"Imaging" system drive for backup

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What's good these days for doing a clone of a HD (system drive) onto a
CD for a bootable disaster recovery ?

I used to use Drive Image in the days of old with their scripts to
handle the writing and restore, but there was always a floppy
available to boot from... and that was before the borg assimilated
them. Nowadays I don't need the automated scripts... but I do need it
to boot from CD.
 
- Bob - said:
What's good these days for doing a clone of a HD
(system drive) onto a CD for a bootable disaster recovery ?
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True Image, tho its usually better to create a DVD instead of a CD.
I used to use Drive Image in the days of old with their scripts
to handle the writing and restore, but there was always a
floppy available to boot from... and that was before the
borg assimilated them. Nowadays I don't need the
automated scripts... but I do need it to boot from CD.
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True Image can do that fine, the CD or DVD is bootable.
 
What's good these days for doing a clone of a HD (system drive) onto a
CD for a bootable disaster recovery ?
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I try to use driveimageXML , which can be used from a bootable cd , the
program
seems to be fine but I have not gone through the process (post below)

at least I makes files backup OK , and restore them also on drive OK
(tested and I have all my files)

but I have some problems to boot with my new recreated boot disk , but
maybe I missed something ...
 
- Bob - said:
What's good these days for doing a clone of a HD (system drive) onto a
CD for a bootable disaster recovery ?

I used to use Drive Image in the days of old with their scripts to
handle the writing and restore, but there was always a floppy
available to boot from... and that was before the borg assimilated
them. Nowadays I don't need the automated scripts... but I do need it
to boot from CD.
Click to expand...

I don't bother anymore. I use VMware Converter (free) to snapshot my PC into
a virtual machine format. That way, even if my PC totally shits itself, I
can fire up VMware Player (free) or Workstation on another PC, load the
virtual machine and I'm back up and running literally within minutes. No
need to worry about hardware compatibility, drivers or anything else.
 
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