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Ghost 9 or Acronis True Image?
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| Louise 2004-12-28, 2:45 am |
| Want to make a full image and regular daily incremental backups.
Will both programs do this and which would you recommend?
I have been using Dantz Retrospect with an external usb drive but
Retrospect has been throwing a lot of errors lately and their tech was
nice, but not helpful when all he could say about its stopping before
completion was that Retrospect was "choking on some file or other".
TIA
Louise
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| I use Acronis Tue Image and find it works very well. I image my C drive to
an external USB2 drive and make a recovery CD that works. I had looked at
Ghost but the new Ghost uses the Microsoft .net SW and that makes it too
cumbersome for me.
Larry
"Louise" <none@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Want to make a full image and regular daily incremental backups.
>
> Will both programs do this and which would you recommend?
>
> I have been using Dantz Retrospect with an external usb drive but
> Retrospect has been throwing a lot of errors lately and their tech was
> nice, but not helpful when all he could say about its stopping before
> completion was that Retrospect was "choking on some file or other".
>
> TIA
>
> Louise
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| Charlie 2004-12-29, 2:45 am |
| Using Ghost 9 here to make weekly backups to a network drive.
Works -completely- in WinXP including recovery mode. Just slip in the CD and
recover. For me it has been the best $69 I ever spent on software. I did
notice tonight it is posted twice in alt.binaries.warez...but I get a warm
feeling knowing I paid.
--
Charlie
Ham Radio - AD5TH
www.ad5th.com
Live Blues Music
www.492acousticblues.com
"Larry" <me@myhome.xyz> wrote in message
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>I use Acronis Tue Image and find it works very well. I image my C drive to
> an external USB2 drive and make a recovery CD that works. I had looked at
> Ghost but the new Ghost uses the Microsoft .net SW and that makes it too
> cumbersome for me.
>
> Larry
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> "Louise" <none@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1c3ab60ea7b2f70c989757@news.newsguy.com...
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| Kenneth 2004-12-29, 7:45 am |
| On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:18:18 -0600, "Charlie"
<charlie@aol.com> wrote:
>Just slip in the CD and
>recover.
Hi Charlie,
'Just curious...
Have you every actually done such a recovery?
Thanks,
--
Kenneth
If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."
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| budman@suckeggs.ca 2004-12-29, 5:45 pm |
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I have, just as a test after installing Ghost 9.0. I transferred a folder to
another spot and "recovered" the folder from the backup, just as if you were
recovering the drive.
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| Charlie 2004-12-30, 2:45 am |
| Yes I have as a test so I would have confidence in the backup. I first
restored a few files and folders at random and then did a full recovery from
the most recent image file which (for this test) was only a few minutes old.
I also do incremental backups every other day along with the weekly full
backup. I have also tested the incremental backup files by restoring files
and folders from them.
I can't find any problems with Ghost 9. I send all it's output to my wife's
computer which is on our home network. For me so far..Ghost 9 has worked
like a dream and has never missed a lick.
--
Charlie
Ham Radio - AD5TH
www.ad5th.com
Live Blues Music
www.492acousticblues.com
"Kenneth" <usenet@SPAMLESSsoleassociates.com> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:18:18 -0600, "Charlie"
> <charlie@aol.com> wrote:
>
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> Hi Charlie,
>
> 'Just curious...
>
> Have you every actually done such a recovery?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Kenneth
>
> If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."
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| Phoenix 2005-01-04, 2:45 am |
| I have to agree with Larry on this one. I have Drive Image 7, which uses
dot.net. The Recovery Environment takes some time to load, and it's finicky
about which NIC card you have (doesn't recognize the one inmy new machine).
I don't understand why it even needs a network card if you're not saving to
a network.
"Louise" <none@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Want to make a full image and regular daily incremental backups.
>
> Will both programs do this and which would you recommend?
>
> I have been using Dantz Retrospect with an external usb drive but
> Retrospect has been throwing a lot of errors lately and their tech was
> nice, but not helpful when all he could say about its stopping before
> completion was that Retrospect was "choking on some file or other".
