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Re: Is this backup software any good?
2015/07/31 14:53:15
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Why not ask Scott at ADK what he will be shipping with new machines?
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clintmartin
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Re: Is this backup software any good?
2015/07/31 14:58:02
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That's probably a good idea.
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clintmartin
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Re: Is this backup software any good?
2015/07/31 16:03:25
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ADK is shipping Paragon 15. $39.99
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Re: Is this backup software any good?
2015/08/01 10:41:52
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I'm pretty sure that's the one that saved me a few months back on a tricky SSD upgrade on one of those micro dell towers with only two SATA plugs. Original plan was to reuse the Kinston upgrade kit that I used for my lappy upgrade, which was only a USB drive enclosure and a bootable only version of Acronis. Things went wrong and I never did get that drive enclosure to work a second time so I had to search the web for a solution since I would not have access to the CD rom while the two drives were taking up the SATA ports. I tried the demos of Acronis and Paragon to find they no longer offer that first clone for free. I ran into that Todo and was able to get my clone done for $0. Only downside was I could only find one of those installer packages filled with crapware you wouldn't want on a production machine. There were several other products to decline before getting to the actual installer. No worries though a careful install and all was well with that upgrade. Whenever my back-up software is no longer supported, I may get their full version.
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Re: Is this backup software any good?
2015/08/01 18:12:13
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clintmartin
http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/free-backup-software.htm
I need to get a updated package since my old Paragon 11 isn't Windows 10 approved.
I have used the todo one before, never had to use it to recover from though, so although the creating a backup part seemed to work fine, I have no idea how it goes actually restoring a back up. I did read somewhere recently that with the latest freebie, when it comes time to restore, you are basically blocked from restoring unless you upgrade to the paid version, something along those lines. Might be worth looking into before you grab it if you are going that way. If I can find where I read it I will post the link back here. I have been looking for a backup solution, but would prefer one that works outside of windows, like clonezilla, where you boot to a disk and do everything, creating the back up and all without Windows being loaded . . . but . . . So I just downloaded a couple demo's and might go for the Acronis True Image 5 license deal. Will check out Paragon first though.
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jih64
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Re: Is this backup software any good?
2015/08/01 19:54:17
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This was it I think I have decided to go with Acronis True Image 2015, just gave Paragon demo a whirl, and after 5 to 10 minutes of ' preparing' to do the backup, through some error about vss and bailed out. Acronis completed the task without fuss or incident, but whether or not it actually succeed and will actually restore of course is unknown . . . don't really want to test it out, but might give it a try on one of my other machines and swap out the drive and see, just don't have the time, I guess with this stuff, they all require a leap of faith, hoping it will work when needed 
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Re: Is this backup software any good?
2015/08/03 00:59:42
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I used to use Acronis and currently use Easus ToDO. Works fine. I always trip up on the difference between the types of backup, but I basically clone my C drive and do file backups on the other drives. I've successfully recovered files from the backups during emergency failures so "yay!" to that.
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Re: Is this backup software any good?
2015/08/03 05:22:01
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jih64
This was it I think
Acronis completed the task without fuss or incident, but whether or not it actually succeed and will actually restore of course is unknown . . . don't really want to test it out, but might give it a try on one of my other machines and swap out the drive and see, just don't have the time, I guess with this stuff, they all require a leap of faith, hoping it will work when needed
Actually, the only way to truly test that your image will restore correctly is to replace the drive whose image you want to restore in the same computer and location with an equal or larger capacity test drive, and do the restore start to finish on that test drive. If that is not a major pain, I do not know what is, but anything else is just, as you say, a leap of faith. If you are going to do that every time you make an image, you are going to be spending a lot of time testing. You can test the integrity of the image file using the built in integrity checker, but that does not guarantee a successful restore. https://www.infopackets.com/news/9588/how-test-restore-acronis-true-image-backup
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jih64
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Re: Is this backup software any good?
2015/08/03 05:57:18
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Yes, I realize all this 
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Re: Is this backup software any good?
2015/08/07 09:30:29
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Easus Todo is very good. Much easier to set up weekly backups than Acronis or Storagecraft. I foolishly tried to use Clean Audio Files lately and lost ALL of my Sonar work files. Easus got it back for me.
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