TI2009 & Try and Decide
I just upgraded to a new larger hard drive. I'm looking to utilize my new additional space wisely and would like to use TI2009's Try and Decide feature.
I have a 500GB drive partitioned as follows:
25GB Personal Data (15GB free) - will be backed up to an online service automatically.
25GB Miscellaneous (20GB free) - Less important data, will be backed up to two external hard drives monthly. One drive will be stored at home and I will take the other to my office for off-site storage.
416GB OS Installation and programs (285GB free) - I have created an image of this partition which will be stored on the two external hard drives.
What size of a secure zone should I create? What effect will different sizes have?
TIA!
Don,
Hello.....Just my experience with TI 2009 and Try & Decide ...On my OS (at the time) Vista home Premium T&D would write a new file to a Folder ( T&D loader ) or something like that and would increment it, (if i can remember about 75 MB) every time i would run T&D. If i would delete the folder or mess with it's contents ... my OS wouldn't boot. Never found out the solution ... Have been running 2010-7046 since,and "trashed" 2009. In my opinion the worst release Acronis had (2009) As far as the other question (SZ) forget it.... as long as you are backing backing up to a "external"..... the SZ isn't worth the trouble of "fooling with" Regards FredPS: I would dump 2009 and move to 2010 and stick with v7046 ...Forget about 2011 not worth the hassle. 2010 runs fine with my OS's, Vista and windows 7 \64
Thanks for the advice. Since 2010 isn't available, I'd have to go with 2011 which I'm already considering. But I was asking for advice on the size of a SZ to use because everything I've found tells me that I MUST have a SZ to use T&D.
Don,
Hello.... I have used T&D without "Acronis SZ" since V-11 ...I'm pretty sure that 2010 could be found with an internet search. The "SZ" is OK if you don't have an external (or internal) HD to place your back-ups....Otherwise the "SZ" is basically a pain in the neck function to use. Not worth the trouble in my opinion. When you use T&D you set it up to utilize your primary drive to "work in" don't need the "SZ" Regards Fred
This is correct. A SZ is NOT required for T&D, but can be used for it.
The SZ has been designed for people who have a single disk and cannot/don't want to have an external location to back up to. With a SZ, you have a way to store your backups on the same disk you are backing up, with some level convenience for the size management that you don't have with regular partitions.
The issue though is that you will not be able to access the SZ if your disk dies, and you would lose the backups.
In your case Don, I recommend you get an external USB disk or similar to store at least some of the backups.
You use this type of disk for non-stop backups and Try&Decide storage.
While we talk about this, I recommend you do a disk image before you start T&D, just for additional peace of mind. This way, if T&D fails to achieve what you want, you have something to go back to (my experience :-).