Comments on: Imaging software for system backup http://tips.vlaurie.com/2006/04/imaging-software-for-system-backup/ News, commentary and tips for safer and easier computing Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:48:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Vic http://tips.vlaurie.com/2006/04/imaging-software-for-system-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Vic Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:32:02 +0000 http://tips.vlaurie.com/?p=305#comment-38 Thanks, Joel, for that helpful input. Thanks, Joel, for that helpful input.

]]> By: joelmay http://tips.vlaurie.com/2006/04/imaging-software-for-system-backup/comment-page-1/#comment-37 joelmay Fri, 28 Apr 2006 17:36:00 +0000 http://tips.vlaurie.com/?p=305#comment-37 I have used Acronis True Image (version 8.0) for more than a year. I use its scheduling feature to image my data partition nightly and my OS and program partitions weekly. The former is roughly 4.5GB and True Image takes approximately 12 minutes to create the image. The latter is larger (~7GB) and the image creation process takes 18 or 19 minutes. I have had two occasions to restore a partition using True Image. On both occasions the boot disk worked perfectly (and booted MUCH faster than the old PowerQuest Drive Image 7.0 that I used previously). Frankly, I have not tried Ghost (I don't want anything Symantec on my system), but I am totally satisfied with True Image. I have used Acronis True Image (version 8.0) for more than a year. I use its scheduling feature to image my data partition nightly and my OS and program partitions weekly. The former is roughly 4.5GB and True Image takes approximately 12 minutes to create the image. The latter is larger (~7GB) and the image creation process takes 18 or 19 minutes.

I have had two occasions to restore a partition using True Image. On both occasions the boot disk worked perfectly (and booted MUCH faster than the old PowerQuest Drive Image 7.0 that I used previously).

Frankly, I have not tried Ghost (I don’t want anything Symantec on my system), but I am totally satisfied with True Image.

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