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| Ted Campanelli 2006-11-13, 8:17 am |
| I need to buy some backup software (prefer disk imaging type) for my new
computer. The computer is a dual core 975 chip running Windows XP sp2.
Ghost 2003 is creating new partitions and I loose all my data/programs
when I try to image the disk. Anyone know of a fix for this ? My old
machine was a Microsoft D/L upgrade to sp2 from their web site and
worked fine with Ghost 2003.
The software needs to meet the following criteria:
Must work with XP sp2 and NTFS file system
Must backup to DVD
Imaging software preferred
The backups must be either self booting or have a separate boot disk for
restoring.
Must be relatively fast. If possible I would like something with speeds
similar to Ghost 2003. 10 gig with Ghost 2003 takes about 45 minutes to
image and verify - restore takes about 30 minutes. This was on my old
machine, I hope the new machine will be the same or faster.
Thanks
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| Ted;
Acronis True Image Workstation 9.1 might meet your criteria:
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATICW/
I have only had the program for a couple of weeks, but it seems much faster
than Ghost 2003, at least in backing up and restoring partition images to
hard drives using its own boot CD. I like ability to verify that an image is
not corrupted, as I recently started having real problems with corrupted (or
at least nonfunctional) Ghost 2003 images.
Still haven't tried the backup to DVD-R feature.
So far as I can tell, it's a quality product.
Tom
"Ted Campanelli" <tcamp@grumpyoldmen.com> wrote in message
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>I need to buy some backup software (prefer disk imaging type) for my new
>computer. The computer is a dual core 975 chip running Windows XP sp2.
>
> Ghost 2003 is creating new partitions and I loose all my data/programs
> when I try to image the disk. Anyone know of a fix for this ? My old
> machine was a Microsoft D/L upgrade to sp2 from their web site and worked
> fine with Ghost 2003.
>
> The software needs to meet the following criteria:
>
> Must work with XP sp2 and NTFS file system
>
> Must backup to DVD
>
> Imaging software preferred
>
> The backups must be either self booting or have a separate boot disk for
> restoring.
>
> Must be relatively fast. If possible I would like something with speeds
> similar to Ghost 2003. 10 gig with Ghost 2003 takes about 45 minutes to
> image and verify - restore takes about 30 minutes. This was on my old
> machine, I hope the new machine will be the same or faster.
>
> Thanks
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| Ted Campanelli 2006-11-14, 7:13 pm |
| Ted shuffled out of his cave and grunted these great (and sometimes not
so great) words of knowledge:
I don't know about TI 9.1, however, TI 10 is VERY fussy about the dvd it
will accept. I went through 20 brand new dvd before it found a couple
that it liked. I also found the program to be quite slow. The image
creation wasn't bad - 10 gig imaged and verified in about 45 minutes.
The sloooow is on the restore. After getting the boot disk to recognize
the dvd in the drive, I let it run for about 5 minutes and it was still
saying about 3 1/2 hours !!! My machine is a 3.0 (Candlewood processor
) with 1 gig of 3200 ddr400 ram.
I figured out how to use Ghost 2003 to backup, restore and verify on XP
sp2 without it screwing up the HD.
> Ted;
>
> Acronis True Image Workstation 9.1 might meet your criteria:
>
> http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATICW/
>
> I have only had the program for a couple of weeks, but it seems much faster
> than Ghost 2003, at least in backing up and restoring partition images to
> hard drives using its own boot CD. I like ability to verify that an image is
> not corrupted, as I recently started having real problems with corrupted (or
> at least nonfunctional) Ghost 2003 images.
>
> Still haven't tried the backup to DVD-R feature.
>
> So far as I can tell, it's a quality product.
>
>
> Tom
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> "Ted Campanelli" <tcamp@grumpyoldmen.com> wrote in message
> news:zkS5h.5361$IR4.3213@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...
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| I tried backing up a basic ~3GB XP Pro SP2 install to DVD-R, then verifying
and restoring. Each of these operations took under 15 minutes, on an old
Athlon XP 1800 system.
TI Workstation is one of the Acronis "corporate" products, and 9.1 is the
current version.
Maybe your Acronis program doesn't like your DVD burner.
Tom
"Ted Campanelli" <tcamp@grumpyoldmen.com> wrote in message
news:SKq6h.7194$6t.2572@newssvr11.news.prodigy.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> Ted shuffled out of his cave and grunted these great (and sometimes not so
> great) words of knowledge:
>
> I don't know about TI 9.1, however, TI 10 is VERY fussy about the dvd it
> will accept. I went through 20 brand new dvd before it found a couple
> that it liked. I also found the program to be quite slow. The image
> creation wasn't bad - 10 gig imaged and verified in about 45 minutes. The
> sloooow is on the restore. After getting the boot disk to recognize the
> dvd in the drive, I let it run for about 5 minutes and it was still saying
> about 3 1/2 hours !!! My machine is a 3.0 (Candlewood processor ) with 1
> gig of 3200 ddr400 ram.
>
> I figured out how to use Ghost 2003 to backup, restore and verify on XP
> sp2 without it screwing up the HD.
>
>
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