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Another Question about Acronis
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If I use Acronis to create an image back up and do not use "clone" hard
disk, will the image backup create a bootable hard disk if I restore to
another, bigger hard disk?
-Pete
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| Euthymenes 2006-04-11, 8:08 am |
| > If I use Acronis to create an image back up and do not use "clone" hard
> disk, will the image backup create a bootable hard disk if I restore to
> another, bigger hard disk?
Backups from Acronis are simple files.
Reloading of image backup can be made on other partitions. New partition is
bootable if original partition was bootable.
Acronis 8 accepts different size for target partition.
I tried Acronis 9 for same operation, but I got a message "different size"
and I could not execute the restoration ...
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"Euthymenes" <euthymenes(at)freesurf(point)fr> wrote in message
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> Backups from Acronis are simple files.
> Reloading of image backup can be made on other partitions. New partition
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> bootable if original partition was bootable.
> Acronis 8 accepts different size for target partition.
> I tried Acronis 9 for same operation, but I got a message "different size"
> and I could not execute the restoration ...
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How then is image backup different from cloning if you can boot from a
restored image file?
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| beenthere 2006-04-18, 12:13 am |
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> How then is image backup different from cloning if you can boot from a
> restored image file?
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Hi Pete. I thought we`d already covered this query.
A Clone is where you copy 1 drive to another in a bit by bit method ie.
the second drive is an Exact copy of the first. Say Old C:>>New C:
An Image is a complete copy of the first drive, but various levels
of compression can\could be applied to it, to reduce its size for
backup purposes.
If you created an image with No compression, then it would be
an exact copy of the original drive.
But as Cloning, or Imaging, is generally done to\with the OS drive,
say C:, it follows that you would Clone to your new C: drive,
But you would Image to a backup location, not C:
Whew.
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> Hi Pete. I thought we`d already covered this query.
> A Clone is where you copy 1 drive to another in a bit by bit method ie.
> the second drive is an Exact copy of the first. Say Old C:>>New C:
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> An Image is a complete copy of the first drive, but various levels
> of compression can\could be applied to it, to reduce its size for
> backup purposes.
> If you created an image with No compression, then it would be
> an exact copy of the original drive.
> But as Cloning, or Imaging, is generally done to\with the OS drive,
> say C:, it follows that you would Clone to your new C: drive,
> But you would Image to a backup location, not C:
> Whew.
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Thanks. It just takes a while to get it through my head. I'll cut and paste
this explanation in my Yahoo notebook.
-Pete
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| squire 2006-04-18, 12:13 am |
| In message <%5T_f.31346$g76.27571@newsfe2-gui.ntli.net>, beenthere
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><Pete@nospam.com> wrote in message
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>Hi Pete. I thought we`d already covered this query.
>A Clone is where you copy 1 drive to another in a bit by bit method ie.
>the second drive is an Exact copy of the first. Say Old C:>>New C:
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>An Image is a complete copy of the first drive,
Not quite. Whereas with cloning TI copies the complete drive, including
all its partitions, imaging can capture individual partitions on the
source drive. It will also exclude imaging XP's paging/hibernate files
and thereby reduce the image size. Those files will automatically be
re-created from new by the OS when run.
>but various levels
>of compression can\could be applied to it, to reduce its size for
>backup purposes.
>If you created an image with No compression, then it would be
>an exact copy of the original drive.
>But as Cloning, or Imaging, is generally done to\with the OS drive,
>say C:, it follows that you would Clone to your new C: drive,
>But you would Image to a backup location, not C:
>Whew.
OK, maybe I'm a bit paranoid after suffering the consequences of a
lightning strike 2 years ago... incidentally it bypassed my surge
protectors by spiking down the telephone line and fried my hard drive,
motherboard, adsl modem and laser printer. Insurance covered the
hardware but my backups were a bit out of date then and it took days to
reinstall programs and key-in data. My procedure now is as follows -
1. Image my C: drive to an external drive weekly, then disconnect the
external drive. I also alternate my two (fan-cooled) external drives. By
compressing the imaged files I can store quite a few copies. I could be
more efficient in using incremental images but somehow I feel I cant
quite trust that method, even thought TI has an integrity check which I
use after every full image creation.
2. I image in 3.9GB chunks and copy these to DVD monthly
3. I run Norton GoBack so that I can recover up to the previous 7 days
for simple stuff like accidental file deletion, or to use a restore
point if a newly installed or updated program that I don't like doesn't
fully delete. It would also be useful if a virus had managed to
infiltrate past my filters. I turn off GoBack when running TI as they
aren't compatible. I don't use XP's Restore facility because it doesn't
cover my data files, which I have yet to get around to filing in a
separate partition.
4. I don't bother using the cloning function at all.
--
Bryan
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