OT: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, JR APPROVED

Jay Gladwell wrote on 4/14/2010, 4:40 AM

Johnny Roy, in a thread elsewhere, made the following comment:

"... this is why I have Acronis True Image perform an incremental backup of my C: drive every morning. All I would need to do is restore from the latest backup. If you are running a production machine and not backing it up daily, you are playing with fire. It only takes about 5 minutes for the incremental backup to run. It's a good habit to get into and has saved me several times from botched software installations."

Back in January, at my brother's insistence, I bought and installed Acronis True Image Home (only $49.99 and it's worth every penny!).

I HIGHLY recommend it!

It has "Try & Decide" which allows to you try installs of software without altering or messing up your system. Once you're done trying, you elect to keep it, and the program installs it, or you decide not to keep it and it dumps everything without affecting your system as though you had never installed it.

A few weeks ago I had a problem (don't know what I did) that froze my computer. Couldn't get it to restart for love nor money. All was lost! Popped in the Acronis recovery disk and in 15 minutes I had my entire system back and running as though nothing had happened.

The program does an automatic backup of the entire C: drive (OS, programs, data, etc.) at 1:30 AM every night to another disk (my F: drive). This is where the recovery app goes to restore the system. I do a full backup, Johnny does an incremental. Again, the choice is yours.

If you do not buy any other program this year, I urge you, for your own peace of mind, to buy Acronis True Image Home. You'll only need it once to wish you had!


Comments

Grazie wrote on 4/14/2010, 5:50 AM
Thanks Jay - you just reminded me, again, to do it . . . Acronis - done.

Grazie

farss wrote on 4/14/2010, 5:53 AM
Is there anyone not using it?
It's been recommended so many times here over the last few years.

Bob.
Jay Gladwell wrote on 4/14/2010, 5:58 AM

I had never heard of it, until my brother mentioned it.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/14/2010, 5:59 AM
I resemble that remark! ;-)

Thanks Jay. I agree this is the best $49 I ever spent. I haven't used Try & Decide yet but I'm gonna have to check it out. Quite often I will try other software in a VMware virtual machine so that I doesn't mess with my main computer but I forgot about the Try & Decide option.

> Is there anyone not using it?

Unfortunately, the person who's post I answered wasn't. :(

~jr
Grazie wrote on 4/14/2010, 6:06 AM
. . 63% done . . . .


farss wrote on 4/14/2010, 6:08 AM
Well, now you know what a great resource this forum is :)

Bob.
Grazie wrote on 4/14/2010, 6:11 AM
. . 78% done . . .
Jay Gladwell wrote on 4/14/2010, 6:21 AM

Brillant!
TeetimeNC wrote on 4/14/2010, 6:41 AM
I also use TrueImage and am very happy with it. But next to the $49 for TI, I think the $99 I spent for Windows Home Server is an even better investment.

I use TrueImage to do a weekly image backup of my C: drives. I use WHS to do a nightly backup of the four PCs on my home network. I threw a bunch of mostly old drives in my old Pentium 4 Video tower and use it to host WHS. I now have 1.7 TB of storage there. WHS is really smart about backing up multiple computers. If it sees the same file on multiple computers it only backs it up once with a pointer to each computer using that file. So complete backups of all four of my computers is only taking about 1.3 TB.

I also use WHS to stream my videos to my LG BD390 Blu-ray player. This also works well now that I have connected it via CAT6 cable. I never got suitable streaming using the BD390's built-in 802.11n.

/Jerry
RodC wrote on 4/14/2010, 12:05 PM
Save the $49

If you have a Seagate or Maxtor drive installed you can dowload seagate disk wizard for free. It includesAcronis True image (Not complete, but it does have the clone feature) I have been using it for 3+ years now for my DAW NLE systems.

I use cloning for my OS HD and windows incremental backups for data.

If you dont have a seagate or maxgtor drive, get one, even an external will allow you to use it on any HD on your system. (The software looks for one of these drives)

For around $100 you can get a HD and imaging software