RMD Backup/Disk Image

darkladywolf · Post by **darkladywolf** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:32 am 0

Ok, here I go again, sponging off the intellectual resources of YakYak.

Both I and a friend of mine are looking for
a) A decent Backup program (Cobian?)
b) A Disk Imager.

She's in a position that she does a nuke and pave about once ever six months. She's about to do another, and would like to capture the disk just as it is now, so she doesn't have to go through the full installation process again next time.

Any recommendations for either A or B? I don't mind paying, she's in less of a 'price bracket'.

Edit: The reason I'm asking is that I'm rather lost with the choices out there. I really want to find out what experiences people have had with what software.

DutchLlama · Post by **DutchLlama** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:39 am 0

Dunno, Norton Ghost is the dogs bollocks of drive imaging software isn't it? Haven't used it for a nearly a decade though.

Stevo · Post by **Stevo** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 10:48 am 0

I would go with Norton Ghost.....I use it at work all the time

Mojo · Post by **Mojo** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:15 am 0

I've had good experiences with Acronis True Image 10 for home.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/pr ... trueimage/

and you can get a trial version here

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/do ... trueimage/

I think it works out quite cheap (~Â£21.50 in the uk)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acronis-True-Im ... 179&sr=8-1

hairy_pete · Post by **hairy_pete** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:41 am 0

I've been using the Acronis stuff a lot lately, no quibbles. I tend to use the bigger package "Disk Director Suite 10" rather than the plain disk imager.

RedOktober · Post by **RedOktober** » Sat Apr 28, 2007 11:53 am 0

You could try DriveImageXML for free.

darkladywolf · Post by **darkladywolf** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:27 am 0

Thanks folks. I've been ignoring Norton's Ghost because I've been told a lot about issues with it.

Well, ok, one friend who once had an issue and keeps telling me about it whenever there's even a hint of talking about Norton's anything.

I'll look into it again, as well as the others.

Stevo · Post by **Stevo** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 1:42 am 0

I use Norton's Ghost on 20 computers a day at work and never
had a problem with it........I think your friend had a PEBKAC error

Dungeon-Dave · Post by **Dungeon-Dave** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:28 am 0

I've used Ghost successfully for disk imaging (apart from LVM2 under FC5 on SATA disks at the moment).

Any reason why they tend to nuke every 6 months? Legal reasons?

darkladywolf · Post by **darkladywolf** » Sun Apr 29, 2007 2:46 am 0

Dungeon-Dave wrote:I've used Ghost successfully for disk imaging (apart from LVM2 under FC5 on SATA disks at the moment).

Any reason why they tend to nuke every 6 months? Legal reasons?

They do a lot with their machine, in terms of installing, uninstalling and the like. They notice that after a while (about 6 months) the system becomes dog slow and begins to crash. They do the 'registry repair'/spyware/virus/yadda yadda stuff regularly (after the first 2 nuke and paves I got them doing that). But even so, they do a lot of image work, and find a nuke/pave teh best way to go to get back performance.

Having said that, this time it was a virus. They're finally getting rid of Norton's AV. It's only taken me three years to get them to do that.

chris4500uk · Post by **chris4500uk** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 11:36 am 0

RedOktober wrote:You could try DriveImageXML for free.

very good free program, worth giving it a try