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My mistake for not reading the original post carefully.
My comments make sense if both drives are on the same
computer. But if the two drives are on two separate
computers, the right thing to do is makes individual back
ups of each.
b
--- Al Venosa <advenosa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, b. Why would you want to image your laptop drive
> and your desktop
> drive into a single backup file on your backup HD?
> Wouldn't it be easier
> just to create 2 backup images on the backup drive? Also,
> you said that with
> TrueImage, it is all or nothing, meaning that you cannot
> selectively exclude
> some files or folders when backing up. But according to
> what I've read, with
> version 7, you can do incremental imaging, which only
> does files that have
> changed or been added recently. So, I suspect that would
> be much, much
> quicker, right? And, can you automatically set it to
> shutdown your computer
> when finished, so you can image your drive at night after
> going to bed?
>
> Al V.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "b" <b519b@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re:OT Hard drive backup
>
>
> > Al
> >
> > TrueImage will let you put 1 or more partitions into a
> > single back up file. So you could put backups of drive
> C,
> > D, and F into a single backup file. Of course, that
> back up
> > image has to be stored on a partition ofther than C, D,
> or
> > F.
> >
> > When you restore from such an image file, you can
> choose
> > whether to restore all, some or just 1 of the
> partitions.
> > So in the above example, one could choose to just
> restore
> > drive F.
> >
> > I understand, although I have not tried this, that you
> can
> > restore individual files or folders if you do not need
> to
> > restore a full partition.
> >
> > However, the smallest unit TrueImage can back up is a
> > partition. You can not back up just a few folders from
> a
> > partition. It is all or nothing when backing up a
> > partition.
> >
> > That is one reason I use xxCopy in addition to
> TrueImage.
> > For my window's partition, I know I would want to
> restore
> > all of it, I use TrueImage.
> >
> > For my data, I know I will often just want to restore
> part
> > of it (ie, just a folder or two). So I use xxCopy to
> back
> > up my data drive (D in my case).
> >
> > Actually C and D are partitions on the same physical
> hard
> > disk. The only reason split the drive into two
> partitions
> > was to be able to back up and restore the Windows stuff
> > separately from the data stuff.
> >
> > b
> >
> >
> > --- Al Venosa <advenosa@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Folks:
> > >
> > > I'm interested in this thread because I've been
> wondering
> > > what the best
> > > backup software is (I'm in the market for one). I'm
> > > currently trying
> > > GRBakPro from GRSoftware, Inc., an Italian firm that
> > > provides great tech
> > > support, and it seems like a very nice program.
> What's
> > > nice about it is the
> > > fact that the backup structure is identical to the
> > > directory tree of the
> > > drive being backed up. In other words, it doesn't
> create
> > > one big file, but
> > > rather a tree structure, which is nice because the
> files
> > > are easily
> > > accessible (deletable, usable, editable, etc.). My
> > > question about TrueImage
> > > is, how would you backup both your hard drive on your
> > > desktop AND your hard
> > > drive on your laptop onto a single external 120 Gb
> > > Firewire or USB2 HD? Is
> > > this possible, or would you have to partition the
> > > external backup drive?
> > >
> > > Al Venosa
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Tomasz Janeczko" <amibroker@xxxxxx>
> > > To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:38 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [amibroker] Re:OT Hard drive backup
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have recently purchased DVD RW writer (for just
> $150)
> > > > and can burn 4.7GB of data on singe DVD-R in a
> matter
> > > of 15 minutes.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Tomasz Janeczko
> > > > amibroker.com
> > > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > From: "dom1_1998" <Dom2000@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:28 AM
> > > > Subject: [amibroker] Re:OT Hard drive backup
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Ken:
> > > > >
> > > > > I bought TrueImage6.0 also. But unless I'm doing
> > > something wrong, it
> > > > > requires a whole lotta bunch of CD's to back up a
> > > drive. Even
> > > > > compressing it near max. That's a major PIA.
> > > > >
> > > > > Dominick
> > > > >
> > > > >
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