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TechHead87

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I'm currently looking for a good program to backup content on my hard drive(s). What are the most efficient (and fast) backup prog's out there?

Any bad ones I should avoid?
 
TrueImage 9.0. Length of time depends on the total size of the files and the speed of your computer.

I completely clone a 120 GB SATA drive in 12 minutes internally. On my laptop, it takes about 45 minutes to clone a 160 GB drive, but through an external port.
 
I used Ghost for years, Symantec has screwed it up. I was tyrying to back up somebodies system with the last year version. It was complex beyond belief for no reason. I've always liked Drive Image, but I think Symantec bought it, so it probably sucks now. True Image is simple and fast enough.
 
Originally posted by: TechHead87
I'm currently looking for a good program to backup content on my hard drive(s). What are the most efficient (and fast) backup prog's out there?

Any bad ones I should avoid?
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I love Arconic true Image, it is easy to use to back up...I have no more complain so far.
 
If MaxBlast is the usual Ontrack proggy then it is significantly slower than the likes of Ghost, Drive Image and True Image which are only limited by the storage devices and controller(s). Ontrack seems to do a file copy with verify or something that is slower than sector copying... dunno.

In any case I would strongly recommend eschewing any Windows interface except perchance to create a "rescue" floppy disk or optical disc which you may then use exclusively.

I remember trying the new fangled Windows component of Ghost years ago (after Symantec aquired Binary Research and began their usual process of mangalation) and yeah verily it was crap and I thus continued using the svelte DOS exectuable.

Relative newcomer True Image in particularly is very bloaty and runs a number of startup crap including services so even if you do keep the Windows installation (for recovery of files from images while still in Windows, for instance), disable them all as they are unneeded.

Indeed, True Image buggered me upon restoration of a boot volume image just the other day -rendering all volumes inaccessable and variably seen by a number of utilities as empty, RAW or oddly Roxio GoBack. Restoration of the MBR was no help. Thankfully, I had a recent HDD clone available and most recent personal files on DVD-RAM.
 
Im in the same boat. Ive been using Ghost for quite some time, but lately I havent been happy with it.

Does trueimage have something similar to the dos or outside of Windows restore from a floppy/cd/whatever. Like ghost used to do so well?

I really only want it to make image files of my main hard drive that can be stored on a 2nd hard drive & then accessed in case of a failure of the primary drive.

Ghost used to do this perfectly, but with newer hardware comming out & ghost 10 being the windows POS that it is, I am thinking about Trueimage.
 
@fallen: yeah. trueimage 9.x works off cd fine for me.

it detects my usb storage too, but I haven't tried saving images to the usb drive yet.
 
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