Doyle Thomas Loc: Vancouver Washington ~ USA

the data drive that holds all my Photographs recently failed. i replaced the drive and went to True Image 15 to restore and although the files were there and appered to be intact the restore failed. i decided to upgrade to the latest version of TI (ie cyber protect) and try that. to install it i had to delete TI15 and could not find any means to recover from the TI files. i went to my off site backup drive and took 38 hours to copy from drive to drive but not fully current. it's Sunday now, tomorrow i will call Acronus for a solution.

Rongnongno Loc: FL

Acronus or acronis?

Laramie Loc: Tempe

I used Acronius for a while, and it worked to backup my secondary drive. But every update required a reconfiguration of backup settings, so I canceled my account. Now I robocopy /mir my secondary drive, and I'm happy.

Doyle Thomas Loc: Vancouver Washington ~ USA

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riderz49

I used TrueImage for several years until I became frustrated with after several failed backups. I switched to Macrium Reflect and SyncBack and have had no problems.

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

I have used Macrium Reflect for many years. I used to use Acronis until later updates stopped restoring from an earlier image file which is an absolutely crazy 'feature' !

traderjohn Loc: New York City

You know what he meant. Give it a rest.

bobbydvideo

I have used Acronis for years without problems.

47greyfox Loc: on the edge of the Colorado front range

I’m slow to catch on. My W10 desktop and W11 laptop both use the W7 image backup system.

r1ch Loc: Colorado

I have used macrium reflect for many years as well. One of the advantages of Macrium is that even if the back drive becomes corrupt, chances are you can still mount the backup and see all the files and move them off. Only the files that are corrupted would not move off. So if you had a failure of you computer drive and the backup drive had some corruption, you might get most or all of your files back. Great product.

Oh and it is free

Dwiggy Loc: Dunedin, FL

Start an account with Back Blaze. One of the best backups for off site back up. Yes it has a price attached but is hardly expensive...it is worth the worry.

r1ch Loc: Colorado

Then you run into the problem the original poster ran into. If you have a failure and if you have huge amounts of data. Lets say you have 20gb of images. They have to be sent across network. Many internet service providers have 5 or 10 mb per second down upload speed, it will take forever to upload that data. If you don't live in a city, your down download speed is 10 megabits or maybe 50. That will take forever and most ISPs have a 1tb limit. If you watch a lot of video, you maybe bumping up against that limit. Then you have to restore.

Local backup to a WD full size external drive over usb 3 is 150 to 200 megaBYTES per second (not bits which is more than 8 times slower) and you don't pay a monthly fee. An 8tb WD elements drive has been seen on sale for less than 100 bucks. Faster, cheaper, more secure. Buy a second drive and store it in your safety deposit box.

There are upsides and downsides to every method but consider this.

You computer hard drive goes south. How do you install Back Blaze on a computer that has no OS? If backblaze has software to do that, how do you do it, your computer cannot connect to the internet. You have to get a usb drive, download it from the library or your friends computer and hope you can get it to install your your broken computer.

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

My thoughts, exactly. If you have any consequential amount of backup, it takes forever and a day to make the transfer - and the Internet better stay up while you're doing it. And, as you say, if the OS is part of what's gone south, that becomes another problem to have planned for. This is not to say, of course, that this is a problem you would be happy to see under any circumstance! ---- How about - keeping a working copy of the OS on one of your backup drives???, then just switch it in for the defunct OS drive. I think I should do that!

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

Fredrick Loc: Former NYC, now San Francisco Bay Area

I use Backblaze. They will overnight you a drive with all your data on it for free, as long as you mail the drive back to them.

11bravo

I started with Norton Ghost, moved to Acronis, then, after several backup failures and several backups being incompatible with newer version, moved to Macrium Reflect and haven't looked back.