Acronis Disaster Recovery

Acronis True Image software is regularly recomended in these NGs. What are
opinions of the Disaster Recovery feature of True Image, is it worth
implementing?

I am running True Image 10 and I dont see that option.............or do you
mean the Startup Recovery manager?? or the Bootable rescue media??
The startup recovery manager works in conjuction with The Secure Zone and by
means of pushing F? as the system boots and before XP/Vista loads allows you
to restore an Image or to restore Files from within that image in order to
solve a non booting XP/Vista problem
The Bootable Rescue Media basically does the same thing except your running
off a CD/DVD...and takes a little longer.
peter
"Edward W. Thompson" <thomeduk1@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> Acronis True Image software is regularly recomended in these NGs. What
> are opinions of the Disaster Recovery feature of True Image, is it worth
> implementing?
>

Works for me

"Edward W. Thompson" <thomeduk1@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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> Acronis True Image software is regularly recomended in these NGs. What
> are opinions of the Disaster Recovery feature of True Image, is it worth
> implementing?
>

DL added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...

> Works for me
>
> "Edward W. Thompson" <thomeduk1@btopenworld.com> wrote in
> message news:eqold2$3HHA.1900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>> Acronis True Image software is regularly recomended in these
>> NGs. What are opinions of the Disaster Recovery feature of
>> True Image, is it worth implementing?
>>
I assume the OP meant the bootable floppy or CD to do an emergency
recovery in the event that Windows is completely inoperative even
in Safe Mode. I have testing mine that it CAN launch and CAN detect
my external HD, but fortunately, I've not had a reason to actually
use it, and hope I never do.

--
HP, aka Jerry

"HEMI-Powered" <none@none.sn> wrote in message
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> DL added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...
>
>> Works for me
>>
>> "Edward W. Thompson" <thomeduk1@btopenworld.com> wrote in
>> message news:eqold2$3HHA.1900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>> Acronis True Image software is regularly recomended in these
>>> NGs. What are opinions of the Disaster Recovery feature of
>>> True Image, is it worth implementing?
>>>
> I assume the OP meant the bootable floppy or CD to do an emergency
> recovery in the event that Windows is completely inoperative even
> in Safe Mode. I have testing mine that it CAN launch and CAN detect
> my external HD, but fortunately, I've not had a reason to actually
> use it, and hope I never do.
>
> --
> HP, aka Jerry

I've restored my C: partition several times with Acronis, and it always
worked.
Disaster recovery is the same as just wanting to back out of a software
change that went bad, or anything in between. In each case, the entire
partition is restored to its previous state. The only difference is that in
some
cases you will use DVDs or a removable drive instead of using the Secure
Zone (hidden partition Acronis creates on your hard drive) as the source
from which to recover. The one time I had to deal with a failed hard drive,
I first used a manufacturer's disaster CD to restore the factory state, then
overwrote that with a much more recent version of C: saved with Acronis
on DVDs (first step in overwriting, load Acronis itself from the CD which
you
hopefully let Acronis make for you).

An exception to the above is a really minor recovery where you just want
to restore a file or a few, which you can do by copying files from a
partition
image saved by Acronis.

Anthony Buckland added these comments in the current discussion
du jour ...

> I've restored my C: partition several times with Acronis, and
> it always worked.

I'm quite happy to hear that! If you don't mind saying, why are
you having to rebuild/recover so often? My XP Pro SP2 box almost
never even needs a restart except after updates and I guess I've
been lucky on errant driver problems or malware.

> Disaster recovery is the same as just wanting to back out of a
> software change that went bad, or anything in between. In
> each case, the entire partition is restored to its previous
> state. The only difference is that in some
> cases you will use DVDs or a removable drive instead of using
> the Secure Zone (hidden partition Acronis creates on your hard
> drive) as the source from which to recover. The one time I
> had to deal with a failed hard drive, I first used a
> manufacturer's disaster CD to restore the factory state, then
> overwrote that with a much more recent version of C: saved
> with Acronis on DVDs (first step in overwriting, load Acronis
> itself from the CD which you
> hopefully let Acronis make for you).
>
> An exception to the above is a really minor recovery where you
> just want to restore a file or a few, which you can do by
> copying files from a partition
> image saved by Acronis.
>
I do full image backups with True Image, not the folder kind. I
thought that I had to do a files/folders-style "image" rather
than a full image in order to do a selective restore. Do I
understand you correctly that I could recover something like a
corrupt file or one I discovered disappeared simply by accessing
one of my periodic 5 gig full partition image files?

