the_guy Posted October 1, 2007 Share Posted October 1, 2007 I just purchased a 320GB network hard drive, and I want to back up my computers to it. I have 3 computers, 2 running XP SP2 and 1 running 2000 SP4.What program should I use to back up my drives, Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image? I need a program which would write the backup directly to the network drive and be able to restore from it if the need should arise.Thanks in advance,the_guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Neither of those is really a backup utility. Are you wanting to do the backup while the machines are up and running or are you planning on booting from other media and the manually performing the backup?You could just as easily you the Windows Imaging format to do this and not spend a dime on software if you don't want an automated solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puntoMX Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 Some drives come with there own software, didn´t this model have any? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uid0 Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 You could just as easily you the Windows Imaging format to do this and not spend a dime on software if you don't want an automated solution.The licence I read said "you may not use this for backing up" - has this been relaxed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 The licence I read said "you may not use this for backing up" - has this been relaxed?To tell you the truth I have not read the entire license. Guess I should read it beginning to end. Though I personally would not use and Imaging tool as a backup tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weEvil Posted October 2, 2007 Share Posted October 2, 2007 SelfImage: http://selfimage.excelcia.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uid0 Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Or if you have a seagate or maxtor drive, there is discwizard:http://www.msfn.org/board/Free_Seagate_Dis...las_t98368.htmlOr for a full list of software there is IcemanND's topic:http://www.msfn.org/board/Disk_Imaging_Software_t100299.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_guy Posted October 3, 2007 Author Share Posted October 3, 2007 Sorry for the delay in a response, but these past two days have been really busy.I've actually been thinking about Norton Ghost, but I'm still unsure about whether or not it can put the disc image on the external hard drive directly. The drive didn't come with any software for backup, which sucks. SelfImage looks promising, but I'm confused about network drive support.Opinions, anyone?the_guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bledd Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 just use acronisdoes exactly what you want, and can be automated really easily, has a bootable cd you can use to restore (can restore from network paths easily too)has an 'xp' interface so is dead simple to usedo a google image search on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickSteele Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 (edited) Go here and check the entire web page out thoroughly:http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/I have been using Terabyte for 5 years and it is the answer to total happiness; there is a learning curve, but, support is stellar, it has a very small footprint-no fancy memory/resource hogging GUI; simple, fast, effective, accurate and inexpensive. This will do all that you want, however you want. Ensure you check out all their offerings completely-including the Linux Enterprise.....Email them for advice or direction...you will get an answer quickly and to the point. Edited October 4, 2007 by RickSteele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 If you can map to your network drive you can use ghost to put the image on it. You can create a DOS boot cd with network controllers or create a BartPE cd with the 32-bit ghost executable on it and network drivers and then connect to your network drive and image it. Or create a Windows PE 2 cd and do the same as the BartPE cd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_guy Posted October 6, 2007 Author Share Posted October 6, 2007 I tried Acronis, and I like it, except for the fact that it doesn't compress images.I also tried Norton Ghost 2003, and it refuses to back up to the drive (registered as a local drive). It won't add a disk id to the drive.I plan on trying terabyte tonight and hope it works.If anyone knows how to fix either the TrueImage or the Ghost problem, it would be appreciated.the_guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darph Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 from my own experience i can say acronis did a realy good job. The build in tool from windows is not so good but it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 Ghost will not image the drive if you are running it from the OS you are trying to image you have to be booted from another partition or external media. Acronis can do this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickSteele Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 "I plan on trying terabyte tonight and hope it works."I garanfreakin'tee ya' you will not be sorry....any concerns, email them and subscribe to their newsgroups in Outlook Express-directions on their website; both are awesome, prompt replies and help are the defacto standard with this outfit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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