Hard Drive Backup Strategy

[Wesley]

I use Acronis® True Image. The software allows allows you to do about anytinhg.

You can do things like backing up just certain folders or everything, certain partitions, rollback to a previous date, Incremental and Differential Backups, etc.

It takes a little bit of studying to figure everything out but the next time I build a new PC here is what I plan on doing:

1 partititon for the OS
1 partition for music/pictures/video
1 for everything else

The I'll probably just back-up everything on the 1st 2 partitions. Like you said, it's nice having a clean install.

I recommend your suggestion wholeheartedly.

[dmclone]

That's what I'm going to try. Thanks for the suggestions everyone!

dmclone, have you ever restored anything through Acronis? I'm pretty sure that there's nothing proprietary about the way it saves backups. One thing I didn't like about Retrospect is that it created one big lump of a backup that you needed the software to decode when you wanted to restore. That's not ideal. I want to see my files.

Luckily-I haven't needed to use it but I believe you do need the software to open the files. I'll probably get this wrong because I haven't looked at it for a couple of years but I believe you can either create a bootable cd once you're in the software.