What sense is an image backup for you as a user? Anyone who asks around a bit on the backup software market, which realizes that will scream loudly for image backup software. An image backup backs up everything on your PC, including the operating system, programs, and because viruses and Trojan programs also are guaranteed a disk image backup with viruses and Trojans.
is interesting that those who most loudly crying for imaging software, computer-cracks and are computer professionals. This is not surprising, because that computer-cracks and computer professionals have their first experience with computers made in those years when the OS is not as sophisticated as today was. A wrong click in the right place that could already be exhausted before the complete system, and the computer make unstartbar. Anyone who wants to become a computer specialist who clicks, therefore, especially in the learning phase, first through everywhere. Click anywhere where one can be clicked without shame and without inhibitions. Where to enter something, something is entered, along the lines of the pudding is in the eating. In IT, this approach also as
trial and error method is called . Is continued trying until it works. On the way to errors are made consciously.
A colleague who has worked once before years in the IT, to me at that time once said, that he must put on every two weeks the computer, because he has shot up the operating system. With his method, try anything, he has regularly made the system kapputt, and then had the operating system and any programs to reinstall.
everyone understands
you understand also determined that a colleague can use an image backup program well. Instead, he reinstall all programs with laborious manual work must, it starts the image restore using the Recovery CD. Because
colleagues who are familiar with computers, so closely connected with image programs, they continue to recommend it to all other users.
but I do not understand. For, Image backups are often not what users really need. And the modern operating systems are no longer as prone as ever.
If the word "all safe" stops, then it sounds all right but in the ears. But who thinks of that "all safe" also means that all the Trojans, all harmful programs and viruses, any outdated version of the program, all of which is also backed up. Has this ever considered anyone? I bet that anyone who is considering the exactly touches the PC rather than an image played back.
there are other aspects that speak for the average user to an image. Many Namely, users believe that an image can be transferred to another computer. But it is wishful thinking that an image can be transferred to a new computer. Something would would like to have many users, but such things can not work with an image problem. Current image programs have actually implemented features should work so that this (hardware-independent restore). But, believe me, this can only lead to an unstable system. The only case where this would work is if the first and the second identical computer with the hardware to 100%. Users who tried to restore the image to a completely new computer have to tell me in number of various problems besetting the new computer.
But there are situations where an image backup makes sense. An image backup of the system makes sense, namely when a server must be highly available. Take for example the web server of a company. Such a server has numerous settings and services with which it is configured, and it needs to operate properly. To configure this server in case of new, needed an IT administrator for several hours. It is better, because if the IT administrator can use a current image that he can write it into a few minutes. Thus, the server downtime is kept to a minimum.
you may be wondering why I write that a server can be restored in minutes using an image. A server is usually specialized in a particular task, the image of the system partition is not therefore often too large. A home, however, fills his computer with many programs, the system partition is on home users and therefore usually much greater. An image restoration on a home computer so often takes much longer - many users would certainly lose the patience for a restoration of an image can quickly take sometimes more than 12 hours! To read
the files of an image, you have the backup software To use because the data is in a packed format. Who wants to find the backed up data disclosed on the backup disk that uses a file so better backup solution.
who asks, Media Markt, Saturn and Co. for backup software, which gets a range of image programs, but a good file backup program, according to my experience, not usually in the range. Those looking for a good backup program that focuses clearly on File Backup, which can draw on the program long
Meier Backup . The program has included many prestigious awards from PC publications, including CHIP, PC World, PC-tip, and recently even in these long-Meier Backup Award received from the download site CNET:
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