BoatBanter.com - Drive image software

On 3/10/14, 4:50 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 16:25:45 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 3/10/14, 4:16 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:05:00 -0500, HanK wrote:

On 3/10/2014 1:08 PM, wrote:
On Sunday, March 9, 2014 10:27:31 PM UTC-4, HanK wrote:
What are you guys using?

What are you trying to accomplish? Just make an image? Duplicate the drive? Back ups?

I want an image so that all software, registries, partitions, and data
files are copied in case of disater. I am using memeo automatic backup,
but I'm not sure that gets everything.

Disk Wizard makes a bit by bit copy, all data and partition
information if you do a full drive copy or you can do it a partition
at a time.

What? Windows doesn't include software to do a complete backup of a hard
drive?

My *free* version of the latest Mac OS software includes software to do
a complete reinstall of what was on a failed (or sold) hard drive.
Before I sold my 2009 iMac, I made a Time Machine backup of its drive
and when the new iMac arrived, I simply restored it all onto the new
machine's SSD. Didn't take that long, and when I came back from lunch,
everything was done.

I also use an app called SuperDuper, which takes an image of what's on
the hard drive and can easily restore a hard drive. Both Time Machine
and SuperDuper have many options for backups and restores.

Oh, and the hard drives in a Mac have a partition that reinstalls the
operating system, if you like. If the drive fails and Apple installs
another, *that* drive will have the OS on it, and if you have a backup
as I've described, you simply reinstall everything.

Windows registries...nyuck, nyuck, nyuck. How...obsolete. :)

There is a windoze backup but a disk image is better. It is probably
better than the Apple backup too but I don't know. I want a computer
that can do what I want to do, not an appliance that only does what
Steve Jobs thought you wanted to do..

Time Machine and SuperDuper take sparse bundle images which, according
to the definition I found online "is a Read/Write format where the disk
image only occupies as much space as the data it contains, up to the
limit defined when it was created. Sparse bundles compact more
efficiently than sparse images, meaning that it is faster to reclaim the
unused free space in a sparse bundle than in an equivalent sparse image.

"While both sparse images and sparse bundles contain a file system, a
sparse bundle is bundle-backed, meaning that it employs a specialized,
hierarchical directory structure for grouping related resources. Within
a sparse bundle, the bands subdirectory contains the actual data saved
within the disk image."

That's more than I want to know, but I do know it works.