Rescue&Recovery VS Acronis True Image

[Armi]

I suggest to be very careful with ACRONIS if you plan to rely on it for the safety of your computer. Better seriously think the matter over

There really is no such thing as relying on anything for the "safety" of your computer. I work with people every day who are told over and over to back up their data to their shared network drive so if something happens to their OS they won't lose their important data. Some do it some don't.

I've used Acronis for backup solutions and cloning it has worked fine so far for me. Other than the issues some are having with the newer version it's been reliable for what the mfr says it will do.

Hardware fails, software fails, it's generally not a good idea to have just one backup solution for any critical personal or job related information.

There are mitigating circumstances to every individuals situation, it's not fair to rubber stamp acronis as "hazardous" until there is way more than the few horror stories that I have read here.

I have been working 30 years with IBM, and I know what safety means. Now, everybody is free to accept to pay for a product which is not doing what it boasts to do, but I prefer one which works, and I think this not an unfair attitude. My message was just to make people aware of what can happen with ACRONIS. This does not prevent an amateur to try his luck.

[Kyocera]

A few words to tell my catastrophic experience with ACRONIS. It was just enable to recover the system after a general crash, and I had to reinstall everything, starting with Windows. The assistance was just inexistant, it took them ten days to answer my request for help (this was in France).

My opinion is that this product is not reliable, which means dangerous as far as computer safety is concerned. The assistance as well.

I suggest to be very careful with ACRONIS if you plan to rely on it for the safety of your computer. Better seriously think the matter over

Of course, I gave up this junk, and I am back to RnR, version 4.2, fighting with chkdsk problems. Hope it will be safer.

Armi, with all due respect, you slammed acronis pretty hard, to quote "catastrophic" "product is not reliable" "dangerous" "junk". I was simply rebutting your experience with mine so that others may read both post's and then come to a conclusion. If I were "googling" "problems with acronis" and came upon your post (which is highly probable) it may deter someone from further investigation and possibly having a good experience over the years like I and many that I know have had.

A good backup solution is simply to get a usb Hard Drive enclosure and put valuble data there. In the instance of a real "catastrophic" HD failure you have your data on another drive and can reinstall when you get your new HD.