Program for imaging computers on home network

[country2]

Hi, looking for a good easy program and hopefully a cheap one to use for imaging my 6 computers on my home network. All the computers except one is running Vista Ultimate the lame duck one is running xp (wife's laptop and she's happy with xp. I have a main computer that will be used for storing the images and would like the ability to restore from image over the network. Thanks

 

[Dark Penguin]

http://disk-imaging-software-review.toptenreviews.com/

 

[Cazzaboy]

Vista Ultimate has its own imaging options built in. Go to Control Panel >> Backup and Restore. If you perform a full backup, windows will create a .vhd image of the current environment and can be restored by running the windows boot disk.. For XP I've had good results with Acronis True Image.

 

[sonoma1993]

Originally posted by: country2
Hi, looking for a good easy program and hopefully a cheap one to use for imaging my 6 computers on my home network. All the computers except one is running Vista Ultimate the lame duck one is running xp (wife's laptop and she's happy with xp. I have a main computer that will be used for storing the images and would like the ability to restore from image over the network. Thanks

Acronis true Image

I use acronis true image home edition to back up my desktops and laptops. Great product I think.

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

Add another machine to the mix and run Windows Home Server. It will make an image and incrimental backups to keep your images current so if a drive dies, the image you have is only at most a day old.
Plus you can do so much more with the WHS andit's only $100 for the software.

 

[Chiefcrowe]

I use Acronis and have had pretty good luck with it!

 

[armstrda]

second the WHS suggestion.

 

[country2]

Well thanks everyone for the replies... looks like I'll jst go back to Acronis TrueImage and just use my external HD instead of trying to do it over the network.

 

[corkyg]

The "SneakerNet" is highly reliable. 🙂

 

[country2]

Except back in the floppy days..I remember buying 300 floppies once to back up my computer and I had one go bad when I got ready to load them back in.

 

[corkyg]

But today we have thumb drives. 🙂

 

[jae]

u can store a image over a network on acronis true image home.