Recent content by commissar_mo

Sounds like a sound policy. I, personally, am not concerned with user-error/corruption per se, as I don't do work that requires that kind of backup resolution (my normal backup routines cover such things) and... I just don't make mistakes re deleting things, etc. :D (major part of that is... I...

Ok, so they're equivalent? I couldn't figure out how they couldn't be to be fair... ** Also - is it common practice to store backups AND images on the same disk? I figured it might be safer to separate them...

I'm going to be using Acronis to image my system drives: 1) Acronis can make a boot CD and recover the image that way... OR 2) Win7 install CD can also recover an image. Is there a difference between these 2 methods, and if so, what is it?

Ok... so in other words, software like Acronis True Image... are assigned to back up the system drive to (let's say) an external drive. It does this incrementally, and copies all the files, folders, etc. onto this drive. But you're saying this drive is NOT a clone of the drive? ('Clone,'...

I want to create a BOOTABLE clone drive which INCREMENTALLY backs up my OS/system drive... and in the event of disk failure, can be immediately booted from back to the last system save. I've looked at various cloning programs (including the mass-consumer ReBit, which does NOT do the above)...