Almost done!
Jan. 29th, 2004 04:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plutherusIt's 4:18am and I'm almost done for the day.
After 1 hard drive crash, taking way too long shopping, and dealing with last-minute emergency car repairs, and about a hundred other problems, I got started on this at around 7pm, rather than noon, as I was originally aiming for.
I finally got one of the four systems for Esperanza Para Los Ninos up and running, with all the updated drivers, and all the software installed on it, half an hour ago.
Using Acronis TrueImage, I took a snapshot of the drive, which I'm currently using to clone it to the other three machines. Well, actually, only 1 machine tonight. It looks like it's working, though. If it does, then I'm going to call it a night, and start tomorrow with the remainder of what needs to be done with these systems:
Replace 1 CPU fan. (The one on the system I'm currently working on is making a lot of grinding noises, which scare me.)
Replace all four CMOS batteries (I have no idea how old they are, but at $0.88 each, it's worth it to make sure they last another 10 years give or take).
Put the remaining 64MB of memory into system#2 (it's got 64 now, and we went out and bought enough used 64MB SIMMs today to get them all up to 128MB)
And, TrueImage gets all the way to the end, demonstrating how easy the restore procedure is, then tells me "This is the Trial version of Acronis True Image. It is not possible to commit operations you have selected. To purchase the full version this product, please find your local reseller..."
AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
Yeah. That's the kind of day it's been.
Frankly, I really like what I've seen of this software. I just checked their web site, and it's only a $50 registration fee. If I could just click on something in their web site and pay them $50 to generate a code to register it, I would. But, of course, for all their efficiency in disk restoration software, their order system is severely lacking. They want an email, and then they'll send a registered copy via email? What the fuck's up with that? They never heard of the concept of registration codes? And, does this mean I'm going to have to re-do my disk image, since it was originally created with the demo version? Good thing I didn't try it, then buy it, then six months later lose data and try to restore the original image, huh? And what's up with the restore not being part of the demo? Judging from reactions at my last couple of jobs, maybe I'm unique in this, but I would never consider any kind of backup process to have been tested at all until a successful restore has been performed from it....
Anyway, enough ranting about stupid software company decisions. I'll try calling them tomorrow. If that doesn't work, I guess I get to make the other three hard drives the old fashioned way....
Unless:
Anyone out there know of any open-source, shareware, or public domain hard drive imaging or backup utility?
After 1 hard drive crash, taking way too long shopping, and dealing with last-minute emergency car repairs, and about a hundred other problems, I got started on this at around 7pm, rather than noon, as I was originally aiming for.
I finally got one of the four systems for Esperanza Para Los Ninos up and running, with all the updated drivers, and all the software installed on it, half an hour ago.
Using Acronis TrueImage, I took a snapshot of the drive, which I'm currently using to clone it to the other three machines. Well, actually, only 1 machine tonight. It looks like it's working, though. If it does, then I'm going to call it a night, and start tomorrow with the remainder of what needs to be done with these systems:
Replace 1 CPU fan. (The one on the system I'm currently working on is making a lot of grinding noises, which scare me.)
Replace all four CMOS batteries (I have no idea how old they are, but at $0.88 each, it's worth it to make sure they last another 10 years give or take).
Put the remaining 64MB of memory into system#2 (it's got 64 now, and we went out and bought enough used 64MB SIMMs today to get them all up to 128MB)
And, TrueImage gets all the way to the end, demonstrating how easy the restore procedure is, then tells me "This is the Trial version of Acronis True Image. It is not possible to commit operations you have selected. To purchase the full version this product, please find your local reseller..."
AAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!
Yeah. That's the kind of day it's been.
Frankly, I really like what I've seen of this software. I just checked their web site, and it's only a $50 registration fee. If I could just click on something in their web site and pay them $50 to generate a code to register it, I would. But, of course, for all their efficiency in disk restoration software, their order system is severely lacking. They want an email, and then they'll send a registered copy via email? What the fuck's up with that? They never heard of the concept of registration codes? And, does this mean I'm going to have to re-do my disk image, since it was originally created with the demo version? Good thing I didn't try it, then buy it, then six months later lose data and try to restore the original image, huh? And what's up with the restore not being part of the demo? Judging from reactions at my last couple of jobs, maybe I'm unique in this, but I would never consider any kind of backup process to have been tested at all until a successful restore has been performed from it....
Anyway, enough ranting about stupid software company decisions. I'll try calling them tomorrow. If that doesn't work, I guess I get to make the other three hard drives the old fashioned way....
Unless:
Anyone out there know of any open-source, shareware, or public domain hard drive imaging or backup utility?
