[GeoStL] Re: Win7 Backup
- From: Steve Bromley <steve.bromley@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 20:28:42 -0500
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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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