First of all Karan's replicator is mainly for backing up your data files
which can be anything other than programs, but it mostly refers to
emails,
word processor files and other such documents.
Second of all my tutorial for Image For Windows on the audio page does
cover
backing up and restoring an entire hard drive and not just the data
partition. If I were to recover an entire data partition then Replicator
would be my program of choice. The system I did that second image for
windows tutorial didn't even have a data partition on it at the time of
that
recording.
David Ferrin
Most people don't know what they're doing and a lot of them are really
good
at it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Levy"
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To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 7:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] how do you perform a drive backup using
Karen'sreplicator
Karen's Replicator is suitable for backing up files and settings, not an
entire hard drive. To back up an entire hard drive, including the OS
and
all programs so that you can restore it in the event of a catastrophic
failure, you need a disk imaging program like Image for Windows or
Paragon
Backup and Recovery. The problem with all imaging programs is that
there is
no way to reliably perform the recovery procedure without sighted help
because there is no speech accompanying the boot CD, which all these
programs require. There is an audio tutorial on the JAWS Users audio
page
in which David describes how to create an image backup of a data
partition
on a pair of DVD's using Image for Windows and then restore it without
speech, but I have not heard of anyone using this technique to
successfully
backup and restore an entire hard drive, which would potentially require
a
lot more DVD's.
Gerald
----- Original Message ----- From: "jason smith"
<[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 5:19 AM
Subject: [Blind-Computing] how do you perform a drive backup using
Karen'sreplicator
Hi list. I want to start using Karen's replicator to perform backups of
my
XP system onto an external hard drive. I have listened to David's
tutorials on how to use the program. But I also did a google search. As
I
wanted to get more information, as to what kind of things the program
can
backup? I originally thought. That you had to perform a separate job
for
each file type you wanted to backup? For example, one for documents,
one
for emails etc. However, I read that it is possible to have Karen's
replicator to perform a complete disk backup. I am assuming that this
would not be an image backup. But would like to know. What would be
backupped? And how would you go about setting up a job that would
result
in a complete hard drive backup?
This backing up process, is all new to me. So any opinions would be
most
welcome.
Thanks Jason
P.S I am using Outlook express and Jaws 12. I am mainly wanting to
backup
all of my files. So that I can access them on my external hard drive,
if
my computer happens to die. I am planning on buying a system with
windows
7 on ti soon. And so obviously, want to be able to access my backupped
files from the external hard drive using that new computer.
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