Acronis

Dutch777 · 28 Aug 2009 at 11:05

Used it for years would have highly recommended it until it failed on a restore recently.

The reason it failed was something to do with changing AV to Kaspersky couldn’t resolve the issue so binned it.

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Django x2 · 28 Aug 2009 at 15:41

I only use it to image a machine once it's set up how I like it. You don't even need to install Acronis for that task, just create the bootable media

Paddyw01 · 28 Aug 2009 at 23:18

derkaderka said:
Your using the HOME edition
Iam using the CORPORATE edition , they are different

Your trying to manage 1 PC , Iam trying to manage several hundred , theres a big difference.

Paddw01
Thats the way acronis works (if you RTFM) you create 1 full image
Then if you want to do an incremental of this full image , it creates a new file
with the files that have changed since the first full image.

LOL, several hundred is a big job. Just wondering, why hasn't your company or whoever the hundreds of PC's belong to have not just built up just one server and backed that up? We have 8tb worth of usable storage space in our film production dept at Uni on one server, and that one server is backed up. Simpler I'd thought.

Well if that's the way Acronis works, then it'd the dumbest backup program period!! It's completely logical to have one main full backup and incremental backups onto the same backup file. Why have Acronis done this?
Tell me if I'm wrong, but presumably, if, let's say on monday, you do an incremental backup and it makes another backup file separate to the original file, then it does another on tuesday, it'll make a third incremental backup file. Will it not? Stupid if it does... :confused:

Oh and I've just resorted to copy and pasting my data. Crude I know, but I'll just wait until I can use Windows 7's in built backup feature which I hear is very good

alex24 · 28 Aug 2009 at 23:22

Used Acronis 10 since it came out on countless machines for customers, never had an issue with backing up or restoring images. It works best at default settings and doing FULL backups only. For the purpose I use it for it's perfect, just plain backing up and restoring in full, so that failing HDDs can be cloned or similar.

Faustus · 28 Aug 2009 at 23:31

Paddyw01 said:
Hey guys,

I've been recommended Acronis as backup software. Customer reviews on other websites are very mixed though. About 30-40% of people have rated it one star, so I'd like to have a few opinions from you guys. Is it any good? Do any of you use it? Any problems?

Thanks

Best bit of software I've ever bought - I swear by it. The messes it has got me out of are the stuff of legend. However, use it for full image backups only, it's the core application and something it does particularly well, forget all the whistles and bells bits.

Faustus · 28 Aug 2009 at 23:41

One day it just took hours to perform a simple backup. The customer was complaining. I never got to the reason why but I had the PC in the workshop for days doing various tests. It seemed to go-wrong when the differential backup looped back to perform a full backup again.

That's more than likely a Linux driver conflict, if you're a professional I'm suprised you weren't aware of this issue. Depending on hardware the Linux drivers won't recognise USB2 and reverts to USB1 so the backup takes for ever. Not such a problem now with TI 2009 as the Linux drivers seem to have been updated. You also need to turn off DLT in services.