Windows Backup & Recover Vs Acronis 2011
Hi
I would be interested to hear views concerning reliability of the built in Backup & Recovery facility, within Windows 7, compared to Acronis 2011!
I am especially interested in backing up the Operating System (not personal data)
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Win7 enterprise and Ultimate include system imaging in Windows Backup. It works great! The backup files are bigger than those produced by Acronis at normal compression. Win7 backup uses shadow copies to store multiple versions of the backup. Win7 is slower than ATI. I have restored several times from both and they work flawlessly. In fact, I use both of them in parallel.
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Pat/Scott,
Thank you for your replies!
I have Windows Home Premium (64 Bit), which also has the built in Backup & Recovery facility!
Do you have any experience of the Windows 7 built in Backup & Recovery facility, working with SSD's
Is it compatible with SSD's
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Yes it is compatible with SSD (at least mine :-).
Just like for any backup solution, make sure you can recover!
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Thanks again, Pat!
My only worry, with all of this is, if after backing up my operating system, I then restore, to prove the back up works, but then find it is then corrupted!
Back to a full re-installation!
Except, Belt & Braces (Backup with Acronis, Paragon, and Windows - One should be OK)
Brian!
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If you're backing up with ati, then you can run a validation on the backup after you create it. You should already have a bootcd created wtih which you can restore. Do a test restore by going booting with the bootcd and going through all the steps of restore except hte final Proceed -- this is to ensure that the bootcd does see all your drives.
If you're backing up your system disk with w7 backup, there is no verify feature to verify a backup--you can only do an actual restore to a test disk and see if it works correctly.
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Thanks, Scott; never thought of this - Validation!
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