Need good disk backup software suite, ideas ? (No Acronis)

[Grooveriding]

Hi folks. So after recently setting up my system and having some really annoying issues with my system giving the 0x0c0000 bootup error, I finally isolated it to having raid active and acronis installed on my machine.

I need to perform disk backups though. Just need a simple and reliable program that will backup my system drive and have the ability to restore it from a recovery boot-up DVD. And that is not Acronis ^^

Thanks.

 

[noblemo]

Would a Windows Backup image meet your needs? Worked for me on a recent drive install where Acronis had issues.

 

[stahlhart]

Hi folks. So after recently setting up my system and having some really annoying issues with my system giving the 0x0c0000 bootup error, I finally isolated it to having raid active and acronis installed on my machine.

I need to perform disk backups though. Just need a simple and reliable program that will backup my system drive and have the ability to restore it from a recovery boot-up DVD. And that is not Acronis ^^

Thanks.

Just out of curiosity, which RAID type? I don't seem to be having trouble with Acronis and one of our systems here at home that has a mirrored system drive.

 

[Grooveriding]

Just out of curiosity, which RAID type? I don't seem to be having trouble with Acronis and one of our systems here at home that has a mirrored system drive.

Raid 0. If I disable raid and use AHCI with Acronis installed, I can load windows. Enable RAID in bios again and I can't load windows. Also, the raid drive is not my Windows/boot drive either.

Alternately, uninstalling Acronis and using Raid I can boot up fine, reinstall Acronis, same issue returns. Very strange, I found a few reports of it on some forums when googling the issue and sure enough, uninstalling Acronis fixed it for me.

@noblemo, I will try that out. I just need a simple backup of my system drive that I can restore from a bootable disk in the case of losing my system drive.

I think my Vertex is finally dying on me, it happened to me in the past where my drive just disappeared and BIOS could no longer see it. I had to do a destructive flash with the jumper on to the release BIOS, then flash it up to the most recent to fix it.

Happened to me again after a recent upgrade I did, then happened again a day later, so I think it is on its last leg. Hence why I want a backup of my system drive rather than a reinstall again :/

Pity, I never felt the need to upgrade it as I don't care about transfer speeds, just the low response time of SSD. Guess it is time to get a SATA3 SSD. If the drive dies again going to get an M4.

 

[Gorthan]

Would a Windows Backup image meet your needs? Worked for me on a recent drive install where Acronis had issues.

I'll second this. It will give you an image to restore from (simply pop in your Windows DVD to restore) as well as store incremental changes to your system in the backup so you can restore to Day 1 or Day 120 of your build.

I am basing this off the Server 2008 version of Windows Backup which is probably different but I'm assuming basic functionality is the same. OK and I just looked, you may not be able to do incremental updates, but you can take a system image easily enough.