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Board recommended Hard Drive Imaging Software
Posted on 9/6/15 at 5:33 pm
Posted on 9/6/15 at 5:33 pm
I just did a fresh install of Windows 10 and finally have all my applications installed and want to take a snapshot of my boot drive so that I can reimage the drive quickly if something catastrophic were to happen.
I remember reading a thread some time back where a software program was recommended but alas, I did not bookmark it like I had intended to do.
What is the best software to do what I need to do?
TIA!
I remember reading a thread some time back where a software program was recommended but alas, I did not bookmark it like I had intended to do.
What is the best software to do what I need to do?
TIA!
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Posted on 9/6/15 at 6:02 pm to Jimbeaux28
Macrium Reflect Free if you want to clone one drive to another. Veeam Backup Free if you want an image backup.
This post was edited on 9/6/15 at 6:03 pm
Posted on 9/6/15 at 7:34 pm to Jimbeaux28
I use Acronis backup, which has a drive imaging solution. That said I never use it b/c I've found that it's just easier to reinstall the applications I want to keep instead of trying to flash back to older versions and upgrade them all.
Posted on 9/6/15 at 8:20 pm to foshizzle
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I use Acronis backup, which has a drive imaging solution. That said I never use it b/c I've found that it's just easier to reinstall the applications I want to keep instead of trying to flash back to older versions and upgrade them all.
The point of imaging is disaster recovery, so you don't have to reinstall the OS from scratch, then drivers, updates, programs (and entering all their associated keys) etc. I know it takes me a couple of days to install from scratch and get completely back to normal, which I do only when installing a new version of Windows or building a new PC. Otherwise, I take a fresh image once a month and do file-based backups of my data much more frequently than that.
For imaging, I use Image for Windows, and for file-based backups, SyncBackSE.
Posted on 9/6/15 at 9:27 pm to Jimbeaux28
Try Clonezilla. It's open-source and works very well.
Posted on 9/6/15 at 9:54 pm to Grillades
The best (and one of the most expensive) is Shadow Protect. Macrium Reflect works well ToDo Backup is also free. Have not used recent Acronis back up products.
This post was edited on 9/6/15 at 9:55 pm
Posted on 9/6/15 at 10:06 pm to Spock's Eyebrow
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The point of imaging is disaster recovery, so you don't have to reinstall the OS from scratch, then drivers, updates, programs (and entering all their associated keys) etc. I know it takes me a couple of days to install from scratch and get completely back to normal
No disrespect intended but you can do much better. I do a bare metal refresh 2-3 times a year to make sure I can when I have to. I unplug the C drive, put it on my desk, plug in a new drive straight from the package, and I'm back to normal within just over one hour. My best time is 1:07, my worst is 1:23.
Posted on 9/6/15 at 10:23 pm to foshizzle
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No disrespect intended but you can do much better. I do a bare metal refresh 2-3 times a year to make sure I can when I have to. I unplug the C drive, put it on my desk, plug in a new drive straight from the package, and I'm back to normal within just over one hour. My best time is 1:07, my worst is 1:23.
I think that's a silly exercise to do 2-3 times year "just because". There is no value in it beyond trying to beat your personal best time, and why you would care I can't begin to fathom, and even it were useful, it's naive to compare your installation from scratch to others you have no knowledge of. For example, besides installing a number of large software packages, my installation includes around 40 Windows customizations besides merging numerous .reg files, manual changes involving things like gpedit.msc, various Control Panel applets, making sure Documents and other folders point to my data drive, etc, that I haven't bothered to figure out how to automate. I just have them all in a long list. It's a huge time-consuming PITA to do all this from scratch, and that's why I value imaging the way I do.
This post was edited on 9/6/15 at 10:25 pm
Posted on 9/7/15 at 7:48 am to Jimbeaux28
I have over 1k machines loaded with Symantec System Recovery -- from release 2011 to 2013 to 2013 R2 (the latest version). These are servers and desktops and are imaged on a nightly incremental and weekend full.
For what you're looking for, it's great... and the price point is like $60.
We tried Acronis and I'll never give them a penny again...
For what you're looking for, it's great... and the price point is like $60.
We tried Acronis and I'll never give them a penny again...
This post was edited on 9/7/15 at 7:50 am
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