Thank You MudCrab
This is my first visit to the new forum, a member of the old for a couple of years. I have done dozens of backups and several restores all without any problems. Thanks Acronis.
But, I did one thing awhile back that I am very grateful for. That was to make a bootable external hard disk. I just had to use it and saved my entire laptop. Highly recommend doing this to all readers that don't have an alternative backup.
Special thanks to MudCrab for posting those instructions and helping me with the procedure. I greatly appreciate it.
Ken
Your Welcome MudCrab,
I have ATI 11 build 8053. Solid. Is there any reason for me to upgrade to 2010?
I guess 2010 is backward compatible, so I can restore ATI 11 backups.
Would I have to redo the making of my Ext Lacie HD bootable?
Ken
Since you have a stable backup and restore system using TI 11, you could make a current backup and then try the TI 2010 trial version. This way, if you don't like it or have problems with it, you can easily return to the current state.
TI 2010 should be able to work with your TI 11 images (see this KB article).
If the Lacie is working fine, you should be able to just copy the files from a TI 2010 flashdrive to the Lacie and be done. I would recommend creating a sub-folder and moving the current TI 11 files to it. That way, you can switch it back to booting into TI 11 by swapping the files back.
MudCrab,
My only reason to change would be faster backup/restores. Is there a significant difference. I just backed up 33gb this morning in about 45 minutes.
Sounds like compatibility is not an issue for me. And, if I understand you correctly, no need to redo your steps to make my Lacie bootable just because I upgraded to TI 2010.
Ken
Downloaded the trial and did a backup to ASZ. Went fine. Didn't read any instructions, a weakness of mine. Little more options on this one. Did a restore of specific files from ASZ to a test folder. Here is where I need to read up. The restore window gave two panes and it took a little to ascertain how to select the specific files to restore. Checking some affected the boxes on the other window. On ATI 11 you have one pane and deselect all check boxes with one click on the C drive, then go to the specific file and select it. With two panes the deselecting and selecting was more difficult. It did work, but not that I knew what I was doing. Processing during selecting options seemed slower and backup to ASZ took an hour and a half for 38gb. I then decided to restore back to previous state, but realized ATI 11 had been replaced by TI 2010. Still started restore, but forgot to unplug Lacie. So, when restore restarted computer the Lacie booted into windows and my ATI 11 on the Lacie. Did get all back to original configuration. All this answers two questions. It does seem backward compatible and my Lacie will reboot into TI 11 even if I buy and keep TI 2010. Maybe should have left it on and experimented more, but didn't see any significant improvements for my needs, including speed. I tend to remember backups to ASZ taking longer then to the Lacie. I should have backed up to the Lacie to determine if speed has been improved on. A better comparison, since I know those speeds better. May retry at a later time.
I do have a bootable CD dated Jan 2007, so I guess I have had ATI 11 for three years not two. Very comfortable with ATI 11.
Does anyone know if the backup speeds have improved from ATI 11 to TI 2010. My 32 to 38gb backups take about 45 minutes.
Ken
The backup speeds depend heavily on the computer, chipset, and drives. It's hard to give someone else any comparisons specific to their system.
In general, internal to internal should be quite fast (2-4GB/min.) with USB 2.0 being somewhere around 1-1.5GB/min.
If you created a TI 2010 CD, you could boot to it and validate an image that's on the Lacie. Then compare that to TI 11 booted from the Lacie. That would give you an idea if the USB read speeds are any faster.
If the SZ is on an internal drive, I would think it would be faster than the Lacie.
MudCrab,
ASZ is internal and if that is suppose to be faster, it seems slow compared to ATI 11. I may retry it at a later date and try the creating a boot CD. I am trialing the backup software now, but selecting recover items was again confusing like TI 2010. I guess it defaults to whatever was backed up, I made no selection. When I started recovery it was suppose to ask me some questions before proceeding. All that came up was a window asking whether I wanted to replace or skip a file with my name on it. I said skip, but when that window closed the recovery was already done. No files seem lost and it may have recovered my Outlook PST and Mozilla which is all I backed up to start. I did read the help area on recovery, but the options I saw in the trial didn't seem to match with the help screen.
Oh well, sorry to elaborate on the backup software. You may not have it, and am sure there is a forum for it.
Ken
I have all versions of TI from 9 through 2010.
TI 2010 is quite a bit different than TI 11 in GUI as well as its functions.
You're posting this in the B&R forum (corporate products). There is a forum for TI.
Sorry,
I didn't see any mention of corporate. Didn't plan on posting more than the Thank You. Been busy with work and medical wise and no time to get familiar with the new forum. I will look into the link you posted.
Ken