Acronis was always my favorite for HArd Disks.. But for SSDs they are a very confusing when it comes to restoing.

 

The good thing is your backups if they are verified, are good to recover and their forum folks are very helpful..  Thats why I am still on with Acronis.. but the though of going through the recover process gives me the chills. When you are recovering you have to answer lots of questios (technical jargons).

 

But check out their forum for posts regarding how to recover from backups and print out the many PDFs and go through them befire starting with Acrionus... ...There are many many PDFs for differet types.. Its quite confusing...   Its not as inttutive as restoring with a  1 click during the HD days

I tried Ghost and Acronis but deleted both because they have too much stuff running in the background when not backing up.  Ended up with Macrium Reflect.  There is a freeware ver that will do disk imaging, and allow for creation of a linux-based rescue CD.  The pay version also allows folder-file based backup and provides a win PE license which provides a bit more capable rescue CD.  For backup Macrium will use windows Volume Shadow Copy service.  You can mount a backup as a drive, and Macrium will only start a service when you do so (ISTM that Acronis runs that service all the time).

 

scott s.

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tried Ghost and Acronis but deleted both because they have too much stuff running in the background when not backing up. 

 

Hmm.. I use Acronis for a full backup and thats it.. nothing runs otherwise

 

I got frustrated with using third party applications because I found them to be slow, so I created my own script, Backup.cmd, to a portable 500Gb drive that I keep offsite.  I had a hard disk fail on me once so would recommend taking backups.  This is for Win 7 btw and does a mirror copy.

 

rem

robocopy.exe /mir /z /r:5 "C:\Users\Tom\Desktop" "E:\Backup\Users\Tom\Desktop"

robocopy.exe /mir /z /r:5 "C:\Users\Tom\Downloads" "E:\Backup\Users\Tom\Downloads"

robocopy.exe /mir /z /r:5 "C:\Users\Tom\Dropbox" "E:\Backup\Users\Tom\Dropbox"

robocopy.exe /mir /z /r:5 "C:\Users\Tom\Favorites" "E:\Backup\Users\Tom\Favorites"

robocopy.exe /mir /z /r:5 "C:\Users\Tom\Documents" "E:\Backup\Users\Tom\Documents"

robocopy.exe /mir /z /r:5 "C:\Users\Tom\Music" "E:\Backup\Users\Tom\Music"

robocopy.exe /mir /z /r:5 "C:\Users\Tom\Pictures" "E:\Backup\Users\Tom\Pictures"

robocopy.exe /mir /z /r:5 "C:\Users\Tom\Videos" "E:\Backup\Users\Tom\Videos"

robocopy.exe /mir /z /r:5 "C:\Data" "E:\Backup\Data"

rem

pause

 

 

Good Idea  :good:

I use Acronis Trueimage 2014, its great.

 

 

This is my approach too (except I use xcopy),

 

I used to use XCOPY but it doesn't actually perform a mirror copy so if I renamed or deleted files then they remained on my backup drive.  This caused me some issues, typically with duplicate files in my iTunes (I know - don't flame me) music library.  A work mate suggested the robocopy.exe method which does a proper mirror copy.  We also use this at work for various things.

I use Acronis Trueimage 2014, its great.

 

 

Have you performed a recovery of your c drive (OS) onto an SSD?

Have you performed a recovery of your c drive (OS) onto an SSD?

no sorry, I don't have an SSD.  I have (2) 2TB 7200rpm Drives only.

I used to use XCOPY but it doesn't actually perform a mirror copy so if I renamed or deleted files then they remained on my backup drive.  This caused me some issues, typically with duplicate files in my iTunes (I know - don't flame me) music library.  A work mate suggested the robocopy.exe method which does a proper mirror copy.  We also use this at work for various things.

 

I looked at robocopy, quite impressive what it can do. The true mirror is something I've debated on since the day I started making backups - and the question: "Should deleted obsolete files also be removed from the backup drive?" Bottom line is I'm too anal for that, and I have on occasion gone back in and restored a file that would have been deleted if I were making a true mirror. I use it to my advantage in that I can keep my working folders well cleaned out knowing that there's a backup of some file that I "might need" down the road a ways but "probably not". Consequently my backup folders are hideous with obsoleted files but hey, I don't go there often Sometimes it's even good for a laugh! :smile:

 

Jim

I tried Ghost and Acronis but deleted both because they have too much stuff running in the background when not backing up

 

You don't have to install ghost. If you have the CD (or create a bootable CD) you can load and run Ghost without running Windows.That way nothing gets installed ever with no silly background processes running etc. Then when finished backing up/restoring just simply reboot back into Windows

I bought an external drive and use the software that came with it.  I schedule the backups to start in the wee hours, 3 days a week.

 

Backups really need to be on an external device.  If you back up to another partition of your system disk, for example, then you lose both primary and backup with a disk crash.  Cloud backup is nice, but it becomes another monthly bill, and after a while, you'd end up paying more than you would for an external drive.

I looked at robocopy, quite impressive what it can do.

 

Hi guys:

 

If you like RoboCopy, then you are going to love RichCopy, also by some MS guys.

(Much faster than xcopy or RoboCopy)

 

 

One of the Microsoft tools that was being used by Microsoft programmers to copy or move files in faster speed ...

Since the tool was being used by the developers, they made it pretty effective and stable .

 

 

Utility Spotlight or Microsoft Richcopy

 

Cheers.

Hmm.. I use Acronis for a full backup and thats it.. nothing runs otherwise

 

That's better then.  When I tried it it installed a service that autostarted when user logged into windows.

 

scott s.

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Have you performed a recovery of your c drive (OS) onto an SSD?

I have done that a couple of times with my Samsung 830 SSD and haven't noticed anything peculiar - everything worked as when recovering to a normal spinning disk. This is with Acronis 2013. 

 

I agree that it's expensive, especially since you need a license per computer, but I got a bundled price for three licenses so it was manageble.