Acronis True Image

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

I am looking at buying this product:

http://www.acronis.co.uk/homecomputing/products/trueimage/

I have recently had to do the whole re-install process again due to my own stupid fault. And to be honest, I no longer have time to do this when I mess with my system.

So a complete backup of the system seems like a good idea. At work we use Norton Ghost, but I've been advised that Acrois True Image may actually be superior for home use.

OK, so my system drive (C:) is now all installed. It clocks in at about 40gig. I can back this up to a removable HDD fine.

But say I shaft the computer again - how do I restore? Do I boot into a faux-DOS environment from CD so that C: is free and accessible?

Basically, looking for some advice on how this app works, whether it's recommended, etc.

Thanks

[Lee G. Veteran]

You can put a backup onto another hard drive/partition or external hard drive. If your computer screws up, you can boot from the rescue disk (the bootable media can be created from within in Acronis True Image). From within this you can select the backup, and restore it onto the hard drive. Whenever I've done it I've previously formatted the hard drive, and then restored the backup image onto the formatted disk. You can also use the program to backup some folders for example, and restore these folders from within Acronis True Image.

[Xahid]

I used it & it is easier, not only for home, but also good for office use, much easier !

make a backup file & you can recover it from bootable CD !

[The2]

The best software ever. I use it for all my clients. It also supports Linux partitions!

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Cheers, think I'm pretty much convinced.

LCG: I assumed that was how it worked, but wasn't 100% sure :)

[RadishTM Veteran]

Worthy tool to have (Y)

Radish?

[+BudMan MVC]

Acronis is a fine product, but there are many ways to do the same exact thing for FREE.

Before you go dropping 50 bones on something you might use once or twice, if ever again --- I would suggest you look into some of the free methods.

PING is one for example.

http://ping.windowsdream.com/

driveimage XML is another http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

There are lots and lots to choose from, any liveCD with partimage on it could be used.

[Kami-]

I use PING, it's great :D

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

Wow thanks for the heads-up BudMan!

[blaszta]

Actually you can have Acronis TrueImage for FREE! As long as you have: Seagate or Maxtor hard drive (external will do).

Just download Seagate DiscWizard which is actually TrueImage re-branded by Seagate.

[+BudMan MVC]

^ but is VERY limited in what it can do.. Great for moving your OS/stuff to your new drive - other than that not so much ;) But sure its quite possible it could do what the user needs. And hey the cost is right ;)