Last evening I made a tiny (tiny) change to one of my aircraft config files, which resulted in FSX crashing at the Free Flight screen. Reversing the change had no effect. Nor did restoring the whole old SimObjects folder. Nor did deleting FSX.CONFIG and letting FSX build another one. Nor did anything else I tried.

 

I was beginning to get that old sinking feweling which precedes a complete FSX re-instal. But fortunately I recently installed Acronis True Image 2012 and have been using it regularly to back up the system. So I pointed it at the latest backup and asked it to restore, which it did. 30 minutes later I was back up and running. Magic !

 

Now all I've got to do is remember what I changed/added since the last backup :-)

Acronis is great, happy ending Did you do a image restore or just a complete file restore?

 

Regards,

Morten

It wasn't an image restore, so I guess it was a full file restore. Given the time it took, I'm guessing it just replaces all the files etc that have been changed since the last backup.

 

What I didn't see was an option to selectively restore individual files/folders from a full backup, which I used to be able to do with Norton on XP. But given the speed of the restore I'm not that bothered.

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I my self just swap an entire system+FSX from an SSD 128 to a ssd 240 and it warks perfectly, the only boring part was those addon or software that check hardaware change like PMDG who need reactivation, but in general better then reinstall all single add-on.

So yes it should be granted for an AVSIM Award :lol:

I believe if you know which file you corrupted you could have just re-installed that file from your back-up rathr than an entire restore. I believe Acronis has a file search even if you did an entire partition back-up? Yea, use Acronis for all my PC's. Monthly partition back-ups are a givin on to-do lists. Always chuckle when I read about simmers who lose everything because of corruption or a virus.

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I believe if you know which file you corrupted you could have just re-installed that file from your back-up rathr than an entire restore. I believe Acronis has a file search even if you did an entire partition back-up?

 

It may well be - but it sure wasn't obvious to me !

Would you mind posting some screenshots or clear description of your backup settings. I have Acronis 2012 as well but honestly I think I am backing up incorrectly and have no confidence in my setup. I have Windows7 on the C: drive and FSX on separate HD F:

thanks,

Hi Mark,

My method: Open Acronis, Disk and partition backup tab and wait, tick drive of choice, choose destination, bottom of page click Backup Scheme, new window - Backup Method - choose Full and ok, back to previous window - name your backup, and press backup now.

 

I had an alien visitor which instantly reported viruses and trojans in a whole group of important exe files, and prevented access to task manager. I couldn't reboot the computer, because the MBR had a fault.

 

I had an Acronis 2013 backup of my C drive. I did a restore of C and MBR - no luck - I've no idea why. I wasted time until I got back my senses. I got out my Win7 64 disc, formatted the C drive, installed Windows, got out my Acronis disc, did the same restore as before, and bingo, I was back in business. Ten minutes for Windows, and eight for Acronis.

 

I always do a complete backup, rather than an incremental. I do like Acronis!

 

JIm

Same as Jimh - except I do incremental backups. Sould I be doing full backups each time ?

Thanks for the instructions and I will be checking my setup shortly.

I wil give this a go just took me 2 days to do a reinstall not fun, I will do this I think can you backup two seperate drives as images to one large drive? As fsx is in seperate SSD to OS. REGARDS WAYNE.

Another happy Acronis user... I learned my lesson the hard way 3 years ago and the Acronis has saved my butt so many times since... from virus attack to so many things...

 

The best$30-40 I have spent on FSX.

hello

 

Does it slow down the computer when the data are being saved?

 

ThX

I run the backups manually without anything else running. Generally takes less than 40 mins, sometimes a lot less. I don't let Acronis schedule itself automatically. I'm guessing if you tried to run a backup with FSX running you would see an impact.