Backup enquiry!

[joe16]

Dear all,

I recently bought Acronis Image Home 2009. I did backup my system on DVD-RW and I needed 3 DVDs to do that;

How would I re-install the system in case of crash? will I Use DVD 3 first and then 2 and 1 or the other way around

I am sorry, perhaps it is a very silly question but I am not really sure;

Thanks in advance for your help,

Joe 16

[seekforever]

I don't use DVDs but TI will likely want DVD3 first. If you put in DVD1 it will tell you it wants DVD3. The reason is that there is data describing the archive written onto the last DVD that TI needs to do the restore.

You are going to find that you will most likely be doing a lot of DVD swaps because TI does not restore all of DVD1, then DVD2, then DVD3, etc. Many users consider an external USB drive to be a better choice.

The TI rescue environment on the CD or when restoring the active partition is Linux. Even if you start the process in Windows the PC will reboot into a Linux environment loaded from HD if the active partition, typically C, is being restored. For this reason you need to ensure the Linux drivers are a good fit for your PC.

The best test is to do a test restore to a spare HD using the TI rescue CD. A fairly good test is to boot up the TI rescue CD and validate your archive. This will show that TI can successfully read the archive contents into memory and correctly recalculate the numerous checksums. Don't wait until you really need the archive to find it doesn't work.

[joe16]

Thanks a lot,

I think I will get a usb flash drive or drive station to keep my backup data.

kind regards,

Joe