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I posted this in Archiving And Backup, but Got no response
Sorry to post this here, but I posted over in Archiving and Backup and got no response. I figured this is a common issue for Vegas Users.
Hello
I know this question might seem too simple but I need to ask it. I own 3 computers 2 PC’s and one MAC. I have a PC XP laptop that I use at home to do animation and prep sessions for my larger PC at work.
I noticed it was running slow. So I upgraded the RAM and put in a clean faster HD. I spent 5 hours making a beautiful boot drive with all software installed and prefs set. Now I’m thinking like A MAC guy, make a disc image of my 5 hours of work. I tried Acronis and got really mad seeing it grind away on a later boot. I hate stuff that runs in the background on an editing PC without asking or my control, and I hate slow boots. It was updating the Image, I DON”T want that! I could find no pref’s to keep it from doing that, so I uninstalled it. I don’t like norton. NTBackup looks close, but I don’t see how to restore without an OS,at least not with the wizard if command line promps are needed they seemed very confusing. Is there anything simple that will image a boot Drive only when I run the application, then let me boot off a Drive or CD and run the application to restore off an external HD? My laptop seems to support booting from USB
Thanks in advance!
Bradi7 2600 3.4 Ghz 8Gig Ram , Win 7 Pro, Vegas Pro 10
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[Brad Leigh] ” Is there anything simple that will image a boot Drive only when I run the application, then let me boot off a Drive or CD and run the application to restore off an external HD? My laptop seems to support booting from USB”
Actually I use Acronis TrueImage for this so I’m surprised about your bad experience. I believe what may have happened is Acronis now has this “continuous back” thing that I immediately disabled. 😉
What I do is take a full backup of my boot drive once a month. Then I schedule it to run a daily incremental backup every morning (which only takes a few minutes). At the end of 1 month, I copy that entire backup to an off-line drive and start the process all over again. I keep 3 months of backups on the off-line drive deleting the oldest as I had the newest.
By doing this I can go back and restore my system to any day in the past 3 months. I’ve used this at least 3 times so I know it works. I like Acronis, you just have to turn off any continuous backup stuff and do backups on your own schedule. The boot from CD or USB works great when you need to restore.
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John
If it’s good enough for you I’ll give it another shot. I had just spent 5 hours rebuilding my computer with clean installs ( geez I learned to restore discs aren’t as good as a mac either ) I cut about a minute and I half off the computers boot time. So when I rebooted the next day and my boot time was way up, and then saw it was acronis I was mad. I looked at the controls which seemed a little oversimple and cartoony and I didn’t see an obvious way to schedule or turn off auto backup or load on boot ( wasn’t in start menu )My judgement may have been premature. At least I know someone I trust thinks it’s good stuff. I’ll give it another shot.
Thanks
Bi7 2600 3.4 Ghz 8Gig Ram , Win 7 Pro, Vegas Pro 10
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Another good program is Casper by Future Systems
https://www.fssdev.com/
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