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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (73491)	12/31/2010 1:03:43 PM
From: Judi Simpson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

So you make an image and not a clone. I have a True Image 9 but have not used it. Maybe be I should try that on the older computers to see how it works.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (73491)	12/31/2010 4:02:57 PM
From: Sexton O Blake	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

but PMS Witch told me she had one fail. Ahem. Well I have been using Acronis True Image Home v10.0 (not 2010) for years and have never had any problems with FULL + INCREMENTALS. Period. If they are failing and/or unreliable, your hardware is questionable to begin with and you should seek a new machine STAT! (If you are trying to recover over a network connection and it fails - your network is probably crap). As stated elsewhere on my XP I am doing images of "C:" (~26GB). [most of my apps but no "data"] a) Mondays - COMPLETE C: - works out to be about 13GB in 1GB files. b) Tuesday-Sundays - INCREMENTAL C: - size varies - typically about 750MB/day. Then I move it out on SUNDAY (and offload) and start fresh MONDAY. I have had to do many recoveries - I'd easily say 10 complete and never had a problem. You can restore the full but then you lose the days in between. On the Notebook I am running Vista and just got their 2011 product. They have a new thing where you follow their scheme - it did a full "locked" backup; then another "full" then it will do daily "incrementals" followed by purging them over time - but always keeping the "locked". I haven't played with 2011 enough yet BUT the v10 product under XP was better than 2010 - why? In v10, they allow you to choose ANY NAME for the schedule - full or incremental. However for 2010, the name you choose for incremental MUST EXIST. That is great after you have performed the FULL but what if you haven't? A royal PITA! Anyways - Cheeks - I get the feeling you are a "don't change what works" fellow - which is fine. But after all my years of using PCs - I know what doesn't work and always seek to improve and move forward. The old DOS Ghost - what CRAP. Sure in it's day it mostly worked. I have found the Acronis stuff (firmly with the v10 anyways) to be quite solid. blake PS: I won't take Acronis's press as gospel. If they say it works over the NET or USB etc - I test that before I have to use it in a real recovery.