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- isuisorisuaint, on 11/27/2007, -3/+96i read "hot image" in the title and was sorely disappointed.
- sockpuppets, on 11/27/2007, -3/+64A rip in the space-time continuum.
- lex0nyc, on 11/27/2007, -1/+57Global Thermonuclear War
- jimi1337, on 11/27/2007, -0/+20.....YOU'RE confused?!
- bradleyland, on 11/27/2007, -0/+18I see no comments to the right. Please clarify.
- wbeavis, on 11/27/2007, -0/+18What happens after 60? Don't keep us in suspense, man!
- shinythings, on 11/27/2007, -0/+17I prefer PING (Part Image is Not Ghost) which supports Linux and Windows. You can also create self bootable "ghost" DVD's with it. Much better than DriveImage XML IMO: http://www.bauer-power.net/2007/08/creating-self-b ...
- wbeavis, on 11/27/2007, -1/+14Maybe not THE worst, but a platter could fly loose from your hdd. Rendering you in a semi-vegetative state for the next 30 years. Being tended by overweight and flaming gay nurses/caregivers. Daily sexual violations. When you finally die, you end up in hell. Working for the Dell call center. I wouldn't risk it, that's why I stay clear of all electronics.
- cawpin, on 11/27/2007, -0/+12So you like hanging out with other sexually deprived men?
- wvdavis, on 11/27/2007, -1/+12@ lex0nyc - That is only if you play the game.
- wbeavis, on 11/27/2007, -1/+12Backing up Data is easy, how many restores have you done?
- forcedfx, on 11/27/2007, -4/+15I've been using Drive Image XML for a couple of years. No complaints.
- XIUgraag, on 11/27/2007, -1/+12Probably forget to set the partition active, isn't really hard to do yourself :)
- PintSki, on 11/27/2007, -2/+12happy i wasn't the only frustrated guy inhere :)
- FKnight, on 11/27/2007, -0/+9Who the hell is burying mrtroy's comment? He's right. Volume Shadow Services only work for NTFS volumes.
You know what it is I bet.. A typical Digg user was scrolling through the comments, saw "NTFS", made the connection to "Windows" in his head and reflexively hit "bury." - scralatchtica, on 11/27/2007, -7/+16I have a 15gb partition for my OS, and it took under 12 minutes to create an image to my USB 2.0 hd. I had the app split the image into several files that ended up being under 680mb. No complaints. I'm going to test this more thoroughly on my other PC and in a virtual environment.
- XIUgraag, on 11/27/2007, -0/+8"write"?
- raynar, on 11/27/2007, -1/+9Two turtles were walkin by a river. One turned right, the other got wet, the end.
- chris9902, on 11/27/2007, -0/+7dude... you're already playing.
DUN DUN DUN! - objectcode, on 11/27/2007, -3/+10great
- slowmotiony, on 11/27/2007, -0/+7Oh ***** YOU, I hadn't lost for so long...
- Ryosen, on 11/27/2007, -0/+7It writes instead of reads?
- mrbad101, on 11/27/2007, -0/+7It's called r-e-a-d-i-n-g. Top to bottom, left to right. Congrats, another yuppie who learned an acronym by googling what it stands for, but has no clue what they are talking about.
- Cartmants, on 11/27/2007, -0/+7Site is Slow, DriveImageXML on CNET: http://www.download.com/DriveImage-XML/3000-2242_4 ...
- impliedparadox, on 11/27/2007, -4/+10I think I will give this a shot on my 500GB hdd. After all, what is the worst that could happen?
- mrtroy32, on 11/27/2007, -0/+6It is worthy of note that the "hot imaging" feature will only work if your volume is NFTS.
- moocow1452, on 11/27/2007, -1/+7AAAAUUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH!!! Do NOT mention 'The Game' on Digg, ever!
- g33b33, on 11/27/2007, -4/+10what does a setup smell like? Marzipan? New cut grass?
- teh_techie, on 11/27/2007, -1/+7Fixmbr
fixboot c: - habibbijan, on 11/27/2007, -1/+7For anyone interested, I wrote a full tutorial on using Driveimage XML with BartPE, thereby making restoration of the image a simpler process (all for free).
http://www.habibbijan.com/articles/ghost-windows-x ... - yournamehere, on 11/27/2007, -4/+10i thought it was going to be a sexy image of the hard drive in my pc... low lighting, provactive angles, a money shot thrown in.
- MasteRR, on 11/27/2007, -0/+5I wouldn't try that one a partition you are working on unless it's mounted RO.
- FKnight, on 11/27/2007, -0/+5More accurately, this wouldn't help against a fire if you keep your back up device in the same building as the device you backed up. If you want to protect your data from fire, you move your backed-up image off site. No piece of software protects from fire. Physically moving your back up media does.
- iChris, on 11/27/2007, -0/+5Be careful using this. I tried it a couple of years ago and had no trouble making backups and reading parts of the backup files. When I tried to do a full image restore, though, it found either a read or write error (can't remember which) and quit, dead. Test your image before you have to rely on it.
- shifty2, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4if you read the article it tells how it uses XML
- lexbaby, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4Lifehacker must be having a hard time finding stuff to post. DriveImage XML was on their blog less than a month ago. http://lifehacker.com/software/featured-windows-do ...
- Eisim, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4use cobian for backup - use driveimage if you want an _I_M_A_G_E_ of your partition/drive - wake up, there's a difference here!
- xkorbin, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3I told you... DON'T CROSS THE STREAMS.
- cvrefugee, on 11/27/2007, -1/+4If you own a Seagate or Maxtor drive, you can download DiscWizard for free. It's basically a gimped version of Acronis True Image 10
http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/support/downloads ... - Haohmaru, on 11/27/2007, -2/+5I had an issue with this program. I used it to write an image of a 40gb HD with a boot partition. After I wrote it back to a new 250gb HD and plugged it back into the PC, the HD was not bootable. I've done this dozens of times with Ghost.
- doodlebumm, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3It really amazes me how people also say(write) things like copywritten instead of copyrighted. I guess people don't know their write hand from their left. :)
- dn11, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3shill for a freeware program? not sure why this guy is getting buried, I agree with everything he said
- SubliminalUser, on 11/27/2007, -6/+9I used this program quite a while ago and I can say that it worked great for about 60gb of data.
- keeganspeck, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3Nuclear weapons don't need oxygen to explode, or any other propellant outside the actual bomb.
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3Getting an image of my drive isn't the hard part, it's getting the image back onto the disk that's difficult.
I don't think most people think far enough ahead to ponder "what do I do with this disk image when my drive fails?" - FKnight, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3As opposed to people who WANT to reinstall everything? :D
- MasteRR, on 11/28/2007, -0/+3You can also pipe it through split at the end to split it up into smaller file sizes for file size filesystem limits or to fit on to DVD and such. Or you can "echo" it through SSH to do an image over the network.
- Fartag, on 11/27/2007, -1/+4To just dump an image of a device into a file (should avoid doing this to file located on same device as being backed up):
dd if=/dev/the_device_you_want_to_backup | bzip2 > /path/to/backup/file/bkp.bz2
and then for complete restore:
bzcat /path/to/backup/file/bkp.bz2 | dd of=/dev/device_you_want_to_restore_using_data_in_backup_file
But watch out for typos ('if' vs. 'of', chain order, etc) since a lot of data can be annihilated very easily! Also this assumes bash or similar enough shell.
Also you may want to check that all of those components exist and/or replace with suitable flags (bzcat == bzip2 -dc). - chris9902, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3I will agree if you have no follow up questions.
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