Making a set of Backup Disks?
Hi
I'm new here and to True Image.
I'd like to know if I can create a self contained backup set on bootable DVDs that will boot and restore my computer like the set of disks that Falcon Northwest supplied with the computer.
In other words I'd like to stick in a DVD and have it automatically restore my drive to the way is is right now, from the DVDs.
I noticed that there is a check box for make this material bootable or something to that effect.
Mike
Mike,
Be sure the backup that you create for your restoration is a backup that includes all partitions on your disk. You want everything included as shown in Windows Disk Management graphical view.
Also note that if you backup to opti disks and more than one is involved, there can be considerable disk swapping during recovery. IF more than 3 disks are involved, you porbably wnat to consider a different method.
Hi
I see what you mean, at 35 gigabytes it would take about 5 or 6 DVDs.
I just restored my Falcon computer from the factory disks, because my Ghost backup failed to work.
I screwed it up trying to install Windows 8.
If some one tell you that you can start the install from within Windows 7 and it will ask you where you want to install it when it reboots, don't believe them, unlike installing from the bootable DVD it just goes ahead and overwrites the Windows files! LOL
Now I have my computer all up and running, clean as new with all of my Adobe, and other important software installed and configured.
I though that it would be nice to have a set of disks like the ones from the factory to restore is to this point if I need to do so again.
I may go ahead and do it anyway, just in case everything else goes down the tube.
I have already made a backup to my D:\ drive and am going to back up both my C and D drive to one of my external drives today.
Since windows updated NetFrameWork Ghost refuses to start, (I've had this problem before) and I can't access my old backups to retrieve things. I had gotten most of it before the update.
Can TrueImage convert Ghost Backup?
Anyway thanks for the help!!!
Mike
You might want to consider putting the backup on an old spare hdisk. Use a CD to boot up in an emergency but restore from the backup on the hdisk. In fact, then you could store several backups on the hdisk in cse one goes bad or one is too new/old.
ati and ghost can't work with each other, they're as proprietary as can be.
Hi
I have backups on external drives I just thought that I'd back up to a DVD set and put them away in our safety deposit box or something just in case the house burns down or we're hit by a tornado or something.
It was great that I could just pop in the disks from Falcon and have my computer all up and working configured and ready to go with all the tweaks.
Now I'm at that point plus all my software freshly installed, it would be nice to have another set of disks.
I should back up my data drive to an external drive and leave it at our friends house, I have years of job files, music and photographs on my data drive that I don't want to lose. At over 500 gigabytes disks aren't practical.
I will have to redo my backups of the compresses data but I also have it all backed up uncompressed in case, like now I can't access my compressed backups. I never back anything up in only one place, I'm kind of paranoid. LOL
My Windows installation was the exception, I had just deleted my Windows 7 backup from my D:\ drive and was relying on my Ghost backup on and external drive and it failed to work.
Thanks for the help.
Mike
Mike,
When you say compressed backups do you mean as in zip or RAR type files or as in Windows compressed files? Attempting to compress ultra compressed files is likely to make recovery more hair raising as it is more likely that corruption of the original file will occur, so although you might be able to recover it, actually uncompressing the file won't work.
Zip, jpg etc are OK, though you won't get much more compression from files such as these and in fact any imaging program might make the files bigger!