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Shopping Girl - Acronis True Image Home 2010
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List Price: $49.99
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Manufacturer: Acronis
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Acronis
EAN: 0890204002401
Feature: Solution for reliable backup and recovery of systems, applications, settings, and personal files
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Acronis
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Manufacturer: Acronis
Model: TI-13-DV-RT-W-EN
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Acronis
Release Date: 2009-10-13
Studio: Acronis
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Features
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Solution for reliable backup and recovery of systems, applications, settings, and personal files
Automatically creates incremental backups every 5 minutes, preventing data loss
Intuitive graphical interface works on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 operating systems
Create a backup strategy of the system and implement it with just one click
Try&Decide mode for safe installations; new scheduler offers expanded scheduling options
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Editorial Reviews:
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Acronis True Image Home 2010 provides home users reliable and timeless backup and recovery of systems, applications, settings and personal files. From an intuitive graphical interface, users can easily define where, locally or online, and how often to backup a PC.
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Summary: Does Not Copy Boot Manager for Win 7 - 64 bit
Comment: One reason I bought this product was to upgrade my hard drive from 500 Gbyte - 1 Terra Byte. I found it did not do it automatically. I had to do it manually to get it work somewhat, but it did not copy the boot manager.
The cloning Process does not copy the Boot Manager as well.
As a temporary work around which should not be, to both these problems, create a system restore disc in Windows 7. You can also use your original windows disk, just make sure you click on "repair an existing installation" at the appropriate point.
Product is somewhat but not completely in compliance with Windows-7 64 bit. I am not to sure about the 32 bit version. On the box it States "System Requirements" one of the items is Windows 7 (all editions). This is false advertising.
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Summary: Not what I hoped for at all
Comment: I purchased the Acronis PC Backup and Restore 2010 software full version in the box, primarily to be able to simply clone my RAID 1 internal hard drive to an external hardrive. Both were 300 GB drives. I am running Windows Vista 64 bit which has been very reliable for me. When I installed the software the first time from the CD, it then asked me before the install if I wanted to get any updates. I said yes and it looked like it was downloading the updated 2010 version. However, toward the end I got an error on the download. I had to contact the Chat support to get a link to a different location for the software. After I installed it, I tried to simply Clone from a Western Digital 300 GB hard drive to a Maxtor external 300 GB hard drive. The software gave me an error about the target drive having a corrupted MFT and failed the Clone operation. No other software had a problem with the supposed bad device. So I reformated the Maxtor hard drive and tried again. Then got exactly the same error. So, I uninstalled the software and started over. I also again formatted the Maxtor hard drive and tested it using Windows backup. Everything worked just fine and the backup was created successfully,
After the reinstall I created a bootable Rescue disk on CD and tested it. When it tried to load the software from the boot device after telling the BIOS to use the CD drive, I got error messages telling me that a number of Acronis Libraries were not accessable and the software would not reload from the Bootable drive. I again tried to clone the hard disk to the external drive, Again I got errors telling me that the cloning operation had again failed but this time it gave no error messages. I tried the Backup function and it backed up my disk but wouldn't clone it so it looks like the MFT corruption messsage ia a problem with the Acronis software.
Another problem was trying to report the problems. I went to the website and reported the problems each time. On each report I got an email requesting additional information such as reports created by the Acronis software. I tried to get the 2 reports they wanted. I was able to get one of the reports and send it to them but the software got another error trying to create the second report and didn't generate the report. Also, I could never respond to the emails I received directly. I had to go to the website with each response, fill out the reporting form again and resubmit it each time. Their system gave me a different case number each time I responded to their requests. Extremely awkward and time consuming. So, after 8 hours work, multiple failures and errors, and I still can't do a simple cloning operation with the software. It's just not worth the time and energy anymore. Also, I went to their knowledge base. Boy there are a lot of problems reported. This software appears to have a lot of problems and doesn't look to me to be ready for prime time. I'll try Norton Ghost 15. It's got to be easier than this.
