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Gost 9 or Acronis True Image?
I want to make a full image and regular daily incremental backups.
Will both programs do this and which would you recommend? I have been using Dantz Retrospect with an external usb drive but Retrospect has been throwing a lot of errors lately and their tech was nice, but not helpful when all he could say about its stopping before completion was that Retrospect was "choking on some file or other". TIA Louise |
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Louise wrote in message .. . I want to make a full image and regular daily incremental backups. Will both programs do this Yes, as long as the OS is XP or 2K with Ghost. and which would you recommend? There isnt a clear best. The big advantage with Ghost is that its by far the most widely used so there are a lot more who can comment on odd quirks etc. Main downside with Ghost is that you cant boot a CD and do a backup of the system without installing Ghost. Thats not that important for the main machine where installing is no big deal, but it is handy if you want to work on a system that isnt backed up and want to do a safety image before doing anything to it. And Ghost 9 will only do XP and 2K too, not the older Win9xs. Ghost 9 is still a little buggy, you can just always just browse the lan drives for images, particularly if the default workgroup WORKGROUP isnt used. Just a nuisance tho, you can name the PCs explicitly with fully qualified PC names instead of browsing. True Image is a bit cruder and simpler and some stuff isnt that well documented in the manual, even quite basic stuff like mapping drives for network ops etc. And while you can boot True Image off CD and dont need to install it for safety image creation, you cant do that over the network, because there is no way to map a network drive. Thats a damned nuisance in practice if you do want to do a safety image of a system before doing anything to it. I normally plug those systems into the lan because its most convenient to have them use the broadband on the lan for even quite basic stuff like installing various stuff etc and a drive on the lan is a handy place to put a safety image. You basically need to use a USB or firewire drive for the safety images done in that situation. Does support all the OSs tho. I have been using Dantz Retrospect with an external usb drive but Retrospect has been throwing a lot of errors lately and their tech was nice, but not helpful when all he could say about its stopping before completion was that Retrospect was "choking on some file or other". Thats pathetic and good reason to bin it. |
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Will both programs do this and which would you recommend?
I've used Ghost for years - it's performed well but TrueImage is a good product too. We like it: o On the fly backups o Incremental backups o Restore from NTFS drives from boot CD o Support for wide range of network cards from boot CD o Support for NT 4 which we still use o Nice snazzy interface :-) That said, Ghost 9 has caught up with some of these features; on-fly backups & incremental for sure. Cheers, Rob. |
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Louise,
This is strange to say, but I'm happy you're having trouble because that proves to me that my problem is not unique. On Dec 10 I posted this message he Does anyone here use Dantz Retrospect Express HD? It is the software that came bundled with my Maxtor "One-Touch" external drive. It appears to lock up on me every time I try to change the defaults. O/S = Win XP Doug I do nut yet have a solution, and neither Dantz nor Maxtor support has been any help. Louise wrote: I want to make a full image and regular daily incremental backups. Will both programs do this and which would you recommend? I have been using Dantz Retrospect with an external usb drive but Retrospect has been throwing a lot of errors lately and their tech was nice, but not helpful when all he could say about its stopping before completion was that Retrospect was "choking on some file or other". TIA Louise |
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I have used Retrospect Express, and I much prefer Backup MyPC, which is
a similar style program but works very well. I have never used it with USB, but I have to assume that new versions support it. It is a solid program. IMF Louise wrote: In article , says... Louise, This is strange to say, but I'm happy you're having trouble because that proves to me that my problem is not unique. On Dec 10 I posted this message he Does anyone here use Dantz Retrospect Express HD? It is the software that came bundled with my Maxtor "One-Touch" external drive. It appears to lock up on me every time I try to change the defaults. O/S = Win XP Doug I do nut yet have a solution, and neither Dantz nor Maxtor support has been any help. Louise wrote: I want to make a full image and regular daily incremental backups. Will both programs do this and which would you recommend? I have been using Dantz Retrospect with an external usb drive but Retrospect has been throwing a lot of errors lately and their tech was nice, but not helpful when all he could say about its stopping before completion was that Retrospect was "choking on some file or other". TIA Louise Interesting - before I had the problem myself, I recommended that a friend get the Maxtor with Retrospect Express. She now has a situation in which her windows desktop changes display (from classic to XP), everytime she turns on the drive. Dantz says it's Maxtor and Maxtor says they have no idea - try it on another machine. Not Mine :-) I'm thinking about having her reformat the drive completely and then use different backup software. Louise |
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Rod Speed wrote:
And while you can boot True Image off CD and dont need to install it for safety image creation, you cant do that over the network, because there is no way to map a network drive. I'm not sure what you mean by this. When booting from the rescue CD, you can image to or restore from any network location. (by just browsing the "network neighborhood") What functionality is missing by not being able to map a network drive? -- -WD |
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Will Dormann wrote in message ... Rod Speed wrote: And while you can boot True Image off CD and dont need to install it for safety image creation, you cant do that over the network, because there is no way to map a network drive. I'm not sure what you mean by this. When booting from the rescue CD, you can image to or restore from any network location. (by just browsing the "network neighborhood") I dont get any network neighbourhood to browse when I have booted the rescue CD. I only get the local hard drives shown when I have previously selected the Image Archive Location as Fixed hard disk drive. Get the same result when I select Removable disk drive too, but obviously just see the removable drives. Thats with TrueImage Deluxe 8 What functionality is missing by not being able to map a network drive? |
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