Karen's Replicator is suitable for backing up files and settings, not an
entire hard drive. To back up an entire hard drive, including the OS and
all programs so that you can restore it in the event of a catastrophic
failure, you need a disk imaging program like Image for Windows or Paragon
Backup and Recovery. The problem with all imaging programs is that there is
no way to reliably perform the recovery procedure without sighted help
because there is no speech accompanying the boot CD, which all these
programs require. There is an audio tutorial on the JAWS Users audio page
in which David describes how to create an image backup of a data partition
on a pair of DVD's using Image for Windows and then restore it without
speech, but I have not heard of anyone using this technique to successfully
backup and restore an entire hard drive, which would potentially require a
lot more DVD's.
Gerald
----- Original Message -----
From: "jason smith" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 5:19 AM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] how do you perform a drive backup using
Karen'sreplicator
Hi list. I want to start using Karen's replicator to perform backups of my
XP system onto an external hard drive. I have listened to David's
tutorials on how to use the program. But I also did a google search. As I
wanted to get more information, as to what kind of things the program can
backup? I originally thought. That you had to perform a separate job for
each file type you wanted to backup? For example, one for documents, one
for emails etc. However, I read that it is possible to have Karen's
replicator to perform a complete disk backup. I am assuming that this
would not be an image backup. But would like to know. What would be
backupped? And how would you go about setting up a job that would result
in a complete hard drive backup?
This backing up process, is all new to me. So any opinions would be most
welcome.
Thanks Jason
P.S I am using Outlook express and Jaws 12. I am mainly wanting to backup
all of my files. So that I can access them on my external hard drive, if
my computer happens to die. I am planning on buying a system with windows
7 on ti soon. And so obviously, want to be able to access my backupped
files from the external hard drive using that new computer.
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