Is it really worth moving from TI 2009 to TI 2010?
As the title asks, is there any real benefit to upgrading from TI 2009 to TI 2010 cost apart? For me TI 2009 has been the best ever TI product, it not only did what it says on the tin it did it reliably.
Can someone explain exactly how Continuous Data Protection works? I know that it will back up any files as soon as they are added or files that have been changed etc. or at least I think that's how it works, but is that not going to create a lot of incremental backup files?
Up to now I have never gone down the incremental route as I prefer to just do full image backups twice a week from the scheduler and this has served me well. I also notice a lot of bugs being reported already with TI 2010 and have never really suffered any with TI 2009.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
We must begin at the beginning. What is it you want TI to do and are there any shortcomings in your archiving system now?
If TI2009 works well for your backup methods and there is nothing missing that is provided by TI2010 you don't need an upgrade, but you knew that.TI2010 appears to be following in the typical pattern of lots of bugs in the first release. I wouldn't go near it until the next build as a bare minimum and let the bleeding-edge keeners sort out the major bugs.
I personally have no need for Continuous Data Protection but if I were in a business-like environment I might. CDP should give mild strokes to those users who get bent out of shape just on a service sitting in the swap are a of disk doing nothing.
I have had great luck with TI doing basic, manual, full backup and restores of my OS. However, I am now thinking there are even more (buggy) features in the new version that I won't use and maybe the time has come to consider something else when moving to W7. As often stated, I backup my data files with SyncBackSE and only want basic imaging for my C drive.
I have found TI 2009 flawless on all three of my PC's from day one, though appreciate that is not everyone's experience and once the second build had been released which lets you manipulate the scheduler to just do multiple full image backups then as far as I was concerned Acronis were back at the top of their game.
The only item of some interest in TI 2010 may possibly be Continuous Data Protection. However, I cannot seem to find an explanation of exactly how this feature works in practice.
Faust:
Acronis calls the Continuous Data Protection feature Acronis Nonstop Backup. On the left margin of the forum pages under Useful Links is a link to the Home Products Guides. Download the TI 2010 user guide. Pages 44 - 50 describe the Acronis Nonstop Backup feature.
Faust:
Acronis calls the Continuous Data Protection feature Acronis Nonstop Backup. On the left margin of the forum pages under Useful Links is a link to the Home Products Guides. Download the TI 2010 user guide. Pages 44 - 50 describe the Acronis Nonstop Backup feature.
Thanks for the link Mark - having found the information I was seeking this bit of it is about as clear as mud.
States of the protected partitions will be backed up at 5-minute intervals for the last 24 hours. The
older backups will be consolidated in such a way that Acronis True Image Home will keep daily
backups for the last 30 days and weekly backups until all Nonstop Backup storage space is used.
If I have read this right then Nonstop Backup will be pretty memory intensive and will also take up a fair bit of hard drive space with the backups.
I think you're correct. Whether or not you would find this feature useful would depend on your individual needs.
To be honest Mark having looked at the specs and the manual TI 2010 appears to offer little that TI 2009 cannot do and TI 2009 is very stable on my PCs. I notice they have gone back to offering fully image only backups though we got around that issue in the 2009 release in any event. I think I will keep my hard earned cash safe in my wallet given that 2009 runs on W7 in any event.
It took more than 6 builds of ATI2009 for the software to become stable and worth using on my XP system.
I wont be moving from ATI2009 Build 9796 unless I have new hardware which is not compatible.
I have also been using Windows 7 RC1 and like it. But I wont be buying Windows 7 until after Windows 7 SP1 comes out. So until that happens I will definitely not be buying ATI2010.
It took more than 6 builds of ATI2009 for the software to become stable and worth using on my XP system.
I wont be moving from ATI2009 Build 9796 unless I have new hardware which is not compatible.
I have also been using Windows 7 RC1 and like it. But I wont be buying Windows 7 until after Windows 7 SP1 comes out. So until that happens I will definitely not be buying ATI2010.
Ah well, there you go! I never installed beyond 9709 as there are just to many bugs in 9796, that build was a backwards step. As for waiting for W7 SP1, I think you're going somewhat overboard there. If there is one Windows release that you can install from day one W7 is the one. Having said that I installed Vista on day one and never had a minutes trouble with it.