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Summary: Acronis True Image Home 2010
Comment: Acronis True Image Home 11 is better than Acronis True Image Home 2010. I bought Acronis True Image Home 2010 because Home 11 does not support Windows 7.
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Summary: Acronis True Image Home 2010
Comment: I like the product, but have a few issues with backing things up. It's not as easy as it sounds and will take a few practice backups to make sure things work the way you want them to work. I like the fact that it can run in the background. What is frustrating is that you have to understand how a backup works and will have to delete old daily backups and then create a new monthly backup etc . . . as you can see it's not easy, but is a great backup if you know how to use it.
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Summary: Back-Ups: Can You Have Too Many?
Comment: Over the years, I've lost info to all sorts of things from hard drive crashes to a virus, but mainly due to my own tendency to mess around with my computers. (I teethed on DOS and never lost that love of experimentation.) The point is, I'm forever filling my drive with photos because I somehow manage to end up with multiple copies of each huge file (that's my fault) and pretty soon, I'm running out of gigabytes again. Being impatient and really hating to read directions -- I prefer to let my fingers take over -- I'll use a nice little program like Double-Killer (free) to weed out the extras, but not bother to make sure I'm keeping the right ones. It would take hours and hours to check them, so I inevitably find out I've deleted the wrong files at least half the time. Okay, two-thirds of the time.
I use Carbonite -- cloud back-up -- religiously, but if I've deleted the wrong photos and haven't noticed this for at least a month (I think), Carbonite assumes I don't want them anymore and deletes them as well. And of Course I forget to check them all, so I also back up on an external hard drive. Two of them (they tend to die without warning). This would be perfect if I kept them up to date all the time, but, well. . . I forget.
That's why I ordered Acronis True Image. It's another line of defense and quicker to go through than searching Carbonite or my external hard drives. Also, I really get tired of having to restore my hard drive set-up after I've done something stupid. That's the other reason.
In the past, I've used Ghost, but didn't care for it. After installing Acronis without much difficulty I found out that I didn't care much for it either, but at least I know why: my hard drive, as usual, is too full. Acronis works for my (64-bit 500 gig Toshiba), but far too slowly and it eats up what little space I've cleared.
I have a Pro Flickr account, so I'm in the process of uploading every last photo and only keeping the ones I use frequently on the computer itself. I have a feeling that once that's completed, I'll be able to use Acronis as it's meant to be used and that if I have a blue screen of death or other monster-failure, I'll be able to reboot quickly and repair my machine without program loss.
Acronis does do a nice backup job, as far as it can go right now. It backs up constantly in the background and I can pick and choose what I want to back-up at any given time. (You can also make a full, complete backup - at least if you have space!) Since Carbonite and Flickr and even my external backups are nearly all data files, I'm relying on Acronis for program backup and imaging my disk. I'm only backing up a few programs at this point - one's I'd have difficulty restoring -- and I'm very pleased with True Image's ability to do only what I need for now. I can also edit the back-up, send changes to my external drives and easily make a life-saving boot CD.
A very nice feature is that Acronis True Image allows me to restore things while I'm using my computer. This version doesn't include any anti-virus protection, but I don't want it; I'm happy with Microsoft's free anti-virus program. (Tech guru Leo LaPorte says it's just fine, and he seems to be right, as usual. He was certainly right about investing in Carbonite.)
Would I buy it again? I don't know yet. I'll get back to you on that once I have the disk space to really give True Image a workout. It's fine on the few programs I've backed up with it for safe-keeping already. ([...] is one of my software pleasures.)
I'm reviewing now because I have a feeling a lot of us have the overflowing disk problem, whether it's due to games, movies, music, photos, or some other reason I haven't thought of. I'm giving three stars for now because it doesn't work too well for me -- too slow -- but I can't blame the program for that. Many reviewers are having other problems with it. I'm not. I'll be back soon to tell you what happens once I have plenty of disk space again!
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