I used to use DriveImage to make backups, too. I was able to
make the backup to a different partition on the same drive, make
the chunks of backup the size of a CD, then copy the chunks to
CD. The Drive Image Editor would let me get to my backups from
the hard drive version of the backup set. To restore from complete
disaster on the backed-up partition, I'd use Drive Image at the
DOS level to recreate the partition as it was. To restore from
complete disaster on the drive level, I'd have to reformat the
drive, repartition it, copy the CDs to the backup partition,
and then restore. Maybe Drive Image has improved since then,
I don't know, but it was tedious, though very secure. Copying
to another internal drive, of course, would be much simpler.
Now I have an external drive for backup, I use Retrospect Express,
which came with the drive. Its main advantage over Drive Image
is that one can do incremental backups (and it will work with
a USB drive). It also contains some disaster recover software
that, as I recall, will run on a very minimal Windows system,
then allow you to restore your original configuration and delete
the minimal Windows system. This seems less foolproof than the
DriveImage approach, but as of a year or so ago, I don't believe
that DriveImage would access a USB drive, so for foolproof one
either had to have another internal drive or go the CD-R route.
Has that changed?
- David
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Hi Howard,
I use Powerquest Drive Image for my backups, and it seems to
make a big
file of everything on the disk partition. It works in DOS, and
can do
several degrees of compression, although I find the rates aren't
nearly
what they claim, and the higher compressions take considerably
longer.
The only restriction I noticed is that you cannot backup a partition
on
the same physical drive that partition is found, which is probably
a
good idea, since if the drive fails, well, so would the backup
location.
The only thing I wonder about is that you need to be sure you
can access
your backup files (and therefore the device they are one) from
whatever
the method Powerquest Drive Image uses, to reactivate your computer
after a failure (with their recovery disks). As I understand
it, it is
via DOS.
Art
HMSDOC@aol.com wrote:
> I am a little confused by the conversation. If I buy a backup
HD as big as,
> or bigger, than the master and use a program like PowerQuest
Drive
> Image...will I not get a full backup of everything on the drive
including the
> OS , registry, programs, files etc?
>
> Howard
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