That's an interesting concept. But it's kind of a conundrum. I had downloaded the Roxio program to my drive which is now dead. I didn't know that Roxio would not support restoration in the future. And I wasn't advised that backing up via Roxio to my DVD would also require that I back up that edition of Roxio to my DVDs also, so that I could restore.
I guess it was ignorance, that, since I could copy music to a CD or DVD and play it on other computers or, indeed, even on auto cd players without my copying Roxio to those CDs, that backing up would be a similar process.
And it's interesting that it doesn't bother anyone at Roxio or on this forum. And no one seems to have a solution, so I have been, in pluperfect subjunctive, SCROD.
Of course, I will not use Roxio to backup anything ever again, because, whether or not I'm technically-legally correct (ignorance is no defense), I believe I am ethically and morally correct, and that Roxio "did me wrong"
Unfortunately, writing the backup image/files is only half of the job. Every backup application I'm aware of, BUMP, Ghost, True Image, etc. also require that you create the emergency restore media, whether that's a set of diskettes, or a bootable CD, or whatever it is. Most applications are also very good at reminding you to do this, or at least making it very obvious that you need to do it. And in my estimation, even if you do both of those things, write the backup and create the restore media, it's still no good unless you've tested it to make sure you're system will start with the restore media, and that it can then read the backup image/files you've created.
The only exception is making a file-level backup, in which case, you need an install Operating System to "restore" the files, so even there you need the media that will allow you to reinstall your OS.
As you say, "ignorance is no defense" here. An untested backup strategy is no strategy at all.
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