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Magic Carpet

Magic Carpet

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Okay, are there many alternatives to Ghost Corporate?

Junk like Acronis... I don't wanna hear about.

Thanks very much.
 
Will do. I am looking for a 100% reliable solution that does not need updates just to have *basic* functionality. Had a few bad experiences with Acronis, not willing to give them another chance. Norton Ghost has not once ever let me down.
 
berryracer said:
Acronis is Junk? Seriously? It's the best Disk Imaging software I've ever used! Been using it for 3 years now
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I used to think so, too. Then again, I made the mistake of attempting to uninstall Acronis a couple of months ago after I got tired of dealing with nagging issues that Acronis won't fix (specifically, that "Operations are in progress" bug).

At that point, I discovered that it apparently embeds itself so deeply into Windows that Acronis' own installer is incapable of fully removing it. Oh, it removes Acronis just fine, but doesn't restore the built-in Windows backup software. I spent three additional weeks trying to fix it before I finally just gave up and reinstalled Windows. Literally, I've dealt with malware rootkits before that were easier to fix....

Myself, I'm going to give the paid version of Macrium Reflect a try.
 
SmartDeploy is the best imaging software I've found. It's hardware independent so you make ONE image from a VM and combine with various driver packs at the deployment stage. You can deploy from a PE server or make deployable media.

Best backup software I've found is ShadowProtect. Even better than Acronis. Image-based, but you can quickmount it as a volume for file recovery as well, supports full, incremental, differential, collapsing with ImageManager and can even do hardware independent restores. It's badass and we use it all over the place.
 
I ended up buying Macrium a few years ago and have been pretty happy with it. It does great compression and backup times are quite fast!
Their winpe boot CD is pretty nice too and easy to use + has a good interface.


Steltek said:
I used to think so, too. Then again, I made the mistake of attempting to uninstall Acronis a couple of months ago after I got tired of dealing with nagging issues that Acronis won't fix (specifically, that "Operations are in progress" bug).

At that point, I discovered that it apparently embeds itself so deeply into Windows that Acronis' own installer is incapable of fully removing it. Oh, it removes Acronis just fine, but doesn't restore the built-in Windows backup software. I spent three additional weeks trying to fix it before I finally just gave up and reinstalled Windows. Literally, I've dealt with malware rootkits before that were easier to fix....

Myself, I'm going to give the paid version of Macrium Reflect a try.
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