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Thread ID: 113227	2010-10-10 20:54:00	Time taken to Image Hard drive.	tuiruru (12277)	Press F1

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1143349	2010-10-11 04:04:00	Free ones, Hmmmmmmmmmm Personally I have had no consistent luck with the free ones.dd works perfectly and consistently every time... and it's free in both senses of the word :thumbs:.	Erayd (23)
1143350	2010-10-11 04:37:00	dd works perfectly and consistently every time... and it's free in both senses of the word :thumbs:. Whats DD ? How do you check if a restore is going to work without wiping out the original hard drive? Programs generally have a verification mode, that checks whats been imaged, compared to the original. These dont always work though. Cant remember if Paragon backup does or not, But been a couple of times it appeared to backup Ok, that was until it was restored then :crying by then its to late.	wainuitech (129)
1143351	2010-10-11 04:51:00	Whats DD ?dd is a CLI block-copy utility, included with almost every unix or unix-like system (e.g. Linux, OSX, *BSD etc). See here (linux.die.net) for usage instructions. A typical example of use: dd if=/dev/sda | bzip2 -9 > /mnt/backupdrive/backup.img.bz2That will create an exact, bit-for-bit image of the 'sda' disk, compress it with bzip2 using the highest possible compression mode, and save it to a file. To restore that image: bzcat /mnt/backupdrive/backup.img.bz2 | dd of=/dev/sda Edit: Note that you don't have to use compression - you can quite happily just use dd on its own if you don't care about the size of the resulting image.	Erayd (23)
1143352	2010-10-11 05:06:00	Thanks Erayd. :)	wainuitech (129)
1143353	2010-10-11 05:16:00	I have had success once, restoring an image with Drive XML, and can easily build a boot disc with the bartPE install software and boot from USB and Drive XML plugins. But getting a bit dated, as no updates for a while, and cannot do incremental back ups. I have Paragon installed, but it really fails for restoration? What about it's visualization tasks?	kahawai chaser (3545)
1143354	2010-10-11 05:49:00	DD does work, used it on Mint yesterday. Win 7 does have its own backup built in just home pre won't do it over a network. I am using active@ and it just works. Unfortunately at this stage it cannot do incremental backups on schedule only full backups	gary67 (56)
1143355	2010-10-11 05:49:00	If it's any help I have two 200Gb ( 187.2 ) drives here I just cloned using Active@. The process took 1 hr and 6 minutes on an AMD4400+ with 2 Gig RAM.	Snorkbox (15764)
1143356	2010-10-11 07:00:00	Hi Snork Is that the time for each drive or for the total job? Interestingly, just for the hell of it, I installed Macrium Reflect Free and it imaged the same hard drive that that had taken Paragon 3hrs and 8 mins in 1hr 39mins. However, the rescue CD that Paragon made worked perfectly wheras the Macrium one ( which uses Isolinux 3.07) didn't even tho' I made a second one for "compatibility" mode. - they just started and hung on the first line of text with the Linux version, so I don't know what's causing that. I can "see" the files on the CD with Win Exp no probs. I started Macrium's verification mode but it looked as if it was going to take aaaggeees so I cancelled it. Ah well - onwards and upwards. Keep the commentaries coming folks.	tuiruru (12277)
1143357	2010-10-11 07:19:00	My daughter has a similar laptop (Toshiba, P8600, Vista). I attempted to image it with an Acronis boot disc but at the 3 hour mark called it quits I took the drive out (2 minutes) and popped it into my eSATA desktop caddy and it took less than an hour. (The caddy was also a legal use of my purchased copy of Acronis. I don't think my attempted use of the boot disc was legal)	BBCmicro (15761)
1143358	2010-10-11 08:57:00	I've found that booting off the Acronis boot disc and making an image takes longer than using the program in Windows.	Neil McC (178)
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