Hi guys

Thanks for your advice, I just want a few bits of info:

Remoc

What version of Acronis TrueImage are you using? You see, I have been through the AT2011 manual and the product seems too overblown for what am I trying to do.

LOTR

You know, I always thought that using an external for back-ups only was a bit wasteful, however you may be right and I should take another look at what I am trying preserve should the inevitable happen.

At the moment, I have, but not installed yet, Acronis True Image WD (Western Digital) Edition, which I downloaded from the Western Digital web site. I believe that this version of Acronis corresponds to the 2009 version.

Now, I don't know if I am going to use it yet but I intend to go through the manual again, just to see if I have missed anything. However, on my first browse through I got the impression that this software cannot burn back-ups directly to recordable CD\DVDs, i.e. it's a two step process, first to the hard drive, and then from the hard drive to recordable CD\DVDs.

I'll let you guys know how I get on.



UK Bob

Hiya,
I only ever give my C drive max 10 gigs of space,store everything else on other drives.
What is wrong with Ghost? works fine for me.
I always defrag /compact before making a ghost as Norton doesn't do a very good job of this
I always also go through and clean out all unwanted files first before defrg.
this keeps ghosts to managable size. I also store at least one Ghost on an external HD.
Done away with all ghosts now as running Virtual box,where the '' Snapshot'' function is 100 times quicker than ghosts (but running that on ubuntu), but you could run it on XP,anything that happens in VBox is once removed from your system.
All the best,
N2

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Hi guys

Once again I must thank all of you for your advice and experience, things are definitely becoming a little more clearer.

OK, the overwhelming consensus seems to be "stick with creating an image on an external drive", therefore this will be the way to go. Plus, I am not that bull headed that I cannot recognise good advice when I get it.

N2

I have used Norton Ghost before, both 2009 and V14, but now V15 seems overblown. You know, every year manufacturers of windows apps have to make their products more complex, add useless facilities while doing away with or making useful facilities harder to find. And I have just about had enough of this nonsense, that's why I won't touch NG15 or Acronis TrueImage 2011, I just want something I can use without having to worry about bloated windows apps slowing down, and possibly destabilising, my machine.

Apart from that, and wanting something relatively simple, I think that the version of Acronis I have, which is not installed, may do the trick.

I'll get back to you guys by Saturday or Sunday.


UK Bob

i've been using easeus todo backup free, which works well to me.
it is backup wizard, easy to backup and restore.
automatic schedule backup is also available.
the one-click system backup is also very useful.
here's More backup info

Cheers Bailifei

I'll use your recommendation as "plan B" is the if the current software I have does not work as expected.


UK Bob