acronis true image, any good?

[amddude]

I've used disk director with good results, I am considering moving my dad's work laptop from retrospect to true image. I've heard some smack about corrupt images with TI. What's the truth?

 

[hectorsm]

I have never had a bad image in the two years I have used TI. However, there are some poeple that had reported some problems with image validation. A lot depends on the hardware you have.

Download the 15 day trail version and see if you like it.

 

[corkyg]

More importantly, it really depends on how you use or abuse it. As far as drive imaging and, especially duplication/cloning goes, there is no better program out there. I have used it regularly on three systems since version 5. We're now at 10. The only problems I ever had were due to my own stupidity. (I imaged the wrong drive)

 

[zig3695]

acronis software is excellent. i have a bootable disk director cd and it has been a lifesaver.

 

[timswim78]

It is sweet. It's more flexible, more reliable and faster than Ghost.

 

[jamesbond007]

Originally posted by: timswim78
It is sweet. It's more flexible, more reliable and faster than Ghost.

My feelings exactly! I use it often in my work and it's a lifesaver sometimes when people forget they had pictures in this folder or that folder that they forgot to tell me to backup. No problem, I just access the image I made of their HDD (I usually keep it up to a month) and retrieve the files requested.

 

[boomerang]

I'm a long time faithful user too. If you intend to back up to DVD, get the free trial and give it a workout.

I was very disappointed with the results I had with v9 in regards to DVD backup. They may have this all worked out in v10. I don't know because I haven't upgraded to v10 yet.

Make sure before you buy.

 

[Rottie]

True Image is nice the first time I used it but not knowing the image was corrupted on DVD+R during image back up wasted on good blank DVD+R I should have use DVDRW to image everything in case the image is bad I can always erase DVD and do it over again.

 

[Sandan]

Seems like a good program. But, I recently used it to clone an image of my Vista drive and move it to a new SATAII hard drive. It looks like it made an exact copy but I can't boot into it. Before anyone asks, the drive I copied on was made active/bootable. This may not be a TI problem because I was originally doing a dual boot with XP which is on another drive altogether. I think it has to do with the Vista Master boot record. I have been trying to figure that problem out for a couple of days without any luck. Any suggestions.

 

[hectorsm]

DVD support is TI weakness. It does not support my new Samsung DVD burner. I have had two other older burners and never had a coaster from using TI9. As boomerang said, test first before you buy.

 

[vetteguy]

I also use TI and have nothing but good things to say about it. Better than Ghost in every way.

 

[Boyo]

I just bought TI 10 and I do not regret it at all. It works perfectly and it is quick. Test it out on the 15 day trial first.

 

[nZone]

Originally posted by: Sandan
Seems like a good program. But, I recently used it to clone an image of my Vista drive and move it to a new SATAII hard drive. It looks like it made an exact copy but I can't boot into it. Before anyone asks, the drive I copied on was made active/bootable. This may not be a TI problem because I was originally doing a dual boot with XP which is on another drive altogether. I think it has to do with the Vista Master boot record. I have been trying to figure that problem out for a couple of days without any luck. Any suggestions.

Did you use TI version 10 that is supposed to be Vista compatible? I've used TI and it never failed me. Recently when I migrate to Vista (ultimate); I was tempted to buy the version 10 for the purpose of backing up vista. However, Ultimate comes with built-in backup utility so I gave it a whirl. I found that the backup utility on Vista is very good. The compression is a lot better than TI; I don't know how Vista do it; but I can make the image of a 35GB into a single dual layer dvd.

 

[amddude]

I am using it with an external hard drive, so the dvd thing isn't a problem. The laptop drive is now 100gb and the external is 80, so I'm not sure an image backup would work so great, but we'll see. I will try it out this weekend, thanks for the heads up.

 

[hectorsm]

Here is the link for the 15 day trail in case you need it:

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/

 

[Griswold]

Originally posted by: nZone
Did you use TI version 10 that is supposed to be Vista compatible? I've used TI and it never failed me. Recently when I migrate to Vista (ultimate); I was tempted to buy the version 10 for the purpose of backing up vista. However, Ultimate comes with built-in backup utility so I gave it a whirl. I found that the backup utility on Vista is very good. The compression is a lot better than TI; I don't know how Vista do it; but I can make the image of a 35GB into a single dual layer dvd.

I wonder how you did that. When I tried the built-in image tool, my vista partition (40GB total, 15GB of data) ended up at 15GB uncompressed. I couldnt find any setting that enables compression whatsoever. True Image on maximum compression shrinks it down to about 5GB, though.

 

[nZone]

I have no clue either. When I perform the "Windows Complete PC" backup; at the time I have about 150-155GB Total space and 118GB was available. So it roughly about 30-35GB used. I follow the backup wizard (select all defaults). Instead of backing up to external hard drive; I select the Optical Drive instead. Windows alerted that the backup requires about 1-9 dvd disks.
I loaded a dual layer disk and Windows never asked me for additional disks. I thought it was something screwy along the process, but it turned the I could restore my pc using the backup image and nothing lost. Kudos to Microsoft. The restore process is harder than Acronis though.

 

[traderonline]

acronis is the best disk imaging software. i tried the latest release on my laptop. it took less than 5 mins to backup my whole C: partition.

 

[orion23]

Acronis makes the best Imaging software IMO.

They also offer a kick ass partitioning suite.

Go Acronis!

 

[Pirotech]

Originally posted by: hectorsm
DVD support is TI weakness. It does not support my new Samsung DVD burner. I have had two other older burners and never had a coaster from using TI9. As boomerang said, test first before you buy.

yeah it was the TI 9th minus, but in the newest 10th it seems to work quite good, at least it worked good for me.

 

[ROcHE]

Originally posted by: orion23
Acronis makes the best Imaging software IMO.

They also offer a kick ass partitioning suite.

Go Acronis!

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Apparently there is a "mobile version" out there which doesn't even have to be installed on your computer, and can run directly from a USB key... It's not very clear though whether it's an official product or a hacked and tweaked version, like I've seen with Photoshop...

 

[forcemac101]

Can TI create a bootable DVD with the Image file on the DVD? I can't quite figure out how to create a bootable DVD with my C: image file so I can have a single disk restoration...

 

[ChunkiMunki]

go to Tools/Options/Default Backup Options/Media Components. You can select "add Acronis components on the backup media". I assume this is the boot media, but I have never tried it.

 

[stealth2009]

Acronis seems to be the favorite here. Are there alternatives available?

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