Johnny T
Member
Hi
I have a customer who has an old (very old) SCADA package running on an ancient PC. They are very concerned that if the PC harddrive crashes (something that happened on another PC recently of the same age) they'll lose all their SCADA package. As I mentioned, its a very old package and they have no disks or other form of backup. Its got a hardware dongle that plugs into the serial port at the back so authorisation isn't a problem.
I wondered if it would be possible to use one of these "hard drive ghost" programmes to do a full 'image' of the hard drive. Then, if the PC broke, they could simply buy another PC and burn the saved image on to it. In theory, this PC would then be a complete copy of the one they originally had.
Has anyone got any experience on this or any thoughts on whether this would work?
Thanks for any help you can give me on this.
JT
I have a customer who has an old (very old) SCADA package running on an ancient PC. They are very concerned that if the PC harddrive crashes (something that happened on another PC recently of the same age) they'll lose all their SCADA package. As I mentioned, its a very old package and they have no disks or other form of backup. Its got a hardware dongle that plugs into the serial port at the back so authorisation isn't a problem.
I wondered if it would be possible to use one of these "hard drive ghost" programmes to do a full 'image' of the hard drive. Then, if the PC broke, they could simply buy another PC and burn the saved image on to it. In theory, this PC would then be a complete copy of the one they originally had.
Has anyone got any experience on this or any thoughts on whether this would work?
Thanks for any help you can give me on this.
JT