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making a bootable system image spanning media
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yeshuas
Daniel Schmidt
PostPosted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 3:51 pm Reply with quote

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Is there something out there that will make a bootable image of a system that will span disks, the image is over 14 GB?????
 
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Graham Massey
PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 12:51 am Reply with quote

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What are you using to make the image? Acronis True Image does permit writing the image to DVD but I don't know for sure it will call for a second and third or more DVD though. Acronis does allow for changing the compression ratio and I've used high compression successfully in the past smilenod
 
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markcynt
PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 4:19 am Reply with quote

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Yes, Acronis True Image will span multiple disks if needed. It's what I use and it works great for me. I have one image that took 3 disks.

Mark
 
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yeshuas
Daniel Schmidt
PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 7:53 am Reply with quote

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When you get done though is the image bootable?
 
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markcynt
PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:17 am Reply with quote

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To be honest with you I couldn't remember. I had to try it to find out, and yes the disks are bootable. You just have to put the right one in the tray (Volume 1).

I've used the disks to restore but always by booting into a working partition.

Mark
 
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