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Babar
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[Poll] Backup & Imaging Software - 2008 Member Choice Poll

Welcome to the 2008 Backup and Imaging Software Poll!

Computer data protection and recovery has become big business in the last few years, and the number of available programs has blossomed to dozens and dozens. Not every offering is included in the poll, so if your favorite application is missing, please check the "Other" box and let us know your preference.

Many of us use more than one solution, so the poll is multiple choice. Let's see who this year's winners will be!

What Backup and/or Imaging Software do you use and recommend?
Acronis True Image 160 (43.2%)
Ghost 34 (9.1%)
Other [Please Specify] 32 (8.6%)
None 20 (5.4%)
Time Machine [Mac] 17 (4.5%)
Carbon Copy Cloner [Mac] 13 (3.5%)
Karen's Replicator 11 (2.9%)
DriveImage XML 9 (2.4%)
.Mac Backup [Mac] 9 (2.4%)
Paragon Drive Backup 8 (2.1%)
SuperDuper! [Mac] 8 (2.1%)
Windows Backup and Restore [Vista] 6 (1.6%)
Cobian Backup 5 (1.3%)
EMC Retrospect 5 (1.3%)
SyncBackSE 5 (1.3%)
Windows Live Onecare 5 (1.3%)
Backup4all 4 (1%)
Windows NT Backup 4 (1%)
Terabyte Image 3 (0.8%)
Genie Backup Manager 2 (0.5%)
NovaBackup 2 (0.5%)
Partimage [Linux] 2 (0.5%)
PC Backup 2 (0.5%)
WinBackup 2 2 (0.5%)
HDClone 1 (0.2%)
NTI Shadow 1 (0.2%)
Backup Magic 0 (0%)
Comodo Backup 0 (0%)
File Backup Watcher 0 (0%)
Handy Backup 0 (0%)
JaBack 0 (0%)
Roxio BackOnTrack 0 (0%)
278 participants.
370 total votes.
results as pie chart in flash




Thanks for your input!
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La Luna
Surviving Ashraful
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Warwick, NY
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Acronis TI.

Great poll Babar See Profile, thanks!!


lilhurricane
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 reply to Babar
BackUp4All here (prolly not as often as I should)

Fantastic poll, Babar See Profile..thank you!!


MarkAW
Call me lil bratt
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Canada
reply to Babar
Nice job with the poll Babar See Profile.

Acronis TI.


dadkins
Merry Whatever
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Hercules, CA
reply to Babar
Great Poll Babar!

Acronis True Image.


SunDog
Walkin' on a country road
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edit:
December 7th, @12:45PM

reply to Babar
I voted other - PowerQuest Drive Image 2002.

I have no reason to use anything else as this has performed flawlessly for me for the last 5 years.

The best is still the best!


antiserious
The Future ain't what it used to be
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Scranton, PA

reply to Babar

Thanks for the poll, Babar See Profile!

I use TrueImage for Linux and Windows, works great. The one program I absolutely won't be without. I also make manual backups of certain files and folders, burned to cd/dvd, and I have images on dvd as well.

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Kanebrake
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reply to Babar
I voted TI but I also wanted to mention Windows Home Server which backs up all my systems nightly.
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johnrbigdog

join:2007-11-14
Austin, TX
reply to Babar
Acronis True Image 10 is what I use. I know, not the latest version, but it does what I need it to. The thing I love most about it is that it's so easy to use!


ahulett
Equal Rights - It's Time
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Bellevue, WA
reply to Babar
Other - Windows Home Server.

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Chris 313
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reply to Babar
Acronis True Image. Dadkins introduced me to it and it's saved me from a few big problems I'd have been boned with otherwise.


cableties
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join:2005-01-27
Levittown, PA
reply to Babar
I had to vote twice and glad for Multiple Choice: One for Windows and Once for Mac (I use BOTH platforms). Thanks for multiple Choice Option!


Count Zero
MD2Be
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edit:
December 7th, @05:40PM

ChronoSync for Mac used to be a great choice, but TimeMachine blows it out of the water. I also use .Mac backup regularly.

EDIT:
I would like to add that Mozy works a lot like .Mac backup and offers a great solution for larger backups (I have ~200GB backed up to my account with them).

boltz

join:2000-12-06
Guelph, ON
reply to Babar
Super Flexible File Synchronizer


sporkme
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reply to Babar
For unix (and windows/mac clients), you missed a few:

Bacula - »www.bacula.org/
Amanda - »www.amanda.org/

There's many others, those are the two that I've used.


Dagda1175

join:2001-06-17
Goleta, CA
reply to Babar
None, I just manually duplicate important things to another drive.


DotMac
Shill H8r
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Huntington Beach, CA

edit:
December 7th, @04:58PM

reply to Babar
Ghost 12 (for WinXP/Vista), Time Machine (OSX 10.5.1) and Apple Dot Mac Backup 3.1 (OSX 10.4.11)

Ghost is one of the few Symantec consumer apps that is still worth a crap.


rawgerz
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moderated:
December 7th, @05:06PM

reply to Babar
backup4all is one of the BEST I have come across and was just what I was looking for.

The software designers that coded it did a nice job and doesn't have that bloated GUI I found when I tried Acronis.

It's also the only one I found that backs up individual files and not making a mirror of the drive.
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howie
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Little Falls, NJ
reply to Babar
Re: [Poll] Backup & Imaging Software - 2008 Member Choice Poll

Nice Poll!
I use TI 10 in both XP and Vista.
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