Thread: Acronis,,

Where and how are you going to restore?

Hi,

I use Acronis to image whole HDDs and it works great. For just backing up data you can use COBIAN. Its free and works very well.

Matt

Originally Posted by Roadrunner

Hi,

I use Acronis to image whole HDDs and it works great. For just backing up data you can use COBIAN. Its free and works very well.

Matt

What do you use True Image or Migrate Easy?

True Image.

I built computer and clone most of them. Use it for cloning/backup of critical Windows server as well. Picks up the raid drives and I can clone it to a single HDD. Have a test server in the office and connect the cloned HDD to make sure everything works fine.

Someone else I know uses clonezilla and loves it. I haven't tried it but will give it a go.

Matt

For Pedro -

I've used Acronis when I had a desktop PC, and the spare drive was a plug-in external. There was a time when something I did screwed up the OS so that it was desireable to go back to before the event, and it was as simple as swapping drives (Either physically or in boot up order). Acronis took no notice and everything was fine. Since it rewrites the entire disk, then it is as if the previous week had not existed. Good for if the HDD actually fails.

We just went through a nightmare universal restore with Acronis. Its a damn good program and works well - until you stick it near host-raid. Then its as slow as all hell. Proper raid cards aren't a problem.

I set my servers up to image once a week to an external tape drive, then we run daily tape backups to LT03 drives. (and as an extra precaution as we have the room, we also put the acronis image on the tape drive as well...) works well, havent had a failed restore yet! (although a few missed backups due to the lackies not changing the tapes over of a day. :/