HJ wrote:
>
> Rollback Rx (http://www.horizondatasys.com)

Ooops, sorry, it's different from Norton Ghost.

Results of some more trials:

Acronis TI:  Image of system disk from within Windows over
LAN with quiet workstation and server = 242 minutes!

Drive Snapshot (trial version):  Same exercise = <11
minutes!!!!!!!

I know, I didn't believe it either, but the image checks
out OK.

I think my 40 Euro may go to the latter.

Malcolm

Malcolm,

This looks very interesting... please keep us informed
about your experiences.  I do volunteer work for a couple
of non-profit agencies that need backup strategies and
this program looks like it could help.

Jon

Malcolm wrote:
> Results of some more trials:
>
> Acronis TI:  Image of system disk from within Windows over
> LAN with quiet workstation and server = 242 minutes!
>
> Drive Snapshot (trial version):  Same exercise = <11
> minutes!!!!!!!
>
> I know, I didn't believe it either, but the image checks
> out OK.
>
> I think my 40 Euro may go to the latter.
>
> Malcolm

Thanks to all - I've bought Acronis. The speed isn't to bad for what I want - the occasional backup of the c: partition complete with OS. Its a shame that ultimately the only way to test it is to do a restore . That I'll test firstly on a different PC.

Roy Lambert

Roy Lambert wrote:
> Thanks to all - I've bought Acronis. The speed isn't to bad for what
> I want - the occasional backup of the c: partition complete with OS.
> Its a shame that ultimately the only way to test it is to do a
> restore . That I'll test firstly on a different PC.

That's what I did. My 80 GB 5400 rpm notebook drive was simply too slow for
daily work and 3 simultaneous VMs, so I replaced it with a 100 GB 7200
model. First I tried Casper, but it needed 10 hours or so - at least that's
what it displayed for an hour or so. I cancelled it, used Acronis and
finished it in less than an hour. Switched drives (the 100 GB was connected
via USB for copying), booted, everything was groovy.

Ahem, anybody here giving me $3k? HP brought the Next Big Thing after my
nx8220: the nc8430. 15.4" LCD with up to 1680x1050 and 256 MB video RAM, up
to 4 GB RAM (for an additional price you can buy 2 simple HP notebooks for),
up to 100 GB 7200 rpm drive, DVD-DL Lightscribe writer, fingerprint sensor
and on and on and on and on... with about 7 hours on battery using he
additional travel battery pack! For me, it's _the_ dream machine. Except the
missing DVI connector on that thing, but there is one in the docking
station.

Ralf

Ralf


>Ahem, anybody here giving me $3k?

No

Roy Lambert wrote:
> Ralf
>
>
>> Ahem, anybody here giving me $3k?
>
> No

Then I'll have to wait for christmas - 2010 or so

Ralf

Ralf


OK, by then you should be able to knock the "k" off the price, and I MIGHT think about making a donation

Roy Lambert

Hi Jon

So far I am pretty happy with Drive Snapshot which I have
now tested on all my machines.  It is not free, but
disaster recovery is worth a little of the hard-earned!

I discovered Drive Snapshot while moving from network boot
floppies because floppy drives are going out of fashion ..
and so are my DOS networking skills.  I have switched to
using a Windows PE CD to be sure I can boot all my machines
complete with networking, a mapped drive to my server, VNC
server and a load of utilities even if the HD is completely
unbootable.

It used to be a bit of a palaver to build a boot CD, but
with Bart's PEBuilder it is now a snap and you can include
plugins (including Drive Snapshot) to suit your needs.  I
have included the VNC server in mine because I have one
laptop with a dead screen (now used for driving data
projectors) which would otherwise be a bit of a challenge
to 'repair' when there's no visible output!  Now works a
treat  

If you hear no more from me before September (when my trial
runs out), you may assume I continue to be a happy bunny.

Malcolm

I just dropped them (him) a line with a question over the weekend
and got a response within a few hours.  It looks like it will
do what I want.  The idea of a remote backup using the psexec
program seems to work as well.

I just came across "Bart's PE builder" from a link on
the Snapshot web site.  That looks like a good one too!

Jon

Malcolm wrote:
> Hi Jon
>
> So far I am pretty happy with Drive Snapshot which I have
> now tested on all my machines.  It is not free, but
> disaster recovery is worth a little of the hard-earned!
>
> I discovered Drive Snapshot while moving from network boot
> floppies because floppy drives are going out of fashion ..
> and so are my DOS networking skills.  I have switched to
> using a Windows PE CD to be sure I can boot all my machines
> complete with networking, a mapped drive to my server, VNC
> server and a load of utilities even if the HD is completely
> unbootable.
>
> It used to be a bit of a palaver to build a boot CD, but
> with Bart's PEBuilder it is now a snap and you can include
> plugins (including Drive Snapshot) to suit your needs.  I
> have included the VNC server in mine because I have one
> laptop with a dead screen (now used for driving data
> projectors) which would otherwise be a bit of a challenge
> to 'repair' when there's no visible output!  Now works a
> treat  
>
> If you hear no more from me before September (when my trial
> runs out), you may assume I continue to be a happy bunny.
>  
> Malcolm