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Originally Posted by Bill Douglas View Post
Thanks Guys. I'm thinking of disaster recovery only type backup. On to a new hard disk or new laptop so it's own software would be good. Something that says "Dear Sir, I see your operating system is f'ed. Would you like to restore your complete image backup to a new hard disk?" That sort of thing.
You could try Norton Ghost with a fresh install of windows with your applications and settings to make a backup. Then store the image on an external and use the Windows 7 built in backup suite to copy all of your other personal files. I'm not 100% sure if this would work correctly or how the new version of Ghost has changed, since the organization I work for in the summer had me dump Ghost and build a WDS imaging server for all of our imaging needs.


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Get a MAC and use Time Machine backups. Probably the most intuitive consumer level backup software out there. And it comes with the OS!

(I started using Time Machine backups right after the hard drive failed in Mrs. Z-man's Mac Book Pro. Sometimes it takes a disaster to develop a DR plan...)

-Z-man.
+1 Time Machine is flawless.
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