Amen! to both of these statements.Originally posted by: furballi
Bootit NG is a tiny application that can reside in its own partition. You can also install Bootit in windows. Simply reboot the PC to image ANY partition. NO NEED FOR BOOT CD.
I would avoid an imaging software that requires .NET to function (like Ghost).
Originally posted by: nealh
Acronis can be used over a LAN network at my home to backup any of my computers...I have used this for a couple yrs..love it..I have used the backups on my desktops several times..always works flawlessly(always check image to make it is ok)....I had Ghost at one time and verified the image went to use when needed and it failed to work
Originally posted by: sparhawk6
How do you suggest checking the image?
Originally posted by: RVN
Originally posted by: sparhawk6
How do you suggest checking the image?
Re-image.
Originally posted by: astranger
We looked at BootIt NG, but eventually decided to work with Drive Snapshot http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/index.htm , as in testing it worked great with Windows 2000 Server and Windows 2003 Server image and re-image. Drive Snapshot can image while machine is running.
To reload from image we used the provided boot CD, and load the image from the network. Very very easy and works great.
Originally posted by: furballi
Actually, all of these windows imaging programs will require the use of a boot CD or equivalent to EXIT windows with some operations. Why? Cause the software is unable to achieve a lock on the partition. When working is DOS, there is never a need to lock any partition.
Originally posted by: furballi
Bootit NG is a tiny application that can reside in its own partition. You can also install Bootit in windows. Simply reboot the PC to image ANY partition. NO NEED FOR BOOT CD.
Originally posted by: boomerang
I've had lot's of problems with Ghost and SATA drives also.
Originally posted by: Matt L
But, it killed me the one time I really wanted to use some of it's supposed capabilities. I wanted to migrate form a 13g drive to a 120g drive. Supposedly Acronis will do an exact copy and resize proportionately, which is exactly what I wanted to do --my system is set up exactly the way I want it. I plugged the new drive in and told Acronis to duplicate and expand, and it hosed my ORIGINAL drive, messed up the MBR! it took me a week to get things back running. I will admit to having an odd system, 3 OSs and I boot mostly from the H drive but still...
Last I checked, I am not 100% confident that they are reliable.Originally posted by: Wedge1
Originally posted by: MasterChef
Acronis can make a bootable CD that allows you to image drives without having Windows running. Making the Acronis backup in this manner would yield the stable image file you described. It also works great on non-Windows drives/partitions.
That sounds great. But does this mean that you can't schedule that type of backup?
Elixer, is the Image Integrity checker reliable for either product (ghost 9 and true image 8)?