Re: Symantec deceptive advertising????

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 18:03:28 +0200, Stephen Poley
<sbpoleySpicedHamTrap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was just composing a post to ask about Ghost. I want something that
will allow me to do a backup (and restore!) of the entire hard disk
including Windows. I understand that most backup programs can't do that,
and a couple of people, including a sysadmin, have pointed me at Ghost.
But having also been less than impressed by Symantec, I've been
hesitating. Does Ghost behave itself?

I've never used Ghost, but Acronis True Image will do that and I have
used that to restore my entire system. I store my backup images on an
external USB hard drive. True Image lets you create a bootable CD that
contains all the necessary drivers to access the USB drive. Restoring
is as simple as booting from the CD, picking the image file from the
USB drive and clicking a few buttons. True Image also lets you mount
an image as another drive letter and then you can explore the image
using Windows Explorer. It behaves just like a normal drive, except
with my version, I can't write new files to the backup image. This is
not a problem as I create a backup every 3 days and main backups for
several months.

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