Acronis True Image Home 10

[Kougar]

Reviewer: Miles "Miles" Cheatham

Date Published: March 30, 2007

Excerpt: "The question is are you willing to risk it? Well I'm not! Since that unfortunate day I have been Chairman of the Board in the "School of Backup". Along the way I have used several products to facilitate to facilitate my peace of mind, for the last three years I have put all of my eggs in the Acronis basket and have yet to have one cracked. Please join me today as we at Bjorn3d review Acronis's latest release of their home based product, Acronis True Image 10. We'll be using build 4942 which is the latest product update released on March 12, 2007."


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Please feel free to post your comments and questions here!

Link To Review (http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1073)

[Kougar]

I will add that currently NewEgg put this exact software on sale. They are selling the full retail edition kit for about $30 shipped, huge box and all. ;)

Linky (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16832200003)

[ghidora]

I've been using this software since January of this year. It's a pretty simple interface inside of windows. When I first got the software I made a backup to several DVD+RW discs and then tried to use their boot image to restore from them. Their boot image couldn't verify the images that their Windows software created, so I could not restore.

Since then, I've backed up to their "secure zone" that I set up in a 120GB unpartitioned space on a 250GB drive. I have yet to try a restore from there.

[Miles]

You need to copy all of the DVD's to a hard drive in the same folder. Then it will work. Otherwise you are looking at quite a lengthy process to restore your backup entailing switching DVD's quite a few times.

I prefer to backup to either a separate internal or external hard drive. This is so much faster on both backup and recovery. I usually backup to one of two extra internal drives weekly and then every few weeks copy the most recent image to an external drive just in case.

There is no imaging product out there that really works all that well using optical disks as the directory structure is spread across all of the disks that yo have backed your dat up to. It requires swapping drives more times than you would ever care to, to restore it from the optical disks.

Also remember that when you back up to optical disk everything is in reverse order, in other words if you use three disks, disk three will have the information that is on the first sections of your hard drive and disk one will have the last.

[ghidora]

Right. Well, since I have been backing up to their "secure zone", the DVD swapping isn't going to happen. ;-)

[CoolZone]

this is a very useful piece of software

[bradenmikael]

I've been an Acronis True Image user since version 6.

I have my desktop machine set to backup every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 3 AM. My backups are saved to an internal 500 Gb SATA drive. No problems at all. In fact, after the first backup, Acronis will then save all subsequent backups as "incremental."

I've actually hosed my desktop machine a few times and the restore CD/process work quite painlessly. A great product!

I backup my web server using their server product and it works flawlessly. Nothing can beat it!