ANightShopper said:Gmail is very reliable back up for verizon servers mail.

Could you elaborate please?
Thanks

If you create a boot CD (or boot USB thumb drive) and do full image backups of your hard drive you will likely never have a problem with Acronis. Trying to backup from Windows while having other programs running is a lot more of a risk. You can do incremental and file by file backups from the boot media as well.

If you just need to back up mail, stop Outlook and copy off your .PST and .OST files yourself.

I have been using Acronis products for YEARS and about the only problem I ever have is trying to restore images from a really old box to something newer. Acronis is bad about removing old hardware drivers from the image boot media, so it can be a pain to find one version that works for both an old and a new box.

This deal is very rebate heavy (no rebates = you way over pay) and $15 of the rebate if a competitive product rebate (Ghost). Good deal if you own Ghost and eventually get your money back, not so goo otherwise.

Dennis

Joe221 said:For me I do Outlook seperately using their (Acronis) Outlook backup. Outlook doesn't have to be closed. There are now over 1500 individual sections in the backup folder on my external. There's no way to tell it restore EVERYTHING and I think it only did the first big file, if I had to choose every segment and restore I'd have shot myself. I was lucky I did a PST, which I think I will regularly do and copy to Live Mesh or let Carbonite get it also. I'm having othere issues trying to get an externat eSATA drive to work. Thought I had it right and it "fell off" DURING a backup run using StorageCrafts utility. Argh!
Another Acronis issue (I have 11) is I tell it to do my backups in the middle of the night. It just starts and goes whenever... like 5 minutes ago while the other program is backing up. Vista U64 BTW

How can you blame Acronis - sounds like it was self-inflicted.

Joe221 said:For me I do Outlook seperately using their (Acronis) Outlook backup. Outlook doesn't have to be closed. There are now over 1500 individual sections in the backup folder on my external. There's no way to tell it restore EVERYTHING and I think it only did the first big file, if I had to choose every segment and restore I'd have shot myself. I was lucky I did a PST, which I think I will regularly do and copy to Live Mesh or let Carbonite get it also. I'm having othere issues trying to get an externat eSATA drive to work. Thought I had it right and it "fell off" DURING a backup run using StorageCrafts utility. Argh!
Another Acronis issue (I have 11) is I tell it to do my backups in the middle of the night. It just starts and goes whenever... like 5 minutes ago while the other program is backing up. Vista U64 BTW

when you say you have 11 / whats that version 11?
2009 fixes all these problems...

i know there are 3 types
2009
10 director
and another

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Whether or not it supports a beta operating system is really a moot point. I've used Acronis for many years...not to do daily backups but to backup "fresh" installations of XP/Vista with essential software and drivers ready to go. Never had any troubles restoring...most recently restored my eee back to its factory state.

soundxli said:I cloned the Win7 disk in my Evo n620c using ATI 10 (version 2007) and got the message:
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause.
Status: 0xc0000225.
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessable.

It cloned a Win Vista Ultimate disk perfectly yesterday, so I suspect it can't handle Win7. Looks like I'll definitely need to get the newer version of True Image tomorrow.

By the way, I had to put the cloned disk in the Evo, then I used the Win7 install disk to repair it, restarted and made sure it worked. Then I put the cloned working Win7 disk in my Thinkpad 600E with 288MB RAM, turned it on, and Win7 started and found as many devices as it could without ever showing a BSOD (amazing to me). I dug up an old 3Com 3C3FEM556 combo card, found a driver, and now I am typing this reply on the TP600E. I don't have sound and there are some unknown devices but it works. Performance is not that great so I'll put the Win2K disk back in now.

Works fine On my Win 7 system

Dwynne said:If you create a boot CD (or boot USB thumb drive) and do full image backups of your hard drive you will likely never have a problem with Acronis. Trying to backup from Windows while having other programs running is a lot more of a risk. You can do incremental and file by file backups from the boot media as well.

If you just need to back up mail, stop Outlook and copy off your .PST and .OST files yourself.

I have been using Acronis products for YEARS and about the only problem I ever have is trying to restore images from a really old box to something newer. Acronis is bad about removing old hardware drivers from the image boot media, so it can be a pain to find one version that works for both an old and a new box.

This deal is very rebate heavy (no rebates = you way over pay) and $15 of the rebate if a competitive product rebate (Ghost). Good deal if you own Ghost and eventually get your money back, not so goo otherwise.

Dennis

I don't need fancy backup, I don't even need backup increase updates. I use One PC only, and usually need fix sets of appications (office, visual studio). What I want is, after a fresh install, copy the whole drive into something external (USB drive, DVD, etc), and then uninstall the backup software, so in case of problem later, I can alway use the USB drive or DVD to refresh the whole PC back to this point quickly, so I don't have to reformat and install everything manually again.

Will Acronis do this job reliably? If not, what do you recommend?