Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 1:31 PM -0500 3/17/04, Phong wrote:
>Hi Tim,
>
>You can use Symantec Ghost to backup the state of the
>system (including device drivers, installed applications)
>onto another HDD, along with any other files you want to
>backup. If the first HDD goes kaput, you can swap in
>the other one and not have to re-install the device drivers
>and applications.
>
>Several shortcomings:
>1. It's expensive
>2. I only know of versions that will work with Windows
> (not Linux, MacOS)
>3. I think it can only backup to another HDD.
>
>Hope that helps, and not frustrate, or worse, confuse.
>
>- Phong
>
>
>
>Tim Atherton wrote:
>>
>> Experts - what's good (preferably free...) software for backing
>> up my HD to
> > say DVD - backing up essential files and system?
For the Mac, Retrospect has always been the best option, and now that
v6 is out, it can finally make a bootable OSX duplicate. However, a
very good (free) utility is Carbon Copy Cloner, which can also make
bootable mirror image drives.
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