Powerful Backup Strategy - The Secret of Disk Imaging Uncovered
Disk Imaging - Smart Backup Secrets / Techniques We all know there are many different backup solutions on the market, and the thing is, it's up to you to find the best solution for your business / home setup.
I want to tell you about disk imaging, because I believe it's one of the more powerful backup solutions, keep reading and I will explain why.
Lets start by examining some of the benefits:
I'm going to start by telling you how I do things, and why disk imaging is so great.
So you're installing / re-installing Windows.
You install the operating system, XP / Vista, followed by installing all the drivers for the motherboard, sound, graphics card etc.
Then finally all the applications, eventually everything's hunky dory.
This might take (on average) a day or so if you have a lot of applications and configurations to consider.
This is the time to take a disk image or snapshot.
Something like Acronis True Image is perfect.
The benefit being, if anything goes wrong with your system, and you can revert back to the crisp fresh install with everything setup perfectly.
I admit, I like to really push my system hard, which normally entails installing too many applications and making system changes too.
Hard to leave things alone sometimes, sure I'm not the only one! Tinkering around, as many of us do, or installing potentially damaging software can lead to major system problems.
Even for someone like myself, with many years of experience in IT (desktop and server side support) problems can still surface.
Especially with beloved Windows, and when they do, really you have two choices.
You can either spend hours trying to fix it, or, if the problem is serious enough, you can simply revert to the last disk image, which saves an enormous amount of time.
There are products on the market, Acronis True Image being one, that will create the disk image for you, and automatically keep the image up to date.
This coupled with access to your disk images before Windows loads, and all of a sudden you have yourself a very contingent setup.
Here are some scenarios where you would seriously benefit from such practice's:
This is where disk imaging comes into its own.
Another thing to add, have you noticed how Windows just seems to get slower and slower as time goes on? This is another good reason to be able to revert back to the original disk image you took in the beginning.
A quick fix, saving a lot of time.
I have personally tried Acronis True Image, and their software enables you to keep the disk image up to date, access it before Windows loads, plus still do the standard incremental / differential backups, if you so desire.
Solid contingency provided by disk imaging is definitely the way to go.
I want to tell you about disk imaging, because I believe it's one of the more powerful backup solutions, keep reading and I will explain why.
Lets start by examining some of the benefits:
- Complete system restore is easy!
- No need to re-install the operating system every again
- Re-install your disk image onto another system (with similar hardware)
- Recovery your entire system onto a new hard drive in minutes
I'm going to start by telling you how I do things, and why disk imaging is so great.
So you're installing / re-installing Windows.
You install the operating system, XP / Vista, followed by installing all the drivers for the motherboard, sound, graphics card etc.
Then finally all the applications, eventually everything's hunky dory.
This might take (on average) a day or so if you have a lot of applications and configurations to consider.
This is the time to take a disk image or snapshot.
Something like Acronis True Image is perfect.
The benefit being, if anything goes wrong with your system, and you can revert back to the crisp fresh install with everything setup perfectly.
I admit, I like to really push my system hard, which normally entails installing too many applications and making system changes too.
Hard to leave things alone sometimes, sure I'm not the only one! Tinkering around, as many of us do, or installing potentially damaging software can lead to major system problems.
Even for someone like myself, with many years of experience in IT (desktop and server side support) problems can still surface.
Especially with beloved Windows, and when they do, really you have two choices.
You can either spend hours trying to fix it, or, if the problem is serious enough, you can simply revert to the last disk image, which saves an enormous amount of time.
There are products on the market, Acronis True Image being one, that will create the disk image for you, and automatically keep the image up to date.
This coupled with access to your disk images before Windows loads, and all of a sudden you have yourself a very contingent setup.
Here are some scenarios where you would seriously benefit from such practice's:
- Your system is no longer bootable
- Your system boots but you have OS level corruption's which can't be fixed (without hours of your time!)
- Your system is infected with a virus or spyware, no matter what you do, nothing seems to remove it
- You have a failed hard disk
This is where disk imaging comes into its own.
Another thing to add, have you noticed how Windows just seems to get slower and slower as time goes on? This is another good reason to be able to revert back to the original disk image you took in the beginning.
A quick fix, saving a lot of time.
I have personally tried Acronis True Image, and their software enables you to keep the disk image up to date, access it before Windows loads, plus still do the standard incremental / differential backups, if you so desire.
Solid contingency provided by disk imaging is definitely the way to go.
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