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mac.fly

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Apr 8, 2008
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I'm looking for an application to perform daily incremental backups (or mirroring) from my Boot Camp partition to an external USB drive. It should also be possible to restore the COMPLETE Boot Camp partition from that backup in case of a hard drive failure (full recovery).

(It's NOT necessary that various versions of files are kept around-the-clock like Time Machine does. It's also not necessary that the backup itself is bootable.)

I've tried Genie TimelIne, but unfortunately it wasn't able to manage a complete restore. The taskbar was missing, no applications were installed (only present), settings were missing after the "disaster recovery"..., so I had to manually install nearly everything. :mad:

I've heard "Macrium Reflect" should be much better. Is this true or does anyone have another good tip?
Or is anyone successfully using "Altaro Oops! Backup"?

I've learned that the problem for many Windows applications is GPT & MBR on the same disk, hence many can't perform a full recovery.

I've heard Windows 8 shall contain some kind of "Time Machine" but I can't wait for it and don't want to buy another Windows version. :rolleyes:

(BTW I'm not looking for a solution to create a complete clone every day.)

Thanks for your help!
 
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