--
HP, aka Jerry

| I do full image backups with True Image, not the folder kind. I
| thought that I had to do a files/folders-style "image" rather
| than a full image in order to do a selective restore. Do I
| understand you correctly that I could recover something like a
| corrupt file or one I discovered disappeared simply by accessing
| one of my periodic 5 gig full partition image files?
|
| --
| HP, aka Jerry

Jerry: You can indeed restore selected files from a full image backup.

Tom

Anthony states "...instead of using the Secure Zone (hidden partition
Acronis creates on your hard drive) as the source from which to
recover....". In numerous posts about Acronis the "Secure Zone" gets little
or no mention. As a refresher, the secure zone is a "safe" partition on the
HD and the MBR is modified to present "Hit F11 to restore...." at boot -
much like the restore system set up by OEMs.

Acronis also provides for backup to an external, or separate internal,
location - and both processes, Secure Zone and external backup can be
scheduled jointly as well as incremental or differential backups.

regarding HEMI-Powered's post - current "beta" testing of several
applications has resulted in the need for often during a system restore.



"Anthony Buckland" <anthonybucklandnospam@telus.net> wrote in message
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>
> "HEMI-Powered" <none@none.sn> wrote in message
> news:Xns998E83DE6798CReplyScoreID@216.168.3.30...
>> DL added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...
>>
>>> Works for me
>>>
>>> "Edward W. Thompson" <thomeduk1@btopenworld.com> wrote in
>>> message news:eqold2$3HHA.1900@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
>>>> Acronis True Image software is regularly recomended in these
>>>> NGs. What are opinions of the Disaster Recovery feature of
>>>> True Image, is it worth implementing?
>>>>
>> I assume the OP meant the bootable floppy or CD to do an emergency
>> recovery in the event that Windows is completely inoperative even
>> in Safe Mode. I have testing mine that it CAN launch and CAN detect
>> my external HD, but fortunately, I've not had a reason to actually
>> use it, and hope I never do.
>>
>> --
>> HP, aka Jerry
>
> I've restored my C: partition several times with Acronis, and it always
> worked.
> Disaster recovery is the same as just wanting to back out of a software
> change that went bad, or anything in between. In each case, the entire
> partition is restored to its previous state. The only difference is that
> in some
> cases you will use DVDs or a removable drive instead of using the Secure
> Zone (hidden partition Acronis creates on your hard drive) as the source
> from which to recover. The one time I had to deal with a failed hard
> drive,
> I first used a manufacturer's disaster CD to restore the factory state,
> then
> overwrote that with a much more recent version of C: saved with Acronis
> on DVDs (first step in overwriting, load Acronis itself from the CD which
> you
> hopefully let Acronis make for you).
>
> An exception to the above is a really minor recovery where you just want
> to restore a file or a few, which you can do by copying files from a
> partition
> image saved by Acronis.
>

Tom Willett added these comments in the current discussion du
jour ...

>| I do full image backups with True Image, not the folder kind.
>| I thought that I had to do a files/folders-style "image"
>| rather than a full image in order to do a selective restore.
>| Do I understand you correctly that I could recover something
>| like a corrupt file or one I discovered disappeared simply by
>| accessing one of my periodic 5 gig full partition image
>| files?
>|
> Jerry: You can indeed restore selected files from a full
> image backup.

That is simply terrific news, Tom! Thank you for relaying it.
Thankfully, I've not even needed to do that. Over the years, I've
had a small number of occasions where something goes south, away or
corrupt in Windows or an app. For that, I have been successful in
finding it in a CAB file. For selected file or folder restores,
I've used my external HD and optical backups successfully.

But, thanks to you, I now have one more arrow in my quiver!

--
HP, aka Jerry

When you click on "Recovery", you have the option to restore just files.

Tom
"HEMI-Powered" <none@none.sn> wrote in message
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| Tom Willett added these comments in the current discussion du
| jour ...
|
| >| I do full image backups with True Image, not the folder kind.
| >| I thought that I had to do a files/folders-style "image"
| >| rather than a full image in order to do a selective restore.
| >| Do I understand you correctly that I could recover something
| >| like a corrupt file or one I discovered disappeared simply by
| >| accessing one of my periodic 5 gig full partition image
| >| files?
| >|
| > Jerry: You can indeed restore selected files from a full
| > image backup.
|
| That is simply terrific news, Tom! Thank you for relaying it.
| Thankfully, I've not even needed to do that. Over the years, I've
| had a small number of occasions where something goes south, away or
| corrupt in Windows or an app. For that, I have been successful in
| finding it in a CAB file. For selected file or folder restores,
| I've used my external HD and optical backups successfully.
|
| But, thanks to you, I now have one more arrow in my quiver!
|
| --
| HP, aka Jerry