Drive Backup

What software util I can use to make a complete backup of my system and if something happens just pop the disks in and lunch a restore from the boot of the CD ?

 

The three most known:

Norton Ghost from Symantec.
Drive Image from PowerQuest.
TrueImage from Acronis (for that one is for example here a thread:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=9111 ).

 

FanJ,

Personally in your humble opinion what would you suggest has in the right one ?

 

Hi FluxGFX,

All three of them have their supporters.
It's a bit like with cars
But I think, and that is indeed only my personal humble opinion, that Acronis TrueImage is really the most user-friendly of them.
At the other hand to be fair: it doesn't give you at the moment the option to run it from a command-line nor to schedule it to run for example every night at a certain time.
Neither does it have at the moment a build-in image-checker to verify your backup-image (but it does have a free stand-alone tool for that).
If those things doesn't bother you, I myself would say: go for TrueImage, just for being so user-friendly, in particular when you're a first time user of such a program.

I hope this helps a little bit.

Cheers, Jan.

 

Not a first time user at this, but I was wondering what would be the best choice for backup of drive/restoration from the backup...

 

Sorry, a little bit late reply....

I'm not so sure whether there is "the best"....
It depends on so many things.
What works fine for one person on a certain system, might maybe not work so good for another person and/or another system.
There are so many "factors" involved, for example:
"skills" of the user, OS, installed hardware, installed software, etc. etc.
Well, that all can't hardly be a secret , it goes for so many programs...

What can I advise?
If there is a trial version, try it and see whether it works for you and whether you're happy with it.

My own, strictly personal opinion:
1- I like Acronis TrueImage the most.
2- In my humble opinion it is by far the most user-friendly.

But -of course !!!- others might have a different opinion.