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1152915	2010-12-21 18:00:00	Thanks Wainuitech. I really appreciate your guidance. I was thinking along the lines of a Full backup followed by Incremental backups. You have given me plenty to think about. Reading the Acronis Forum, it appears that numerous people are unhappy with the program. It is a pity I never read about it before I purchased it. What is better than Acronis for Win7? - not a simple backup program such as Fbackup, but one that will make a drive image. Pato, does the Acronis Forum have this information?	Strommer (42)
1152916	2010-12-21 18:37:00	Paid or free? I'm using active@ which costs about $52NZ it was recommended by Wainui, it works well on win7 64bit	gary67 (56)
1152917	2010-12-21 19:51:00	Paid or free? I'm using active@ which costs about $52NZ it was recommended by Wainui, it works well on win7 64bit Ditto	Neil McC (178)
1152918	2010-12-21 22:23:00	Just thought I'd have a try of the New Acronis 2011 --- Its not to bad, at least it shows both partitions in W7 this time . BUT I did notice a instant slowdown on the PC, especially when setting the continuous backup option. It is more expensive than other software, around $95.00 NZ It made an image OK, but its not exactly user friendly on doing a recovery - the average, or basic home user will soon get very lost :confused: Went OK from an External Drive, but from over the LAN it failed half way through the first time, OK the second. I'll still stick with Active@, its faster and at least its reliable.	wainuitech (129)
1152919	2010-12-21 23:55:00	I use Casper.6 on win7 64. It makes an exact bootable clone of the original disk. First run through takes an hour or so but subsequent copies are a lot quicker as only changed data/files etc are copied across. Takes around 20 minutes on my system. I run Casper once each week. I have done this since XP if a problem occurs I just swap the leads on the two HDs and I am back in business in a couple of minutes. I run Easy to sync for files daily to keep an up to date portable and seperate copy of all important data. These two programs are not free but they are very simple to use "idiot proof I would say".	CliveM (6007)
1152920	2010-12-22 03:58:00	Just thought I'd have a try of the New Acronis 2011 --- Its not to bad, at least it shows both partitions in W7 this time . BUT I did notice a instant slowdown on the PC, especially when setting the continuous backup option. It is more expensive than other software, around $95.00 NZ It made an image OK, but its not exactly user friendly on doing a recovery - the average, or basic home user will soon get very lost :confused: Went OK from an External Drive, but from over the LAN it failed half way through the first time, OK the second. I'll still stick with Active@, its faster and at least its reliable.I coultn't agree more. It is not an easy program for a home user (like myself) and it can be confusing. Although there is a lot of help on the Acronis forum there is also a lot of critism of the program. I am sticking with it in the meantime.	Pato (2463)
1152921	2010-12-22 04:03:00	What is better than Acronis for Win7? - not a simple backup program such as Fbackup, but one that will make a drive image. Pato, does the Acronis Forum have this information?I would suggest that you look on the Forum before purchasing it. There are some really hash comments about it. Annoying things, like when I downloaded a new build it told me that I had a trial copy, although I sorted it out it took some time. Also some updates can cause problems. I would not recommend it. You could get the trial copy and see how you like it.	Pato (2463)
1152922	2010-12-22 09:34:00	Paid or free? I'm using active@ which costs about $52NZ it was recommended by Wainui, it works well on win7 64bit Paid is OK. Active@ (http://www.disk-image.net/) looks good - especially if Wainui recommends it. Just thought I'd have a try of the New Acronis 2011 --- Its not to bad, at least it shows both partitions in W7 this time . BUT I did notice a instant slowdown on the PC, especially when setting the continuous backup option. It is more expensive than other software, around $95.00 NZ It made an image OK, but its not exactly user friendly on doing a recovery - the average, or basic home user will soon get very lost :confused: Went OK from an External Drive, but from over the LAN it failed half way through the first time, OK the second. I'll still stick with Active@, its faster and at least its reliable. Too bad Acronis is not good. Several years ago I paid for Acronis version 10, on WinXP, and it has been very good; quite fast making images or recovering files, or restoring all of C drive. But if it is no good for Win7 I will avoid it. I use Casper.6 on win7 64. It makes an exact bootable clone of the original disk. First run through takes an hour or so but subsequent copies are a lot quicker as only changed data/files etc are copied across. Takes around 20 minutes on my system. I run Casper once each week. I have done this since XP if a problem occurs I just swap the leads on the two HDs and I am back in business in a couple of minutes. I run Easy to sync for files daily to keep an up to date portable and seperate copy of all important data. These two programs are not free but they are very simple to use "idiot proof I would say". Thanks. While Casper (www.fssdev.com) is more expensive than Active@ it looks OK. I would suggest that you look on the Forum before purchasing it. There are some really hash comments about it. Annoying things, like when I downloaded a new build it told me that I had a trial copy, although I sorted it out it took some time. Also some updates can cause problems. I would not recommend it. You could get the trial copy and see how you like it. Active@ looks better than Acronis. It really is a shame Acronis has deteriorated because I have found it to be very good on WinXP.	Strommer (42)
1152923	2010-12-22 09:49:00	Had a quick look at Casper as well ( boring day today) please correct me if I'm wrong, BUT it only makes a working "clone" of the actual drive. Not an actual Image that I can see. If thats the case, while it would be handy cloning a drive, as a backup, personally not that a good idea. The drive has to be attached to the PC and possibly not removed - BAD idea. What happens if the PC is stolen, a fire, or a power problem blows every thing -- the backup goes as well. Ideally a backup should be kept in another location -- Shed, safe, someones place etc. I also notice it doesn't give the option to backup over a LAN storage device, only to the PC concerned.	wainuitech (129)
1152924	2010-12-22 10:01:00	i've got Paragon Backup & Recovery™ 2010 Free Advanced installed on both the laptop and desktop. free awell	GameJunkie (72)
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