{"id":219,"date":"2010-07-30T16:21:16","date_gmt":"2010-07-30T16:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timbrison.wordpress.com\/?p=219"},"modified":"2014-02-01T10:07:52","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T10:07:52","slug":"sony-vaio-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uktech.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/07\/sony-vaio-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Sony Vaio Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sony<\/a><\/p>\n

Anyone tried to backup a laptop lately? Now the proud owner of a new, state of the art laptop, I tried imaging it…dear God, it can’t be this hard, can it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not wanting to part with even more cash, I tried to image it using Windows Backup & Recovery – this ‘sees’ network drives and my disk image ‘share’….great – I thought.<\/p>\n

Then the woeful problem appeared, that the laptop has a ‘recovery partition’ – very common these days – but Windows Backup & Recovery does not see this partition – because it’s hidden.<\/p>\n

Ok, so on to another stalwart of the disk imaging world Macrium Reflect (free edition). This sees all partitions, and allows you to select the partitions to backup – fantastic!<\/p>\n

Only issue is, Macrium could not see any network shares or devices. So I now have a choice – one product can not see all the partitions and the other can not see the network – rendering them both pretty useless for my purposes.<\/p>\n

Great!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After testing a plethora of alternative software, looks like I’ll have to shell out for Symantec Ghost Solution Suite – as nothing else appears to work. I have never had Ghost fail in corporate environments, where other software – even the venerable Acronis solutions have failed.<\/p>\n

I wonder if it is too much to ask – the ability to just reliably image a machine over the network – without having to pay a small\u00a0 fortune?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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