What Backup/Recovery Software are you using?

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For a number of years I have been using Acronis Trueimage to backup all of my PC's - it does a complete image of the HDD and enables a complete restore 'as was' so that within a short period of time I can be back up and running as though nothing had happened - no programmes to re-install etc.

However with the advent of Windows 7 on one of my laptops, this has meant that Acronis Trueimage has had to be updated and the resultant software is riddled with issues - not what you want in a backup/recovery solution!

Whilst I understand the rationale of re-formatting, re-installing software and data, that's not something I want to do in an 'emergency' situation - Acronis 'restore and go' has saved my bacon without misery and delay on at least two occasions.

So what do you use for disaster recovery?
Do you have any recommendations for something to replace Acronis?

My remote server in the US runs RSoft and that is excellent but that's not an option for my local PC's.
 
I run Win7 and I have two partitions - C (ssd) and D (2x1GB drives in raid 1). Users is a hard link to the D drive so it really is only software/os on C.

I use Acronis to make an image of the C drive onto the D drive every time I update/install something.

The data is backed up onto 1 of 3 external USB drives which rotate on a daily basis with one always off site. Backup software for the data copy is robocopy as part of a script.
 
Have you not been getting the issues that almost every other Acronis user has been experiencing - backup failing, scheduled backup not working, sudden unexpected error codes?
Which version are you using?
 
gramps said:
Have you not been getting the issues that almost every other Acronis user has been experiencing - backup failing, scheduled backup not working, sudden unexpected error codes?
Which version are you using?
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I dumped Acronis when i uopgraded to Win 7, seemed to do the back up fine but when veryfying it came up with errors
 
hi all..been following the forums for a while though this is my first post :)

i used to use acronis true image for most of my backup also...though that's really only useful when the whole PC dies...i found a program called oopsbackup that allows you to go through past versions of a file...which is ideal for me since i end up editing many photos that i take so it allows me to go back and 'undo' those edits so to speak... apple users have a program called Time Machine, this is the same thing though for windows...

website is http://www.altaro.com

Here's a website that might help too..it's a review of backup software for Win 7
http://www.top-windows-tutorials.com/file-backup-software.html

hth
best regards
John
 
i used to use allway sync to sync (obviously) up a couple of hard drives and take 1 off site etc.

but now every new photoshoot goes on to my NAS (raid5) and a copy of the shoot gets burned using nero to blu-ray and a copy is put on mobile usb hard drive. the blu-ray and mobile hard drive gets taken off site where the files from the hard drive gets transferred to a couple of desktop drives at work.

i was planning to factor in a FTP transfer to drive(s) stored at work but i think transfer speeds will not be worth it.
 
All my photos are on my WHS, which duplicates to another internal hard drive and is also backed up to an external hard drive as well. I am going to buy another external drive to leave at my parents with another backup on.
 
i have acronis 2010 running on a Win 7 x64 without issues - its scheduled to run a incremental backup of specific folders every day at 14:00 to a 1GB internal drive - thats only used to hold backups - have re-covered images from the backup also without issue.
 
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JohnSavid said:
hi all..been following the forums for a while though this is my first post :)

i used to use acronis true image for most of my backup also...though that's really only useful when the whole PC dies...i found a program called oopsbackup that allows you to go through past versions of a file...which is ideal for me since i end up editing many photos that i take so it allows me to go back and 'undo' those edits so to speak... apple users have a program called Time Machine, this is the same thing though for windows...

website is http://www.altaro.com

Here's a website that might help too..it's a review of backup software for Win 7
http://www.top-windows-tutorials.com/file-backup-software.html

hth
best regards
John
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Firstly, welcome aboard, John. :clap:

I use a Mac and I back my images onto four external drives.

Two are Aperture vaults (one of which is kept off site) I then use Superduper on another drive and a fourth drive has two partitions, one of which has a TimeMachine backup and the other a Carbon Copy Cloner backup.
 
I'm also running Acronis True Image 2010 on Windows 7 64 bit and onto 3 separate external drives with no problems whatsoever. In fact, I find it much more reliable than previous versions of Acronis.
 
I've been using Acronis True Image 2009 on Win 7 64 bit without any problems
 
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