Bill Patten
bill_patten at embarqmail.com
Mon Mar 24 14:21:48 CDT 2008
John, You are correct about Acronis 10 or 11 but Acronis Echo Workstation (about $79) coupled with Acronis Universal Restore (about $39) is designed to add drivers etc when restoring the image. http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATICW/universal-restore.html As I have stated before I have not personally used it yet but a friend of mine took an image of an old Pentium 3 with IDE's and restored it to a new Dell with SATA drives with no problem. Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "jwcolby" <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 11:23 AM Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT:Backup and Restore Complete PCs Drew, While technically correct, what it is restoring does not contain the drivers for the machine being restored to. For a rather extreme example, suppose that the machine that you are imaging has a raid 1 array for the boot disk but the machine being restored to only has a single disk and no raid functionality. Or that the NIC chip is by a completely different company. Or that the chipset on one is Nvidia but on the restore machine is Intel. Etc. The restore might occur but the chance that the restore computer will be happy when it tries to boot is remote. John W. Colby Colby Consulting www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Drew Wutka Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 2:11 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: Re: [AccessD] OT:Backup and Restore Complete PCs Acronis True Image restore. It will restore an 'image' to a different PC, regardless of hardware. Drew -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Max Wanadoo Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 2:15 AM To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving' Subject: [AccessD] OT:Backup and Restore Complete PCs Dear List, Can anybody offer a solution. Last week I had a complete PC Crash which resulted in having to purchase a new PC. Data is backed up ok. However all the setting, updates, personalization etc has gone out of the window. Had to reinstall apps, download all updates, etc, etc. Re-install all printers. I am sure you will get the picture. It still isn't back to where it was. I need some sort of software/hardware fix so that if this happens again (not just for me but for anybody) then the "Fix" will restore the new PC exactly as the Broken PC and take into account the fact that the *hardware is different.* *hardware is different.* Herein lies the rub. If I use an IMAGE then it does just that - which include all hardware settings, OS setting, Registry setting etc. I cannot restore an IMAGE to a new PC which may have a completely different hardware configuration. Likewise, just backing up everything will not work because a Restore will overwrite the new PC installed setting/directories etc. I need something which works like, say, PCMover. But PCMover expects the PC being restored to, to be the one it was backed up from! I need to move "the stuff" to the standby PC. Ditch the broken PC. Set up a new PC. Restore "the stuff" from the standby PC. "The Stuff" to include *everything* not related to the physical PC. Printer drivers, apps, data, etc. Any solutions, ideas, pointers? Thanks Max -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com The information contained in this transmission is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain II-VI Proprietary and/or II-VI Business Sensitive material. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender immediately and destroy the material in its entirety, whether electronic or hard copy. You are notified that any review, retransmission, copying, disclosure, dissemination, or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com