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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%)
.Mac Backup [Mac] 9 (2.4%)
DriveImage XML 9 (2.4%)
SuperDuper! [Mac] 8 (2.1%)
Paragon Drive Backup 8 (2.1%)
Windows Backup and Restore [Vista] 6 (1.6%)
Cobian Backup 5 (1.3%)
Windows Live Onecare 5 (1.3%)
SyncBackSE 5 (1.3%)
EMC Retrospect 5 (1.3%)
Backup4all 4 (1%)
Windows NT Backup 4 (1%)
Terabyte Image 3 (0.8%)
NovaBackup 2 (0.5%)
WinBackup 2 2 (0.5%)
Genie Backup Manager 2 (0.5%)
PC Backup 2 (0.5%)
Partimage [Linux] 2 (0.5%)
HDClone 1 (0.2%)
NTI Shadow 1 (0.2%)
Backup Magic 0 (0%)
Comodo Backup 0 (0%)
Handy Backup 0 (0%)
File Backup Watcher 0 (0%)
Roxio BackOnTrack 0 (0%)
JaBack 0 (0%)
278 participants.
370 total votes.
results as pie chart in flash




Thanks for your input!
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Re: [Poll] Backup & Imaging Software - 2008 Member Choice Poll

Acronis TI.

Great poll Babar See Profile, thanks!!

lilhurricane
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BackUp4All here (prolly not as often as I should)

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

MarkAW
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Nice job with the poll Babar See Profile.

Acronis TI.

dadkins
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Great Poll Babar!

Acronis True Image.

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

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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
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Other - Windows Home Server.

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ahulett
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Re: [Poll] Backup & Imaging Software - 2008 Member Choice Poll

The timing of this poll is perfect... I came home and opened a dead laptop: hard drive failed. Coincidence?

Thank you Murphy for swinging by and enforcing your law today.
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Chris 313
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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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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
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Re: [Poll] Backup & Imaging Software - 2008 Member Choice Poll

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

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Super Flexible File Synchronizer

sporkme
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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
None, I just manually duplicate important things to another drive.

DotMac4
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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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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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Nice Poll!
I use TI 10 in both XP and Vista.
tradnav

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I use both Acronis True Image 11 and Terabyte's Image for Windows (belt and braces man). I like them both and use them satisfactorily on XP and Vista.

gugarci
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Re: [Poll] Backup & Imaging Software - 2008 Member Choice Poll

TI 10 and Karen's Replicator is all I use.

Pentangle
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Karen's Replicator for me! Does a great job doing daily backups to my external hdd. Thanks for asking Babar.
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