I have been using Winclone to backup by BC parttion under Mac 10.6. From what I have read (and that is not much) it appears that Winclone may not work with Lion. Is this true? If so, is there an alternative? Thanks!
There are links to a Lion version - check Roaringapps site for compatible versions.
Thanks, but I can not find one at Roaringapps. Although a 2.3 version is mentioned in some comments, I can find no download link for it. And, all the comments that I have found say either that 2.2 does not work at all with Lion, or, if it does, it requires complex work-arounds, especially to restore. Any other options?
All versions of Windows 7 provide disk C: (D:) "image" backup to external drive partition NTFS formatted;
Start->All Programs->Maintenance->Backup and Restore->Create a system Image.
If needed the image can be restored from at boot using "System Repair" CD/DVD (see above) or Windows 7 install disk.
It is fast, and in my recovery experience before/after Lion has never failed.
You can see various including this by Microsoft employee, who in another stream shows you tool to auto schedule file (pictures, music etc.) backups http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbVT4XQcB1A&feature=related
Thanks again. I checked the link for the WinClone Lion version, but that site states that this is a hack of V2.2, and has multiple issues as opposed to a fully developed and supported app. And, the hack/posting is listed as "anonymous", which worries me. I would like to be "sure" that my potentially life-saving backup is truly "good".
As for using a windows program to back up the bootcamp partition, I'm not windows-savvy enough to know if it will work like WinClone. Perpahs you can help here again. With WinClone I backup the BC partition complete with all of the windows stuff to my Mac-formatted hard drive, just as I do my Carbon Copy Cloner and TM backups with my Mac partition. Will the Windows backup program do this, or would I have to have a separate hard drive or partition for the backup. Thank you both!
People here were the ones that told me about "hacked" WinClone working.
WinClone went EOL, it never was fully updated for Windows 7 two yrs ago
Clone X 4 will do what CCC and SD do, but it can also do a full sector to sector drive copy as well.
I have seen people say that they use Ghost. My encounter with Ghost was it would not work, but then a lot of things had trouble when 7 came out, but support for Macs and GPT (I really detest the name "boot camp" as it doesn't cover any real technical feature and is used to include 4 or 5 different things).
Acronis: I really thought they would come through.
Windows 7 Backup (data) - AppleHFS feature interferes.
Windows Easy Transfer - works but you still have to reinstall the OS and applications, which isn't totally good, but isn't bad either.
Paragon does list and provide Apple Boot Camp drivers, programs. I use their "Clone OS" for Windows couple times a week, but is Windows boot drive only, not mixed (hybid). If anyone was going to, they wouid be first go-to. Their CampTune, HFS, NTFS and other Mac oriented software.
CampTune backs up your partitions as well as resizes, and can also create and setup the (boot camp) Windows partition.
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/camptune/
http://www.paragon-software.com/mac/
http://blog.paragon-software.com/?p=466
Most restore programs in Windows use a CD or DVD to boot from to do the recovery, like using OS X to run a Restore system only from linux. Paragon's is more like CCC or SuperDuper, but only on drive with only Windows. Not that different.
So yes, you use sparse disk image with WinClone. I've done that for years with SuperDuper and CCC to keep an image of a drive volume - OS X can fit on 40GB image.
how to backup bootcamp under Lion?
