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automated backup for Vista

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I want to back up some PCs for a relative. After having had Ghost 14 up and running for about 6 months, it decided to fail. By fail. I mean, I do not know where it went. It somehow uninstalled itself.

Well, given the 4 hour installation hell I went through the first time, I am moving on. I have concluded that Ghost is an unpolished piece of garbage.

The question is where do I go? My relative has Vista running. My budget for software is $70. I need to backup one laptop and one desktop.

I am thinking about getting Acronis True Image Home 2010 ($50) but I really want some people running backups under Vista to chime in after all the hell I have gone through with Ghost.

And I do want to do a complete backup of the hard drive, not jsut certain folders.
 
Originally posted by: Zensal
Why don't you just use the built in function in Vista?
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Windows backup? Does whatever Vista have create an image?

Upon failure, I want to toss a boot disc into a failed PC with a blank hard drive and recreate teh hard drive. This is the goal. I'd think that I'd have to reinstall Vista prior to doing a recovery of Vista if I used whatever Vista offers for a backup mechanism.

EDIT: Available in Windows Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterprise editions, Windows Complete PC Backup and Restore is a comprehensive, image-based backup tool that will help you out of a tight spot if you need to recover your entire system. These versions are not on the latops/PCs.
 
Acronis True image is a great program, I've used it for both Vista and W7 64 bit. Depending on what hard drives you are using, you can get it for free. SeaTools has it built in for Seagate and Maxtor drives, and there is an Acronis True Image WD edition too(This is the version I"ve used), which is built off of version 11.

You'll have the option of creating the image from Windows, or from a Rescue CD that you would need to reload an image anyway. All sorts of options like backing up to and from a network drive, DVD, USB, etc. I'm very happy with it.

Edit: Awesome compression too, I was able to compress 19GB to ~7GB.
 
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