[Ham-Computers] Harddrive question

[Dale Miller]

On 08/10/2011 01:38 PM, John and Linda Miller wrote:
> Brian -  Take your time and search.  There are lots of backup styles.  Sometime ago I was doing what you must now be doing.  I asked as many questions as I could from as many people as possible.
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> I knew that I was NOT interested in a doing a full, lengthy system backup any more often than I needed to.  My gear does not run 24/7.
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> I use Eazy Backup (www.ajsystems.com) for my hourly, daily, or weekly applications backups (or archives, they mean the same).  That's the most flexible applications backup I've found for my in-process work.  I use three versions of Eazy on three vintages of Windows machines.  If I am working on something really, really important, I do an hourly archive.  If it isn't quite so important, it's daily.  Most of the time it is weekly.  My determination of whether to use hourly, daily or weekly is based upon the difficulty to restore in the event of a catastrophe.
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> Mike has already suggested Ghost and Acronis.  To that I would encourage you to look at Paragon here:
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You could also use a free program called Clonezilla.
http://clonezilla.org/

As far as I'm aware the 2 hard drives don't have to be equal but the new 
drive does have to be the same size OR larger.
Where as with Norton Ghost they have to be equal or it will make a 
partition the same size as the drive your cloning.
 From Clonezilla's website it clones the drive then resizes the drive to 
use the whole new drive so you don't lose the space of the new drive 
that is larger than the old drive.

Now as has been said if you just want to move/copy data then the best 
thing would be to make a backup of what you want to move/copy and then 
restore it to the new drive.
Another way would be to install the new drive then when done install the 
old drive as a slave and then use explorer or whatever file manager you 
like and copy over what you want to the new drive. You can't do this 
with programs that you want to save but you can do this with data files.

Lastly we really need more information to help you as has been said before.

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