Acronis True Image 2015

Anyone use this? I just got a copy on that "free after the rebate"
deal and I am not impressed yet.
I have a 150g C: drive with 38g used and when I started the backup
sequence the program indicated the backup would be 203g. WTF?
Is this just a glitch or does this program carry a 500% overhead?
If so it was worth less than the stamp I needed to get the rebate.

wrote:
Anyone use this? I just got a copy on that "free after the rebate"
deal and I am not impressed yet.
I have a 150g C: drive with 38g used and when I started the backup
sequence the program indicated the backup would be 203g. WTF?
Is this just a glitch or does this program carry a 500% overhead?
If so it was worth less than the stamp I needed to get the rebate.

I use it (but some older versions), and it works fine. What you wrote above
doesn't seem right, but I'm also not sure if you are making an *image
backup* of the C: partition, or something else. The image backups are
smaller than the actual data used (due to some compression), and NOT larger,
so no, it doesn't make sense.

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:30:23 -0700, "Bill in Co"
wrote:

wrote:
Anyone use this? I just got a copy on that "free after the rebate"
deal and I am not impressed yet.
I have a 150g C: drive with 38g used and when I started the backup
sequence the program indicated the backup would be 203g. WTF?
Is this just a glitch or does this program carry a 500% overhead?
If so it was worth less than the stamp I needed to get the rebate.

I use it (but some older versions), and it works fine. What you wrote above
doesn't seem right, but I'm also not sure if you are making an *image
backup* of the C: partition, or something else. The image backups are
smaller than the actual data used (due to some compression), and NOT larger,
so no, it doesn't make sense.


It didn't make sense to me either.

[Default] On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 06:39:55 -0500, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general wrote:

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:30:23 -0700, "Bill in Co"
wrote:

wrote:
Anyone use this? I just got a copy on that "free after the rebate"
deal and I am not impressed yet.
I have a 150g C: drive with 38g used and when I started the backup
sequence the program indicated the backup would be 203g. WTF?

So did you let the backup run? Did it actually use 203g? Maybe it
just miscalculated the 203 but everything else was fine?

I have ACTI Home, intended for installing XP backup on different
hardware, but after 2 years, still haven't run it yet. Maybe next
week. ;-) So no first hand experience.

Is this just a glitch or does this program carry a 500% overhead?
If so it was worth less than the stamp I needed to get the rebate.

I use it (but some older versions), and it works fine. What you wrote above
doesn't seem right, but I'm also not sure if you are making an *image
backup* of the C: partition, or something else. The image backups are
smaller than the actual data used (due to some compression), and NOT larger,
so no, it doesn't make sense.


It didn't make sense to me either.

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 10:32:34 -0500, Micky
wrote:

[Default] On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 06:39:55 -0500, in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general wrote:

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:30:23 -0700, "Bill in Co"
wrote:

wrote:
Anyone use this? I just got a copy on that "free after the rebate"
deal and I am not impressed yet.
I have a 150g C: drive with 38g used and when I started the backup
sequence the program indicated the backup would be 203g. WTF?

So did you let the backup run? Did it actually use 203g? Maybe it
just miscalculated the 203 but everything else was fine?

I have ACTI Home, intended for installing XP backup on different
hardware, but after 2 years, still haven't run it yet. Maybe next
week. ;-) So no first hand experience.

Is this just a glitch or does this program carry a 500% overhead?
If so it was worth less than the stamp I needed to get the rebate.

I use it (but some older versions), and it works fine. What you wrote above
doesn't seem right, but I'm also not sure if you are making an *image
backup* of the C: partition, or something else. The image backups are
smaller than the actual data used (due to some compression), and NOT larger,
so no, it doesn't make sense.


It didn't make sense to me either.

I was going to write it out to a 64gb stick and it wouldn't even
start.

gfretwell wrote:

Anyone use this? I just got a copy on that "free after the rebate"
deal and I am not impressed yet. I have a 150g C: drive with 38g used
and when I started the backup sequence the program indicated the
backup would be 203g.

You have a 150GB C: drive. That is a drive designation only which is
usually just a partition (unless you are spanning or do other RAID
stuff). Specifying a drive does NOT say what is the total size of the
HDD or SDD. Maybe you did a whole disk backup instead of selecting just
a partition (for drive C. Make sure you were ONLY selecting a
*partition* to save in an image backup if that is all you want to
include in the backup image.

And where was the "free after rebate" offer? Was it some offer included
to bloat the software package included with some pre-built computer?
I've seen a $25 rebate for ATI which reduced the price to $24.99 but
that isn't free.

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 14:29:15 -0600, VanguardLH wrote:

gfretwell wrote:

Anyone use this? I just got a copy on that "free after the rebate"
deal and I am not impressed yet. I have a 150g C: drive with 38g used
and when I started the backup sequence the program indicated the
backup would be 203g.

You have a 150GB C: drive. That is a drive designation only which is
usually just a partition (unless you are spanning or do other RAID
stuff). Specifying a drive does NOT say what is the total size of the
HDD or SDD. Maybe you did a whole disk backup instead of selecting just
a partition (for drive C. Make sure you were ONLY selecting a
*partition* to save in an image backup if that is all you want to
include in the backup image.


No this is a discrete drive. It was a 40g and I imaged it to a 150
when the 40 was getting flaky. It is still only 38g of data.

And where was the "free after rebate" offer? Was it some offer included
to bloat the software package included with some pre-built computer?
I've seen a $25 rebate for ATI which reduced the price to $24.99 but
that isn't free.

Newegg had it for $25 with a $25 rebate on a promotion (24.99 off).
Not sure if it is still there. It says $49.95 now but I don't remember
the promo code.

On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 00:30:23 -0700, "Bill in Co"
wrote:

wrote:
Anyone use this? I just got a copy on that "free after the rebate"
deal and I am not impressed yet.
I have a 150g C: drive with 38g used and when I started the backup
sequence the program indicated the backup would be 203g. WTF?
Is this just a glitch or does this program carry a 500% overhead?
If so it was worth less than the stamp I needed to get the rebate.

I use it (but some older versions), and it works fine. What you wrote above
doesn't seem right, but I'm also not sure if you are making an *image
backup* of the C: partition, or something else. The image backups are
smaller than the actual data used (due to some compression), and NOT larger,
so no, it doesn't make sense.


I figured it out. This thing defaults to backing up the whole system
or something and even though I thought I had pointed it at just the
C:drive, it was still looking at more. Once I deleted the
configuration and got it started again, it was OK.
I didn't dwell on it but my whole system is going to be a lot more
than 203g so I am not sure what it was looking at.