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Ture Image 11 Home - Does is play nice with Linux EXT4 ?

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I've used Acronis TI WS for years but stopped when it would no longer provide full support for imaging EXT3/EXT4 file systems. I don't want the RAW image (Huge) of the drive. I want the same type of imaging support that NTFS has.

I was told that TI-11 now had such support so I need to confirm that.

Also, would it be possible (using bootable Acronis Media) to create a recovery partition (i.e. F-11 to restore) for an EXT4 drive.

I won't make another Acronis purchase until I know that this is supported. Thanks.

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Well, it seems that no one from Acronis is going to answer my question. I really wish I could get a full straight answer to this question. I'd like to make a purchase soon but won't do so until this question is answered.

Charles,

TI 2011 (not the same as TI 11) is compatible with ET4 with the following proviso. It can not be used at a file level, so complete disk and partitions are OK, but files and folder backup (and I assume NSB) are a no go.

Colin,

Thanks for the information. I will purchase TI 2011 then. I don't really care about file level backup, or NSB. It would be great if Acronis would make a single client version for us Linux users (Considering the bootable media is a Linux version anyway).

I use a very simple and great program (Deja-Dup) for files / folders under Linux. I just needed a way of backing up drives that contain both NTFS & EXT4 partitions. Clonzilla works great for EXT4, but when the HD has both NTFS/EXT4 it won't compress and does a S by S copy which takes for ever.

If I didn't have NTFS on the drives, I'd just use clonezilla because it will compress the drive in about 4 minutes and about the same amount of time to restore it. This works great on my tower systems, but my laptops multi-boot Vista/Linux and Win7/Linux. That particular combination doesn't work well with cloneziaal. I'm assuming that TI 2011 will be able to compress the multi-boot drives without problems. I did find another product that con do this, but since I've been a past user of TI from WAY BACK, I thought I'd throw them some coin if they are up to the task.

Why not download the trial version before you part with any money!

Colin B wrote:

Why not download the trial version before you part with any money!

Okay, I'll do just that. I have one question though... I received an offer to upgrade for $29, do I have to install my older version and then the upgrade version on top of that? OR... Can I just install the upgrade version without having to jump through a bunch of hoops?

You can install just the upgrade version, you will just need to provide your old serial number and your new one at the appropriate boxes.

I faced the same problems with ext3 filesystems and 256 byte inodes with TI-10. I learn, with TrueImage 2011 this problems should have gone. At least, if I backup/restore the files from TI 2011 running at windows.

My question: What about backing up / restoring, from recovery media, or from TI-2011 Plus pack version included in Win-PE? Is there support for ext3/4 with 256 byte inodes inside or not? (on WEB I can only find the information plus pack supports filesystems: ext2/3/reiser FS; When working with PE-Boot-CD, will I have the same problems like before ???)

Thanks

I'm finding that it works very well with EXT3/4. The only issue I seem to recall was that the backup would not save to an external EXT4 drive. It would backup an EXT4 drive, but I had to use an NTFS drive to save the *.tib file to. It's not idea but it's okay for me.

Also I forgot to mention, I don't use windows at all so the rescue media is the only method I use for making drive images. I haven't restored a .tib file from optical media as it's too small and slow for my use, but using the recovery disc to boot with, I have no problems restoring from various other hard drives.

Hope that made sense... :-)

Got here late, but have a question. I've used Clonezilla to backup a portable USB drive that has Ubuntu on an ext4 partition and other NTFS partitions that I use purely as backup destinations, so I've never tried to back them up. Anyway, I find that Clonezilla compresses my Linux system backups (ext4) even though I have other NTFS partitions on that drive. Under what conditions are you seeing it only do a SBS backup and not compressing?