On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:33:46 -0500, WaIIy wrote:

With Casper, the first clone takes a while. For me and
50 gigs, it took 45 minutes.

Now, I add, delete, whatever when running Windows as I normally do.

Okay, a few days later, I make another clone (I made a desktop
shortcut via Casper). I click on my shortcut and Casper uses
what it calls "SmartClone Technology" and apparently just clones the
changes and takes off whatever I might have deleted from my C drive.

The second clone and all others after that just take a few minutes, in
my case 6 minutes.

I end up with another exact, bootable cloned drive.

It's freakin awsome.

Takes me about 12 minutes to update the clone - which is an internal
drive that is second in the boot order behind my system drive.

For my regular backup needs I use Acronis True Image to image the
system drive to another drive. I can easily keep multiple backups
that way and fully restore to any date I like OR just restore selected
files/folders from any of the backups as I so choose.

While I have both Casper and Acronis and use both daily, if I had to
choose just one, it would be Acronis - and I would clone less
frequently.

Richie Hardwick