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bootbable backup solution?

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randomlinh

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Is there a windows xp solution that will backup your bootable drive to another drive.. and have it bootable as well.

Basically, make a backup so should the main drive in a system fail outright and unusable, you can just slap in the backup and it'll run?

If anyone is familiar w/ mac software, basically I'm looking for an equivalent to superduper.

Thanks
 
The Windows CD is bootable so, just put it in, boot and, go to your back up. I suppose you could dual boot the same OS but, aside from legal and waste of space issues. you're overkilling the problem. I know it's a long reach to the dvd/cd drive but, it really is the easiest solution. 🙂
 
Check out Acronis True Image it will allow you to clone your drive to another, it also does 1 to 1 images of your drive so if there is a failure you can just restore the image. It also allows you to create bootable media. Not familiar with superduper but this sounds like it will do what you are looking for. On sale for $25 at newegg right now.
 
Originally posted by: MagnusTheBrewer
The Windows CD is bootable so, just put it in, boot and, go to your back up. I suppose you could dual boot the same OS but, aside from legal and waste of space issues. you're overkilling the problem. I know it's a long reach to the dvd/cd drive but, it really is the easiest solution. 🙂
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overkilling the problem? you'd be surprised how many people are more comfortable with doing a hdd swap over messing with installing windows and trying to restore installed apps... namely because it's difficult and usually impossible.

I'm aware of acronis' solution, it isn't exactly ideal, but it was my second choice. it sorta fails the situation of the main HDD failing. you still have to buy yet another hdd to restore to from the image.

creating a dvd only image does not work because it's time consuming. The goal is basically to keep a running up to date image of the current system, to minimize losses.
 
No need for *ANY* of this crud...kinda.

Basically, get another HDD that is the same size as your current one, set up a RAID1 array with the two drives in windows (start>run DISKMGMT.MSC), let it do the copy, then pull the array apart...or better yet, keep it as an array.
 
I use raid on some of my machines, it has bailed me out a few times, and left me high and dry a few times. I also use clonezilla a lot. It works great.
 
free one is drive image xml. just create the image and restore to drive or use drive to drive. xml does it in windows, no need to reboot or whatever.
easy peasy, ghost/acronis also would work, but not free!
with drives as big and cheap as they are its a decent solution. keep a small bootable partition on the second drive as a quick backup.
 
Originally posted by: jaqie
No need for *ANY* of this crud...kinda.

Basically, get another HDD that is the same size as your current one, set up a RAID1 array with the two drives in windows (start>run DISKMGMT.MSC), let it do the copy, then pull the array apart...or better yet, keep it as an array.
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The reason I'm avoiding this route is because the second drive is going to be USB. I would presume this would be ass slow? Ideally, a nightly routine to update the 2nd drive.

0roo0roo, thanks for the drive image xml link
 
oh, nightly? you better keep that o/s drive partition small then..esp for usb. thought you were talking about a base line o/s backup.
 
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