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Posted by Gene E. Bloch on 03/17/06 19:28
On 3/15/2006, Trevor managed to type:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:51:01 -0800, Gene E. Bloch
> <spamfree@nobody.invalid> wrote:
>
>> On 3/15/2006, Ken Moiarty managed to type:
>> <SNIP>
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>>> Hard drives are vulnerable to erasure by magnets. They are therefore not an
>>> ideally secure back up medium.
>>
>> My advice: don't take the hard drive with you when you go in for that
>> MRI or on your visit to a cyclotron.
>>
>> Seriously: an external hard drive coupled with a robust drive imaging
>> program such as Acronis True Image is an excellent option. Furthermore,
>> you are truly unlikely to carry your hard drive near a field strong
>> enough to erase it.
>
> My thoughts exactly. In fact, I'll even go so far as to say Acronis is
> "better" (in my opinion) than Ghost, having used both. It has a very
> small memory footprint, is fast and easy to use, and has been rock
> solid for me going on 2 years now. I used to use Ghost.
Well, I don't think I've ever used Ghost, so I can't really compare.
Since Symantec now owns Drive Image, of course it's possible that I
actually have used Ghost without knowing it :-)
For a while I used GoBack (is that the right name? it's been a
years...) but was never comfortable with it. I no longer remember quite
why; maybe just the overhead and the large footprint (disk usage for
the backups), back when hard drives were smaller. Also, a disk failure
would leave you unbacked up...just like System Restore.
For a long time I used the older PowerQuest Drive Image (as I implied
above), which I liked, but Acronis lets me do an incremental backup,
lets me use external drives, and lets me run from Windows. I sometimes
still run Acronis from a boot CD, though.
IMO, both products have a user interface which requires you to be very
attentive, so as to avoid errors.
Gino
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