Brian wrote on Apr 7th, 2008 at 4:28pm:Symantec, Acronis and StorageCraft have their own methods to image and restore to different hardware. It can also be done with standard imaging software. John and I have discussed this in the past.
Whether you call it Universal Restore, Restore Anywhere, or some other term, the major software manufacturer's are clearly going in this direction. Whether it was DOS, Windows 9x, 2000, or XP, techniques to accomplish this have always been discussed particularly in the backup/restore product forums.
I think Brian it was several years ago we had a thread on this topic.
It's not a unique concept. Originally Microsoft had many KB articles, which they called "
Moving to a new motherboard". This was way before any automated universal automatic software was available.
Here's a couple of the major vendors:
Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition
http://www.symantec.com/business/products/overview.jsp?pcid=2244&pvid=1601_1Acronis Universal Restore
http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATICW/universal-restore.htmlI wouldn't be surprised if Ghost 15 included Universal Restore next year.
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