HDD backup software
My older version of Acronis will not work with my new UEFI motherboard. Since I'm just doing simple manual partition backups, can someone suggest a (preferably free) replacement? Hopefully with a si...
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Windows Server has a non-crippled version of wbadmin which is an excellent backup utility, which backs up by image... but lets you restore by files, as well as volumes and the entire shebang should a hard drive fail. Wish MS included this with the client editions of Windows.
For Acronis, I just wound up paying the cost for the latest version, so it can handle UEFI BIOS. I've used others, but have wound up using Acronis for day to day backups, Mozy to copy off documents, and every so often, making an image backup via wbadmin just in case Acronis fails.
There are other ways as well, especially on UNIX-based systems (OS X and Linux.) If one has a few computers sitting around at the S&B house, one can use a service like dyndns and have the computer on the road use rsync over SSH to copy files over a secure link to the server at home. Done right, since both sides use RSA keys without anybody else needed, it provides excellent security, with everything well encrypted between the two computers.
For Acronis, I just wound up paying the cost for the latest version, so it can handle UEFI BIOS. I've used others, but have wound up using Acronis for day to day backups, Mozy to copy off documents, and every so often, making an image backup via wbadmin just in case Acronis fails.
There are other ways as well, especially on UNIX-based systems (OS X and Linux.) If one has a few computers sitting around at the S&B house, one can use a service like dyndns and have the computer on the road use rsync over SSH to copy files over a secure link to the server at home. Done right, since both sides use RSA keys without anybody else needed, it provides excellent security, with everything well encrypted between the two computers.
