[mythtv-users] OT: Making image of Windows install for backup?

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Thu Sep 3 01:45:17 UTC 2009


Bob Long wrote:
> Bobby Gill wrote:
>> Being a very scarce user of Windows I am wondering if I can get a
>> recommendation for software to make a disk image of a Windows
>> partition for a friend, it is his laptop with XP. He has an external
>> hard drive he pops on via USB, and with his even more limited
>> knowledge he needs something that will work on a regular schedule.
>>
>> Appreciate any suggestions, thanks!
>> Bob
> 
> Does not work from within Windows itself, do can't be scheduled. It is
> not necessarily very user friendly, but it's not hard once you've done
> it once or twice. It is able to make an image file onto an external USB
> drive.
> 
> http://www.clonezilla.org/
> 
> If he wants to backup only data, rather than the complete system and
> programs, then look at Microsoft's SyncToy,
> http://www.microsoft.com/DownLoads/details.aspx?familyid=C26EFA36-98E0-4EE9-A7C5-98D0592D8C52&displaylang=en
> 
> or SyncBack (http://www.2brightsparks.com/).

For my wife's Vista system, I use AISBackup (http://www.aiscl.co.uk/).
It can do both complete or incremental backups and can be scheduled.
The cost is $37.50 US. I have used this product for at least 5 years.



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