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Tue, Sep 21 2010 2:34 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | Raul
>They provide a bootable ISO image that has drivers for most disk interfaces, including (S)ATA and USB. So assuming you have done a backup to a removable drive (e.g. external USB) you just connect the drive, boot from CD and then a wizard walks you thru the restore. Last time i did this it took me approx 40 min to have everything back (most of the time was taken for just copying the data since USB2 is relatively slow). > >Other disk imaging products use a similar method - idea is to do a bare-metal restore using a bootable cd or usb stick. Unless the drive has gone unbootable I generally just do a sector by sector restore. Roy Lambert |
Tue, Sep 21 2010 2:55 AM | Permanent Link |
Raul Team Elevate | Roy .
<< Unless the drive has gone unbootable ... >> Good point - i've never actually needed to restore from a running OS as you can just mount backup and copy individual files/folders from windows explorer. << I generally just do a sector by sector restore.>> Any specific reason you are restoring the free space? Doing the disk/partition restore instead should speed things up a bit (assuming your drive is not completely full). Raul |
Tue, Sep 21 2010 5:00 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | Raul
><< I generally just do a sector by sector restore.>> > >Any specific reason you are restoring the free space? Doing the disk/partition restore instead should speed things up a bit (assuming your drive is not completely full). I'm not certain but it seems as though a disk/partition restore doesn't fully overwrite the old stuff. One reason I use Acronis is to "get rid" of junk. As an example for the dog rescue charity I'm working with I decided to see what I could find in the way of free accounts packages. I downloaded and installed all I could find and had a play with them then uninstalled. I have found very few applications that do a thorough job of uninstalling so after my playing I restored back from Acronis. Roy Lambert |
Wed, Sep 22 2010 9:07 AM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com | Raul,
<< I'm guessing RAID will be in order once you rebuild >> Actually I'm just making sure that everything is backed up now. Had I made sure of that to begin with, we could have been completely back up and running within an hour. The internal systems were back on-line very quickly due to the fact that all of it is backed up. After all, we're talking about a MTBF of around 8 years for this one SCSI drive, and 10 years and counting for the other SCSI drive. I can live with an hour or so of downtime every 8-10 years. -- Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com |
Wed, Sep 22 2010 9:46 AM | Permanent Link |
Roy Lambert NLH Associates Team Elevate | Tim
Had it ever been turned off in all that time? Just curious. Roy Lambert |
Wed, Sep 22 2010 10:48 AM | Permanent Link |
Matthew Jones | > I'm guessing RAID will be in order once you rebuild
> > I've been personally using the (software) RAID that comes with most > modern motherboards and have lived thru couple of drive failures in > the past 4 years with no down-time or data loss. FWIW, I'd only ever use the MIRROR version of RAID, but likewise I've been saved by it. All critical computers here have a mirror. One time I got a notice that a drive on my PC had failed. I ordered a new one, fitted it and had downtime of 20 mins or so. Really nice compared to any data loss. That said, I also have complete disk images copied to (non mirrored) drive in PC, plus then copied to various NAS boxes and a removable 500GB RDX drive for taking home. And I also have every file being copied as-is to NAS, and over DSL to home where another box has a mirror to protect the off-site. No, I don't care for my data... 8-) /Matthew Jones/ |
Wed, Sep 22 2010 5:59 PM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com | Roy,
<< Had it ever been turned off in all that time? Just curious. >> Only a handful of times, and those were either long power outages (eastern US blackout) or scheduled maintenance. -- Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com |
Fri, Sep 24 2010 10:35 AM | Permanent Link |
Robert Kaplan | <Raul> wrote in message news:9FB96E60-81FC-4EEE-8348-08A850283388@news.elevatesoft.com... >< "Robert K" wrote: > Thanks for the info. What is the process for restoring using Acronis? >> > > Robert, > > They provide a bootable ISO image that has drivers for most disk > interfaces, including (S)ATA and USB. So assuming you have done a backup > to a removable drive (e.g. external USB) you just connect the drive, boot > from CD and then a wizard walks you thru the restore. Last time i did this > it took me approx 40 min to have everything back (most of the time was > taken for just copying the data since USB2 is relatively slow). > > Other disk imaging products use a similar method - idea is to do a > bare-metal restore using a bootable cd or usb stick. > Thanks for the info. Do you know if it would work restoring from a network drive? IE can the bootable CD be smart enough to recognize the network drive? Robert |
Sun, Sep 26 2010 7:57 PM | Permanent Link |
Raul Team Elevate | << "Robert K" wrote:
Do you know if it would work restoring from a network drive? IE can the bootable CD be smart enough to recognize the network drive? >> Yes. There are actually couple of options AFAIK. - The bootable Linux CD has drivers for most common network cards and then you can access SMB and other types of shares including windows/domain machines, NAS boxes, FTP even i think, etc. - they also support WinPE (with home product you need the Plus Pack) so with little bit of extra work you can use any network card there is a Windows driver for. I never had to use this myself but it's an option. Raul |
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