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Jeff@nospam.invalid
Flightless Bird
On 6/11/2010 6:14 PM, John McGaw wrote:
> On 6/11/2010 9:43 AM, Elden Fenison wrote:
>> A year or two ago when I researched it, Acronis True Image came highly
>> recommended when it came to Windows backup solutions.
>>
>> Anyone here have experience with that on Windows 7, good or bad?
>>
>> I heard that it initially had issues with Windows 7. But I presume that
>> Acronis has fixed those by now.
>>
>>
>> -=Elden=-
>> http://www.moondog.org
>
> I've been having good luck with Macrium Reflect on W7. It is available
> in a 64-bit version and is free. It allows you to create a recovery CD
> (a stripped-down Linux image) to recover backed-up data to a bare drive.
> Did I mention that it was free?
>
> Not that there is anything wrong with Acronis except that it is
> definitely far from free.
I too have excellent results with the 64 bit free Macrium - both backup
and restore - and it is faster than both the trial full Acronis and the
free Acronis versions I got from Seagate and and WD (I have both
drives). Maybe it is because it is a 64 bit version? Don't know because
I only tried the 64 bit version.
For me, the only thing the free Macrium lacks is the absence of
incremental backups - which are also lacking in the free versions of
Acronis I got from the drive manufacturer. I may end up getting the full
package when the next have a sale. (Do they?)
Jeff
> On 6/11/2010 9:43 AM, Elden Fenison wrote:
>> A year or two ago when I researched it, Acronis True Image came highly
>> recommended when it came to Windows backup solutions.
>>
>> Anyone here have experience with that on Windows 7, good or bad?
>>
>> I heard that it initially had issues with Windows 7. But I presume that
>> Acronis has fixed those by now.
>>
>>
>> -=Elden=-
>> http://www.moondog.org
>
> I've been having good luck with Macrium Reflect on W7. It is available
> in a 64-bit version and is free. It allows you to create a recovery CD
> (a stripped-down Linux image) to recover backed-up data to a bare drive.
> Did I mention that it was free?
>
> Not that there is anything wrong with Acronis except that it is
> definitely far from free.
I too have excellent results with the 64 bit free Macrium - both backup
and restore - and it is faster than both the trial full Acronis and the
free Acronis versions I got from Seagate and and WD (I have both
drives). Maybe it is because it is a 64 bit version? Don't know because
I only tried the 64 bit version.
For me, the only thing the free Macrium lacks is the absence of
incremental backups - which are also lacking in the free versions of
Acronis I got from the drive manufacturer. I may end up getting the full
package when the next have a sale. (Do they?)
Jeff