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Disappointing upgrade to TI2011 from v11

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I have been a very happy TI user since 2006 first with v9 and then with v11 (build 8101). I thought I'd upgrade to TI2011 (build 6696) since v11 is not *supported* on Windows 7.

Well that was a rather disappointing experience:

1 - All my scheduled tasks created with v11 did not get imported in v2011, and some of them had quite complex selections. The solution "recreate backup settings" from archive just did not work.

2 - So I decided to re-create them manually and then I bumped onto error messages when editing the new tasks, as described in http://forum.acronis.com/forum/16697 . No luck in trying the various solutions suggested. So that was a show stopper for me.

3 - The overall interface is very confusing. I know that it's meant to simplify things for non technical users and perhaps it does but for me, I just want to see some Backup and Restore sections and scheduled tasks that work.

So end result: I've removed v2011 and re-installed v11, restored my tasks from backup and voila ... it just works on my Win 7 x64.

The only thing that is REALLY good with TI2011 is the recovery disk as it recognises a large number of medias, the interface is really neat (actually this is the one I would like to see in the full version), and it restores well from older versions.

I know this too well: I have just restored my whole Win 7 notebook from a v11 full backup using the TI2011 recovery disk. It worked like a charm.

Conclusion? If you're a v11 user today, it's not supported on Win 7 but it does work very well, so maybe the upgrade is not worth it apart from the very nice recovery disk.

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I can't help but I can offer some morale support.

It's a big jump for ATI 11 to ATI2011; there were ATI 2009 and 2010 inbetween 11 and 2011 and the basic paradigm of the program diesign was substantially changed by the time you get to ATI2011. This is unlike the changes from version 8-11, where the basic paradigm was the same and embellishments were added.

Certainly, if you are used to 11, you will not automatically be familiar with 2011.

In ATI2011, there is no readily apparent distinction between a Task (which is a procedure to produce backup files) and a Backup (which is a file produced by a Task). On the interface they are shown as one and the same. It's like the double-slit experiment in quantum physics* in that, if you can just accept the paradox, you'll probably be okay. ;)

I agree that the ATI2011 bootCd is one of the best, if not the best, Acronis has made so far, not only for the breadth of hardware on which it operates but for the improvements in the user interface, and the improved ability to distinguish one harddisk from another, which is key when you are trying to restore to a harddisk and there is more than one of the same model on the target machine. I have ATI10, 11, 2010, and 2011 on various machines but the 2011 bootCD is the only one I use.

* The double-slit experiment, very roughly, is the one where you put a screen with double slits in front of a quantum emitter (say, a photon or electron emitter) with a detecter on the other side. When you cover one slit, the behavior seems like particle behavior but when you uncover both slits, it's more like wave behavior -- Two, two, two mints in one.

Thanks Scott ... so you're saying that I need to understand quantum physics to be able to use the new interface? This could explain a few things :-)

Sorry to be cheeky ... I'll just wait for next version to see if I like it better. In the meantime, $30 for a solid BootCD is worth it, so no hard feeling.

Cheers,

I only meant that the interface doesn't present the way one would intuitively expect, especially if you have used older versions of ATI. New versions seem to come yearly, roughly around Sept or so, although Acronis genrally makes no pre-announcements nor publicly commits to a release schedule.

Thanks Scott. I know what you meant. I was just being facetious.

I am looking forward to the next release!

Cheers,

JM

I, too, am looking forward to next release and I hope that whoever came up with the new interface will be fired by then. Thanks to them the application is barely usable, wasting screen space and not displaying info properly. I can't even see all my backup tasks at once now.

There's literally not a single good thing about the way it looks now. Truly an idiotic move.

Critical applications should not look like an MS Word and hide information.