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[Need Info] Acronis True Image 2012: Yay or nay?

I had nothing but trouble with Acronis.
Went with Macrium Reflect (paid) and haven't had a bit of trouble with it. (and I restore a lot)
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reply to fegul
Nay.....Also had nothing but problems with Acronis.
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reply to fegul
I'm still using TI8 or 9 and I won't upgrade Acronis anymore. I'll go with something else.

reply to fegul
I like Macrium Reflect better than TI.
»www.macrium.com/default.aspx

reply to fegul
Nay Nay!!
Macrium Reflect!

reply to fegul
Older versions were ok, newer ones are not.

I went to Shadow Protect Desktop, Not cheap, but worth the price.

reply to fegul
So...it looks like I should get True Image eh?

I kid. Thanks for the help, I'm gonna try out Macrium now
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reply to fegul
You might want to give Clonezilla a try. It can access a large host of different file systems and you can put the cloned disk image to multiple different locations using a large number of protocols.

»clonezilla.org/

reply to fegul
I used Acronis for years and made the switch to Macrium Reflect (paid) about two years ago.

Works flawlessly. Couldn't say the same for TI.

reply to fegul
Acronis TI 10 FREE with purchase of most brands of hard drives (internal or external) works fine. I could never get Acronis 8 paid to work (although many here swore by it) but TI 10 is fine. I got it from Seagate's website several years ago when I bought a second internal hard drive. Then about a year later, Western Digital starting offering it free as did other drive manufacturers. The only difference between it and the regular paid TI 10 is that it won't do incremental images. That was fine with me as I have never had any luck with incremental ones.
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reply to fegul
Former Acronis True Image user here!

Now a Shadow Protect Desktop user
»www.storagecraft.com/shadow_prot···ktop.php

I really like this software a lot only issue I have with it is the UI looks kind of old and out dated.

Other then that I think its wonderful! Its very fast at backing up and restoring whole images and is also very easy to use.

I just wish they would update the UI and lower the price would be nice so more people could afford it

reply to fegul
Just tried out Macrium, backed my SSD in 11 minutes! Very nice.

I like the interface too, gives techies like me confidence that it knows what it's doing and doesn't try to incorporate too much "magic"
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reply to fegul
I used to use it and still have my paid for copy but its a real pain
To many features of unneeded stuff
Occasional blue screens
locks to your equipment had to get it re authorized once.
I use paragon free now it works but there is lots of other backup software to.
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reply to racer9876
When you say "multiple different locations" do you mean you can restore an image from one computer on to a different computer?

reply to fegul
What CCat said in the first post. Like to add that I too, used TI for years starting w/version ONE. Had to restore one day and had nothing but failures. Switched to MR paid about 3 years ago, have not had ONE problem.
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reply to fegul
If the older versions of ATI work, why ever upgrade?

I'm looking for a business-class solution and using End-of-life software is a pretty big no-no (primarily for support reasons)
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reply to fegul
Windows 7 can make a bootable rescue disk and also make a full disk image, a bit slow but it works great. I do a full system backup once a month to an external drive and a data backup daily to another external drive. I've had to do a restore and you don't loose anything, programs, settings and all. computer is back to where it was at time of backup, then just copy my data back.

reply to fegul
Purchased ATIH 2012 Family Pack and the Plus Pack based on this forum's 2011 Member Choice FAQ's. However, the software seems to have "hit the fan" since the FAQ was posted. Reading posts on Acronis' web site indicates a bad state as they have a list of banned members.

In defense of the product, it has worked for me. I used ATIH 2012 to migrate Vista from single disk to RAID0 without a problem. MBR, boot order, registry... the whole nine yards just worked.

Cheers,

asterger