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[flyer]

wonder if anyone on here can help
a friend of mine owns he's own company and i was just wondering what will be the best programe to back up his computer.the reason we need to do this is that if the hard drive goes it will cost over a £1000 for someone to come and reinstall the programe he needs to run he's buisnes.now the back up needs to be able to remember the cd key this company has put on his computer for the programe to work.
thanks for you help

[stanmarsh14]

Easy one this, and quite cheep too, and is something I now use on all three of my windows rigs....

Drive Snapshot bestellen

Basicaly it does a full 100% clone (Including boot partition, if needed), of the hard drive, and also makes boot media, so you can DOS boot the system, and run a recovery

The recovery files, you need to make yourself when required, but it is very reliable, and a fast way of getting your system back on-line.

Would suggest, creating the backup files, to a seprate device, pref a hard drive.

The size of the recovery files, generaly are around 50% to 70% of the origanal size.

[uya]

Free Open source alternative here.

Clonezilla

[cardie]

i remember someone had some software like this and it was run by using a usb stick that held a password of some sort and if he lost it its 800 quid for a new one ?? f*** me

[flyer]

thanks guys

[stanmarsh14]

Free Open source alternative here.

Clonezilla

Good, but a problem..... licenced for non-comercial use only, for the free version.

[Magz]

This is dependant on how many backups you need of this box, but if you just want to do a 1 off image (or a few images) then you could use Microsoft's Imagex. Not the simplest tool in the world, but it is free.

It's part of the AIK which you can get here:

Download details: Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK)

It's a bit of a big download though, so I'd not use a modem .

[Pgamblin]

Norton Ghost - never fails. will let you backup, restore and clone - you can also get an image exporter so you can copy files in/out of the image if you ever wanted to.

Not sure on what licenses are required but the program kicks ass.