Issue with Acronis True Image (Page 2): you won’t regret it. I got so tired of dealing with Acronis. I believe it’s just to bloated and because of that, it doesn’t function right.

insaneo Loc: Byram, ms.

grichie5 wrote:

Thanks. I'm thinking seriously about a change to Macrium.

you won’t regret it. I got so tired of dealing with Acronis. I believe it’s just to bloated and because of that, it doesn’t function right. Macrium will do a full backup on my computer at 1.3gb/s. Real quick. The slowness of Acronis plus it’s problems caused me to switch

CaptainPhoto

I'm glad you posted this. I have been using Acronis for some time now. My computer guys recommended it. I strictly use it to back up my C drive operating system. I did receive an email from Acronis to try the beta version. Now I'm glad I didn't take them up on it.

CaptainPhoto

I'm glad you posted this. I have been using Acronis for some time now. My computer guys recommended it. I strictly use it to back up my C drive operating system. I did receive an email from Acronis to try the beta version. Now I'm glad I didn't take them up on it.

jefflane

I use Acronis only for cloning boot disks for safety in case of disaster to a working drive. I have never had a problem with it, especially as I always boot off the clone before putting it in storage. For backup, I use Fastcopy (freeware) and it works great. Among other options, most of which I don't use, it does a differential backup Also I can set it to back up three different large volumes by opening it three times and they will run consecutively.

insaneo Loc: Byram, ms.

jefflane wrote:

I use Acronis only for cloning boot disks for safety in case of disaster to a working drive. I have never had a problem with it, especially as I always boot off the clone before putting it in storage. For backup, I use Fastcopy (freeware) and it works great. Among other options, most of which I don't use, it does a differential backup Also I can set it to back up three different large volumes by opening it three times and they will run consecutively.

I usually do a full backup of C:\ then 1 differential backup of D:\ drive. Placed on 2 external drives

insaneo Loc: Byram, ms.

insaneo wrote:

I usually do a full backup of C:\ then 1 differential backup of D:\ drive. Placed on 2 external drives

D is music, videos and photos. Only a full backup of C, then only 1 differential backup of D

insaneo Loc: Byram, ms.

insaneo wrote:

D is music, videos and photos. Only a full backup of C, then only 1 differential backup of D

plus I only backup once a month on the 16th. I don’t schedule backups

pego101

I stopped using it. Macrium is much much better

rck281 Loc: Overland Park, KS

If you read Maximum PC, the continually recommend Macrium Reflect. I also had a problem with Acronis when attempting to do a restore on a crashed disk.

AirWalter Loc: Tipp City, Ohio

grichie5 wrote:

I have used Acronis Disk Imaging software for many... (show quote)

BETA versions are not ready for prime time, they still have bugs in them. That's why you never want to dump a working version of a program for a BETA version. Wait until they get the bugs out, and it is ready for prime time. A lot of companies try to get people to try these versions so that they can do the work of finding the bugs for the company. Nice of them, huh?

11bravo

grichie5 wrote:

Thanks for the response. I did download and try Macrium Reflect 7, free edition. It was fairly easy to use and make my first backup. Have you had occasion to try a restore with Macrium. If so, what was your experience.
After using and suffering with Acronis for many years, to switch now almost feels like an act of infidelity, but may be interesting to try.

I started with Norton Ghost decades ago. Then moved to Acronis for a number of years/versions, usually upgrading to the current year's version. The last was 2013 when a number of automatic backups failed with some obtuse reason.

Then tried Macrium Reflect and never looked back. I have the paid package for 4 of my computers, and use the freeware version on a couple of others I have plus several I support for family/friends. I've only had to do a complete restore several times (when my fingering of configurations resulted in degrades - just easier to restore than try and back all out). But I've used it a number of times to clone drives, mainly HDD OS's to SSD's, or sometimes an SSD to a larger SSD. Never had a problem. I also like that their "minor" patches just install and don't require a reboot. Started out with v5 freeware, paid for v6, and paid for v7. When upgrading to a new major versions, discounts are offered. Very satisfied customer.

pego101

Macrium Reflect is so superior there is no reason to compare.
Just finished my monthly clone of my main 2 TB ssd.
Takes 45 minutes.

insaneo Loc: Byram, ms.

11bravo wrote:

I started with Norton Ghost decades ago. Then mov... (show quote)

I changed my hhd to a ssd. Used an image in macrium with no problem

chrissybabe Loc: New Zealand

grichie5 wrote:

Thanks for the response. I did download and try Macrium Reflect 7, free edition. It was fairly easy to use and make my first backup. Have you had occasion to try a restore with Macrium. If so, what was your experience.
After using and suffering with Acronis for many years, to switch now almost feels like an act of infidelity, but may be interesting to try.

I have had to restore a cloned image several times using Macrium. Had a few small problems on one or two restores but it has always worked eventually. My main use is for updating C: drives to larger or SSD versions and these have gone well. I have used it the odd time to recover from a motherboard replacement but like all image creators you can have major problems with drivers. So as a result I never let my C: drive get too complicated so that a rebuild is not too much of a time consuming process. It is probably good to have a full rebuild every few years with Win 10.
The time to recover from a motherboard replacement should never be underestimated. If you want your previously running system back the way it was (with all your settings and tweaks in place and operating) it can take a good weeks work. Anybody who gets it back, say in only a day, has not got back what they had.

flashdaddy Loc: Berlin PA

I had used Acronis for the last 5 years and it seems every time they changed interface it was worse, so I finally got rid of it.

I've started using Ashampoo Backup Pro 14 which so far seems OK, but it saves the files as zip files which is a little strange. I ran my last backup of approx 1.6TB on two 1TB drives and it took 4 hours. On this, I also didn't back up my E: drive which is a partition of part of my second 1TB drive that I use as a scratch disk.

My backup also did not include my C: drive (500 SSD) which I clone onto the free version of Macrium every 2-3 months. The thing I didn't care for with Macrium is I had to do 3 separate backups to get everything backed up and making 3 trips back and forth to the studio was a pain. With the Ashampoo, I get an email when it is done.

Tell me more about the paid version of Macrium as I may want to make the change. I back up weekly to two 2TB hard drives in a dock that I switch between every other week.