Re: OT: windoze woes and full rant mode is on

In article <YtK2h.1898$0r.1534@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Charles Hottel <chottel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

So I bought Symantec Norton Save and Restore(NS&R). This is getting way too
long so I will
omit the gory details. It did not work.

As a mainframe jockey my backup mantra is 'Incremental daily, system
weekly'; I have been using the Acronis TrueImage software
(http://www.acronis.com , the copy I have is of an older version (8.0))
and the only difficulties I have had involved getting files from an
archive that had been made on another machine (file/folder permissions).

I formerly used Norton Ghost, which was fine for up to Win98... when I
tried the XP version it seemed like they'd made it (Ghost) bloatware to
the point where booting from the Restore disk (Norton proprietary, I
believe) took fifteen to twenty minutes. Acronis will allow you to make
as many boot CDs as you wish; booting from one brings you into an
environment where USB devices (ie, external drives) are recognised and a
restore can be made to a blank HD.

This translates to - speaking from experience here - losing a hard drive
at 2:pm, going to a computer store and getting a replacement drive (larger
size than the original), booting from the Acronis CD - be prepared to
navigate the GUI with the keyboard, the wireless USB mouse I have didn't
seem to work well - selecting my restore and waiting about an hour. By
4:pm I was back up and running.

Must have 'bare metal restore' capabilities.

(Every Sunday I do a full backup to a USB external drive and I then use
Acronis' scheduling software to do an incremental at 11:47pm (2347hrs).
The only nuisance is that I haven't found a way to automatically redirect
the incremental backup script to the new archive so I have to do it
manually.)

DD

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