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I have been quite content with Drive Image for drive/system backups. It
writes compressed drive images to CD-s (my 8G fit on 5 650MB CDRW-s) and
creates 2 floppies for booting. Of course if the bootfiles were on the CD-s
like HP-s have it would be a bit more convenient. Restoring the complete
system from the 2 floppies and 5 CD-s is fast and simple enough to justify
the $50 price in my opinion; reinstalling everything from zero will cost you
many times that in terms of your time.
I have not used Symantec's Ghost, though, but in terms of features and
reviews it looks like the two are pretty comparable. The reason I chose
Drive Image over Ghost was purely due to the fact that Ghost was not
available for download when I needed the software, and I did not have the
time for a trip to a retail store.
Ivo
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Brown [mailto:markbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 11:51 PM
To: Omega-List@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Backup headaches - off topic
Hello BobR,
the problem i see is that a second hard drive is needed. the power
plant near me smokes during trading hours now and airplanes don't fly
overhead cause of the magnetic field my computer room radiates. plus
i am now ordering year end specials, buying even more computers for
tax reasons. so more hard drives is not what i want. if i needed
critical second by second back up the duocor product looks great and i
may try it on one or two computers that collect real time data.
but what i really need is something to get me back to a clean install
without having to do a clean install. thats what i need. m
duocor states the following from their web site.
Dedicated secondary hard drive with equal or larger capacity than the
sum of all partitions to be protected.
B> What do you think of this product that Bilo was excited about?
B> "
B> www.duocor.com , the best and cheap...
B> system guardian for win2000 is about $139.
B> dual hard drive, fast, reliable,
B> easy and peace of mind.
B> gost, drive image, drive copy are
B> no good for trading environment.
B> raids are overkills...
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Have a Great Day, Mark
http://www.markbrown.com
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