I use home version at home and server 9.1 and echo at work. I did not state that it did not know, Acronis does know what the partition types are. Just from what I have seen so far, I have not found a hard drive that it could not image. You can image and recover any particular partition or entire hard drive. It will allow you to go to different sizes of drives. Acronis will also allow you to copy images to totally different computers using universal restore. I have copied drives that had some physical damage to them. Acronis was still able to copy what it could. It was enough to browse the image and get the data off of the drive. Acronis images can also be used to create MS Virtual PCs. This feature is handy. I am not sure about the sector thing. >From what I have read it does bit imaging. This is one reason my company purchased it. The server imaging software checks at a bit level to see what has changed and will make incremental images based on this. That way data that has not changed will not be imaged thereby decreasing imaging time and load on the box.
Here is a good article talking about it if anyone is interested. <http://tweakhound.com/reviews/trueimage2009/index.htm> http://tweakhound.com/reviews/trueimage2009/index.htm Either way, it is a good product, but does cost. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob McCormick W1QA Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 8:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [DSTAR] RE: [dstar_digital] Backup Befuddled Gus <CRTech *at* hot.rr.com> wrote: >> While I have not tried it on a linux box, I would >> think that would work simply because Acronis makes >> bit images and does not really care what is actually >> on the hard drive. (snip) Not totally accurate. Acronis True Image (most users typically use the "home" version) does know about the format of a disk's partition. There *IS* a mode where Acronis can make a sector copy of a disk ... you'd want to do that when either the disk structure is corrupt or unknown to Acronis. Otherwise Acronis will read the FAT, FAT32, NTFS, EXT, etc. structure and only copy the blocks/sectors that are in-use. Bob W1QA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
