Sam
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I want to create a clone of the primary partition (i.e. the C: drive) and keep that on a hidden partition on the same drive, to be used for recovery purposes.
What I want to know is this:
1. What is the best software to do this? Norton Ghost?
2. How can I access the recovery partition it if the main partition goes tits up, and how do I restore?
I know I should probably know this but it's not something I ever really got involved in TBH, I'd normally do a fresh install of whatever OS from CD/DVD etc. but it would be nice to restore to a ready prepared installation.
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
1. What is the best software to do this? Norton Ghost?
2. How can I access the recovery partition it if the main partition goes tits up, and how do I restore?
you need to decide what sort of redundancy your after.
IMO, if its disk failure which would cause the most problems, in which case having a backup on the same disk is of no use.
If its software/file redundancy, your better off using system restore or shadow copy.
[Edited on 15-02-2011 by Bart]
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Andrew
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CloneZilla or SnapShot. I love SnapShot!
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pow
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Wasn't Andrew asking about this a few weeks ago? 
Acronis 
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VrsTurbo
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Acronis is great for the job and save it to an external HDD.
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Sam
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So we're saying backup DVDs are better yes?
Which Acronis product/version is best?
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VrsTurbo
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Originally posted by Sam
So we're saying backup DVDs are better yes?
Which Acronis product/version is best?
Harddrive or NAS would be my prefered method but if its just the system partition and not data on a standard client O/S i wouldnt bother and just do data.
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Andrew
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Originally posted by pow
Wasn't Andrew asking about this a few weeks ago?
Acronis
I was and i've still not tested with RAID
RAID Controller is still sat on my desk...
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pow
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I can confirm it works fine, once you boot into Windows the RAID control just start replicating onto the backup array as normal
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Andrew
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I'll find out Friday Pow 
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