Norrie
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Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
Hi all Like the subject says what do you all use ? I have been working on geting a very stable system and I am now ready and want to make a Image of my OS drive since Ive done a lot of tweeks and so on and dont want to lose it all I back up everything else to external hard drives or burn to disk and keep Archives etc Ive never had to make a image of a disk before so what do you all recomend? Acronis ? Ghost ? or is there other ways ? Whats your thoughts ? Thanks all Norrie
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/20 19:05:22
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AFAIK, Acronis works better than Ghost on Win7-64
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/20 19:06:14
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Acronis or Paragon. i prefer Paragon.
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Norrie
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/20 19:13:05
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/20 22:45:33
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So tell me why I shouldn't use the image utility included with Win 7? Thanks, Tom
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/21 02:33:15
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DeeringAmps So tell me why I shouldn't use the image utility included with Win 7? Thanks, Tom I've never used the Windows backup program as I prefer Acronis or Paragon. The one thing Acronis is great for is catastrophic failure of an hdisk or upgrading a system to a new hdisk or such. Boot the Acronis recovery DVD, point it to your image which can be on a network, DVD's other hdisks etc and away it goes. It's just about idiot proof and works very well. Is the Windows 7 image program able to do that? IOW what do you have to use to "kick start" the system?
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/21 06:29:55
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/21 06:36:51
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Another for Acronis Tru Image.
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/21 19:48:28
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Acronisis is what I have on my machines.
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/23 20:20:32
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Does Acronisis use up recourses or does it run in the background? Or can it be used when needed? Cheers.
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/23 20:43:53
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/29 12:04:50
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Boot the Acronis recovery DVD, point it to your image which can be on a network, DVD's other hdisks etc and away it goes. It's just about idiot proof and works very well. Is the Windows 7 image program able to do that? IOW what do you have to use to "kick start" the system? Windows creates a startup disk, you boot to the disk and it looks for the backup Image on your drives, including any external drives attached to the system. I have Acronis, didn't much care for the XP version, might have been just me... Tom
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/29 13:52:34
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DeeringAmps Boot the Acronis recovery DVD, point it to your image which can be on a network, DVD's other hdisks etc and away it goes. It's just about idiot proof and works very well. Is the Windows 7 image program able to do that? IOW what do you have to use to "kick start" the system? Windows creates a startup disk, you boot to the disk and it looks for the backup Image on your drives, including any external drives attached to the system. I have Acronis, didn't much care for the XP version, might have been just me... Tom Thanks Tom! I have and use Acronis as well. I was just curious about how the Windows 7 back up works.
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2010/12/29 17:39:59
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I have used Acronis True Image for 3 years now, upgrading about this time every year. I have since installed Windows 7 and used and tested the inbuilt backup and recovery utilities, and no longer consider the extra expense necessary. The first backup takes a long time, and I have seen critisisms levelled at it for that on various forums, but subsequent backups are incremental and are far quicker as a result. Can't see a problem with that myself, especially with the utility now included and therefore supported by Microsoft.
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2011/01/02 14:59:48
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+1 for Acronis True Image 2010. Love it! I hate Acronis True Image 2011, nothing but problems.
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2011/01/02 18:56:07
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I've heard quite a few complaints for Acronis True Image 2011. I've been using the Win7 backup utility for my Win7 boxes at home. I use Ghost 11.5.1 (multicasting to multiple machine using GhostCast Server) at work with Win7 for imaging our training room machines and it works fine. Jim
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Norrie
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2011/01/02 19:12:34
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Hi all thanks for al the replys! It loks like most of you are all useign Acronis and I think that will be the way I will go but can any one say more on the problems about acronis 11 ? rather than 10 I was just about to buy acronis 11 there. Can I still buy 10 no we are in 2011 ? Ive looked but couldnt find it I just need a good easy way of cloneing my system I have it runing awesome for the first time ever so I dont want to touch it untill I get it backed up. Better safe than sorry :D Norrie
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2011/01/03 20:52:22
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The backups almost always fail in 2011, and the restorations take for ever. This was from the first release of 2011 around mid 2010. I did a quick search to see if you could still buy 2010, and I came across a bunch of people saying 2010 doesn't work. I am running 2010 v5.055 on a Windows 7 64-bit Core i7 and have never had any problems backing-up or restoring the images, even those approaching 1tb, or creating MBR's. Plus, the incremental backups seem to work fine. You can still buy it online, if you look for it. Buy.com has them for $19.99 including shipping. Oh, you're in Scottland. In that case, I wouldn't know where you could buy it. On the other hand, you could probably download it from some wheres.
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2011/01/04 06:03:19
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Norrie
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2011/01/04 08:05:00
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2011/01/04 14:12:35
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Acronis True Image Home 2010 Backup and Recovery is what you need.. Acronis Backup and Security is a subscription service by Acronis that backs-up your information to their online server. Acnronis Backup and Recovery 10 is for server and multiple workstation back-ups.
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2011/01/05 04:37:30
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Yes, sorry Norrie (see what I did there), True Image is defnitely the one to go with.
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Norrie
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Re:Once you have a stable system what do you use for makeing a Disk Image ?
2011/01/05 08:14:08
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Yes I see what you did there :P haha Awesome I will order it today then I cant risk loseing the way the system is runing at the momment :) Norrie
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