IT Professionals

Best Backup Options?

Posted by on Mar 9, 2007 | 2 Comments

After growing tired of watching a once great application falling on its face over and over, I think that I am going to be offering another approach come Tuesday for explaining back-up options for Windows XP, Vista, and Ubuntu users.

My reasons for dumping Partimage for my tutorial are twofold. First, I want to make sure that Windows users have a non-Windows way to make sure that their hard drive is backed up.

I will be offering solutions such as tar, dd, and why trusting imaging options such as Partimage may not always be the best backup solution to go with. All this and more, coming up next week. See you then.

[tags]partimage,Windows,Linux,backup[/tags]

  • Per-Ola

    Not a “non-windows” option but it is free and it works pretty darn well.
    What am I talking about? Micrsoft’s little unknown application called “SyncToy”.

    Originally developed for digital photo (and is still found unfder digital imaging on MSFT’s website), this little utlity is a great small back-up solution. Too many times overlooked!

  • BBoyle

    I use a Linux recovery CD to backup my Windows systems to an external USB drive. I boot, mount the USB drive, create a Linux file system on it, then simply cat the hard drive (all the drive, including partition table) to a file on the USB drive. A 160GB drive takes about an hour and a half to backup, but it is a bit-image backup and can be used to restore to a blank drive if necessary. I can say for sure that it has saved my bacon on more than one occasion. Works on laptops as well.