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From: REM on 14 Jul 2010 08:34

> Fairfax <SpamNot(a)NoJunkMail.org> wrote:

>Thanks for everyone's constructive replies. Much appreciated.

>I really only need the ability to restore the C drive. I install and
>test so much software sometimes that I can corrupt my installation
>fairly quickly. It would be nice to have a "rollback" point as I
>think it's called.

>It sounds like Macrium Reflect Free might be the best choice for me
>(?). thx.

This is a very interesting program that I'm going to try as soon as I
get a chance. It sounds like you might be interested, too.

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Thanks, Zo!

Or, you might want to check out building A UBCD4Win. You will need an
XP install CD. Recovery CDs will not work. With this CD you can boot
up from it, copy yout boot image to another drive or partition and
when needed you can again boot from this CD and restore your boot
partition. It's a very handy tool of many values and there's plenty of
help in the forum.

http://ubcd4win.com/

From: REM on 14 Jul 2010 08:37

Here's another candidate freshly in:

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From: John Corliss on 14 Jul 2010 08:43
M.L. wrote:
>
> (clipped)
> Macrium Reflect Free is faster and compresses better than Paragon
> Backup& Recovery Free but it restores only one partition at a time.
> In short, Macrium Reflect Free is better for those who want to backup
> an unpartitioned hard drive whereas Paragon is more efficient for
> partitioned hard drives.
>
> Macrium installs a scheduler service that is unnecessary for those not
> using its backup scheduler, but it can be easily disabled. Paragon
> doesn't install any unnecessary services or background tasks. Both are
> better than Acronis, which installs many possibly unneeded background
> tasks and services.

Do any of them do full, uncompressed, incremental backups complete with
system files?

Just curious.

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From: M.L. on 14 Jul 2010 14:03


>> Macrium Reflect Free is faster and compresses better than Paragon
>> Backup& Recovery Free but it restores only one partition at a time.
>> In short, Macrium Reflect Free is better for those who want to backup
>> an unpartitioned hard drive whereas Paragon is more efficient for
>> partitioned hard drives.
>>
>> Macrium installs a scheduler service that is unnecessary for those not
>> using its backup scheduler, but it can be easily disabled. Paragon
>> doesn't install any unnecessary services or background tasks. Both are
>> better than Acronis, which installs many possibly unneeded background
>> tasks and services.
>
>Do any of them do full, uncompressed, incremental backups complete with
>system files?

Only Paragon does incremental backups. Both do everything else you
mentioned.

Macrium Reflect Free
Pros: Boot CD, scheduler, can extract individual files and folders
Cons: No incremental backups, restores one partition at a time
OS: Win XP/2003/Vista/2008/Win7
http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

Paragon Backup & Recovery Free
Pros: Boot CD, scheduler, can extract individual files and folders,
incremental backups, partitioning tools
OS: Win 2000/XP/Vista/Win7
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/download.html
From: Joseph Hampton on 14 Jul 2010 22:17
John Corliss:

>Do any of them do full, uncompressed, incremental backups complete with
>system files?

Why are you always hung up on "incremental backups"?

IMV incremental backups introduce complexity and given that you are
talking about a life-saving recovery image, are not to be recommended.
It's better to organise your disk partitions such that you only need to
take full partition backup images whenever you want.

I take two images each week using Macrium Reflect:
1.boot partition: takes about 45secs, producing a 1.2GB image.
2.data partition: takes about 4.5mins producing a 16-17GB image.

How much time would an incremental image save me for either of those!

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