Is there a good product to have backup images of Windows like Time Machine? In case it matters, I have Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise Server, with various development tools installed.
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Symantec Ghost would be the best suitable software. You can see more here: | |||||||
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Windows 7 includes a fairly good Backup and Restore center, which can do full disk backups, and selective file restores, from an arbitrary drive (Though obviously, on the drive you're backing up from isn't a backup at all). It's not as pretty as time machine, but it works well. | |||
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With Windows Home Server, you get automated daily, weekly, and monthly aged backups. (Time Machine also does hourly.) It is intended to completely restore a system if necessary, even making easy-to-access copies of necessary drivers to do so. One difference is that instead of buying just an external drive, it requires a whole server box, although they are intended to run headless, so it's not that much more expensive. The integration for "going back in time" for individual files is not there; you have to view the entire old backup and poke around. But as a server box, it will backup everyone on the network (sorta like Time Capsule). It provides an expandable pool of storage -- just add a drive -- and storage redundancy, putting copies in more than one place if possible. It is also intended to be a central media/document server for multiple users. | |||
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