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looking for replacement for Acronis backup

Cr0nJ0b

Cr0nJ0b

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I've been using Acronis for a while now but when I recently went to test some of my old backups I found that every single one of them was corrupt. I think it has to do with the fact that I'm backup up over the network to a file share, but regardless...I'm done with Acronis.

Here are some of the features I'm looking for:
Image level backup
file level backup
microsoft integration VSS
full and incremental backup
network backup support
de-duplication if it's out there for a "home" class package
bare metal restore with partitioning.

any help is appreciated.
 
You know, I had issues with Acronis as well, and it wasn't a backup over the net either.

I really wish these companies would do real verifies, and not just check if the file they produce passes a simple CRC check.

I have gone back to using ghost 7 (or maybe it is 6--I forget) that runs from dos. Too bad it doesn't do half of what you need. 🙁
 
Windows Home Server does everything you've asked for. WHS, of course, requires some sort of PC to install it on, although most seven-year-old junkers will do. The software is $100, but it'll automatically back up ten PCs. WHS also stores and re-installs all the network and disk controller drivers for all your PCs, so you have them when you need them for a bare-metal restore.
 
I have not had to test the integrity of the backup yet but I am liking the Windows 7 backup utility so far. It also plays nice with my FreeNAS server.
 
Someone in another thread here said something about BESR 2010 being a good alternative to acronis, I haven't tested it yet though so I'm not sure. I also reverted back to ghost for anything acronis fails at.

It was a thread about Windows 7's backup utility not working when you use disks of differing sizes. The thread also has some info on the hdd manufacture backup solutions too, which are free.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2045469
 
I guess the state of desktop backup is pretty bad. Sad. It should be a fairly easy thing to do...
 
backup exec system restore 2010 works great. i use the old version to backup many many machines over network.

does everything and then some. the custom restore cd that you create loads all the necessary drivers and creates an iso for your machine that can be booted up - acquire network and start a pc-anywhere session so you could have your grandma put in a new drive and execute a remote restore 100%.

the reason i don't use acronis is just what you said - after reading the forums i realized there were far too many complaints of failed restores - that is 100% unacceptable.

the P2V is nice touch too - converts to vhd or vmdk if you want to virtualize your machine - AES-256 is good for transporting your backups off-site - damn near impossible to break with a good 32+ char password.
 
Cr0nJ0b said:
I guess the state of desktop backup is pretty bad. Sad. It should be a fairly easy thing to do...
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Vista's Complete PC backup (only available on Vista Business and Vista Ultimate) were pretty decent image backup programs. For Win7, I thought that MS was going to make a few minor improvements and make the image backup program available on ALL versions of Win7.

But MS made more than minor changes. The Microsoft Vista/Win7/2008 Backup Support Forums have a lot of discussion about the changes and the resulting issues:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsbackup/threads/
 
I just DL'd the latest Ghost and so far it seems to be working. I tried Backup Exec and that was a bust. I tried Retrospect and that didn't work...

I haven't done a recovery yet, but at least it "feels" better than the other options.

we'll see how it works over time.

I just need to find a way to verify the images that Ghost has made. That will make me feel a lot better.
 
backup exec system restore 2010 is the same thing as the latest ghost

like norton and symantec antivirus
 
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