Acronis True Image

Scott

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Sep 9, 2021, 6:12:21 PM9/9/21

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Has anyone here installed the latest update for Acronis True Image? It
has renamed the product as Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office. Half
the stuff does not seem to work, it spent over two hours securely
deleting some files and it looks like it has now lost all the backups.

Will system restore get the old version of True Image back again?

It seems to have gone down the same route as Norton - full of
bloatware.

My subscription is about to expire anyway. What would the group
recommend as a backup instead of Acronis?

Sysadmin

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Sep 10, 2021, 12:44:21 AM9/10/21

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Drive Snapshot, I have used it for years.

Gopalan Sampath

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Sep 10, 2021, 1:03:28 AM9/10/21

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I use Macrium Reflect, easy no fuss image copy aid.

Figaro

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Sep 10, 2021, 2:04:38 AM9/10/21

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On Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:12:16 +0100, Scott

Macrium Reflect. Been using it for many years and never a problem.
Very simple and easy to use.

alan_m

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Sep 10, 2021, 3:17:18 AM9/10/21

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If you look on their forums there are many complaints about previous
versions from the past couple of years having some of the same buggy
facilities and people only realising that when they actually need to
recover information that Acronis fails in that respect as well.

I found that the 2021 version of Acronis (before the renaming) seriously
slowed down my startup (another common complaint in their forums) and
even disabling the "protection" features made no difference.

IMO Acronis has jumped the shark and I would not touch it with a barge
pole. However, many review sites still recommend Acronis as the best
backup software so it makes you wonder about the rest of their
recommendations.

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Reentrant

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Sep 10, 2021, 10:03:42 AM9/10/21

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Maybe one of those Acronis forum posts was me. I'd been most versions
since around 2009, but had become a bit fed up with the bloated "cyber
prtection" and the switch from perpetual to annual licencing. The final
straw was finding that, even though backups ran fine, verified, and I
could restore the whole system, attempting to restoring individual files
didn't work.

I switched to Macrium Reflect several months ago and it's fine. (A
British company too).

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Davidm

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Sep 10, 2021, 11:27:52 AM9/10/21

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On Thu, 09 Sep 2021 23:12:16 +0100, Scott
<newsg...@gefion.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

++++1 for Macrium Reflect, even the free version is good, depends what
sort of backups you want.

mechanic

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Sep 10, 2021, 2:40:19 PM9/10/21

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On Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:27:48 +0100, Davidm wrote:

>>My subscription is about to expire anyway. What would the group
>>recommend as a backup instead of Acronis?

What group? For backup - AOMEI Backupper.

Peter Able

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Sep 11, 2021, 6:46:54 PM9/11/21

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On 09/09/2021 23:12, Scott wrote:

Use the limited function Acronis version offered free by your main
drive's manufacturer?

PA

alan_m

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Sep 12, 2021, 4:13:03 AM9/12/21

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On 11/09/2021 22:46, Peter Able wrote:

> Use the limited function Acronis version offered free by your main
> drive's manufacturer?

I've never seen Acronis in any form bundled with any hard drive I have
purchased, nor seen it installed on any computer I have bought.

Removing Acronis 2020 from my machine speeded up the startup and first
use of programs considerably.

Peter Able

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Sep 12, 2021, 5:13:16 AM9/12/21

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On 12/09/2021 09:12, alan_m wrote:
> On 11/09/2021 22:46, Peter Able wrote:
>
>> Use the limited function Acronis version offered free by your main
>> drive's manufacturer?
>
> I've never seen Acronis in any form bundled with any hard drive I have
> purchased, nor seen it installed on any computer I have bought.
>
> Removing Acronis 2020 from my machine speeded up the startup and first
> use of programs considerably.
>
>

Go to the drive's manufacturer's website.

PA

Paul

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Sep 12, 2021, 2:41:09 PM9/12/21

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Western Digital seems to be offering the bloated version
as the current version.

*******

Perhaps this is an older version, with slightly less bloat.

https://www.seagate.com/ca/en/support/downloads/discwizard/

The deal with those, was the hard drive brand had to match
the site you were downloading from.

https://www.seagate.com/ca/en/support/internal-hard-drives/enterprise-hard-drives/savvio-15k/discwizard-master-dl/

2019-12-10

https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/support-content/downloads/discwizard/_shared/downloads/SeagateDiscWizard_23022800.exe

Name: SeagateDiscWizard_23022800.exe
Size: 485,482,976 bytes (462 MB)

SHA1: EC412DDE451459D89CD7B19AFE69F80682A6D2E1

It's harder to find the older WDC version ones. At least you can
see the modern file name, versus the older tih_s_e naming convention.

https://www.touslesdrivers.com/index.php?v_page=23&v_code=66879

2020-12-08

https://fichiers.touslesdrivers.com/66879/AcronisTrueImageWD_WIN.zip

Name: AcronisTrueImageWD_WIN.zip
Size: 646,661,092 bytes (616 MB)

SHA1: 9249BBA603C496503B7A92948A3BEC4E8535D7DE

Whereas current versions might be 800MB.

One of the problems, is not going back too far, and having
trouble doing a hot backup of a Windows 10 C: . That's why
I didn't go back further in time and avoid the modern ones.

*******

The only older ones I have on disk here, are stuff like this from 2012.

Name: DiscWizardSetup-14387.en.exe
Size: 151,264,056 bytes (144 MB)

SHA1: 6B9F2269CEB78FCE0E74B4C6E6E927B4F3E4480D

and

Name: tih_s_e_14192__westerndigtialversion_discWizard.exe
Size: 155,165,184 bytes (147 MB)

SHA1: C2EE42B8991742B65639623044938693574529BD

The download now, is big enough to be a video game.

And you don't have to use those, as there are other
free materials out there from other companies.

Paul

Peter Able

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Sep 12, 2021, 5:07:24 PM9/12/21

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Incidentally - IME you don't strictly need the right version for your
particular HD manufacturer. Just temporarily attaching an HD drive from
one of the manufacturers that do a free Acronis is enough to give the
software access to the drive you want to back up.

PA

Rod Speed

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Sep 12, 2021, 5:12:40 PM9/12/21

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alan_m <ju...@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote

> Peter Able wrote

>> Use the limited function Acronis version offered
>> free by your main drive's manufacturer?

> I've never seen Acronis in any form bundled
> with any hard drive I have purchased,

Its normally available for download from the manufacturer's web site.

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