Image backups include FD-ISR Snapshots?

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  1. twl845

    twl845 Registered Member

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    I have a regular backup app I've been using for a few years named Sonic Backup My PC. I see that since I installed FD-ISR and made a secondary snapshot, the secondary snapshot also gets backed up, doubling backup time and size.
    My question is: When I install my imaging app, Whether it's Acronis or a different one, will it image my secondary snapshot as well as the primary when I do a full backup of the C partition?
     
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    Short Ans: Yup!
     
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    Hi twl845

    Now you know exactly why I keep my secondary snapshot stripped down and just use it for a place to boot. My real secondary is the archive which is what I copy/update to and from.

    Pete
     
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    Pete, Good point! I'll have to work on modifying that secondary. Although my C: drive is 80GBs and only 27GBs used with the secondary. :)
     
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    Why didn't I think of this? Now I can get rid of my four snapshots and four archives, all in various stages of installation completeness.
     
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    Hi Flimbag

    What you might want to do for now, is keep one secondary, stripped down, but keep all the archives, assuming you have external drive space.

    Pete
     
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    Keeping archived snapshots, doesn't necessarily mean, you have to keep them also as a bootable snapshot.
    You can have 2 bootable snapshots and 100 archived snapshots with FDISR.
    If you need one of these 100 archived snapshots you restore them in a new snapshot.
    Acadia works that way, he has 20 archived snapshots, but he can only have maximum 10 bootable snapshots.
     
    ErikAlbert, May 29, 2007
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