O&O was ranked 4 and I found some good user feedback at various places (e.g., users who are not satisfied with Acronis TI 2010 suggest this as an alternative). After trying it out and liking it, I went to place order and noticed that they have a special competitive upgrade pricing (referred to as cross-upgrade) for $19.95. Since I have both older versions of Acronis TrueImage and Norton Ghost I purchased this license and was able to activate. I was also able to find a $10 coupon that worked on the purchase, making it only $9.95.
Select "Check to enter coupon code" and enter coupon code: 5WV-11A-1YG
Checkout with your creditcard or paypal. They charge in USD so no conversion is applied (though they are located abroad).
You finally get links to download the software as well as the ISO for rescue CD (which is a huge 285mb file).
Note that the pricing indicates that it is special introductory and has this note: "This offer cannot be combined with other discounts/vouchers.", but the coupon worked fine anyway. Note also that the (cross) upgrade is not verified (meaning, you don't have to produce any proof that you own a competing product), but be your own judge.
Since none of the free products that I came across offered differential/incremental backups, I thought this is a good deal and hope someone else can make use of it too.
PS: This product doesn't support individual file backups, but there are several freeware alternatives if you need one, e.g., see this page.
This is a great program. I like this better than Acronis. I have version 4, I don't know if it's worth upgrading though.
NeoTheOne
Happy Member
posted: Feb. 8, 2010 @ 12:35p
It might be a great program, but it won't recover my Vista 32-bit SP2 to a different hardware. While it is true that very few disc imaging programs will do so, this program should have no problems in achieving the above task since this feature is advertised on developer's web-site. The recovery process just stops at the end with some long error message in German. It does, however, restore the OS to the same hardware with no problems.
Not trying to thread crap by any means. I would be all over this deal if the restore to different hardware feature worked properly for me.
NeoTheOne, can you care to elaborate more specifics on the issue you faced? As long as you are sticking to PC hardware, I thought for the most part the only differences that should matter are the drive configuration (such as ATA/SATA/RAID etc.). It will help us to know what limitation you hit up on. Thank you.
NeoTheOne
Happy Member
posted: Feb. 8, 2010 @ 1:25p
Image created on: Intel Pentium 4, 2GB DDR-2 RAM, SATA hard drive, Creative Sound Blaster Live 5.1, ATI 3850. Trying to restore to: Athlon 64, 8GB DDR-2 RAM, SATA hard drive, Creative Audigy 2 ZS, ATI 3850.
I tried many different disc imaging programs. The only 2 that worked are: Acronis Home 2010(with the plugin pack) and Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2009.
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