what do you use for backups?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Talal Itani
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Talal Itani said:
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When you make an image with Acronis, and later a problem happens to the
drive, do you install the drive with the image and boot from it?
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Use the recovery CD you created with Acronis, and tell it to restore
the partition from the drive containing the image. But if the drive
"problem"
wasn't so serious as to wipe out the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager,
start your machine, press F11 promptly when the appropriate message
appears, and tell the Manager to restore the partition from the drive
containing the image. The last time I had to completely _replace_ a hard
drive, I first used the machine manufacturer's recovery disks to restore
the factory state of the drive (including the manufacturer's recovery
partition, which I doubt you would have saved), then installed Acronis
from its installation CD (this will among other things create the Startup
Recover Manager), then told Acronis to recover the C: partition from the
drive containing its image.

At some point, print out the Acronis manual. There's still nothing like
paper for when the electronics go south.

"The drive containing the image" is, for me, a removable LaCie hard drive,
which connects via a USB 2.0 port on my machine.
 
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