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Skriven 2010-01-11 22:04:00 av ED VANCE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av TOM WALKER
Ärende: TI clone.
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TW>EV>I wasn't aware that a clone would look like a mirror copy of the
TW>EV>original hard drive.

TW>When doing IDE drive to IDe drive it is. they can be swappewd and it
TW>boots up just like hte other drive. the Real Purpose for hte clone
TW>process in TI is for Drive Replacement and not doing backups. BUT it can
TW>be used as such. As mentioned to Jean the Benifit of using the Image
TW>process is that Incremental backups can be done say weekly and it only
TW>backs up any Changes since the origional Image making it a much shorter
TW>process.

Tom,

Thanks, So I've been doing backups instead of clones/images because I
have kept several backups on the external drive(s).

I wouldn't want to make an clone/image if all I could do with the drive
is have one clone/image on them because my external drives are bigger
than the 250GB drive in the XP box.

The drive in the XP box has 36.4GBs on it tonight so I'd suppose
something like a 40GB SATA drive in a case would work for me right now.

Really, IF I wanted to use a SATA drive in a case to make a clone/image,
like Jean does, I'd better get a 250GB drive just like the one in this
computer now.

I do my backups on 320GB and 1TB external FAT-32 drives.

I know that if I would Format those drives to NTFS my backup(s) would be
in One Continous File.

The biggest spare hard drive I have is 2GB and it is a IDE model so it
wouldn't work. :-(

IIRC Jean has several drives in the 40GB range that he uses to do his
clone/image on, one drive for each of his computers.

I will keep clicking on the Backup option on TIs Main Screen since I
would rather store several different backups covering a long period on
my external drives.

BTW, I have also used the Incremental backup function to add files that
were not on the original backup set.

I guess the Incremental option can be used with either a Backup or a
Clone/Image.

TW>EV>I thought if the hard drive had used up 30GB of the disk that the image
TW>EV>would also take up 30GB of space too.

TW>It does. There is NO compression like for an IMAGE

TW>EV>In my backups TI does a slight bit of compression to the data, the total
TW>EV>of the files made are a few GBs less than the original data.
TW>yuo should be able to change the compression in the set up. OF course
TW>higher compressiomn woudl take a longer tiem to do the Image.

I will just leave TI at its Default for now.


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