>
> TIA
>
> Louise
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| who_cares 2005-01-05, 5:45 pm |
| On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:11:35 -0500, Kenneth
<usenet@SPAMLESSsoleassociates.com> wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 00:18:18 -0600, "Charlie"
><charlie@aol.com> wrote:
>
>
>Hi Charlie,
>
>'Just curious...
>
>Have you every actually done such a recovery?
>
>Thanks,
Thought I would "jump in" and mention that I did a complete image
backup of my system (XP pro) using TrueImage 8.0 (also created
the rescue CD) .... (The image backup was made directly to
an external USB drive.)
I then formated the HD on a completely diff. system. The processor
was not the same and had a diff. kind of MB.
I used the backup image on the USB drive and the rescue CD to
do a "restore" and established basically a "clone" system on a
different computer. I wasn't sure if XP would allow it... but it did
work.
This makes me feel pretty confident.
I can vouch for TrueImage.
BTW.... I also tried the last version of DriveIMage b/4 it was sold
and it appeared to work, but that version did not use incremental
BU's and didn't seem to work as fast.
Also..... I have also used the clone feature of TrueImage and it
also works well.
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| Kenneth 2005-01-05, 5:45 pm |
| On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:41:59 GMT, who_cares
<too_many_rookiesNOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:
>and established basically a "clone" system on a
>different computer.
Howdy,
I would think that would produce enormous hardware-related
difficulties.
How would the registry recognize anything on the system?
Thanks,
--
Kenneth
If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."
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| zigipha@hotmail.com 2005-01-06, 5:45 pm |
| I was always under the impression that moving an install from one
machine to another should be "ok" re the new hardware. For example, if
there was NICa on the old system and NICb on the new systems, I can
remove from the old system NICa and plug in NICb, and assuming that the
drivers were available, things should work. Why would this not work
moving the install to a new systems with NICb?
Kenneth wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 17:41:59 GMT, who_cares
> <too_many_rookiesNOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Howdy,
>
> I would think that would produce enormous hardware-related
> difficulties.
>
> How would the registry recognize anything on the system?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Kenneth
>
> If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."
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| Kenneth 2005-01-06, 5:45 pm |
| On 6 Jan 2005 06:33:43 -0800, zigipha@hotmail.com wrote:
[vbcol=seagreen]
>I was always under the impression that moving an install from one
>machine to another should be "ok" re the new hardware. For example, if
>there was NICa on the old system and NICb on the new systems, I can
>remove from the old system NICa and plug in NICb, and assuming that the
>drivers were available, things should work. Why would this not work
>moving the install to a new systems with NICb?
>
>Kenneth wrote:
Howdy,
I don't deny that it could be done, but when I read your
original post it sounded to me that you thought it would be
rather easy.
I would guess that if one wanted to reinstall every driver
in use on the system, it could work.
All the best,
--
Kenneth
If you email... Please remove the "SPAMLESS."
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| nathanv117 2005-01-09, 8:17 pm |
| Ghost 9 or Acronis True Image?
Tried True Image 8 to backup under W2K Pro.
C: W2K OS drive - worked,
D: fat32 data drive - worked
E: 3rd drive having 1 fat 32 , 1 Suse 92 Swap, and 1 reiser fs partiions.
Did full disk backup of 3rd drive and restore - worked.
Did 3rd drive fat32 partition backup and restore - Worked.
Did 3rd drive resiserfs partiton backup and restore - worked.
Tried file/folder restore in fat32 partitions - worked.
Can not do file/folder restore for reiserfs. Knew this constraint. Can do only partition backup and restore.
Also tried backup/restore partitions using rescue CD - worked. Can not do file/folder restore - Knew the constraint.
All of the above created backup as an image file.
Have options for compression. I tried Normal.
Backsup only used space and uses compression.
Speed - good. Usability - good. Reliability - good.
Price - Good value for W2k and Resiserfs/ext2/ext3 environment backup/restore.
I like it as far as I have tested.
