Acronis True Image 11 Home $10 downloaded from acronis (139MBy), $22 shipped on CD option

[rockyct]

I just saw this link on slickdeals on how to get both for $10: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/d...cronis-true-image-home

Too bad I bought just TI yesterday, but it's a great deal for those who haven't yet.

 

[country2]

Originally posted by: rockyct
I just saw this link on slickdeals on how to get both for $10: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/d...cronis-true-image-home

Too bad I bought just TI yesterday, but it's a great deal for those who haven't yet.

I saw it posted on a couple of sites also...and like you I bought TI yesterday......Almost tempted to buy as third copy of TI just to get the free DD. Does anyone know if DD 10 all features works with Vista 64 bit? thanks

 

[postmortemIA]

does it work with drives in RAID?

 

[etrin]

is this an install program or an iso image?
What about emergency boot for restore how is this handled ?

 

[QuixoticOne]

Thanks, rockyct, I got a copy of Disk Director 10 + TIH11 for 9.99.

Does anyone know if the DiskDirector v10 bootable CD (I assume it can generate one) tool to do the actual partition management operations will work on any different computer that happens to be hosting the hard disk to be operated upon or does it only work on the one system you "installed" DD on?

I can hardly imagine a disk partitioner tool wanting to be preinstalled on the specific box one is repartitioning since if that box was running, one presumably wouldn't (in many cases) be repartitioning it as one would often do preparatory to a clean install or reinstall.

 

[QuixoticOne]

What you download for True Image Home 11 is a 139MBy .exe file which AFAIK is a normal windows installer that expects to be run on an operational Windows XP / Vista / etc. system to install like a normal application.
AFAIK what you can then do is generate a CD tool that is a bootable CD that can be used to restore or create or so on disc images using nothing but the booted CD's program and of course some accessible pre-created acronis disk image if you're doing a restore.

If you want to know how it works in detail, here's a working link to the users guide PDF file, I would read it before purchasing -- the link on acronis' product page doesn't work:
http://de1.download.acronis.ne.../TrueImage11_ug.en.pdf

Originally posted by: etrin
is this an install program or an iso image?
What about emergency boot for restore how is this handled ?

 

[Creig]

Great deal. Thanks, QuixoticOne!

 

[country2]

Hey , I know its a dead deal but I just got the free upgrade to True Image Home 2009 from the discounted ones I bought from this deal even thought it was withing 30 days and per the web site wasn't suppose to be eligible .. anyone else getting the free upgrades?

 

[kmmatney]

Good deal.

I have been using some freeware programs: DriveImageXML (has worked great, but you need a BartPE disk to restore if its a boot partition) and the free program from Seagate. Synch back is also a great program for making incremental backups of your work (not a true disk clone program, though).

 

[Throckmorton]

Argh, I thought this was a living deal.

 

[Steltek]

Originally posted by: country2
Hey , I know its a dead deal but I just got the free upgrade to True Image Home 2009 from the discounted ones I bought from this deal even thought it was withing 30 days and per the web site wasn't suppose to be eligible .. anyone else getting the free upgrades?

How did you manage to do that? It isn't showing as an option for me.

 

[Navid]

This is free and works fine.

http://clonezilla.org/

 

[Blain]

Originally posted by: Navid
This is free and works fine.

http://clonezilla.org/

Something people need to know...
Clonezilla didn't see my RAID 0 array as one drive. It only saw the two individual HDs.

 

[country2]

Originally posted by: Steltek

Originally posted by: country2
Hey , I know its a dead deal but I just got the free upgrade to True Image Home 2009 from the discounted ones I bought from this deal even thought it was withing 30 days and per the web site wasn't suppose to be eligible .. anyone else getting the free upgrades?

How did you manage to do that? It isn't showing as an option for me.

I just received a email from them saying I was eligible for the free upgrade and for me to log in to my account and click on upgrade (basically, don't remember word for word but all was done thru my account)

Also just a FYI if you use TI 2009 and have one of those memory card readers it most likely will fubar them. There is a work around posted on wilderssecurity forum on the work around.

 

[esquared]

Originally posted by: country2
Hey , I know its a dead deal but I just got the free upgrade to True Image Home 2009 from the discounted ones I bought from this deal even thought it was withing 30 days and per the web site wasn't suppose to be eligible .. anyone else getting the free upgrades?

I got the email too.


edit:
Link to workaround wilrdersecuity TI 2009

I haven't verified this, only posting a link.

Chatted with Anthony at Acronis...here is his temporary workaround

Anthony: - Find the following branches:

Anthony: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} -> UpperFilters (PartMgr tdrpman140 snapman380)

Anthony: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{71A27CDD-812A-11D0-BEC7-08002BE2092F} -> UpperFilters (VolSnap tdrpman140 snapman380 timounter)

Anthony: - Please delete tdrpman140 values from the registry

Another member on that site posted it works.

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: Blain

Originally posted by: Navid
This is free and works fine.

http://clonezilla.org/

Something people need to know...
Clonezilla didn't see my RAID 0 array as one drive. It only saw the two individual HDs.

Does Clonezilla require a backup partition the same size as the one you're backing up? Acronis makes a backup file that is only as big as the original data.

 

[Blain]

As far as I know it can clone an image onto a different size drive.
But it didn't see my RAID drives as one.

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Does Clonezilla require a backup partition the same size as the one you're backing up?

No

Acronis makes a backup file that is only as big as the original data.

No, that would be wasteful. True Image compresses the data. So, the image size is on average about half the size of the original data.
The same as Clonezilla.

 

[0roo0roo]

also driveimage xml is free
not quite as user friendly as true image though, but works.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Navid

Originally posted by: Throckmorton
Does Clonezilla require a backup partition the same size as the one you're backing up?

No

Acronis makes a backup file that is only as big as the original data.

No, that would be wasteful. True Image compresses the data. So, the image size is on average about half the size of the original data.
The same as Clonezilla.

You can adjust the compression in True Image; none if you chose

i got no such invite to upgrade ... at any rate, i think i got my ten bucks worth
- it makes backups and drive imaging really easy

 

[Throckmorton]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
also driveimage xml is free
not quite as user friendly as true image though, but works.

Driveimage XML has no way to restore though, unless you have a secondary Windows install that you can run it from. I realized this when my Windows died. Acronis lets you make a boot CD

 

[cheapherk]

Dead- I knew I should have jumped.