Hi
I've been looking for something to image my 2012 server, pcs and laptops for a while. I'm looking to be able to put any of the computers back to a workable state in the event of a problem. Acronis true image is the one which gets the most reviews.
I'd be interested to also hear any thoughts on a bare bones restore onto either the same computer or a different one (probably with a bigger hard drive) as my aging Acer Travelmate is probably not long for this world.
Takes ages to reinstall all the developer tools etc each time and I always miss something off.
-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ken McGinnis Sent: 15 January 2016 00:50 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] Backup image -- what are you using? (was Re: [NF] To upgrade or not (to Win10 from Win7))
I have used Acronis for years. I stopped updating with v10 because they ruined the user interface with the 'feature creep' so I can't find anything, but it works ok if you spend enough time to weed through all the useless garbage.
I would like to see any responses you get because I definitely will not upgrade to the new Acronis garbage user interface (just my opinion). I would like something open source that allows incremental backups so that I can make one full backup one day a week and then incremental backups the rest of the week and them move those 7 files to a folder and start a new series so I never have to go back more than 1 day and the backups are quick.
On 1/14/2016 16:43 PM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
I realize VMs are a super cool thing but I've not gone that route yet, and 2 machines seem like a better risk than just having 1. Of course, a good backup is a MUST. My backups are usually only of the Development folder (which includes all customer correspondence too). Always wanted to have a backup "image" but years ago I became disenchanted with Norton Ghost as it seemed to not deliver on imaging the same thing to the new machine. Been too long to recall the details, though.
What do you folks use to safeguard your systems in case of hardware failure? Any Norton Ghost users?
tia, --Mike
On 2016-01-14 17:54, Ted Roche wrote:
LOL. Yeah, long-term plan is always a challenge.
However, keeping VMs around with the last few OSes is pretty necessary if you have to support clients with a couple of different
versions.
Had a bugger of a problem recently that I was struggling to repro until the client mentioned they were on WinXP!
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Paul McNett paul@mcnettware.com wrote:
On 1/14/16 8:50 AM, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:
Decisions, decisions....what would you do? I'm guessing "just buy the 2nd machine for a better long-term plan" (due to hardware life expectancy).
"long term plan" with regard to Windows makes me LOL. :)
Paul
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