Oh, I didn't mean to imply your C: image wouldn't include your OS. I just didn't want you to think you would _never_ have to reinstall an OS. The trick is partitioning your C drive small enough to hold everything you need on a daily basis as well as all your documents. Currently, I do around 50gb for C. My Games, Music, Videos, and Adobe & Office suites go to a different partition.
Having evaluated both, I prefer Ghost over Acronis, as it's more versatile. Worth the extra $20 or so. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:57 AM, Richard P. <[email protected]> wrote: > You raise good points. The backup would essentially be for only "My > Documents" although at some point I would like to start backing up the > image on a daily basis too. Never planned on trying to backup the > operating system. It's too much fun reinstalling it :) > > Richard P. > > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:34 AM, Tony B <[email protected]> wrote: >> Now that you've heard what everyone else does, if you actually want >> any specific help you're going to have to tell us a lot more about >> what it is you do, and what it is you want backed up. >> >> e.g. I don't back up *anything* on the wife's laptop, but her emails >> are all via Yahoo, so they're already backed up in the cloud. OTOH, >> the office machine that runs Quickbooks and keeps two important >> company databases is backed up daily to the cloud (specifically, >> Amazon via Jungledisk). My own machine, used primarily for >> development, images the C drive daily to a second drive. >> >> All three methods have already been described, but which one is right >> for you just depends on what the machine in question is doing. Note >> that no backup method will ever prevent you from having to reinstall >> your OS occasionally, so don't bother trying to reach for that lofty >> goal. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
