Acronis 2011

[Zarf]

Anyone used this? Network performance seems absolutely abysmal, i've had to copy the recovery file onto a usb hard drive I fortunately had around to get reasonable performance out of it.

By abysmal i'm talking about an estimated 20 hours to copy a 150GB partition over 100MB ethernet. Creating the backup took around 8 hours, but at the time it was going over a powerline connection and had compression turned on, so i'll give it the benefit of the doubt.
Now it's on a USB drive it's already 50% done with 35 mins remaining.

I like the differential backups, and the USB recovery worked fine, but if it can't be used properly over the network it's useless to me and I'll be going back to ghost.
Is the FTP option any better?

 

[rush_syndrome]

Hmm I can't help you re 2011 version but I've noticed a few things about Acronis which I don't like when a recent distaster struck. Will watch this thread develop and hold fire on buying 2011 and see what other people say. Ghost worked flawlessly for me and Acronis 2010 Home was also pretty good I must say

 

[Zarf]

The USB recovery went better than expected, I was upgrading my dads laptop from a 320GB 2.5" spinner to a 160GB SSD. To make things even more complicated, the C partition was around 300GB and there were 4 or 5 crappy dell factory partitions on there, scattered with some at the start and some at the end of the drive.

In windows Acronis had a paddy about this and flat out refused to clone the drive over, which was the way i'd used it before.
I had planned to load up Gparted on a live Ubuntu pen drive to do a load of tedious partition deletion / moving /resizing on the original drive, but decided to take a chance on the Acronis recovery media (painless booting from a USB stick, thanks to the Acronis boot media creator) and it all went better than expected.
I was able to just select the MBR and the C partition from my backup image, and "restore" them straight onto the SSD. The end result was great, Acronis put in a 1024K offset and squeezed the C partition down to fit the remaining space. It even booted straight back into windows, despite my expecting to have to load a Vista recovery CD and run a repair op.

Now if I could just get the network performance right I'd be happy...