| Christian Blackburn 2006-09-26, 7:15 pm |
| Hi Guys,
> No, it's a very good idea and quite necessary to test the backup image. I do
> a full image backup every night, then restore that image back to my root
> drive and boot from it. It guarantees the image is usable. I also burn a DVD
> every week with Friday's image in case my backup hd fails and once a month I
> take a DVD and store it off site.
I'm not aware that either title be it Ghost or TrueImage doesn't have a
test archive feature. That's a non-destructive way to try it.
> Just curious, why did you switch to Acronis? Personally, I've yet to find a
> reason to use anything other than Ghost 2003.
Ghost 2003 can't backup while windows is running and doesn't do
incremental backups. True Image is hideous at DVD backups though, so
much so I'm going to buy the latest version of Ghost (I think it's
called Save and Restore now?) so I can get a working incremental DVD
backup. Incremental works great on an HD, also if I use TrueImage and
tell it to make 4GB pieces, but put them on the HD that works.
TrueImage just has despicable support for burners and yes I'm using the
latest version build 3677 (I think whatever it was from about 6 months
ago that they haven't updated since). True Image has already wrecked a
10 DVD, 3 DVD, and 11 DVD backups by not being able to accept and then
close the session on the first disc. Ghost also has the decency to
guestimate how many discs you'll require. TrueImage has a wonderful
bootable version that is far more friendly than Ghost. Ghost has a
bunch of overly technical options for legacy drive support, but it also
can do network backups, something only the professional version of True
Image can do. One other considerable advantage to TrueImage (mind you
I'm not arguing for one over the other) is the ability to save to a
proprietary partition that most virusses can't touch.
Cheers,
Christian Blackburn
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