What do you use to backup or copy Win XP ?

[hakadate]

Title says it all.
Thanks

 

[yankeesfan]

I would slipstream XP with SP2 with this

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: hakadate
Title says it all.
Thanks

Not really, what's your question?

You mean make backups of your winxp install? Or copies of your CD?

 

[tk11]

norton ghost

 

[OffTopic1]

shell script/cron job

 

[UmneyDurak]

I use Drive Image 2002. Didn't have a chance to restore with a back up I did, but if it's anything like previous version it should work just fine. Used to use Drive Image 3.0, but it doesn't support NTFS partitions. So had to upgrade.
Basically what it does it creates an image of your HD, or just specific Partition. Then if something goes horribly wrong, like when you install SP2. You can restore the whole partition back.

 

[Canterwood]

Norton Ghost 2003 or Drive Image 7

 

[kd7fhd]

Acronis TrueImage

 

[RalfHutter]

Drive Image 5.1.

Works fine even wiith sp2. Boots off a set of floppies instead of having to install software.

 

[HdwGuy]

Norton Ghost version 2003 and above work from Windows.

 

[unlockthesource]

Why?????

Do you understand that backing up your system will require you to match your existing hard drive capacity gig-for-gig?
You cant simply rip the windows folder from a system. It becomes intertwined into your computer, forming countless dependancies right from the first boot.

Anyway, you should make your posts more detailed if you want better answers. This is what i THINK you want to know:

Your best bet is to get another hard drive of the same or greater size as your current. Then buy a RAID card. Any POS raid card will work, try Silicon Image, inc. Put both hard drives on the RAID card and set the new drive up to mirror the original drive.

Now you will have 2 hard drives that contain exactly the same data, bit for bit. If you want to do something like install SP2 (a very daring thing to do), just reboot and unplug the second drive

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: unlockthesource
Why?????

Do you understand that backing up your system will require you to match your existing hard drive capacity gig-for-gig?
You cant simply rip the windows folder from a system. It becomes intertwined into your computer, forming countless dependancies right from the first boot.

Anyway, you should make your posts more detailed if you want better answers. This is what i THINK you want to know:

Your best bet is to get another hard drive of the same or greater size as your current. Then buy a RAID card. Any POS raid card will work, try Silicon Image, inc. Put both hard drives on the RAID card and set the new drive up to mirror the original drive.

Now you will have 2 hard drives that contain exactly the same data, bit for bit. If you want to do something like install SP2 (a very daring thing to do), just reboot and unplug the second drive

RAID-1 is great for unanticipated hardware failure, but it's not a very good backup solution. If a virus somehow infects and corrupts your data, under RAID-1 your backup copy is automatically corrupted as well.

 

[ty1er]

Around once a month i Ghost my drives to an external USB HD.

-ty1er

 

[caledai]

Stuff the system, I can redo that ready to use including all tweaks with 5h work.

I just store all important data on another partition and back it up to an external every week (or day if Im in the middle of a project).

Examples. Documents, Outlook Data files, Palm Desktop, MS SQL DB's.

 

[Smilin]

All this money spent on imaging software. hm.

You guys ever checked out ASR that's built into XP to figure out what it does?

Also, mirroring is to protect your *uptime*, not your data. That's what backups are for.

 

[EULA]

I heard XP has some problems with being ghosted... Is this only with some versions or what?

 

[EULA]

Originally posted by: EULA
I heard XP has some problems with being ghosted... Is this only with some versions or what?

On a sidenote, I have my 160gig hd defragment every night, and a virus scan every weekend.

 

[Smilin]

Originally posted by: EULA
I heard XP has some problems with being ghosted... Is this only with some versions or what?

Shouldn't be a problem with the latest version. Always do a verify and an integrity check on your images. I failed to do this in the great crash of 2001.

I suggest using imaging for just that - rolling out images. For backups, use a backup program. If you are wanting backups with a quick restore time then combine the two or use ASR.