On 4/23/2012 22:40, Patrick Elliott wrote:
> 1. Almost every "recovery" system relies on the machine booting properly, to
> restore the contents. Unless you are making whole images of the disk (which
> is a massive problem itself, to span across DVDs/CDs, this is a major
> problem.

It was more of a problem before Vista came out. If you're still using XP, I 
suggest finding a BartPE and a DriveXML. (I can offer them to you, as 
they're both free, for future use.)

> 3. Finally, and this is the biggest one for me, and most people: How?

USB hard drive.

> a nice label, like jpg, or xls. And, there are so many of those crappy assed
> "solutions" out there that its hard to find the ones that are not total crap.

UNIX has rsync. Windows has the backup and restore tool. MacOS has time 
machine. Which one is the problem?

> there was never any practical way to do a complete backup.

If you buy a USB drive, it's pretty trivial. You might have to cough up $100 
for one tho.

Tell me what system you have, and I'll tell you how to do it. I never work 
on a system I haven't already backed up, wiped, and restored at least once.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Oh no! We're out of code juice!"
   "Don't panic. There's beans and filters
    in the cabinet."

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