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Acronis TI Vs Windows 7 disk imaging

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My basic question is: What is the advantage of TI Home 2012 Vs the disc imaging provided by Windows 7?

For years I have been pleased with TI on my XP PC, which is now being replaced with a new one running Windows 7. I've just bought a 2-license TI-2012, installed it on a new PC and easily made a "just-out-of-the-box" image; unfortunately that PC quickly failed and is been replaced, thus my experience with TI-2012 is extremely limited.

In that context, from what I remember of that process there was mention that TI somehow inter-plays with the Win 7 imaging, perhaps even disabling it and setting TI as the default imaging method. Could someone please clarify? Being a "belt-and-suspenders" type of guy when it comes to safeguarding my PC I was thinking of making disk images BOTH via Win7 AND Acronis... Thus my above stated basic question.

I look forward to your comments - Thanks.

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From what I've read about Windows 7's backup, ATIH will be more comprehensive, more flexible and more reliable.

Tomas,

I use Windows 7 everyday in combination with Acronis. The win version is a bit slower than ATI; the standard GUI does not provide for setting up the backup scheme. It seems it is using the incremental method by default. There are no ways to manage the space taken by the backups, or to validate the backups. The backup versions are stored in shadow copies, therefore, if you use system protection on the disk where the backups are, you don't control the backup history. The first full backup is bigger than an Acronis full backup with normal compression (in my case 50% bigger, but your mileage will vary).
On the other hand, Win 7 backup provides a WinPE environment for the recovery CD, in addition to the built in F8 for recovery.

I have recovered several times with Win7 and it is working great. Just like any imaging software, you have to test an actual restore on your specific system to be sure it is working.

Tomas Rodriguez wrote:

In that context, from what I remember of that process there was mention that TI somehow inter-plays with the Win 7 imaging, perhaps even disabling it and setting TI as the default imaging method. Could someone please clarify?

Please read 23978: Acronis True Image Home 2012: Windows Integration http://kb.acronis.com/content/23978

And have a look at KB article 26912.