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blueb wrote:

Tipperton wrote: Just wondering what everyone else here uses for backup software.

Had Norton Ghost... it was O.K. but needed to revert to DOS to make a complete back-up.

Had Acronis... didn't like it at all.

Now using XXClone. http://www.xxclone.com/

It can make various kinds of back-ups. I like a complete byte for byte back-up so that if C: drive crashes I simply boot up on D: drive and carry on.

I have an icon on my desktop and when I've finished for the day... I simply press the icon and walk away. It completes the backup and shuts itself down.

--blueb

Gonna take a peek at this

Thanks

blueb wrote:I have an icon on my desktop and when I've finished for the day... I simply press the icon and walk away. It completes the backup and shuts itself down.

That's a nice feature I wish True Image had. Since this is a nome system I don't feel that daily backups are needed, so I do my backups Saturday morning. If True Image had a shut down feature I'd switch to doing my backup at the end of the day on Friday, just start it and go to bed!

Oh wait! It doesn't have a shutdown feature, but it does have pre and post backup procedures you can configure, I could configure the post procedure to run the Windows shutdown command. Cool!

/me=runs off to set that up!

Does true image have a batch mode? Can you kick it off in a batch file and then have another line that runs a shutdown of the PC

pdwyer wrote:Does true image have a batch mode? Can you kick it off in a batch file and then have another line that runs a shutdown of the PC

I don't know, but the post backup procedure works great!

I actually decided to write a program for it to call to do the shutdown because I also wanted it to eject the Rev disk. So the the program sends a request to the Rev drive to eject the disk, then when it gets the signal back that the disk is ejected, tells Windows to shut down. Perfect!

Whats a Rev Drive?

pdwyer wrote:Whats a Rev Drive?

Sorry for the delay replying, somehow I missed your question...

Anyway, http://store.iomega.com/section?SID=525 ... ecid=39499 should answer your question.

I forgot that I asked the question

Thanks, looks interesting but a tad expensive, bluray re-writable would be better cost wise I'd think??

pdwyer wrote:Thanks, looks interesting but a tad expensive, bluray re-writable would be better cost wise I'd think??

Maybe but can a blue-ray disc hold 120 GB of data?
(I have the 120 GB SATA internal version of the Rev drive)

true, but $74 for a 120gb disk you can buy hard disks for cheaper per gig and I'm sure blueray is cheaper per gig.

Don't get me wrong, they'd be nice to have but just at a better price for media. blueray is coming down very quickly too so in another year I suspect it will be a very cheap media

I can currently pick up a 614 Gigabyte hard disk for $89.00

pdwyer wrote:true, but $74 for a 120gb disk you can buy hard disks for cheaper per gig and I'm sure blueray is cheaper per gig.

You have a point, however; when I bought the Rev drive, I bought the server backup kit which came with 5 disks, and so far, that's all I've needed.

Its timely that I should choose to look at the off topic forum today and see this thread. Its timely because a friend mentioned to me late yesterday afternoon he was having these problems with True Image also and was dumping it.

I use Acronis True Image Home, without problems, on Vista Ultimate 32 bit and find it very fast and reliable. Never had moments problem with it.

The friend who mentioned his issues has a system thats identical to mine for both hardware and Vista Ultimate 32 because we got a nice quanity discount on purchasing the items when we built the computers. My True Image is functioning perfectly, he has the same version with the same updates on essentially the same computer but is having problems using it the same way I am. How very odd.

Have been using TrueImage on a whole set of different machines, and it works fine on most (but not on all). Some combinations of hardware and Windows (XP) block TrueImage from running from inside Windows (XP). Running it from the CD works fine.

So far this problem occured on a Compaq NC4400 laptop (dual boot, one XP works fine, one XP bombs out when running TrueImage), a Dell XPS710 (until I installed an update, now it's fine) and an exotic Acer 'gaming' laptop (sorry, no type at hand).

On all other machines I've tried it (although all under Windows XP) I've had no problems whatsoever.

I using TrueImage at XP 32 and Vista 64 without problems. TrueImage
can create and restore Images to my SATA II AHCI Drives without driver
with the BootCD.
(Windows requires extra drivers to use the Drives)

> copy wpa.dbl and wpa.bak from the system32 directory to a safe place.
> Then as long as it's the same computer, if you have to reload Windows,
> boot into safe mode and copy those saved files back into the system32
> directory, then boot normally.

Didn't work for me. I recently upgraded my system and did a fresh install
of XP, activated it, then backed up those files. Then had to re-do a fresh
install again due to a mistake on my part (I installed something I didn't
want, thus my OS was "tainted", LOL) but when I copied back those files
in safe mode, XP still wanted activation again. YMMV, but it failed for me.