On Wed, 8 Oct 2008 21:51:40 -0400, "Don Cohen"
wrote:

BTW... and it does "incremental" clones too! When you clone your
drive, you can save the operation to a desktop/quick-launch shortcut.

Click it and do the "incremental" clone - it will check one drive
against the other and make the changes that are necessary from the
last time Casper was run.

Priceless, if you don't want to always leave Windows to do your work.

This looks incredibly good, Paul. It does *precisely* what I was wanting.
And the price is extremely reasonable. Almost sounds too good to be true!

I've been looking for reviews and customer experience - haven't found much
at all, which is a little bothersome, but everything I've found has been
quite positive. This looks like such a useful tool that I'm surprised that
it isn't extremely popular and widely known.

I learned about it quite some time ago in the XP groups.

It doesn't get wide coverage because it ONLY clones a disk, whereas
programs such as ATI do that and a whole lot more.

True Image at least will also "clone" a disk. Creating a bootable copy of
the original on a second disk. The problem comes when you leave it in and
reboot. You have to remove the clone before rebooting, and then exchange
drives when you want to run the clone. But it is just a drive swap, and
there is no "restore" involved.

Maybe this will help. Good luck.


"Don Cohen" wrote in message
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"Curious" wrote in message
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You might consider a non raid system and set up a backup program to back
up from one drive to the other on a regular basis.
Even Raid 1 systems can be unrecoverable if the OS writes corrupt data to
both drive at once.

Actually, that's exactly what I'm wanting to do. My post here is to get
advice on what backup program to use, that will work the way I want it to.

Acronis True Image and Norton Ghost will create images of the drive, which
can then be restored. But that's different from simply having all the
files copied and available (including the OS files) on the 2nd hard drive.

Traditional back-up programs will copy files, but won't really allow OS
files to be copied since they're in use.

Are there backup type programs that will effectively make the 2nd HD a
full duplicate of the primary HD, so that if the primary HD fails, I can
just plug it in where the failed drive was, boot from it, and be back to
work right away? (I would then purchase/install a replacement HD.)

Don

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:06:36 -0500, "Wandering"
wrote:

True Image at least will also "clone" a disk. Creating a bootable copy of
the original on a second disk. The problem comes when you leave it in and
reboot.

What problem would that be?

You have to remove the clone before rebooting, and then exchange
drives when you want to run the clone.

Not necessarily. I have my system disk and the cloned disk connected
at all times. Again, what is the problem you talk about?

But it is just a drive swap, and
there is no "restore" involved.

Maybe this will help. Good luck.


"Don Cohen" wrote in message
...

"Curious" wrote in message
...
You might consider a non raid system and set up a backup program to back
up from one drive to the other on a regular basis.
Even Raid 1 systems can be unrecoverable if the OS writes corrupt data to
both drive at once.

Actually, that's exactly what I'm wanting to do. My post here is to get
advice on what backup program to use, that will work the way I want it to.

Acronis True Image and Norton Ghost will create images of the drive, which
can then be restored. But that's different from simply having all the
files copied and available (including the OS files) on the 2nd hard drive.

Traditional back-up programs will copy files, but won't really allow OS
files to be copied since they're in use.

Are there backup type programs that will effectively make the 2nd HD a
full duplicate of the primary HD, so that if the primary HD fails, I can
just plug it in where the failed drive was, boot from it, and be back to
work right away? (I would then purchase/install a replacement HD.)

Don