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[POLL] Backup & Imaging Programs - 2009 Member Choice

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Thanks for the most awesome poll, Digibits

I voted TI here on most, and on one box I use Backup4all.

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Definitely ATI for me.

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Excellently executed poll, Digibits .. thanks!

I use a number of these tools .. and, an "Other" vote too.

I voted for:

Acronis TI
SyncBackSE
NTI Shadow
DriveImage XML
Other = GoodSync
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A sticky proposition.

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I used 2, True Image for the whole HD and Karens's for my docs, bookmarks, emails and Quicken.

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I am not sure if it fits here, but I use Windows Home Server. It backs up my machines nightly. If I hose a machine, I just re-boot from a WHS restore cd and it takes about 30 minutes to restore to a previous backup.

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I use Windows Home Server for nightly backups and also Outback Plus 6 for email, bookmarks, & My Documents folder.
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You can tell how big a person is by what it takes to discourage him.

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1 vote for Other for PowerQuest Drive Image 2002 for XP. (the best is still the best - have absolutely no problems with Drive Image 2002).

1 vote for ShadowProtect for Vista.

1 vote for Windows Backup and Restore (Vista)

Yes, I'm using two imaging programs for Vista.

Edit: I am also using ShadowProtect and Windows Backup and Restore for Windows 7.
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I guess my feet know where they want me to go.
Walking on a country road....

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Great Poll Digibits!
Acronis v10 on XP, 2009 on Vista.
Paragon as a crutch on Vista just in case.
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Think outside the Fox... Opera

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I'm still using PowerQuest Drive Image v5. It's old, but it works for me.

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Thanks for the poll Digibits . I'm a long time user of TrueImage.

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Nice job with the poll Digibits .
My vote goes to Acronis True Image. Nuff said.

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Paragon is the only one that has been issue free for me.
(TI and PerfectDisk didn't like each other.) Also have used a Paragon program to change the Partition size afterward, so cloned a 150GB drive onto a 500GB drive, then expanded the size to fit the drive.

I also voted other
Recently been looking at PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost)
»ping.windowsdream.com/

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PING is a live Linux ISO, based on the excellent Linux From Scratch (LFS) documentation. It can be burnt on a CD and booted, or integrated into a PXE / RIS environment.
Several tools have been added and written, so to make this ISO the perfect choice to backup and restore whole partitions, an easy way. It sounds like Symantec Ghost(tm), but has even better features, and is totally free.

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Clonezilla

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Your poll is appreciated!
Acronis TrueImage V9 Build 2337 & Second Copy V7.1.0.3 here.

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Acronis and Terabyte for me.

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Thanks for the poll!

For me, great results over the last number of years with a combination of Karen's Replicator and Handy Backup.

I do not do full-drive backups, but instead nightly backup docs/photos/music/favorites/outlook PST files to network storage, and both of the above mentioned apps have worked great for me and my family.
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DSynchronize

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I use Acronis as my main backup, but I also use Karen's Replicator and Mozy for backing up smaller folders/files, such as music/documents.

Thanks for the great poll Digibits !

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I used to never back-up... I didn't for nearly 10 years. For the most part, I haven't lost much. I still have MP3's that I downloaded from the original Napster back when I had dial-up. I suppose I just have had good luck. I've had drives fail on me, but been lucky enough to copy the data off them. I did end up with a few corrupt MP3 (well, not corrupt, but skipping in them)

I just recently got a 1 TB External Drive and have copied all my important data over to it, so I feel a lot more safe now. I also have several online backup accounts, but haven't put them to use yet. Mostly because the data on my computer is very very very unorganized right now and it's hard to track everything down.