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Okay, in your OWN personal option, which software would you get to do the following:
1. Shink the image before writing.
2. Make a recue disk.
Thanks.
Okay, in your OWN personal option, which software would you get to do the following:
1. Shink the image before writing.
2. Make a recue disk.
Thanks.
I use Macrium Reflex Free which lets you select the degree of compression of the image and has two types of rescue disks, one Linux and one Windows PE.
Jim
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I knew it a couple of years ago, moved to Macrium Reflect Free and never looked back, and yeah Macrium has good compression and also makes a nice rescue disk.
I like Win 7 backup utility because it's reliable on my PC.
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Also like CloneZilla. Just boot from the CD.
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I have to chime in on the side of Macrium Reflect. I used the free version for a year or so and liked it so much I bought it. The paid version allows incremental and/or differential backups which I use regularly after creating the original image.
Since version 5.0 came out a few months ago, when using the paid version you get a menu at boot up to allow you to run Macrium (to do a restore) or boot regular Windows. You still need the backup disk in case your computer won't boot and you have to boot from the backup, but option at startup is a lot simpler if you can boot.
As they say, this is just my 2 cents worth.
I don't mean to sound dumb but what is incremental and/or differential backups ?