"Mayayana" on Fri, 22 Jun 2018 10:41:22
-0400 typed in alt.windows7.general the following:
"Frank Slootweg" wrote

| So let's turn this issue around and ask: What do *you* consider to be
| '[disk] imaging'/'a [disk] image'? And why do you consider '[disk]
| imaging'/'a [disk] image' not to be 'backup' or/and vice versa?

I thought I explained that. There's always been backup
of various kinds. Disk imaging is, of course, one form. I think
of disk image backup as making a copy of a partition that
can be reinstalled to the same or a different hard disk, as
opposed to data backup, and distinct from System Restore.

As I recall it, "images" are bitwise copies, so that everything
(including the "blank" part is copied. Very useful for Discovery in
legal cases. Because it is a bitwise copy, it takes a long time to
accomplish, and you need to copy it to a larger drive.
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