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I've had Disk Director installed on my system since it was built in 2011. I used it to make the self-booting CD for cloning, and it seems that this CD can be used on any system in the house, or that I don't need DD installed on my system to use the CD.
The Egg gave me a deal which bundled a WD blue 500GB HDD with the retail box/license for Acronis True Image 2014. Even though the blue drive is sort of low-end, I use these things for backup, and for something like $55, it was a good deal, too.
So now I've cleaned up my WHS 2011 server and clients so I should be able to rely on the system backup feature of the server. But I like "fallback" solutions.
Does True Image contain the same cloning feature as Acronis Disk Director? Choices about which Win 7 computer to install True Image, or as a machine to move the Disk Director depends on the answer. What am I missing? Or does any cloning feature of True Image miss something that Director has?
UPDATE w MORE PRESSING QUESTION TO THOSE WHO KNOW: I'm looking at the retail box for True Image 2014, and happy to see (a) it's a 3-PC license and (b) it works on WHS 2011 as well as Win 7.
I just ordered a 60GB SATA-III SSD. The server box has a 300 GB WD "blue" drive as the boot disk. It was the smallest I could find in my arsenal at the time. It's formatted into a 60GB and a 240GB partition, the smaller being the system/boot volume. I chose not to include the larger volume in my drive pool.
Looking at the PDF user's guide online for True Image, it notes that I cannot clone a logical volume, but must clone the entire disk. Keeping in mind that the SSD is only 60GB, my previous experience with Disk Director, Partition Magic and other programs suggests that I should be able to shrink logical volumes to fit. In fact, I'd simply like to delete the 240GB volume before the cloning takes place.
Am I going to have problems with this? Somebody want to outline a step-by-step process before I begin? It would be very helpful to me. The SSD arrives later this week, possibly early next week. Besides replacing the server NIC, I'd like to "knock this out" successfully in a reasonable amount of time.
Thanks.
The Egg gave me a deal which bundled a WD blue 500GB HDD with the retail box/license for Acronis True Image 2014. Even though the blue drive is sort of low-end, I use these things for backup, and for something like $55, it was a good deal, too.
So now I've cleaned up my WHS 2011 server and clients so I should be able to rely on the system backup feature of the server. But I like "fallback" solutions.
Does True Image contain the same cloning feature as Acronis Disk Director? Choices about which Win 7 computer to install True Image, or as a machine to move the Disk Director depends on the answer. What am I missing? Or does any cloning feature of True Image miss something that Director has?
UPDATE w MORE PRESSING QUESTION TO THOSE WHO KNOW: I'm looking at the retail box for True Image 2014, and happy to see (a) it's a 3-PC license and (b) it works on WHS 2011 as well as Win 7.
I just ordered a 60GB SATA-III SSD. The server box has a 300 GB WD "blue" drive as the boot disk. It was the smallest I could find in my arsenal at the time. It's formatted into a 60GB and a 240GB partition, the smaller being the system/boot volume. I chose not to include the larger volume in my drive pool.
Looking at the PDF user's guide online for True Image, it notes that I cannot clone a logical volume, but must clone the entire disk. Keeping in mind that the SSD is only 60GB, my previous experience with Disk Director, Partition Magic and other programs suggests that I should be able to shrink logical volumes to fit. In fact, I'd simply like to delete the 240GB volume before the cloning takes place.
Am I going to have problems with this? Somebody want to outline a step-by-step process before I begin? It would be very helpful to me. The SSD arrives later this week, possibly early next week. Besides replacing the server NIC, I'd like to "knock this out" successfully in a reasonable amount of time.
Thanks.
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