Ich brauche eine Möglichkeit, ein System nach einem Absturz zu sichern und wiederherzustellen. Mit der Windows-Sicherung kann ich Benutzerdateien wie Dokumente und E-Mails gut speichern. Das Problem ist jedoch, dass Sie Anwendungen immer noch formatieren und erneut installieren und dann Konten wie Outlook Express neu einrichten müssen. Gibt es eine andere Möglichkeit für das Imaging / Backup, um die Wiederherstellung zu erleichtern?
BEARBEITEN: Ich möchte diese Sicherungen an einen entfernten und lokalen Server senden können. Möglich, die Größe gering zu halten?
Indeed. There are many software packages that will do this for you and more. Costs for most are less than $100.
I've used both ghost and acronis to create complete backups of systems (programs, registry, users, documents, etc).
You'll create an image, move it to your desired media, and you'll later use the software to restore the image to identical (sometimes not) hardware.
Windows 7 is capable of taking full images of a machine and saving them in a handy .vhd file (so you can still get individual files if need be.) Unfortunately you'll need something else to image an XP machine.
There's plenty of commercial software out there you can find on Google. Clonezilla is a good free and open-source choice.
Ninite is also super handy for any fresh install.
As for remote backup and keeping size down, you would be looking for a feature called 'incremental backup' or 'differential backup'. This will back up only the changes made to the system, that way you're not sending 60Gb down the pipe every time you backup. The question How to incrementally backup whole HDD to external from Windows? might help you.
Last I heard, Clonezilla doesn't do incremental backup, but it does come in a client/server setup so you can automate the backup locally. Freebyte Backup does look like a good choice, but it's starting to sound like you could use a solid commercial product in this scenario.