A suggestion for reliable backup of boot drives. Buy a second drive of
equal or larger capacity and then use Acronis to clone the boot drive.
After the cloning is complete boot from the clone to verify that it is
good. Then put it away for safe keeping. Even if you only do this
rarely you'll have a drive that's bootable. If you've backed up normal
files via other means you'll have everything available except new
application installations and uninstalls and some isolated state
information in the registry (what an abomination) for the other apps.
It should take little work to reinstall and restore what's missing.
This works even better if you keep a relatively small boot drive and
keep the data elsewhere since those other drives are more easily backed up.
Adding a read back and compare also makes for peace of mind.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/3/2011 10:53 AM, John Hermanson wrote:
> At our house we got about 12" of snow. Not too bad. Parts of NJ got
> 39". I came down with a stomach virus Christmas Eve day, 2 days later
> Lisa had it. We spent our weeks vacation re-cooperating. Oh yeah,
> Christmas Eve, my computer crashed and Acronis did not save the day this
> time (acronis claimed BOTH my backup archives were
> corrupted........sigh). Allowed me to move on to a new ASUS computer
> dual core x64 Windows 7 with 8 gigs ram and 1TB HD.
>
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> On 12/29/2010 11:33 AM, Dean Hansen wrote:
>> Hey, John H., how did you folks on Long Island do in the recent snow
>> storm? Were you able to match the 17" of snow that fell here on
>> Minnesnowta a few weeks back (and is still here)?
>> Dean
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