It's best to register your software with Acronis so if you ever sell the software you can more easily transfer the Serial Key to another email address.įor me the version that came on the disc had issues during the recovery process and I had to Check for Updates and pull down the latest 2014 release which worked flawlessly. If on the NAS one has to authenticate as part of the access process.
When restoring drive C, one must create a bootable CD or DVD and then access the archive which can be on a USB drive, another hard drive or even on the NAS itself. I can still get up to a 50% compression and as always can mount (double-click) on the True Image archives and manually search for a file or folder and extract to the desktop or use the archive to restore the entire volume.
I had been using the free Western Digital Acronis True Image software for several years but when I purchased a NAS I needed a paid version (2013 or later) to be able to store archives to the NAS and more importantly to backup the NAS.Īcronis 2013/2014 have the same UI (User Interface) and work great in a Windows 7 environment. Any software that causes a blue screen is on thin ice with me. Having worked with it for a few weeks, I would revise that to two stars. It may be Acronis is no worse than the others.
I have not found any backup software for which the reviews do not point out some problem or another.
Thanks, Acronis.) Overall, Acronis, IMO, is not a pleasure to work with. (It is possible to validate a backup manually at my chosen time. So, now I have to go into each backup job and kill the validation. Sometimes a Blue Screen, sometimes it will bring up Windows. I've had the machine running for 24 hours before having to shut it down with the power button (could not active Task Manager) only to get a Blue Screen at restart. The machine will be turned off automatically after the operations are complete." The biggest part of the problem is that the operations never do complete. If I shutdown the computer while Acronis is running a validation, I will get a message "Operations are in progress, please wait. I have several backups scheduled daily so often Acronis is doing a backup or validating a backup. I've been working with Acronis for about 3 weeks now, and I like it less. I haven't returned it because I have little faith that an alternative program won't have some other set of issues. These are the kinds of things that make a program really annoying to use. The file had the original name, and the settings option had returned. (You have to pass the cursor over that area to see the "settings" option, which makes no sense to me.) I closed down the program, then reopened it. Moreover, the "settings" option for each file listed on the tab was missing. Great, except that ATI also renamed the backup file. ATI gives me a message "Please open CD Drive." If I can copy a file to the CD and open it, I would expect it is ready for ATI to write to it.ģ) On the Backup and Recovery tab, I selected a backup file, did a R-click, choose validate, and validated the file. ATI tech support told me that was a known issue and that product development was working on it.Ģ) I formatted a CDRW, tested the formatted disk to insure I could write to it and open a file, then I used the ATI media builder to create a spare bootable CD (I have a boxed copy with a bootable CD).
zip format, but Windows could not open the. Examples:ġ) I did a file backup using the. I like the interface, but I find the program to be quite buggy. I've been working with Acronis True Image Premium 2014 for a few days now. I am now ectremely happy with Acronis and I highly recommend it to anyone. I am happily back in business with 'Acronis True Image 2014' now and everything is running fine. Thoroughly disgusted with Novastor, I ordered a new 2014 version of Acronis and tossed everything I had from Novastor. Back in business but I had lost months of data and activity such as emails and downloaded data. After 2 days, Novastor stopped answering my requests for help.įound a several months old disc that I had cloned with an older copy of Acronis True Image so I mounted the disc in my system and it took right off. I emailed Novastor about the problem and tried various scenarios they suggested for 2 days and nothing worked. KABOOM! The new version did not recognize the old version's backup.
Well, I needed my system because I had a fairly recent Novastor total disc backup, so I ordered the upgrade on my wife's system, installed the downloaded new Novastor on my system' and mounted the backup disc and proceeded to restore my system. Had a catastrophic failure and loss of my system and reloaded Windows on a fresh disc, loaded Novastor, which I had been using for backups for years, and It told me that I had to purchase an upgrade since my current version had expired (News to me!).