Acronis True Image vs Macrium Reflect

I had Acronis installed it was ok. Got full paragon it was ok. Have Macruim and it's better.
I had to use an Acronis uninstaller from therre site to do a full clean up.

dcol said:

if I cannot test the restore in my working environment, Then why should I buy this product?
The restore is the most important part of the backup system. Without it, backups are pointless.
If I can get to files from other network devices, I should be able to get to the NAS as well. The NAS works fine with Acronis PE recovery media.

It sounds like your missing a driver that recognizes your NAS it should have been picked up when you created your recovery media but apparently it didn't so you will have to add it too the Image before you finish creating the restore USB Thumb drive. I'm not familiar enough with NAS Network drivers but you probably know what I'm talking about since its your system.
You might try creating the recovery USB Thumb Drive there is a stage that shows you the drivers that are being added, at that point if you don't see the driver for your NAS you can add it manually.

Actually there is a way to register on the forum. If you install the trial, not the free version, you get a license number that you can use to register on the forums.

cereberus said:

Another great feature using Macrium + viboot is the ability to easily take a current pc install, backup as a Macrium image, boot into it using Viboot, go to audit mode, and use sysprep to remove hardware drivers, then save image

Then you can restore image to real or virtual machines different to the original host pc, and reinstall it. This gives you a simple means of deploying image across different devices.

If you don't mind @cereberus, I know this is an old post but could you expand a little more on how you go about going into Audit Mode on an image that already has user accounts created in order to run sysprep?

Thnx

cereberus said:

This tutorial gives you more details.
Customize Windows 10 Image in Audit Mode with Sysprep Installation Upgrade Tutorials

Great tutorial...Very helpful. Thnx!

I was a dedicated Acronis user for more than ten versions thru many more years... It saved me hundreds of hours of restoration efforts when something in my Windows system acted up.
I built an over-kill backup system around Acronis - Backups on the computer, on removable drives, in the safe and in the bank; dozens of them. I tested them and I felt rock-solid ! Then, after many similar restores, a couple of years ago i needed to restore my Windows system and Acronis would not accept ANY of the backups for restore; something to do with changes to the disk layout. So i added disk images to my backups - Disappointed but I continued with Acronis. Last month i decided to us Windows EFS encryption on my documents folder. I tested backup and restore may times without issue - I felt rock solid ! Wrong - While restoring my Windows system using the obscure Acronis boot disk interface I overlaid my Documents. I was not concerned; I had dozens of tested backups. I was able to restore the Documents folder easily - BUT only to discover that every file was blank!!! Unbelievable - Fortunately I had only started using EFS a month ago and so lost only a month of data. But I rarely restore documents, if I had not made the early mistake of overlaying the Documents it could have been years - I would have lost EVERYTHING !!!
That was the last straw- Tested backups failing me when needed... I have switched to Marcium Reflect 7 Home and have been testing it extensively for the past week - The user interface took some getting used to and now I am very happy with it!
So I say Adios Acronis :)
PS-
I have switched from EFS encryption to BitLocker; BitLocker is a far better/simpler solution for most...

michaelinfla said:

I was a dedicated Acronis user for more than ten versions thru many more years... It saved me hundreds of hours of restoration efforts when something in my Windows system acted up.
I built an over-kill backup system around Acronis - Backups on the computer, on removable drives, in the safe and in the bank; dozens of them. I tested them and I felt rock-solid ! Then, after many similar restores, a couple of years ago i needed to restore my Windows system and Acronis would not accept ANY of the backups for restore; something to do with changes to the disk layout. So i added disk images to my backups - Disappointed but I continued with Acronis. Last month i decided to us Windows EFS encryption on my documents folder. I tested backup and restore may times without issue - I felt rock solid ! Wrong - While restoring my Windows system using the obscure Acronis boot disk interface I overlaid my Documents. I was not concerned; I had dozens of tested backups. I was able to restore the Documents folder easily - BUT only to discover that every file was blank!!! Unbelievable - Fortunately I had only started using EFS a month ago and so lost only a month of data. But I rarely restore documents, if I had not made the early mistake of overlaying the Documents it could have been years - I would have lost EVERYTHING !!!
That was the last straw- Tested backups failing me when needed... I have switched to Marcium Reflect 7 Home and have been testing it extensively for the past week - The user interface took some getting used to and now I am very happy with it!
So I say Adios Acronis :)
PS-
I have switched from EFS encryption to BitLocker; BitLocker is a far better/simpler solution for most...

I've been posting for some time that Acronis software is poor;y engineered and supported

Hi folks

Couple of points here

1) After installing ANY backup product surely the FIRST THING to do is test it -- If you are too scared to do it on a Real machine then try it on a VM -- Make the image, create the bootable restore media , re-format the system disk in the VM / create a new one, boot the recovery media and restore. If it works on a VM then try on the real machine --you need to test it sooner or later -- no good relying on this for weeks only to discover restores don't work. Doesn't matter what software you use --principle is the same. Then if you want check similar procedure to CLONE disks.

This testing should be repeated any time basic infrastructure of machine changed too including encryption methods -- if you are bonkers enough to use encryption then check restores work also after any updates

2) why on earth do people bother to encrypt their documents folders especially on HOME computers -- if it's that important store the wretched stuff off line on a USB thumb / external HDD/SSD --these days cheap storage is so available --if it's not on the net or online it can't be hacked. !!

Cheers
jimbo