Best way to take a full backup

[milanbenes]

Morning all,

having invested in a new IBM T43 2.0 ghz centrino, 2gb ram, 120gb disk, and having further spent bits of spare time in the last ten days fully installing a potentially lucrative new component of .Net ready to start learning it, I'd like to take a full system backup before going any further.

What's the best backup technique,

first guess is simply to use the Microsoft backup tool and back everything up ?
How long will that take on 35gb's ?

Anyone any better, quicker, more reliable solutions ?

Thanks,

Milan.

[Francko]

What's the best backup technique,
[..]

I thought you were the master of this.

[PRC1964]

Partition Magic or Ghost will take a snapshot of the pc and then you can restore it quickly back to how it is now.

[milanbenes]

Thanks,

doesn't ghost cost about 700 quid ?

Milan.

[hyperD]

£40

http://www.symantecstore.com/dr/v2/e...ACHE_ID=196236

[milanbenes]

thanks Hyper.

Milan.

[threaded]

Milan don't bother with MS Backup, it's an utter waste of time and won't do what you want.

I often wonder if MS Backup actually does anything that anyone wants.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Milan don't bother with MS Backup, it's an utter waste of time and won't do what you want.

I often wonder if MS Backup actually does anything that anyone wants.

I have also pondered on that one.

Back in the Good Old Days, software did what it said on the tin.

I guess to make a simple backup solution is beyond the capablity of MS.

For what its worth for this new fangled PC stuff I also use Norton Ghost, mind you I remember Macro 4s DITTO for mainframe tape backups, ah nostalgia ...

[PerlOfWisdom]

Should have used a hot standby Business Continuity elastic band.

[Mordac]

Ironic post of the Week

Surely you can "borrow" some software from work. What do your noddy tapes use?