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Yuki,
Did you have the opportunity to actually use Acronis True
Image to restore your complete system (bare metal restore)
onto the raid1 drive you use?
The reason for my question is that I was using Norton Ghost
and felt secure until I needed to restore my system from an
image I created (from a raid1 HD). It failed to restore to
the same raid1 drive but if I disabled the raid everything
functioned ok. I had to start reinstalling windows from
scratch in order to keep my raid configuration ;(
Also, does Acronis True Image work with a backup destination
that is a network drive? (this would apply to a backup of a
laptop).
--
Joseph Biran
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-----Original Message-----
From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Behalf Of Yuki Taga
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 4:04 PM
To: Lester Vanhoff
Subject: Acronis True Image Re: [amibroker] Re: Re: Curing
AmiBroker slowdowns with a system restore
Lester, on what do you base your claim that USB drives are
any less reliable than others? I've got a Buffalo twin 1-TB
in a RAID1 configuration, and I've never had a hint of any
problem. And a six-year-old Buffalo 120 GB USB is still in
perfect operating condition, other than the fact that I
cannot use it for an entire system backup anymore, because
of the size. (Thank you, 15 megabyte RAW files.)
Also, a tip for something I *finally* solved in conjunction
with Acronis and my backup configuration. For a long time
with this RAID setup, I was getting ftdisk or disk errors in
the System log, for about 1 to 2 hours after a nightly
backup was completed. Then the errors would stop (about 5
am in the morning). I could not solve it until I finally
looked at each and every item in Tools > Options > Default
Backup Options > Additional Settings. Unchecked by default,
is a line item: "Dismount media after backup is finished".
I checked that, and from that moment on I never had another
ftdisk or disk error in the System log. I should add here
that the errors did not mean anything -- the data was fine.
Oddly enough, as far as Windows is concerned, the USB drives
are still mounted in the morning. So the "dismount" must be
Acronis from the drives, rather than the drives from
Windows. But I think Acronis ought to fix this so that it
doesn't spit out dozens upon dozens of yellow triangles in
the log. (Why the default would be not to dismount prior to
program close, I cannot imagine.) They could overhaul that
interface, too. The sub windows (such as the one you get to
above) are much too small and don't stay sized, and resizing
them has an clunky feel about it. When I "drill down", I
like to see where I've been, as well as where I am and where
I'm going. ^_^
Excellent program however. I've accomplished numerous
restores and never had a bit or a byte out of place to my
knowledge. That's what we pay for: peace of mind.
I'll add that in your "the way it works" explanation, maybe
you forgot to say that one has a choice, too, of either
restoring entire partitions, or just restoring files or
folders. And in the later case it's sometimes just as easy,
or even easier, to simply mount the image and do a manual
copy across, than to sort through all the dialog options for
a restore.
BTW, I've always had an uneasy feeling about the Secure Zone
feature of Acronis. To me, that just adds one more layer of
complexity between a restore and the data. (If, for any
reason, TI cannot solve the Secure Zone -- that it exists on
the drive -- then I cannot see how it can possibly restore
the data that resides there, nor can I see how one could use
the OS to make that data visible to the
program.) So I never used it and still don't. But TI has
never failed to restore (never had an unreadable backup), so
I have no particular reason to think it might fail to
decipher the Secure Zone.
I just like to keep things as simple as possible.
Finally, I never bother to verify my images after writing
them anymore. First, I've never had an image that did not
verify, and second, according to posters on Acronis forums,
a verified image still is no guarantee that the image can be
restored or mounted. So I don't bother with verifying now.
(The verify process only verifies that *all* data on the
image can be read; it does *not* compare data on the image
with source data.)
Yuki
Sunday, January 4, 2009, 6:24:26 AM, you wrote:
>> I can take a product like this and save my complete hard
drive on say
>> a usb hard drive and it will automaticly backup the
complete hard
>> drive when ever I want it to do it.
LV> 1) The backup can be stored on your disk, in the secure
partition
LV> which is not visible to Windows XP / Vista. On the
screenshot below
LV> it is shown as "Logical Disk - Unknown (BC) and has no
drive letter:
LV>
http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/7749/01032009160435kv5.pn
g
LV> 2) Another method is to store the backup on an external
hard drive.
LV> USB drive is not a good idea because they are not very
reliable.
>> Then if I have hard drive problems, I can put the copy
that is on the
>> [external] hard drive on my machine hard drive and it
will be just
>> like it was, with all programs and files the same as the
last backup?
LV> That's right. The backup copy has it's own mini-OS (it
doesn't need
LV> Windows). You boot into the external drive (or into the
secure
LV> partition) and follow the prompts.
LV> My Windows XP takes about 8 GB of disk space and
restoring all this
LV> from Acronis secure partition takes about 4 minutes.
>> This type of software is something everyone should have.
LV> Absolutely correct.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Lester Vanhoff
>>
>> Microsoft's System Restore is very unreliable. It's
just dumb luck
>> that it worked for you. Consider getting a disk imaging
application
>> and do the disk image backup every day. One of the best
programs is
>> Acronis True Image, I've been using it for years. The
way it works,
>> when you get into a problem, it wipes out (formats) the
whole disk
>> (or selected partitions), including your operating
system, and then
>> restores everything from the backup image.
>>
>>
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/
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