I use Acronis and have for about 5 years and have done a bare metal recovery a couple of times. It provides an option of creating a bootable CD with enough smarts to allow you to pull your backup from an external drive. It has multiple options for backup and recovery. I swear by it. *--Steve* *It's not only the destination but the path you take and the friends you make along the way* On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Mike Lusicic <lusicic@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > - > The Win 7 backup, if it matches what you can do with Win Server 2008 R2, > can create a "Bare Metal" recovery to an external drive. You could do it to > a DVD, but it would take a bunch of them. Anyway, to recover, you start a > Windows Install. After it boots, you can select the recovery option and > then recover from the bare metal backup. No need to install anything before > you recover. Not sure if the image created is bootable. I forget at the > moment. > > I have not verified that this works, but then I did not want to scrap all > the work I had done with the servers up to that point, so I will wait until > I need it to see how things work out in that case. Trusting MS gives me the > creeps, but the way they keep changing things, I am not sure the third > parties are going to do all that much better. > > > On 5/13/2012 10:52 AM, Glenn wrote: > >> Thanks Tom! I like the idea of having a bootable backup. If the drive >> dies having a backup aint a lot of good if ya can't boot up. Thats what I >> do with the Mac too. I have an ongoing incremental backup via time capsule >> and a separate bootable clone. >> >> I just didn't know what to do with a window machine. >> >> Glenn >> >> On May 12, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Tom Wolpert wrote: >> >> Norton Ghost >>> >> >> Glenn >> >> >> >> >> > > ****************************************** > For List Info or To make _ANY_ changes to your account, including > unsubscribing from this list, click -----> > //www.freelists.org/list/**geocaching<//www.freelists.org/list/geocaching> > > Missouri Caches Scheduled to be Archived http://tinyurl.com/87cqw > Missouri Geocaching land policies --> http://tinyurl.com/lgyy84 > Missouri Geocachers Forums --> > http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/**index.php<http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php> > Missouri Geocachers Calendar ---> http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/** > index.php?app=calendar <http://mogeo.ipbhost.com/index.php?app=calendar> >