Re: Backup complete PC with Acronis Home

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BACKUP
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Install to your root drive 'C' and backup through windows onto a separate
USB drive or internal SATA drive.

RESTORE
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Acronis 10 was notorious for not booting from the CD with certain
configurations of hardware. If you get a working GUI on boot then fine,
restore from that but it does take its time. With my Acronis 10 booting into
its linux like shell it normally takes 5 times longer to restore than to
back-up although the result is perfect. A much better solution I have found
is to use the BartPe option. The plugin was on the 10 version of the Acronis
disc and may be included on the version 11. You really do need to do some
home work to get it working but the restore difference is astounding
compared to the original product. Just over 100GB per hour restore speed
from a USB 2.0 external drive. If you want to have a try then go for "The
Ultimate BootDisc for Windows" and search the forums for advice and plugins.
Note: You will need a retail copy of WinXp Pro SP1 to create the working
disc but I'm sure that you will be able to find one.............. Once a
disc is created, boot into the shell and restore from there.....



"Paul Montgomery" <i.m.nonnymous@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:fd5b7f06-2109-49fc-9314-1370f76a49e2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
On Aug 11, 1:35 am, "Carl" <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
RE: 1. You install True Image on whichever internal hard drive you
like. Once
you've installed the program, create the True Image Bootable media disk
from within the program.

2. Boot the computer with the Bootable disk you created and go into True
Image Full. Back up your data by imaging it and store the image on an
external hard drive. If you need to restore your computer, you will boot
with the Bootable disk and go into True Image Full and choose "Restore".

3. Yes, you can do incremental backups with True Image.

All of this is covered on Acronis's website and in the program's help. It
is
not a Windows issue.

Thanks very much, Acronis True Image is due to arrive for me today, you
just
saved me a lot of reading!

Carl: you don't have to use the bootable disc... and if you bought the
boxed version, you don't even have to make a disk. The one you get in
the box is bootable.

Use that disc only if you have to. Otherwise run all of TI's stuff
right from within Windows. If it needs to do a reboot, it will let
you know.


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