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 Thinking about Paragon Drive Backup? , 2008-08-26
Think again. In the short time I've used True Image 11, it is far superior. Paragon Drive Backup locked up my PC early and often until it finally caused an error on my boot sector. No problem, I thought; I've got a backup. Didn't work. Wrong sort of drive it turns out. I bought Acronis when a Dow Chemical IT guy told me they use it on dozens (or was it hundreds?) of machines and it has saved them numerous times.
System backup, 2008-08-24
I purchased Acronis True Image 11 Home in order to backup my c drive with an image. It is easy to use and works well. After doing a complete backup, I did a restore to make sure it was going to do the job. It restored the system flawlessly, so I now have a great deal of confidence in it.
I wanted to be able to do a full back up automatically each week and keep two copies of backup at all times. It can do that. You have to be sure and follow the directions to set up a backup folder via the software. At first I just make a folder in explorer and it does not work that way. I contacted live support at Acronis on a Sunday am and got immediate response. Within a few minutes my misunderstanding was resolved. I love this software and the support is great.
 Not without its bugs, 2008-08-24
I had file sharing issues on my network after installing the software. One computer on my network was inaccessible. I uninstalled the software and the problems went away. I am still waiting to hear back from tech support. I do run the software on the bootable cd to clone my hard drive. I am very impressed at the speed at which it copies(250 GB drive in less than an hour). Acronis shows up in Windows Device Manager and I'm not sure why. Perhaps that is causing the file sharing problems that so many people are experiencing. Problems aside, I do feel that this is a very powerful product.
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 Supports SATA drives, 2008-08-20
I have been using backup software since PowerQuest's Disk Image 7. When I could not find an update after several years, I purchased Norton's Ghost. It was then I understood why Disk Image had no upgrades, they had been purchased by Symantec.
I used Ghost 9 for sometime and both of these programs performed well. However, periodically, a recovery could not occur because of problems with the backup.
I purchased a new computer 18 months ago. It came with SATA hard drives, not IDE drives. You wouldn't think this would be a problem until you need to boot from a CD or floppy because the computer will not boot.
Most programs will not boot SATA drives and you get Microsoft's vague blue screen of death (BSOD). It does not say why the computer will not boot, that would be too helpful.
After many problems and managing to save my work through my own creativity after that problem. I set out to find a program that would boot my computer as well as back it up.
In addition, the older version of Ghost would never successfully complete my backup after more than 12 hours of trying.
My first thought was to go with a later version of Ghost. I visited Norton's site and tried to determine if SATA drives were supported. I found many complaints of SATA problems but nothing that specifically stated they were supported.
Hesitant to waste money on something I wasn't sure would function and based on experiences of bad backups from older versions, I opted to try this software.
The low price was a plus in purchasing decisions. My first Disk Image program was three times this!
I received my copy yesterday and installed it after first ensuring the disc could boot my computer into some sort of operating environment. It did.
Installation went well and I managed to get a backup completed in about 6 hours (this is 250+ gig of actual used space) to a network drive.
I experienced an error the first time I tried, but that was my fault. I set my firewall to allow nothing through so the software couldn't access the network drive. A second try was successful.
Imagine my surprise when I surfed to the backup and found I could open it with no special software inside Windows Explorer if I needed a file!
With Ghost and Drive Image, you had to use their software AND if you made your backup to disc (DVD or CD) it had to repeatedly ask you to remove and install them many, many, many times before it would show the backup. This was a refreshing change.
I have not had any occasion yet to use customer support, and if I have problems where I do and experience issues, I will update this. I rarely have need to contact customer support for software issues, though.
If nothing else, it is better to use this than not have any backup at all in the event of a failure in your system.
Which is worse, $29 for a product that you get a backup from or losing everything on your computer?
works well so far, 2008-08-18
I've used it to clone two disks -- both system disks, one XP aand one Vista -- with no problems at all. The backups that I do with it go smoothly as well.
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