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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
John,
Is it required that you have a separate drive with the image of the first drive ready to go at all times?
Do you make one image of the entire drive whenever a program change occurs? Is this image separate from any weekly backups that are performed on the data files?
How does it help to have the disc imaging utility on the bootable CD if the main drive won't start?
I really need to get this done.
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I have personally never used Acronis TrueImage for incremental backups, but I think it can be used in that way, too. I should probably look into that as part of a more comprehensive disaster recovery plan.
My primary use of it has been to save entire images of the system drive (operating system, applications, etc.). These images can be saved to another hard drive (either internal or external) or burned to DVD. It can also be used to back up selected files as opposed to a disk image.
It also allows one to mount an image as a logical drive - very handy if one only wants to recover a file that was accidentally deleted, or to compare current files with ones from a "previous state" to see if a change has taken place since that image was saved.
After Acronis TrueImage is installed on the machine, it can be used to create a bootable Acronis CD. One can even remove the application from the machine after this, and then run it exclusively from the bootable CD if that's what suits one's fancy.
I really appreciated it after a failed attempt at a Win 2K to Win XP upgrade left me with an unusable machine. Booted the Acronis CD, pointed it to the image I wanted, and 20 minutes later, all was as it had been a couple of days before. (Succeeded with the upgrade shortly after that, too.)