"Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:35:25 -0400, "Peter Pan"
> <pponvistaNOSPAM@MarcAlanNOSPAM.Info> wrote:
>
>>"Jeff Liebermann" <jeffl@cruzio.com> wrote in message
>>news:4m7pu4dou8ugql4kjm9kr4e37l3ot709q2@4ax.com. ..
>>
>>>
>>> Ummm... fire up the task manager and look at the huge list of programs
>>> running in the background. All of them (and their data and log files)
>>> are susceptible to corruption. At this point, I'm abandoning my quest
>>> for a program that runs from Windoze, and only looking at programs
>>> that boot from a CD or flash drive.
>
>>you may want to take a gander at this....
>>from http://www.acronis.com/support/kb/ar...388/index.html
>>
>>Starting Acronis Product from USB Flash Drive
>
> Ihe instructions for creating the USB boot drive at:
> <http://www.acronis.com/r/support/en/kb/388/flash.html>
> indicate that it's for
> * Windows Vista
> * Windows Server 2008
> Actually, the DISKPART program is available for XP:
> <http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=300415>
> If the flash drive boot works, it eliminates my major objection to
> backing up from a running system. Thanks.... I'll give it a try.
>
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something i found useful for me at least on a bunch of different systems
(had it on a flash drive for a while, ran real slow, but found a more
usefull way), i have a few 500gb-1tb external usb drives, that both boots,
and has acronis on it (also burned a few boot cd's with acronis, for the
systems that don't boot from usb)... just plug it in, boot from the usb
drive/backup/reboot- back to whatever the machine had, and move on to the
next machine.. tested to make sure i could boot/restore with it also...
should deal with backing up a running sytem, since it isn't running on it's
own, but runs lickity split at usb speeds unlike the flash drive at flash
drive speeds

haven't tried it on one laptop with linux, not sure what i'm gonna do with
that one... any ideas?