Drive Image 7 question

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Farouk Dindar

Despite some of the negative comments on this product I am pleased with
it having tried it for 2 days.

I have scheduled it to make an image on my slave drive once a week.

Once a week I wil manually copy the image from slave drive to a USB
drive


I have not arrived at this stage yet.

Will the new image overwrite the previous one on my slave drive
without prompting?

I want it to do just that!

Farouk Dindar
 
"Farouk Dindar" asked:
Despite some of the negative comments on this product
I am pleased with it having tried it for 2 days.

I have scheduled it to make an image on my slave drive
once a week.

Once a week I wil manually copy the image from slave
drive to a USB drive


I have not arrived at this stage yet.

Will the new image overwrite the previous one on my
slave drive without prompting?

I want it to do just that!
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Hi, Farouk. Did you try it? If so, what happened?


*TimDaniels*
 
Hi, Farouk. Did you try it? If so, what happened?


*TimDaniels*
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Hi Tim

I did try it.

The new image will not overwrite but will have numbers added 001 002 etc.

If you specify 4 backups it will recycle and the 5 th image will overwrite 001

I have abandoned Drive Image 7 for the time being and have bought
Acronis True Image

Here is my main reason.

I simulated a crash and wiped my primary disk clean!

It had 3 primary partitions.

When I used DI7 to do a restore everything goes well BUT when I
begin win 2k it crashes "ntoskrnl.exe file is corrupted or missing"

If I use Acronis True Image to restore everything works fine

I had the same problem on my home and office computers.

I have sent e-mail to Powerquest today. I hope to get a reply in
48 hours.

At this stage I feel that I will stay wit Acronis True Image.

It has worked flawlessly for me thus far.

It is very compact and the bootable CD has less than 6 megs of
data.

It is reliable Linux kernel with Acronis software..

It has been around for over a year with rave reviews. I have yet
to read about a failed restore with an image created by TI

It cannot do scheduled backup but this is how I am going to protect
myself.

I have setup the Win 2k task scheduler to start this program once
a week. When it starts the program on Sunday evening I will be manually
set it up to copy to my slave drive. I have 4 folders for each week where
the image will go.

This interruption will be about one minute and I will be back computing with
win 2k

I have setup native win 2k backup program to copy selected folders to
the slave drive daily. I have been doing this for a couple of years. It works
flawlessly.

I should quit now.

Farouk Dindar
 
Wouldn't the preferrable way be to just do an incremental image, only
updating new or changed files?
Does DI7 do this?
I have the product, but have not opened it yet since I don't yet have the
USB drive I want.
 
Wouldn't the preferrable way be to just do an incremental
image, only updating new or changed files?
Yep.

Does DI7 do this?
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Nope, but their other product, V2i Protector does.
I have the product, but have not opened it yet
since I don't yet have the USB drive I want.
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And you're too busy sleepwalking.
 
Wouldn't the preferrable way be to just do an incremental image, only
updating new or changed files?
Does DI7 do this?
I have the product, but have not opened it yet since I don't yet have the
USB drive I want.
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The slightly more expensive product sold as a "Business solution"
PowerQuest V2i Protector 2.0 does incremental backup images.

http://www.powerquest.com/v2i/protector/

Farouk Dindar
 
Farouk said:
I have abandoned Drive Image 7 for the time being and have bought
Acronis True Image
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I recently started using True Image, and I think it works great.
Supports my external USB2 hard drive and also Windows "Network
Neighborhood" right from the bootable CD-ROM. So if I'm backing up
over the network, I don't have to have to reboot my main machine to make
it a dedicated slave machine, like Ghost requires.

It also natively supports my Linux machine's filesystems, such as EXT3
and Reiserfs.

The only limitation I'm seeing so far is that it doesn't support a
direct drive-to-drive copy.


-WD
 
I recently started using True Image, and I think it works great.
Supports my external USB2 hard drive and also Windows "Network
Neighborhood" right from the bootable CD-ROM. So if I'm backing up
over the network, I don't have to have to reboot my main machine to make
it a dedicated slave machine, like Ghost requires.

It also natively supports my Linux machine's filesystems, such as EXT3
and Reiserfs.

The only limitation I'm seeing so far is that it doesn't support a
direct drive-to-drive copy.


-WD
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Hi Wil

Thanks for sharing your experience.

My home computer has got nothing earth shattering on it
except that I manage a few mailing lists. I can therefore
play around with my system after making a copy of
my Eudora folder and digital camera images to a
slave drive.

I have 3 primary partitions on my main drive - Win 2k,
Win 2k, Win ME. (The Me partition has recently been occupied
by many versions on Linux the last one being Mandrake!)

This morning I decided to simulate a TOTAL crash of my
hard disk.

I had made 3 images on an USB disk

I deleted all the partitions on my main hard drive with
Partition Magic.

I then booted with the True Image with the CD and reinstalled
the 3 images onto this " fresh new" hard disk.

Within an hour my computer was back to its prior self.

I am incredibly impressed with True Image. The beauty of Linux!

The CD had only 5.7 megs of data!

I am a solo neurologist and my EMG Lab equipment software
is built on Win2k or XP. I needed a reliable image of my system
to be used in a future disaster situation.

I plan to use this equipment for 10 years! I am expecting True
Image to serve me for 10 years when I turn 71 years old.

Farouk Dindar
 
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