I did not know cloneZilla, looks promising. Thanks for that.

Do you know if it supports creating encrypted backups? So if someone takes
your backup drive they would not be able to access to your data?

Thanks,
Tamas


On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Robin D. Bussell <RobinB@excelerate.info>wrote:

> For free there's clonezilla live, I've used it many dozens of times to
> backup and restore XP partitions on several different machines with no
> issues despite all the dire warnings it gives about the NTFS drivers
> being of unguaranteed quality. YMMV of course!
>
> It's all based around linux, in practice all you have to do is download
> an ISO file from here:
> http://clonezilla.org
>
> then burn it to a disc, boot off it and you're off. I've used a number
> of different USB hard drives as the destination for the image files,
> again with no problems, the only non intuitive thing is you have to wait
> until told to plug in the usb hard drive rather than plugging it in from
> the start.
>
> Cheers,
>     Robin.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
> Of Gerhard Fiedler
> Sent: 25 February 2009 12:34
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: Is it time to give up?-Windows Question
>
> William "Chops" Westfield wrote:
>
> >> I suggest Norton Ghost which makes it possible to make a snapshot
> >> style backup
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
>
> Acronis. Works well, no "side kicks".
>
> Gerhard
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