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True Image 2011 Does NOT backup EMail Storage Folders under Live mail of Win7

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I have the new edition of true image 2011. Very nice.
When I went to back up my windows Live mail form windows 7 it only backs up pop3 accounts but NOT STOARAGE email folders AND IMPORTED EMAIL sub FOLDERS (seemed to have all my old emails under these folders when i imported from a crashed computer) UNDER STORAGE FOLDER
would love to backthis up at the same time as the email accounts

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I have the same problem with TI 2011. Email backup is of limited value without storage folders being included.

Yes. I had the same issue. I ended up moving the storage folders to a more "visible" location like My Documents and therefore got it included in my regular content backup.

TrueImage Home excels at being a backup and recover your system. If your hard drive fails or you get a virus, your system can easilty be recovered in a short period of time.

The best type of backup to have in case of hardware emergency is one that includes all partitions on the disk so that everything is included within the backup. Too often, only single partition backups are performed and this makes it much harder (depending upon skill level) to have a successful creation of a new disk--should the need arise.

A full disk backup will include all your emails and a TI restore of your system or system partition will recover your emails back to the same time as when your backup was created.

Most email program have the option of setting your parameters so that copies of your incoming mail are retained on the web server for x number of days before being deleted. This can provide some safety cushion for the time between backups.

Vista SP2
Windows Mail backup
TI Home 2011

The point is that Acronis offer a facility to backup emails that simply does not work.
For Windows Mail it only backs up about 20% of the files needed to actually restore emails - that is ATI's default not a user choice.
A scheduled backup fails and corrupts the increment if Windows Mail happens to be open. It is basic programming to check that first and not start a backup that can only fail.
The scheduled backups fail five times out of six even when Windows Mail is closed. The error message given is not known in Acronis KB.
A manual backup of the Windows Mail store folder is the only thing that works.

All this gives a user zero confidence that any of the 2011 increased "sophistication" software will actually restore anything, so getting money back and reverting to older TI versions.