Backing up XP

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What happens when the disc goes belly up?
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If I were perpetually updating and copying "the same installation of
Win2K since 12/99" I would consider keeping it on a separate disk.
That's far from the circumstance here, and I have only one hard
drive installed. There are lots of considerations, depends on the
circumstance.
 
Use nero to backup the c: drive with your basic operating system
installation, driver's,and software.
With me it only took 2 dvd or around 5GB to backup a basic installation.
Nero often comes bundled
when you buy a dvd burner.
 
Terry said:
My nephew is notorious for getting spyware on my computer. I use
FSecure. I was lucky enough this time that a system restore fixed the
problem

I am rethinking my strategy for installing XP. I think the next time
I have to wipe out my computer and start over I will try something
new.

I plan to have a 30G partition for XP. I have a couple of programs
that I install as soon as I install the operating system. Instead of
trying to clean spyware, I want to make it easy to just start over.

What are some other back up strategies that make starting over easier?
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I use Ghost to image a box after installing the OS, software, updates
and configuration of Windows. Then it takes me about 5 minutes to get
back to a working OS as I like it.

I normally update the image 3 or 4 times through a year to save on the
amount of time updating the OS etc.

I keep the ghost image on a separate internal drive as well as on a USB
drive for safekeeping.
 
04:52:24 in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, vlmarcor
Use nero to backup the c: drive with your basic operating system
installation, driver's,and software. With me it only took 2 dvd or
around 5GB to backup a basic installation.
Nero often comes bundled
when you buy a dvd burner.
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Can Nero do a full, workable system backup - i.e. one that you can then
roll back in and thereby get back to your system as it was when you did
the backup?

I'm just raising the question, not seeking to answer either yes or no.
The reason for my doubt is that although I used Nero entirely
satisfactorily for several years, I only used it to back up user files
to CD. I wasn't aware that the version I got then could do a proper
system backup like True Image or Ghost - but my Nero version is from
several years ago and it may be that the more recent versions have that
facility.
 
2008 20:01:29 in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt, Terry
Ok. I purchased Acronis online.

I made a full backup of my C:(boot) partition.
I saved the file to a network drive and it was about 7Gigs.
I made a boot disk using the disk utility.

I tried booting from the boot disk to see what happens next. It
doesn't appear to allow you to restore from a network drive.

If I have a hard drive crash or replace the hard drive, how do I
restore the image from a network drive?
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I hope this isn't another Acronis gotcha. I have only used True Image
for backups to local media (DVDs and an external HDD).

Ever since I have been completely on to the full version, I have found
True Image very good for what I have been trying to do - but I haven't
tried using it with a network drive.

I did have one slight problem the first time I tried to back up to DVD
[on a new laptop]. I set up the options to do the backup and an image
verification in the same run. At the end of the DVD I got a message
something like "insert last media". I assumed the image was spanning
onto a second DVD and put in a blank one - but then kept getting an
error message and "retry". After wasting much time and two DVDs I
finally worked out what was actually happening: the backup was complete
on just one DVD and the program was actually asking for the _same_ DVD
again for the verification step. Everything had been OK all the time and
I didn't in fact need to change the DVD at all. It may be just me, but I
felt the prompts weren't entirely clear. Just including this paragraph
in the posting lest someone else is having the same problem.
 
Ok. I purchased Acronis online.

I made a full backup of my C:(boot) partition.
I saved the file to a network drive and it was about 7Gigs.
I made a boot disk using the disk utility.
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I have 6 Gb system partition. I make bootable DVD containing
Actonis True Image and disk image file(s). Works great. I installed
system and all the programs I know I need and don't intend to
upgrade on it. Restoring takes 10 minutes. The beauty of it is
that I can play with any software without a need to ever reinstall
the system.

The other partition is used for "data". I back it up using
incremental strategy to an extermal HD.

DK
 
I have 6 Gb system partition. I make bootable DVD containing
Actonis True Image and disk image file(s). Works great. I installed
system and all the programs I know I need and don't intend to
upgrade on it. Restoring takes 10 minutes. The beauty of it is
that I can play with any software without a need to ever reinstall
the system.

The other partition is used for "data". I back it up using
incremental strategy to an extermal HD.
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How would you do this? Just use the option to make the disk bootable
and then copy/(write) the image file?

Or is there a way to do both at once?
 
On Jan 13, 5:53=A0pm, (e-mail address removed) (DK) wrote:
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How would you do this? Just use the option to make the disk bootable
and then copy/(write) the image file?

Or is there a way to do both at once?
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I have version 9.1 that made bootable backup CDs but not
DVDs. I suspect current version fixes that. In my case,
I had to resort to a third party freeware.

In brief:

1. You make an image of Acronis rescue CD - this
boots Acronis' little Linux and loads Acronis program.

2. You download CD Shell and BCDW, which allow
you to make a bootable DVD from the image you supply.

3. You burn CD shell/BCDW scipts together with
Acronis rescue image and your disk image file to DVD.

Once you have it all set up, it only takes supplying new
disk image file and burning to make new DVD backup.
I can upload a PDF that explains it step by step or you
can google it - there are many helpful guides on the
subject.

DK
 
You need to separate data from programs and have two disks. You can use
both disks but one is a backup to the other of data. That has always worked
best for me and when I do a clean install, I load the programs then restore
the data.

-g
 
"Terry" <[email protected]> kirjoitti
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Go have a read on the Acronis site Terry
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BTW no offence intended to you.
This site has no clear explanation of what the trial version does or
if it does you have to dig too long to find it.
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It's fully functional, but it works for 15 days only. 50$ for ease-of-mind
is pretty cheap for me...



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My nephew is notorious for getting spyware on my computer. I use
FSecure. I was lucky enough this time that a system restore fixed the
problem

I am rethinking my strategy for installing XP. I think the next time
I have to wipe out my computer and start over I will try something
new.

I plan to have a 30G partition for XP. I have a couple of programs
that I install as soon as I install the operating system. Instead of
trying to clean spyware, I want to make it easy to just start over.

What are some other back up strategies that make starting over easier?
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Either:

Don't let your nephew use your computer.

OR

Use a virtual PC for his use.

M
 
the world, and nature also; so that the former
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I am not posting this stuff. I have noticed that this rambling has
been posted here under my nick before.

These messages show up when I go a Google search of my email address.

Why would anyone post pages of random rambling in the first place? I
see no benefit to anyone for doing this.
 
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