Anyone here use ShadowProtect?

[hcap]

Any opinions?

I am going with Caasper 8 and two external usb 3 hard drives (not ssd)
One to do full backups every week or so, and one to do
multiple disk image backups for selectable point-in-time recovery,
maybe every day.

Any idea appox. how long each operation will take?
Relatively new machine, 160 gb on machines' internal HD

Is it possible to plug each external drive into a different usb 3 port,
and will Casper know which port to go to depending on which
backup plan I wish to use?

And since I know my machine is not bootable in bios from a usb drive,
I understand I must create a bootable CD with Casper. And then
I can restore from the usb drives. Is this correct? Thanks.

[dlgreg]

Originally Posted by hcap

Any opinions?


Is it possible to plug each external drive into a different usb 3 port,
and will Casper know which port to go to depending on which
backup plan I wish to use?

And since I know my machine is not bootable in bios from a usb drive,
I understand I must create a bootable CD with Casper. And then
I can restore from the usb drives. Is this correct? Thanks.

In Casper you can define your back-up to a specific drive and create and save the backup plan (you can name it whatever you want) and set the back-up frequency and time.

I have used Casper to create both bootable CD's and USB drives to use to boot the machine for recovery purposes. I've used this on both desktops (Windows XP and 7 pro), laptop (Win 7 home) and several Tablets with Win 7, 8 and 8.1).

You may want to download the doc file for the latest Casper and review it to see if it will do what you have in mind.
I've been using it since version 5 and have gotten the updates to the current version (8).

dlgreg

[hcap]

Originally Posted by dlgreg

In Casper you can define your back-up to a specific drive and create and save the backup plan (you can name it whatever you want) and set the back-up frequency and time.

I have used Casper to create both bootable CD's and USB drives to use to boot the machine for recovery purposes. I've used this on both desktops (Windows XP and 7 pro), laptop (Win 7 home) and several Tablets with Win 7, 8 and 8.1).

You may want to download the doc file for the latest Casper and review it to see if it will do what you have in mind.
I've been using it since version 5 and have gotten the updates to the current version (8).

dlgreg

Thanks. I have the full set of instructions, but have not found yet how one can create a bootable usb drive if your machines bios does not let you boot from usb

Seems simple enough to do it from a bootable CD.

[dlgreg]

Boot From a USB Drive Even if your BIOS Won’t Let You

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16822...-wont-let-you/

[hcap]

I will study it. Thank you

[tupper]

Originally Posted by dlgreg

Boot From a USB Drive Even if your BIOS Won’t Let You

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16822...-wont-let-you/

Good suggestion. The Plop boot manager is very useful. I usually install it so that it appears as a selection in the boot menu, and I carry a copy with me, in case I want to boot a live USB distro with a BIOS that doesn't allow USB boot.

However, in this instance, it might be easier to just boot a rescue live CD, rather than to boot a Plop CD and then boot a USB drive. I am not sure exactly what the goal is in this thread, but many free live CDs come with decent backup software, and live CDs are very easy to make and boot.

[Red Knave]

I'll echo dlgreg and say that I have done most of what he has with no issues. I've used Casper for a long time.

Also, as Tupper says, it may be less of a nuisance to boot from a rescue CD than using the boot manager. If you wind up running PLoP from a CD because your boot disk is toast then you may as well have booted from a Casper rescue CD in the first place.

[hcap]

Just updated my Bios from Dell. The new update allows USB booting.
So theoretically using Casper, I can boot from one of my USB drives

Everything(after some hiccups) seems to be working. After creating a disc image for the first time--approx 1 1/4 hours, new updated images only take minutes on my external USB 3 drives. Cool.

Anyone know how to explore backups for viewing/copying individual files?