[Lilug] LiveCD disk backup software

[David Rokofsky]

I have to throw my vote in for acronis.  I recently suffered a hard drive failure and acronis was the only util that recovered my data.  It does a whole lot more.....

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David Rokofsky

-----Original Message-----
From: Luis Murillo <lmurillo at codebeta.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:04 PM
To: Chris.Knadle at coredump.us; LILUG Mailing List <lilug at lilug.org>
Subject: Re: [Lilug] LiveCD disk backup software

As far as I know, Norton Ghost allows for it to be used for backups as
it can modify the image...or so I read

Regards,

-LuisM



On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 15:19, Chris Knadle <Chris.Knadle at coredump.us> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Will wrote:
>> So, I'm looking to back up a 1TB drive to a computer somewhere on
>> my network. I don't have too many files on the device itself, but I
>> want to back up the partition tables still so I can just restore
>> the device back to before I backed it up.
>
> Personally I think backing up a "cloned image" that contains
> everything including the partition table is a mistake.  Why?  Well,
> let's say you want to get files back.  Oops -- now you have to
> restore both the partition table and the ENTIRE image.  :-/  That's a
> pain in the butt.
>
> There are cases where cloned images make sense -- like putting cloned
> images of the OS on computers in the workplace.  But I think they're
> a mistake for backups because they don't allow you random access.
>
>  -- Chris
>
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