Good morning everybody, or whatever it happens to be in your timeline as you read this post.
I just wanted to open a brief discussion about a product which, in all honesty, I haven’t used for quite a few years, but really must get back too. It’s called: “TeraByte Drive Backup And Restore Suite”, these days. When I first used it, it was simply called: “Image For Windows”. For the convenience of anybody who would like to check this out, it can be found at the below secure website: <https://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm> Now, it would appear, that product has changed out of sight since I last looked at it! There is now an integrated suite of applications, of which Image For Windows is an integral part. You have the ability to backup to network devices, even whilst Windows is in everyday use. You can burn images of your backup to CD/DVD/Blu-Ray, as well as to USB devices such as external storage media. Naturally, as with any other professional disaster recovery suite, you can create DOS, Linux and Efi recovery disks, and I think those can be tailored to your requirements. The one thing I’m unsure about just at this moment is how, exactly, one is supposed to boot into an environment whereby one can perform a complete restore, given the need, (at least here), for accessibility during the restore process. If there is anybody on list who uses this product who can advise me on this point, I’d be grateful in the extreme. But that aside for a moment, it certainly looks as though this product has a lot to recommend it if you’re serious about full-system disaster recovery backups. Something which I think everybody who values their personal data and their working operating system environment would concur with. I for one know from experience just how troublesome those occasions where something gos disastrously wrong and your computer is left US as a consequence. If I can avoid it, despite the fact that Windows now has an accessible restore process, I have every intention of preserving my working system now, whilst it’s good to go. I have invested significantly in terms of both the operating system and associated software, plus the man-hours it has taken to build the system up to its current working status. I can assure you, I have absolutely no intention of repeating the laborious and intensely frustrating task of building this thing up again from scratch! If only, if only, it were possible to do things as simply as it is in MacOS. Although I do not wish to create a debate about which system is superior. That is entirely down to the individual or entity responsible for the device. But, I digress. Having had only the opportunity to play briefly with the software since I installed it on Sunday, it would appear that much has changed since I originally bought a license for the product. Since that time, there has been an upgrade charge for access to the current version. However, I don’t begrudge that in the slightest, given how much more powerful this product now is. The cost of the upgrade was minimal, so I opted to pay it without question, and I regard it as an investment. Believe me, if it saves me the countless hours of work, and all the frustrations of a total reinstall, then I consider the upgrade fee to be a most worthwhile investment. Getting back to the product itself. The options presented even in the Windows shell context menus appear to put lots of control at your fingertips. Although it is true to say that, if you’re prepared to spend the time required to learn the interface, the command-line version is, as the developer states on their website, more powerful than the GUI interface. However, one thing at a time. Possibly though, the command-line, (text-only) version is the way to go for a full system restore. I do like the fact that, if you configure it as such, your every change to the hard drive is shadowed in a contiguous backup. It sort of puts me in mind of Data Horizon Systems RollBack RX Professional, but this seems to be a much more flexible system. Another product which I intend to reevaluate shortly is NTI Corporation’s NTI Drive Shadow. That, too, has undoubtedly evolved since I last tried it. Thoughts, anybody? ======================================== My compliments and kindest regards Gordon Smith: <gor...@mac-access.net> Accessibility & Information Technology Support Specialist.. This Message Was Created Using 100% Recycled Electrons. If you can avoid printing it, please do so. Think of the environment, save a tree! Contact: Twitter: @maciosaccess • UK Free Phone: 0800 8620538 • UK Geographic / Global: +44(0) 1642 688095 • UK Mobile/SMS: +44 (0) 7804 983849 • Vic. Australia: +61 38 82059300 • US/Canada: +1 646 9151493 ----------------------------------------
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