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January 15, 2005
Imaging - the Best PC Backup Software
This weekend I've decided to take time to create a reliable PC backup system.
I have tons of valuable info on my PC from expensive ebooks, MP3 files, Dreamweaver software tools to personal information such as website logons, domain registrars and so on.
I've been wondering what I should do to backup all my files securely.
The answer isn't obvious or easy believe me - there are many many conflicting choices out there, some are good and some are very bad.
After months of research, I've learned that the best way to backup your PC is to take an "image" of the entire hard drive.
Some people tell you that there's no need to do this and that all you need to do is take a copy of all your files. But the problem is - when you suffer a crash, you'll be left spending hours installing software program after program that was on the box before the crash.
I'm sure you don't want that. No - the way to go from screwed-up-PC to instantly-fully-restored-PC in one action, is to use imaging software.
As I said, these tools take a bootable copy of your entire disk. You put it into the PC and it restores it to look exactly the way it was when you took the image. Fine technology.
Now the question is - which tool.
There are bunch of choices out there. I've researched them all. The 2 best are:
True Image from Acronis &
the truly amazing good-value Image from Terabyte Unlimited.
The software bundle you get from Terabyte Unlimited replaces 3 other tools that you would buy from another vendor. You'd best go look and see as I'm keeping this article short. Contact me if you have any questions about this.
If you've researched online at all you should already know to avoid the new versions of Symantec Ghost and Drive Image (which are now bundled anyway). Here's a page that explains a little bit more about this.
The Terabyte tool is little known but probably the best backup software on the market.
Posted by onelukey at January 15, 2005 06:03 PM
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