On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 22:33, Greg Wallace wrote:
On Tuesday, March 08, 2005 @ 3:36 AM, Ken Schneider wrote:
It comes with both Windows Home and Windows Pro. With Windows Home, you have to install it from the Windows CD. With Pro, it's automatically installed. It does backups of all sorts of varieties -- roll your own, everything on you system (the ASR variety I was talking about), deltas since last full backup, and deltas since last daily backup. The output is a diskette and a backup file. If your entire hard drive is wiped out, you start an installation from the CD (just like Linux), and there's a point along the way where it says something like "Press PF2 if you want to do Automated System Recovery). It then prompts you to insert that diskette and from there, it re-formats your disk and boots. The first thing after the boot, it asks you where the backup file is. It then validates that it syncs with the diskette you put in early and then recovers your entire system exactly like it was when you did that back up. For my Linux machine, I just purchased some software called Storix Linux Linux/86 Desktop Edition for SuSE Linux (there's a different edition for each Linux release -- Red Hat and many more). The web site said it went beyond a "bare metal" restore in that you could do things like change file systems during a recovery. It cost $79.00. I was also looking at Acronis True Image for app $50 dollars, which seems to be a bare metal recovery. I have heard positive things about it before on this site, so I may even buy it and do dual backups. Hopefully, one or both of these can bring my system back just like I left it. Not sure how these compare to BackupEdge or Lonetar, but I'm making note of those in case neither of these do the trick.
This link will give some idea of what BackupEdge has for disaster recovery (RecoverEdge): http://www.microlite.com/BackupEDGE_Products/02_01_01_Crash_Recovery/02_01_0...
Thanks, Greg W
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