Ture Image 11 Home - Does is play nice with Linux EXT4 ?
I've used Acronis TI WS for years but stopped when it would no longer provide full support for imaging EXT3/EXT4 file systems. I don't want the RAW image (Huge) of the drive. I want the same type of imaging support that NTFS has.
I was told that TI-11 now had such support so I need to confirm that.
Also, would it be possible (using bootable Acronis Media) to create a recovery partition (i.e. F-11 to restore) for an EXT4 drive.
I won't make another Acronis purchase until I know that this is supported. Thanks.

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Charles,
TI 2011 (not the same as TI 11) is compatible with ET4 with the following proviso. It can not be used at a file level, so complete disk and partitions are OK, but files and folder backup (and I assume NSB) are a no go.
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Colin,
Thanks for the information. I will purchase TI 2011 then. I don't really care about file level backup, or NSB. It would be great if Acronis would make a single client version for us Linux users (Considering the bootable media is a Linux version anyway).
I use a very simple and great program (Deja-Dup) for files / folders under Linux. I just needed a way of backing up drives that contain both NTFS & EXT4 partitions. Clonzilla works great for EXT4, but when the HD has both NTFS/EXT4 it won't compress and does a S by S copy which takes for ever.
If I didn't have NTFS on the drives, I'd just use clonezilla because it will compress the drive in about 4 minutes and about the same amount of time to restore it. This works great on my tower systems, but my laptops multi-boot Vista/Linux and Win7/Linux. That particular combination doesn't work well with cloneziaal. I'm assuming that TI 2011 will be able to compress the multi-boot drives without problems. I did find another product that con do this, but since I've been a past user of TI from WAY BACK, I thought I'd throw them some coin if they are up to the task.
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Why not download the trial version before you part with any money!
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Colin B wrote:Why not download the trial version before you part with any money!
Okay, I'll do just that. I have one question though... I received an offer to upgrade for $29, do I have to install my older version and then the upgrade version on top of that? OR... Can I just install the upgrade version without having to jump through a bunch of hoops?
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You can install just the upgrade version, you will just need to provide your old serial number and your new one at the appropriate boxes.
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Actually I didn't try the DEMO. I just made the purchase and I'll give it a shot.
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I faced the same problems with ext3 filesystems and 256 byte inodes with TI-10. I learn, with TrueImage 2011 this problems should have gone. At least, if I backup/restore the files from TI 2011 running at windows.
My question: What about backing up / restoring, from recovery media, or from TI-2011 Plus pack version included in Win-PE? Is there support for ext3/4 with 256 byte inodes inside or not? (on WEB I can only find the information plus pack supports filesystems: ext2/3/reiser FS; When working with PE-Boot-CD, will I have the same problems like before ???)
Thanks
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I'm finding that it works very well with EXT3/4. The only issue I seem to recall was that the backup would not save to an external EXT4 drive. It would backup an EXT4 drive, but I had to use an NTFS drive to save the *.tib file to. It's not idea but it's okay for me.
Also I forgot to mention, I don't use windows at all so the rescue media is the only method I use for making drive images. I haven't restored a .tib file from optical media as it's too small and slow for my use, but using the recovery disc to boot with, I have no problems restoring from various other hard drives.
Hope that made sense... :-)
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Got here late, but have a question. I've used Clonezilla to backup a portable USB drive that has Ubuntu on an ext4 partition and other NTFS partitions that I use purely as backup destinations, so I've never tried to back them up. Anyway, I find that Clonezilla compresses my Linux system backups (ext4) even though I have other NTFS partitions on that drive. Under what conditions are you seeing it only do a SBS backup and not compressing?
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