georgiejr Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 I have been struggling looking for a backup software that would backup to an external Maxtor firewire drive. Here is the scenario...C: drive only contains OS which is XP. I want to backup this up to the external firewire drive and be able to restore from that firewire image when disaster occurs. Will the disaster recovery CD be able to access the external firewire drive to to a complete restore? Which version of the backup software (Express or Professional) can do this? I have a peer-to-peer small home network composed of 4 PC's but all I am interested in is backing up the main PC and my laptop. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 Retrospect 6.0 Professional should have no problem doing this. An Express version of 6.0 does not exist. The disaster recovery feature should give you access to the FireWire disk while booted from the DR CD. http://www.dantz.com/index.php3?SCREEN=kbase&ACTION=KBASE&id=27441 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
georgiejr Posted November 20, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 20, 2002 Will Retrospect allow, backing up of the system OS (say drive C:) to an external firewire drive connected to another PC via peer-to-peer networking (using DHCP, or has to be IP hard assigned) If so, is it possible to restore the system from that external firewire networked drive? thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyJ Posted November 20, 2002 Report Share Posted November 20, 2002 Yes, you can backup your local C: to a network hard drive - as long as the drive is available through Microsoft Windows Network. You can also restore from the drive, providing it is seen by the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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