Re: [Thinkpad] Acronis True Image -- what's your smart procedure?

Scott,
You can make an image at any point you see fit and save as many as you want.
In my mind what makes the "Acronis True Image" approach more attractive than
a clean install is to set up your system with updates and software so it is
ready to go and then make an image. If you expand or update your software
then make a new image or do an incremental backup. Now if you ever need to
restore you will be back to where you left off. This is much better than
spending days re-installing and updating. Personally I don't bother with
incremental system backups, I just make a new image from time to time and
save the last two. Start it and go to bed. I usually do a cleanup and a
defrag before making an image. This has always worked for me. I also store a
backup of my data on an external disk or three.. I do this manually and my
data is available for use on any of my computers.
Jerry

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Scott Matthews
> Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 11:23 AM
> To: Thinkpad@stderr.org
> Subject: [Thinkpad] Acronis True Image -- what's your smart procedure?
>
> Hi all -- thanks to this list I've decided to get Acronis True Image,
> and
> use it to save images of my new Thinkpad.
>
> However, I'm not quite clear on what the "smart" way to go about it is.
> For
> example, if I:
>
> 1) install Windows, save image
> 2) install all Windows Updates, save image
> 3) install applications, save image
>
> (I plan on using something like SyncToy or Second Copy to back up my
> files -- is that not advised?)
>
> If I then want to apply new Windows Updates, am I supposed to restore
> to #2,
> and patch that, save the new image, and then reinstall applications?
> That
> seems like a hassle.
>
> I hope I'm making sense -- I'd love to know how others here actually
> use
> Acronis to create a "bare metal" backup/restore strategy that feels
> like a
> good fit! Is there an easy way to "reinstall" a bunch of applications?
>
> Thanks! -Scott
>
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