I like ShadowProtect Desktop from StorageCraft.com. I was using Acronis for years on every machine in the office and family, but I find ShadowProtect faster and more reliable. It is a little more expensive, but at ~$99 a licensed machine, it is worth it to me. Never failed to restore my data drive when necessary. Simple to mount drives from backup images similar to Acronis.
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-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 07:44 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: [NF] Backup image -- what are you using? (was Re: [NF] To upgrade or not (to Win10 from Win7))
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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