimes is entirely useless.
For example, if your virus checker updates itself, a restore to an earlier
time could make it inconsistent. Over the last few days, several restores
all failed - I could not get one restore point to successfully work. Glad I
didn't rely on it.
-- John
"jtsnow" <jtsnow@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> If I do image backups and daily incrementals using Ghost....is there a
> reason I should also keep the XP System restore feature on? I do a
> baseline once a month and then daily incrementals with Ghost 9.
>
> Turns out if I have the XP Restore on, then Ghost wont do incrementals,
> only the large baseline backups.
>
> My thought is that doing it by Ghost means I restore everything, even apps
> from the date chosen, whereas XP Restore only restores system
> data...drivers and such. So the only problem may be a longer restore from
> my backup drive vesus using the XP Restore.
>
> What do you think?
>
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