I think ghost does not do reiserfs backup/restore. | |
| guest1432 2005-02-04, 6:36 am |
| I like TrueImage.
I also like xxclone (website by the same name) precisely for one reason; you can clone your drive to another internal drive. If the first drive fails, all you have to do is to boot from the clone drive, nothing else is involved. The advantages for me: zero-time system recovery, and need only 2 drives, the original one + the clone drive. With TrueImage, in the event of a complete system failure, you drive count is up to 3 - the failed system drive, the backup drive, and the new system drive.
xxclone will make an exact system copy at the files+folders level (no compression). This means that to restore any file or folder you simply drag&drop it from explorer. | |
| nathanv117 2005-02-04, 9:36 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by guest1432
I like TrueImage.
I also like xxclone (website by the same name) precisely for one reason; you can clone your drive to another internal drive. If the first drive fails, all you have to do is to boot from the clone drive, nothing else is involved. The advantages for me: zero-time system recovery, and need only 2 drives, the original one + the clone drive. With TrueImage, in the event of a complete system failure, you drive count is up to 3 - the failed system drive, the backup drive, and the new system drive.
xxclone will make an exact system copy at the files+folders level (no compression). This means that to restore any file or folder you simply drag&drop it from explorer.
Does xxclone support Linux partitions? | |
| deaddybear 2005-02-20, 4:43 am |
| quote:
Originally posted by nathanv117
Ghost 9 or Acronis True Image?
Acronis True Image, if you ask me. Never regreted buying it and the support staff is really nice. Got it at 15% off too from this place here
http://www.deprice.com/acronistrueimage.htm | |
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| And then you had to reactivate your XP software, right? :-)
"who_cares" <too_many_rookiesNOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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4ax.com...
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:11:35 -0500, Kenneth
> <usenet@SPAMLESSsoleassociates.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Thought I would "jump in" and mention that I did a complete image
> backup of my system (XP pro) using TrueImage 8.0 (also created
> the rescue CD) .... (The image backup was made directly to
> an external USB drive.)
>
> I then formated the HD on a completely diff. system. The processor
> was not the same and had a diff. kind of MB.
>
> I used the backup image on the USB drive and the rescue CD to
> do a "restore" and established basically a "clone" system on a
> different computer. I wasn't sure if XP would allow it... but it did
> work.
>
> This makes me feel pretty confident.
>
> I can vouch for TrueImage.
>
> BTW.... I also tried the last version of DriveIMage b/4 it was sold
> and it appeared to work, but that version did not use incremental
> BU's and didn't seem to work as fast.
>
> Also..... I have also used the clone feature of TrueImage and it
> also works well.
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| zigipha@hotmail.com 2005-03-10, 5:45 pm |
| I thought reactivcation was needed based on the number of system
changes. If you just change the hard disk for example, I dont think you
need to reactivate. If you take an existing hard disk and put it in a
new system, then yeah you probably need to.
JohnA wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> And then you had to reactivate your XP software, right? :-)
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> "who_cares" <too_many_rookiesNOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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did[vbcol=seagreen]
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| I thought we were talking about the case where someone restored to a totally
different system.
So I would expect reactivation would be required in that case...
-- John
<zigipha@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I thought reactivcation was needed based on the number of system
> changes. If you just change the hard disk for example, I dont think you
> need to reactivate. If you take an existing hard disk and put it in a
> new system, then yeah you probably need to.
>
> JohnA wrote:
> did
>
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| who_cares 2005-04-19, 5:47 pm |
| On Tue, 8 Mar 2005 03:29:25 -0500, "JohnA"
<John@discardstring-TheAtas.org> wrote:
>And then you had to reactivate your XP software, right? :-)
>
>"who_cares" <too_many_rookiesNOSPAM@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:5c9ot05c5mir4l6vcu92funr8m83mju4os@
4ax.com...
I can vouch for this also.
I did a complete image backup of my main system (XP pro) to
a USB drive and then used that same file along with a rescue
disk to restore to a complete diff system with a diff MB and
CPU. Maybe I was just lucky, but I ended up with a "clone".
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