How Good Is Acronis True Image Software?
Posted by benny in FreeWare on July 19th, 2009 | 4 responses
I need a good backup software.
Does anyone have experience with Acronis True Image?
Does it really copy your whole drive and you can re-boot from it?
I know it claims it can do that but has anyone been successful after a “disaster”?
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I’ve used Acronis to create an image of my current drive, restore it to a new hard drive and then install the new hard drive as my main drive and it worked perfectly.
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I also bought the “universal restore” option but have never had a chance to actually try it to see if it works. Hopefully I’ll never have to use it. Although I would love to find an old computer that I didn’t care about just to see if I really could “restore” everything to a completely different computer with completely different hardware (motherboard, video cards, hard drives, etc).
Generally speaking, if you did have a drive that crashed, you’d probably restore it to the same computer (with a new drive installed). In that situation, I have full confidence it would work. I guess the only time I could see have to restore to a completely different PC would be in a “disaster” situation (fire, flood, theft, etc) where the old PC isn’t available to use any longer. If that were to happen, hopefully the universal restore option actually works
IMO, it’s well worth the price of the software. The server version is much more expensive but then again if your company is heavily reliant on the data on your servers (and whose isn’t nowadays), it would be a small price to pay for a disaster recovery option. But a good backup software (like Backup Exec for example) should also be used too.
I haven’t used it personally, but I know a technician who actually used it on his home machine. When his Western Digital hard drive failed him, I remember after an hour and a half when he first told me when it happened, he was up and running again. Which I knew that used the complete disk image, because I went over to his home office to verify that his hard drive indeed had failed. I purchased a copy for myself after that his incident.
Yes it does mean you can make a bootable disc from one that is already working. It is an easy piece of software to use. My hard drive was going bad, you could hear the clicks and sometimes it would not spin. I copied it onto a new disc and was up and running off of the new disc in a couple of hours. It takes a long time to write a large disc. Well worth the money.
Yeah, Acronis is one of the bests.
BTW, it doesnt mean: copy whole drive and you can reboot from it.
Mean: backup whole drive and you can restore it (i usually use Acronis that integrated in Hiren Boot CD to perform this action)