Backup image

Lee H

Hi

How are people backing up their PC, at home or in work.

In work we have images on a D drive and use Ghost to copy it across as and when windows needs re-installing.

At home i dont have a backup system yet but i am looking at how other people do as i dont have Ghost at home.

Lee H

Sie

I tend to have a 'system' and a 'storage/file' physical drives and only install OS to the first.

To be honest with you i only backup the second one (onto a external HD) because 9 times out of 10 by the time I want to or need to re-install Windows I happy to wipe the lot and start again and get rid of all the junk I had on there!!

In the past when i have backed up the 'system' drive I have used ghost.

If i had the time/money and the data was that importnat I guess i would setup a RAID config. Depends what you use the machine for I guess.

[Edit - At work we use tape drives and most servers use Business Continuity or Shadow Copy]

royal

We have TSM (Tivoli Storage Manager). Our TSM clients connect our systems (clients/servers) to a high-speed SAN that is in our datacenter. For imaging, we have several ghost images for our workstations.

kujayhawk93

We use Ghost and Acronis True Image. We use Ghost to make archival backups of machines, and Acronis for migrations from one machine to another. It has a Universal Restore feature that lets you apply an image from on machine to another, even if the HALs are different, which Ghost can't do yet.

Plantwiz

www.acronis.com

Awesome products!! A variety media you can backup too!! far better then Ghost and I've been a long time ghost fan, but after using Acronis....there is no looking back.

As far as the Universal Restore.....This is a HUGE time saver on say an old server just about to die (or be retired) when you can take the drives and migrate all your data/files/image files over to the new server without a glitch. Gotta try it next time you upgrade a server or even a workstation.