[OPLINTECH] Imaging Software

[Avery Shifflett]

Mindy,

I use Acronis TrueImage 9.1.  It's really easy to use and has a lot of
features.  It can do an image of the hard drive and also will backup
specific files/folders.  The latter is good on staff machines that don't
regularly need an entire image backup.  Either way, you have options.  

Backups can be scheduled ahead of time and will backup to another partition,
drive, across the network, to removable drives, etc.  I have it set up so
that the staff computers turn themselves on periodically (BIOS setting),
TrueImage then kicks in and makes a backup.  When complete, TrueImage sends
me an email to let me know if there were any problems and if the backup was
successful.  When it's done, I have the computers shut themselves off (
<http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Utilities/PsShutdown.mspx>
PsShutdown, formerly by SysInternals...now by Microsoft.)  All in all, my
backup routine happens in the middle of the night and TrueImage requires
user intervention only when a problem occurs.

I couldn't ask for a more care-free backup plan.

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Avery Shifflett
Carroll County District Library
70 Second St NE
Carrollton, OH  44615
Phone: 330-627-2613
Fax: 330-627-2523
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-----Original Message-----
From: oplintech-bounces at oplin.org [mailto:oplintech-bounces at oplin.org] On
Behalf Of Mindy Holmes
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:53 PM
To: OPLIN TECH
Subject: [OPLINTECH] Imaging Software

Do any of you have any imaging software recommendations beyond Norton Ghost?
I have about 20 computers that I need to image preferrably to a portable
external hard drive.  Thanks in advance for your input.

Mindy Holmes
Mason Public Library
200 Reading Road
Mason, OH 45040
holmesme at oplin.org

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