 howie1Premium
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| reply to EmilioG
Re: TrueImage update, build 345 I have personally used it to back up to a IEEE1394 (FireWire) external hard drive and it worked fine.
The following info is from the TrueImage website:
Supported storage devices (disk image destinations):
hard disk drives
network drives
CD-R(W)
DVD-R(W), DVD+R(W)*
ZIP®, Jazz® and other removable media
IDE, SCSI, IEEE 1394 (FireWire), USB 1.0 / 2.0, PC card storage devices.
* — requires third-party DVD recording software installed.
Trial-version limitations:
15 days trial version
Impossibility to create and restore a disk image when Acronis True Image 6.0 is launched from the bootable rescue media
If you have Ghost, you can get TI6 for $9.99:
»www.acronis.com/products/trueima···fer.html
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| Howie,
You say that you have backed up your hard drive with TrueImage to an external firewire hard drive. I am curious--have you ever **restored** your hard drive from the TrueImage image stored on the external firewire hard drive. For some programs, backing up to an external drive works fine; restoring from the external drive seems to be the problem.
BTW, I use TrueImage and back up to a second partition of my hard drive and from there to a CD-R. I like the program a lot.
Thanks,
Bob Anderson |
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howie1Premium
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| Bob, I have not had the occasion to try a TI restore yet from a FireWire external drive. I recommended TI to a friend and imaged his C:\ drive to his external IEEE1394 drive without a problem. I assumed if it imaged without errors that a restore would not be a problem. Time will tell, I guess. I use two additional IDE hard drives (E:\ and F:\) to back up my C:\ and D:\ drives and split the images into 700MB files so I can copy them to CD-R/CD-RW if I need to (see above). I have used TI to restore entire drives several times and it's been problem-free.
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| reply to Modred
Hi, Modred.
I know you didn't ask me specifically, but I routinely use TI to image my hard drive to an external firewire hard drive, and have had to restore from the external drive once. It took about forty-five minutes to do, but I experienced absolutely no problems during the restore process. |
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| Thanks Howie and Ptolemy,
I have two close friends where backing up to CD-R's is not feasible, and they currently have no backup of their hard drives. I was going to recommend TrueImage and a Maxtor external hard drive with a USB 2 connection, and I just wanted to make sure that restoring from the external hard drive worked OK. I guess they could also purchase DVD burners or an internal hard drive, but right now the external hard drive seems the best choice.
Thanks again.
Bob Anderson |
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| FWIW. my external hard drive is a Maxtor.
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Jrb2Premium
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kudos:3 | reply to Modred
I just restored my C drive from an external USB 2 harddisk (Maxtor), using TrueImage (build 345) running from its bootable floppies (TI uses then its own Linux kernel). No problem! |
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| Jrb,
Thanks for the info--for me it answers an important question.
Best wishes,
Bob Anderson |
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Jrb2Premium
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kudos:3 | Hi Bob,
You're welcome !
PS:
The info is now also added at the Wilders-thread about TrueImage:
»www.wilderssecurity.com/index.ph···did=9111 |
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