TI 2010 questions
I have been asked by one or two work colleagues who know that I use Acronis TI Home about TI 2010, in particular if (a) non stop backup works and more importantly works well) (b) does it use a big chunk of the HD (c) how does it fair at hogging system resources i.e. processor and RAM. I use TI 2009 so I was unable to answer any of those questions.
Thanks in advance for any information users of 2010 are able to supply
I just started using Nonstop Backup. So far it looks good (besides a little bug that the progress dialog does not work correctly when creating the initial image and restoring). I restored the initial image and compared it with a data backup (using the cool Total Commander synchronization feature). Both the backup and the restored data were exactly the same (no files or even empty folders missing).
The Nonstop Backup process (afcdpsrv.exe) seems not to consume much processor time, at least when not much on the observed data is changed. So far it looks very good (I work heavily on my machine). I update if I notice any difference.
Update: afcdpsrv.exe consumes 30 to 100% processor time when backing up, but only for a short amount of time in my case (see attachment). I changed only a few text files in the period of time I measured. I assume that 100% is only used when the processor has nothing else to do. Does not feel like my work is affected in any way.
My processor is an Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3GHz. I have 4 GB RAM. OS is Windows 7, 64 Bit.
Thanks for that jb42 that's most interesting. One final question - are the NSB files kept in a separate folder to your main full backup image files or do they form part of the main backup folder.
Another point about the CPU consumption. Afcdpsrv.exe is set to the lowest priority. Which means pretty much anything else you want to do will instantly get the CPU.
The NSB files are kept in a folder (Time Explorer Storage) on the root of the drive you select for NSB storage.
There seems to be so many backup solutions on the market now especially for real time data backup it's quite bewildering. For full image backups which I tend to use, Windows 7 is also a very good solution albeit a bit basic, though having said that it does do the job. In fact I'm now using TI 2009 and W7 full image backup. For real time data backup there's now Acronis NSB but another candidate is "Click Free". Click Free has a very good reputation and comes in a variety of flavours, you can buy a HD which incorporates the Click Free software, or another option if you already have a drive is a "Click Free" cable, this plugs into the external HD and PC self installs the software and works in just the same way as the Click Free HD. As the title says it's click free, it finds all the data on you PC itself and then backs it up. I haven't seen the NSB in operation but it could be that Click Free is more bespoke. I'm sure other posters will now post a 101 other programmes that do a similar job.