OK to Install Acronis True Image 2013 on my DAW Workstation?

i got the 2011 and it's all good ....

I'm another Acronis user although it's 2011 on my DAW. I have 2012 but only on my laptop. No particular reason other than I'm only paying for one 2012 license.

I own Acronis 2011, but never even loaded it on my system. It installs too much bloatware and things you'll never use in a million years, and some things you should be ashamed of yourself for even thinking of trying to use!

It comes with two versions ... a Windows version and an emergency boot disc version that has a weird DOS like menu that you can use a mouse with. That's what I use.

I made the emergency boot disc, and created an image using it's utility and saved the image directly to an external USB drive, so I never even had to install the Windows version.

I've never trusted images of Windows that were made while Windows was running ...

If your trying to save some money and find some place to get the 2011 version, make sure you download the latest update for it. Upon release there was a bug that didn't allow 2011 to see external USB drives. You have to log in to your account and download the latest update for 2011 to be able to see external USB HDD's and Thumb drives. I'm sure it's fixed in the 2013 version though, I would think ...

Good luck! Acronis is a great program. I was reading that Windows 8 users have to upgrade to 2013 ... iirc. Another thing to consider.

I've just installed 2013 as a FREE upgrade from 2012 (2 licences)

I haven't used 2013 yet but had no issues with any previous version

you have 2 bootware that you can deactivate ...super easy ...jus "Msconfig" it ;)

  You can also get these hardware boxes now for cheap that can have 2 drives in them, connect it via esata and stick 2 identical drive in there, one is your main drive, the other just an empty identical drive, then just hit the clone button and it clones one drive to the other, don't even need to have the machine on. 

You can also get these hardware boxes now for cheap that can have 2 drives in them, connect it via esata and stick 2 identical drive in there, one is your main drive, the other just an empty identical drive, then just hit the clone button and it clones one drive to the other, don't even need to have the machine on. 

The latest generation of HD docking stations (USB3 and eSATA) have the ability to clone a HD.
Many eSATA controllers are SATA-II.  If you have a good USB3 controller, you can get a USB3 HD docking station that holds two drives... and can run in RAID-0.  Put a pair of fast 1TB HDs in it... and that'll net you 260+MB/Sec.

Zo


Kenneth by the way do you a rack mounted hdd solution ? 

Not seen any but haven't been looking much, there's some but they are for larger IT stuff and pretty expensive.

I have a closet with ventilation where I keep my satelite pc's and external drives so it doesn't need to be tidy, just shut the door, out of sight out of mind :D

Here is that script if anyone want it, you will need to download md5deep and make some path and text changes in the script for your machine.

I also mod the registry to provide a right-click property for the drives:

Regedit:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell\MD5 Hash Drive\command]
@="runas /profile /user:Administrator \"cmd.exe /k \\\"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\md5deep\\md5-hash-drive.bat\\\" %1"


md5-hash-drive.bat:


:: md5-hash-drive.bat <drive>
:: 2011 Sep 08 - Jim Hurley


:: Make hash table database of all files in drive
:: Input - drive (ie C:)
:: Output - file created  %MD5_DB_LOC%\<drive letter>-Drive-<date time>.md5
::          then a symlink is made to this file called <drive-letter>.md5 (i.e., without the time)
:: Errors to file  %MD5_DB_LOC%\<drive letter>-Drive-md5deep-errors.txt
::
:: Note: configure your date and time format ('Region Setting' control panel) for yyyy-mm-dd format or change the date time function below
:: In a shell context menu this can run as administrator if 'Secondary Logon' service is running
::
@echo off


rem set the location and file owner
set MD5_DB_LOC=J:\MD5
set HASH_DRIVE_LETTER=%MD5_DB_LOC:~0,1%
set OWNER=Jim


::Get the date
FOR /f "tokens=1 " %%G IN ('echo %date%') DO SET _ymd=%%G
:: Get the time
FOR /f "tokens=1-4 delims=:. " %%G in ('echo %time%') do call :s_setvar %%G-%%H-%%I-%%J
goto :last


:s_setvar
SET _mstime=%10
goto :eof


:last


if [%1]==[] goto :syntax
:: check for drive ':'
set _param=%1
if [%_param:~1,1%] neq [:] goto :syntax


set _drive=%~d1
set _drive_letter=%_drive:~0,1%
if [%_drive_letter%]==[] goto :syntax
set _filename=%_drive_letter%-Drive-%_ymd%@%_mstime%.md5
set _hash_file=%TEMP%\%_filename%
set _target=%MD5_DB_LOC%\%_filename%
set _error=%TEMP%\%_drive_letter%-Drive-md5deep-errors.txt
set _symlink=%_drive_letter%-Drive.md5


:: does drive exist?
pushd %_drive_letter%:\
if errorlevel 1 goto :eof
%_drive_letter%:


echo Making hash table database for Drive=%_drive_letter%: in %_hash_file%
:: recursive (-r) hash of all files in drive with asterisk (-k) for md5summer (-l = relative path)
md5deep64.exe -r -l -k . > %_hash_file% 2>%_error%


rem change directory to hash database location
cd %MD5_DB_LOC%
%HASH_DRIVE_LETTER%:


:: move hash file to database location
move %_hash_file% %MD5_DB_LOC% 1>nul


rem change ownership
icacls %_target% /setowner %OWNER% 1>nul


rem make new symlink in generic form <drive letter>-Drive.md5;no date or time reference.
if exist %_symlink% del /F /A:L %_symlink%
mklink %_symlink% %_target% 1>nul


echo New hash table database made for Drive %_drive_letter%:
echo -----------------------------------------
echo.
echo This is a list of the drive database symlinks:
dir /N /a:l /b /O:N /P %MD5_DB_LOC%\*.md5 | more
echo This is a list of the database files (you may wish to delete old ones):
dir /N /a:-l /b /O:N /P %MD5_DB_LOC%\*.md5 | more
echo Error report listing unhashed files (permissions, system files, etc.):
pause
more %_error%
popd
goto :eof


:syntax
echo Syntax:
echo md5-hash-drive [drive]
echo e.g., md5-hash-drive c:
goto :eof


:eof

I combined all my MD5Deep programming resources and documents in one spot.
Download and extract the zip file then read the ReadMe.txt file for instructions on usage.

You can search for md5deep and download it, it is free and very good to have.

MD5 Stuff
Sorry, I didn't mean to hijack this thread, but I think these tools are really useful.

I too have Acronis True Image 2013 installed with no issues.  

fireberd


I have True Image 2013 installed.  It is not interferring with Sonar (or anything else).   I don't have the try and decide or other options enabled.  I just use the basic full hard drive backups (no incremental).