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Skriven 2010-04-16 10:01:00 av ED VANCE (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JEAN PARROT
Ärende: Clone an external hdd .
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JP>Ed wrote:

JP> EV> My impression is that even from the back-up (image) files that TI has
JP> EV> stored on the External USB HD, I would be able to hunt and peck through
JP> EV> the files using TI to extract one or more files when I didn't want/need
JP> EV> to do a full restore.

JP> Whoa ! Took you a while to get to this, let me say that I never gave up on
JP>you. ;-)   This is what I mean by the "better of two worlds". From a clone,
JP>do not have to use TI at all to copy some files to your running machine. You
JP>can go to Windows Explorer, open both HDDs side by side on your screen, the
JP>and the USB one, and then move anything back and forth. I have done this !
JP>Lately, on the Toshiba that I upgraded to Se7en, the new DVD did not carry a
JP>the drivers for the network, I had a clone of the Vista OS and was able to
JP>reach in and move the whole TOSAPINS folder to the Se7en OS, they are
JP>compatible.

Jean,

You are Correct!

Your Cloned/Image IS easier to copy one file from the USB drive to the
HD in the box.

I've never considered this during our discussions, thanks.

Being that I left both my 320GB and 1TB externals formatted as FAT,
TI makes several files in the backup it makes for me.

I add Incremental backups to the Original backup file (ir)regularly
instead of making a Full backup everytime I make one.

The only thing I gain by adding Incremental files is it doesn't take TI
as long to store the newer data on the external drive.   ;-)

But I do often during the year make a new Full backup.

I, like Tom, make TI backups for two different computers and keep the
backup files on my two external HDs.

I alternate making the newest Full backup between the two drives,
so just in case one of them goes Belly Up I will still have TI backups
for both of my computers on the surviving external drive.

JP> On top of this, you can redo the C:\ if needed, without having to jump thro
JP>the loop of having this extra step of restoring the image to a bootable one.

Here We Go Looped A De Loop ;-)   You are more comfortable making
TI Clones for your multiple computers, using multiple dedicaded NTFS
external drives, and I am comfortable using 'tother method although I
have to jump through Loops and Hoops IF EVER I wanted to Copy one or
more individual files from a backup set.

As I said above, You are Correct!, your procedure is easier to get a
ruined HD on a box back in shape quicker, just install the new HD and
XCopy everything to the new HD from the USB drive, or even you could use
TI to do the work for you using its Restore/Recovery procedure.

Or as you say, just Boot from the USB Cloned drive.

My XP BIOS doesn't allow that option for me to be able to do that. :-(


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