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Quote: Macium Reflect, it has saved me a couple times now.
Echo that! I have used the Macrium product for several years now and have never been disappointed!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Only problem I've had with Acronis stand-alone (2017) it that it doesn't seem to support Bluetooth mice and the keyboard shortcuts are a real PITA 
Steve
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I C(++) therefore I am
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Has new-acronis finally caught up with old-acronis? A few years back they did a complete rewrite of their backup that had a lot fewer features than the old version and was the subject of massive internet rage. IMO it sucked and I took my business elsewhere (clonezilla).
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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This is my goto backup solution.
I have a 5 user license for the team.
I have tested various restores, clones, etc. All worked.
I even cloned a table mini hard drive using a special USB connector to another one for a neighbor, and it was plug an play!
If you are paying, this is my first choice. I also have a few SMALL clients on this.
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I used Acronis in my IT consulting business for years, but am very unhappy with their current company behavior and product. I had a client order Acronis direct from Acronis and told them to specify ship the bootable DVD product (Acronis always offered a bootable disk in the past which I preferred to I could avoid installing it and just use it to disk image backup) for another $10 or $20 (I forget).
They did that after much fighting on the phone with Acronis, who did not want to ship the disk, instead offering them a download key. When the disk finally arrived it was not the bootable disk but simply the download file copied to the disk.
Add Acronis to the list of companies I have stopped using in the last 5 years (Adobe--all products except for an old copy of Standard I've had for 10 years, Microsoft Office, Symantec, etc.---all trying to play cute with the delivery of the product).
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I have just given up on Acronis True Image, after making the mistake of upgrading to 2017.
I am now in a 30 day free trial of Macrium Reflect, so far so good.
I have found Acronis, which I used for many years, to have turned in to a bloated, buggy mess.
After recent updates, my backups consistently hang at about 50% into the backup. So I run a backup overnight and check it in the morning and it is stuck. To make it even worse, you cannot "Stop" it, it just spins forever. If you kill all the processes, or reboot, it attempts to retry and also gets stuck. There seems to be no good way to just kill the thing except to edit the backup and remove the schedule.
Their support gave me a solution - I have to go into their install directory and delete a bunch of DLL's to do with VSS. That did fix the problem. And every time they update the software, I have to go do it again. This is on a pretty generic, fully updated Windows 10 Pro.
They have also removed the feature to mount the .tib file as a folder and explore and copy files. You have to open recover from within True Image. Not a deal breaker, but I used to like that feature.
Another annoyance is that if the tool gets confused and doesn't remove old backups on schedule, it gets angry with you if you do it through File Explorer. Yet there is no way within the tool to delete a backup set except to delete the actual job - along with all the backup settings.
Besides this, there are many sub processes and services running now to do with Cloud backup, which I do not use, and mobile backup, likewise, etc.
To sum up, I no longer recommend True Image, in fact I recommend looking hard for something else.
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Macrium Reflect - never had a problem with it, used for many years. It just works.
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
-- Marcus Brigstocke, British Comedian
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Macrium backup.
If you want to do SD cards, Win32DiskImager.
Or the built in Windows disk imager is also good.
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Acronis True Image. All the usual backup stuff plus the wonderful ability to restore to completely different hardware. Can also backup sector by sector - so practically anything. I'm going to try moving a W7 system to an AMD Ryzen rig this week - different chipset, CPU (obviously!), RAM, etc.
For US$40...what do you want?
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Funky! 
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Obligatory Larry Niven[^] reference
Software Zen: delete this;
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I think Niven is one of the greats; especially the Ringworld[^] series.
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I just finished re-reading the Ringworld and Fleet of Worlds series.
Next on the reading list are Oath of Fealty and Footfall, my two favorite Niven/Pournelle books.
Software Zen: delete this;
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I may well have to join you!
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MSN wrote: “I was working with simple mathematics and applying it to the motion of a vehicle and explaining my research,” said Mr. Jarlstrom, 56. “By doing so, they declared I was illegal.”
Since when is it illegal to do simple math? How many kids have been caught by the police yet?
If being an idiot was a painfull thing, some people wouldn't be able to stop screaming.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Yup! I think those bureaucrats are being idiots without any idiocy license! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Can we revoke their breathing license? 
Seriously, people like that should be made visible and ridiculed.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Quote: Can we revoke their breathing license?
Good idea! They are just a waste of oxygen anyway!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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This reminds me of Ayn Rand's short book Anthem.
In the book, citizens are not even allowed to think in the first person -- there is only the we.
Electric lights have been outlawed because they are deemed dangerous by the council.
Only the Council can determine what is right.
Of course, if Rand had added that "doing math without a license was illegal", people wouldn't have thought the book was realistic, because that's ridiculous.
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raddevus wrote: Only the Council can determine what is right.
Welcome to the European Union.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Just revoke their oxygen use license. They can still breathe as much nitrogen as they want.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Follow the money; they want him to become licensed so that he can support their cushy lifestyle.
David A. Gray
Delivering Solutions for the Ages, One Problem at a Time
Interpreting the Fundamental Principle of Tabular Reporting
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