Rescue and Recovery vs Other Stuff

[SuperUsr2]

Hello,

I am a new Thinkpad user and so far think of the hardware engineering behind it as great! (Other stuff not so much)

I'm trying to devise a backup plan and was curious about my various different options. Rescue and Recovery is included but I was wondering...........is this software good and reliable vs anything else out there?

Thanks

[mattbiernat]

it takes me 7 minutes to completely reinstal entire OS so yeah i think it's great. it can be hard to get to know at first. Unlike acronis, RR also has separate partition so that way you don't have to carry all the CDs/DVDs.
if you gonna go with RR I would recommand backing everything up on DVDs/CDs first, then get rid of set up files on your HD to save few GBs and then do another back up on your HD. That way when you need to recover fast it will take you as little time as possible.

[ryengineer]

I'm a user of Rescue and Recovery, my backup strategy is simple, after optimizing my machine I create an initial base backup followed by incremental backups every week, I delete old incremental backups when they're no longer required.

Apart from ThinkVantage Rescue and Recovery, products from Acronis are considered good for rescue OR recovery, some dollars are involved for full versions of their offerings though.

[SuperUsr2]

Wow, that's pretty good. Has anyone compared this to Microsoft's built in imaging system in Vista?

[mgo]

Wow, that's pretty good. Has anyone compared this to Microsoft's built in imaging system in Vista?

I messed with the Vista imaging application while Vista was still in Release Candidate 1 more than a year ago. It was awful. Microsoft backup schemes usually are. Spend a few dollars on a good well known 3rd party imaging program. Why risk wasting your time on anything less after spending big dollars on a computer?