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Acronis True Image at Newegg

Does this backup only one computer or can it backup many? Or do I have to buy a copy for every PC I have. Currently, I have two PC and two laptops that I would like to backup to a network drive.
 
Originally posted by: DesiDivo
Does this backup only one computer or can it backup many? Or do I have to buy a copy for every PC I have. Currently, I have two PC and two laptops that I would like to backup to a network drive.
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Well I haven't read the EULA but, it works on both of mine.
 
Originally posted by: Tegeril
Originally posted by: dakata24
does this do anything that ghost cant do?
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Nothing useful that Ghost can't do.
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If you want to upgrade your laptop HD it can flawlessly image your disk to the new drive in a USB enclsure, then correctly reformat its MBR when you swap it in. People have run into many problems trying to do this with Ghost. Ghost is also slower.
 
It is easier than Ghost. My old dad can do it. However, it gave us some problems several times on different computers, when two harddrives are connected in the same cable: we imaged the slave drive (almost 30 GB, 7 DVD), later it had read errors. After we seperated two harddrives, everything was fine.
 
Best backup software ive used personally, love being able to backup my system drive while watching a movie or surfing the web.
 
I like BOOTIT NG. For $35, you get an imaging, partititioning, and boot loader software in a program that will fit in a floppy. Bet of all, the program does NOT run in windows. This allows the software to LOCK ALL PARTITIONS prior to imaging.

The full 30 days trial is free. Ya can't do the full trial with Acronis.
 
Educate me here furballi. Ghost 2003 runs from DOS - can't do imaging from within Windows. Norton Ghost 9.0 and Acronis True Image 8.0 both create images while Windows is up and running.

Is there a risk of corruption when running these programs from within Windows? i.e., should I try to stick with Ghost 2003 or the one you mention? Just curious as I am ready to buy either Ghost 9 or True Image 8 unless the method is much riskier.

Edit; I really want the 2 features of scheduling backups and incremental backups.
 
Any windows-based imaging software must take a snapshot of the partition prior to imaging. If this is not possible, then the software will require that your reboot the PC so the system can LOCK ON the partition (going back to DOS). Sometimes, the snapshot in windows can go wrong, resulting in a bad image file.

I'm from the old school, which tells me that the partition must be 100% dormant DURING the imaging process. This method should yield the MOST stable image file because NOTHING is changing during the imaging process.

If you CANNOT shut down windows to backup your partition (24/7 application), then a windows-based imaging software may be of benefit. For all other users, it's best to do the imaging stuff in DOS or Caldera DOS.

The old Drive Image 5 can schedule a backup session, and it runs in DOS. I don't recommend incremental backup because if you corrupt the source image file, then subsequent incremental backups can be useless.

It is very rare for programs to go bad. Most of the time, it's the OS. That's why I set up a small primary active C partition ONLY for windows. All other stuffs are stored in other extended logical partitions. By keeping the OS under 1.5GB, I can image the OS partition C in less than 2 min. At maximum compression, the resulting image file is under 700MB.

Ask yourself why these windows-based software must require over 20MB of hard drive space to image a partition? Complexity is never a good idea in the software business.

 
Originally posted by: rgreen83
Best backup software ive used personally, love being able to backup my system drive while watching a movie or surfing the web.
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I second that! Really easy to use and allows you to mount the image as a drive if you just want to access couple files.
 
Originally posted by: furballi
Any windows-based imaging software must take a snapshot of the partition prior to imaging. If this is not possible, then the software will require that your reboot the PC so the system can LOCK ON the partition (going back to DOS). Sometimes, the snapshot in windows can go wrong, resulting in a bad image file.

I'm from the old school, which tells me that the partition must be 100% dormant DURING the imaging process. This method should yield the MOST stable image file because NOTHING is changing during the imaging process.
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Acronis can make a bootable CD that allows you to image drives without having Windows running. Making the Acronis backup in this manner would yield the stable image file you described. It also works great on non-Windows drives/partitions.
 
Originally posted by: brucekatz
It is easier than Ghost. My old dad can do it. However, it gave us some problems several times on different computers, when two harddrives are connected in the same cable: we imaged the slave drive (almost 30 GB, 7 DVD), later it had read errors. After we seperated two harddrives, everything was fine.
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Can't stress this enough, if you can't trust the image it makes, then the program is worthless.
I also agree with furballi, it is best to image stuff out of the windows environment, unless of course it is a non active non used partition. If it is a system partition, then I haven't seen either latest Ghost (which is really Drive Image from Partition Magic guys) or Acronis True Image produce a 100% exact copy of the partition. I did a byte compare, and they both failed on a active partition.
 
Originally posted by: MasterChef
Acronis can make a bootable CD that allows you to image drives without having Windows running. Making the Acronis backup in this manner would yield the stable image file you described. It also works great on non-Windows drives/partitions.
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That sounds great. But does this mean that you can't schedule that type of backup?


Elixer, is the Image Integrity checker reliable for either product (ghost 9 and true image 8)?
 
I went for the Acronis deal when the Egg had it before...

It's a D/L from Acronis that states it will only install itself on one machine.
My problem was caused by a new 300GB drive that I wanted to install via Ghost 2003 on an AX4C MaxII. Ghost would not recognize the drive. I thought it was the fault of Ghost.

I paid Newegg for the Acronis and did the D/L to the Win 2003 XP Server. Acronis would go no further so I could not even unpack it on the server and burn it to a CD &/or install it to the AS4C. I wrote Acronis and called - and their tech support consisted of, "Prease{sic.} to have nice day."

After the obligatory struggle, I determined that the Aopen M/B &/or their newest BIOS was FUBAR for anything over 160GB.
Acronis tech support is piss-poor IMHO.

Edited to state that when I put the old drive on IDE0 and new 300GB drive on SATA, GHOST 2003 did the JOB! (I had to boot up a NF7-S)
I gave the Aopen 3.2 P4 to my nephew. He reported the other day that he had lost all his data. 🙁🙁🙁
 
If you want to upgrade your laptop HD it can flawlessly image your disk to the new drive in a USB enclsure, then correctly reformat its MBR when you swap it in. People have run into many problems trying to do this with Ghost. Ghost is also slower.
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I have had no problems with such operations using Ghost.
 
Acronis can be used over a LAN network at my home to backup any of my computers...I have used this for a couple yrs..love it..I have used the backups on my desktops several times..always works flawlessly(always check image to make it is ok)....I had Ghost at one time and verified the image went to use when needed and it failed to work

No more ghost

this is a very easy program to use
 
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