<<Re: Alternatives to Acronis>> How old is 11? The aggravating one was dubbed "2011", with a file version starting with 14. It feels like they've had a management change, where new mgmt tries to milk a good reputation from previously well executed products. What I liked about it was the ability to restore to different hardware, which means one could actually use it for disaster recovery. I'll check out shadowprotect, thanks.
-- Larry Message: 4 Date: Sun, 06 Feb 2011 22:35:44 +0200 From: Dominique Pivard <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] O/T: Alternative to Acronis for backup? To: Thinkpad Mailing List <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 06.02.2011 20:44, you, Laurence wrote: > I recently gave up on the current edition of Acronis backup; it seemed like > the > > product and support were haphazard. Multilple patch releases to get it > working, > > dumbed-down but unintuitive UI, then glaring and obvious mismatches between > the > > documentation and the software. That didn't inspire confidence in something >that > > needs to work the first time it's needed. I briefly played with newer versions of True Image and made similar observations. When I moved to a new TP (X301) and Windows 7, I noticed that, much to my surprise, good old True Image 11.0 is compatible with Win7 (even the 64-bit flavor of it). I've only used it for image backups so far, but will probably do some cloning when I upgrade the 128 GB SSD that came with my X301 to a 256 GB SSD. > Is there a similar product that can do disk images, clones, standard backups > with options for incremental and differential plus can restore with hardware > changes? I heard great things from a colleague about ShadowProtect (http://www.storagecraft.com/shadow_protect_desktop.php). He claimed it was much faster and better than TrueImage. Well, I gave it a try on a couple of TP's and it didn't live up to expectations on my setups. So I uninstalled it and reverted to True Image 11. Cheers, Dominique _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
