What is your preferred way to create full Windows backup by Imaging ?
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I use Acronis True Image to create full and incremental backups of my C: drive. These are kept on a different internal disk, and also copied to an external drive. | ||||
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Adding to the list: at home I'm using Windows Home Server, which also creates image backups of the client computers. | ||||
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Acronis true image and Norton Ghost are the two bigger ones I've used. | |||||
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Macrium Reflect. It's saved my bacon several times. The Free Edition supports live image creation (shadow copying), set-it-and-forget-it, and a whole slew of other features. The full version ($40) supports File and Folder backup and Windows Boot restore. (I'm not affiliated with them, but I am a huge fan.) | ||||
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I've tried using the image backup feature in Windows 7, but it seems to be pretty limited. You can only restore under specific conditions, which may make it work okay for a home user but certainly not an advanced user. | ||||
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I use ShadowProtect but I think they only gear their products towards business users. | ||||
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As a free alternative Paragon Drive Backup. Free Edition is enough. | ||||
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Casper (the friendly Ghost). It's by far the easiest drive imaging software I've used. There's a free trial, and the full version is $50. | ||||
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Clonezilla has worked very well for me. I just pop it a clonezilla CD and reboot. When clonezilla comes up, I point to my server and it creates an image there. The only issue I've had is that it doesn't recognize my thinkpad's wifi, so I have to use the ethernet port for that machine. | ||||
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Drive Snapshot. Pretty cheap, spartan UI, rock solid and with flexible command line options. I use it in conjunction with psexec to backup remote PCs, and with a Windows PE CD to restore whole systems. | ||||
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Clonezilla works well for me. if you want to do hot cloning, Odin is a good open source alternative using Volume Shadow Services. to restore your images, you have to boot into a Preinstallation Environment like BartPE. | ||||
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