just built a pc for a mate... installed everything on it ready to go... going to drop it off on Monday

anyone know of a good/easy backup system ?


I'm thinking something along the lines of the restore partitions you get with a big name pc/laptop

hit F6 during startup and it restores from an separate partition

(hd is split into 2 partitions already, so can easy re-size the 2nd so far un-used partition)

:-)

Mentioned dozens of times on this forum, by pretty much everyone...

Acronis!

It will do all of the creating partitions from free space and you can schedule backups of different types etc etc..

I second that

Refuse to use Acronis after the absolute calamity their snap deploy sh*t caused at work.


Much prefer Macrium Reflect. It powerful but just try it for speed its sooo fast!

Quote from: Rivkid on November 26, 2011, 16:01:44 PM
Refuse to use Acronis after the absolute calamity their snap deploy sh*t caused at work.


Much prefer Macrium Reflect. It powerful but just try it for speed its sooo fast!

What issues did you have?

Wasn't me personally TBH - but my colleagues were using it to deploy about 300 laptops from a base image and it kept numerous references to the master machine in the registry which just had huge implications across our environment. Things were crashing and conflicting all over the shop so they reverted to sysprep and all was fine.

Flip side of the coin I've only got great things to say about Macrium.

I think basing it on that though isn't really what we are looking at if you take a copy of a drive and replicate it to other machines, then it's obviously going to have conflicts, that's why Sys prep is the right tool.

What we are looking at here is creating an image of the machine for backup, not mass deployment.

Not saying Macrium isn't a bad idea, there's a limited free version, so might give it a try, but have been using Acronis for years on a lot of different machines, and have never had any issues.