Post by rolandjs on Jan 4, 2020 8:32:12 GMT -5
DVD and USB backup/restore boots recommended
During initial installs, later upgrade installs, later update installs:
-- 1st: have your external media devices, those items which will receive the backup images and/or the collection of folders and files, attached to the computer; already recognized, acknowledged, by the computer
-- 2nd: open, activate, the backup/restore program that has finished being installed, make both DVD and USB external boot devices for backup/restore operations.
Please allow the necessary time for the driver-gathering, creation and installation of both WinPE, "LinuxPE", and remaining B/R "stuff" onto the external boot devices.
All B/R program boots are useful for backup and restore operations.
Almost all B/R programs allow backup making from within active OS.
Very, very few B/R programs allow full image restoring from within active OS.
Some, not all, B/R programs can embed a B/R choice into OS boot/load menu.
Concerning computers not with internal read/write CD/DVD devices, recommend getting and using an external USB one, making sure the computer can fully use it.
Case in point: Needed to do an OS restore, plugged in the external media containing the backup images,
plugged in the external DVD and USBboot boots - then restarted. For whatever reason(s), USB boot - didn't. DVD boot - did. After the successful restore, remade the USB boots. Normally, with two boots, if one fails, the other one succeeds. If I did not have that DVD/USB choice, I would have had to go to another computer, scramble and concoct one or two Hope-It-Works external boots. What I normally do, on each laptop, is make one DVD and two USB boots - because of prior and present experience. See my sig below.
During initial installs, later upgrade installs, later update installs:
-- 1st: have your external media devices, those items which will receive the backup images and/or the collection of folders and files, attached to the computer; already recognized, acknowledged, by the computer
-- 2nd: open, activate, the backup/restore program that has finished being installed, make both DVD and USB external boot devices for backup/restore operations.
Please allow the necessary time for the driver-gathering, creation and installation of both WinPE, "LinuxPE", and remaining B/R "stuff" onto the external boot devices.
All B/R program boots are useful for backup and restore operations.
Almost all B/R programs allow backup making from within active OS.
Very, very few B/R programs allow full image restoring from within active OS.
Some, not all, B/R programs can embed a B/R choice into OS boot/load menu.
Concerning computers not with internal read/write CD/DVD devices, recommend getting and using an external USB one, making sure the computer can fully use it.
Case in point: Needed to do an OS restore, plugged in the external media containing the backup images,
plugged in the external DVD and USBboot boots - then restarted. For whatever reason(s), USB boot - didn't. DVD boot - did. After the successful restore, remade the USB boots. Normally, with two boots, if one fails, the other one succeeds. If I did not have that DVD/USB choice, I would have had to go to another computer, scramble and concoct one or two Hope-It-Works external boots. What I normally do, on each laptop, is make one DVD and two USB boots - because of prior and present experience. See my sig below.