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gdawg1972 · **Disk Imaging for the 10v -** 06-28-2009, 12:25 AM

What do you guys use for imaging your mini 10v? I have tried Acronis True Image 11 Home and it seems to act rather "wonky"...saying it would take like 2 days to make an image. Any other good alternatives out there?

CBick · 06-28-2009, 12:31 AM

I have an HP Mediasmart Windows Home Server that takes care of all of my backups. Including imaging the OS drive.
It is the best & easiest solution that I have ever found.

zrtom · 06-28-2009, 04:28 AM

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Originally Posted by gdawg1972

What do you guys use for imaging your mini 10v? I have tried Acronis True Image 11 Home and it seems to act rather "wonky"...saying it would take like 2 days to make an image. Any other good alternatives out there?

Have you let it proceed through the backup to see if it does take that long? Acronis often overestimates the time at the beginning of image creation and the time left indicator usually starts dropping rather quickly after the first couple minutes and eventually zeros in on the correct time left.

The total time depends on the compression level and where the backup is going; USB flash drive, DVDs, USB hard drive, different partition on same hard drive, etc.

On a Mini 10v I have had True Image 11 start out that way but complete the image with verification in about 10 or 15 minutes. This was a backup of a system with total uncompressed size around 20GB, backed up to a separate partition.

gdawg1972 · 06-28-2009, 01:31 PM

Yeah....I finally let it run and it ran rather quickly...I guess it could have been that I was running Acronis off a thumb drive and was also doing the backup back to the thumbdrive as well. I installed Acronis onto the 10v and then did the backup to a thumbdrive and it did just fine.

cage · 07-02-2009, 12:28 AM

I've been using ghost for a very long time now with no issues.

somms · 07-02-2009, 01:32 AM

ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...s/GSSB2174.zip

32-bit version of Ghost works fine for me...Version: 11.5.0.2174 (Apr 5 2009, Build=2174) can be acquired direct from symantec linked above and includes DOS as well as linux build along with 32-bit Windoze ver!

daveski · 09:38 AM

I use the Clonezilla live CD to image the system directly onto a USB HDD. This works well and is cost-free - but you do need to be confident about drives, partitions etc. (although this is the case for any cloning software).

GParted-Clonezilla LiveCD

Slayer537 · 07-02-2009, 04:50 PM

Acronis works fine for imaging (note it failed to image my Ubuntu partition cause it was marked read-only but a sector by sector imaging process should work) It took about 15-20mins to image it and reduced the image to about 10GB. This size is after I did all of my customizations to the windows partition (added programs, changed theme, logon, etc..)

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gdawg1972 Member Posts: 44 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Saltillo, MS	Disk Imaging for the 10v - 06-28-2009, 12:25 AM What do you guys use for imaging your mini 10v? I have tried Acronis True Image 11 Home and it seems to act rather "wonky"...saying it would take like 2 days to make an image. Any other good alternatives out there?

CBick Member Posts: 41 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Texas	06-28-2009, 12:31 AM I have an HP Mediasmart Windows Home Server that takes care of all of my backups. Including imaging the OS drive. It is the best & easiest solution that I have ever found.

gdawg1972 Member Posts: 44 Join Date: May 2009 Location: Saltillo, MS	06-28-2009, 01:31 PM Yeah....I finally let it run and it ran rather quickly...I guess it could have been that I was running Acronis off a thumb drive and was also doing the backup back to the thumbdrive as well. I installed Acronis onto the 10v and then did the backup to a thumbdrive and it did just fine.

cage Junior Member Posts: 3 Join Date: Jul 2009	07-02-2009, 12:28 AM I've been using ghost for a very long time now with no issues.

somms Super Moderator Posts: 873 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: FAA	07-02-2009, 01:32 AM ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/englis...s/GSSB2174.zip 32-bit version of Ghost works fine for me...Version: 11.5.0.2174 (Apr 5 2009, Build=2174) can be acquired direct from symantec linked above and includes DOS as well as linux build along with 32-bit Windoze ver!

daveski Junior Member Posts: 5 Join Date: Jul 2009	07-02-2009, 09:35 AM I use the Clonezilla live CD to image the system directly onto a USB HDD. This works well and is cost-free - but you do need to be confident about drives, partitions etc. (although this is the case for any cloning software). GParted-Clonezilla LiveCD Last edited by daveski; 07-02-2009 at 09:38 AM.

Slayer537 Junior Member Posts: 8 Join Date: Jul 2009	07-02-2009, 04:50 PM Acronis works fine for imaging (note it failed to image my Ubuntu partition cause it was marked read-only but a sector by sector imaging process should work) It took about 15-20mins to image it and reduced the image to about 10GB. This size is after I did all of my customizations to the windows partition (added programs, changed theme, logon, etc..)