Macrium vs Acronis: advice, please

On Thu, 19 May 2016 07:30:15 -0400, Howard wrote:
I have used Acronis and it has gotten progressivly worse since 2014.
The 2016 version is awful.


Then it must be truly terrible. I had had Acronis on my 2005 XP
machine, and liked it. It worked well for me, and the interface made
sense.

Then in 2010 I bought a Windows 7 machine, and paid for the new
Acronis version. The user interface sucked badly, and when I had a HD
crash Acronis could not restore my drive in bootable form. (It did
restore my C drive, but the drive was not bootable.) I posted about
that here at the time. I ended up having to do a Windows repair using
a friend's Windows install disk.

I can't even imagine how they could make the interface worse, and I
don't want to find out.

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Stan Brown wrote:
On Thu, 19 May 2016 07:30:15 -0400, Howard wrote:
I have used Acronis and it has gotten progressivly worse since 2014.
The 2016 version is awful.


Then it must be truly terrible. I had had Acronis on my 2005 XP
machine, and liked it. It worked well for me, and the interface made
sense.

Then in 2010 I bought a Windows 7 machine, and paid for the new
Acronis version. The user interface sucked badly, and when I had a HD
crash Acronis could not restore my drive in bootable form. (It did
restore my C drive, but the drive was not bootable.) I posted about
that here at the time. I ended up having to do a Windows repair using
a friend's Windows install disk.

I can't even imagine how they could make the interface worse, and I
don't want to find out.

Same with Norton Ghost. I loved the bootable DOS version. Although,
Old Symantec Ghost was good too, but I don't know if it sucks now? I
know Symantec ended Norton Ghost ended a few years ago. IIRC, it
still works fine for 64-bit Windows on old computers?
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Stan Brown wrote:
On Thu, 19 May 2016 07:30:15 -0400, Howard wrote:
I have used Acronis and it has gotten progressivly worse since 2014.
The 2016 version is awful.


Then it must be truly terrible. I had had Acronis on my 2005 XP
machine, and liked it. It worked well for me, and the interface made
sense.

Then in 2010 I bought a Windows 7 machine, and paid for the new
Acronis version. The user interface sucked badly, and when I had a HD
crash Acronis could not restore my drive in bootable form. (It did
restore my C drive, but the drive was not bootable.) I posted about
that here at the time. I ended up having to do a Windows repair using
a friend's Windows install disk.

I can't even imagine how they could make the interface worse, and I
don't want to find out.

Same with Norton Ghost. I loved the bootable DOS version. Although,
Old Symantec Ghost was good too, but I don't know if it sucks now? I
know Symantec ended Norton Ghost ended a few years ago. IIRC, it
still works fine for 64-bit Windows on old computers?

Symantec bought PowerQuest. And changes to Ghost happened soon after.
It's not the same Ghost, after that happened. For one thing, booting
to DOS was no longer needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(software)

"On August 2, 2004, Norton Ghost 9.0 was released as a new consumer
version of Ghost, which is based on PowerQuest's Drive Image version 7,
and provides Live imaging of a Windows system.

Version 14.0 uses Volume Snapshot Service (VSS) to make backups
"

And that brings it up to the same class as Acronis, Macrium, and
many others. No more rebooting to DOS to image C: . VSS "freezes"
a snapshot of the partition, so you can back it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Copy

If a tool like Macrium finds VSS is broken, it can attempt
to use pssnap instead. I don't really know whether the old
Ghost bothered with this stuff or not.

http://support.macrium.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=398

Paul