Re: Backup/Imaging Software

On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 14:45:54 -0600, "Father Mike"
<fathermike@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've been doing daily image and file backups with Acronis True Image 9.0 for
a few months. Backups worked flawlessly.

Yesterday I thought I should restore something as a fire drill, so I
restored a folder to my desktop from the Acronis file backup program. I
couldn't open the restored folder and I couldn't delete it. I went into XP
safe mode and opened it. Seemed OK. Booted back into regular Windows and
opened the folder normally.

Well, I thought I should repeat the exercise to see if that was just a
fluke. I tried restoring another folder and this time Acronis wouldn't
restore it at all, saying the file was already in use. Well, Acronis, it's
your file, who else would be using it?

Next stop was the Acronis forums where I found someone with the exact same
problem, no solution, just the old boiler plate about updating drivers and
installing reporting software. I browsed the forums and lots of problems
with the imaging software too. If they can't make a sound file backup, I'm
not inclined to trust their image backup program.

I don't know, I think I'm putting Acronis 9.0 in the recycle bin. I have
this ancient NTI file backup program which I've run alongside Acronis and
it's never given me any trouble. I think I will revert to just using that
program. I don't trust Acronis any more.

I use Acronis Server 8 (the bootable CD anyway as we don't need the
rest of the features) and I find it grate for just putting into a
workstation/server, any model, and it gets rekognised and I can pull
an image off the network.

Mind, it has stopped detecting USB devices on some of the newer Dell
systems we run.

Andrew.
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Andrew Hodgson in Bromyard, Herefordshire, UK.
My Email: use <andrew at hodgsonfamily dot org>.
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