Acronis 9 and Go Back question.

I've been using Go Back for about 3 years now and recently purchased Acronis 9.
I have made a full back up on an external hard drive.
I have read that these 2 programs can conflict with each other.
My question is this.
Go Back will restore my computer to an earlier time if something goes wrong.
If I took out Go Back could I use Acronis for basically the same thing? To fix a bad download for example?
This maybe a lame question but I don't fully understand the capabilities of Acronis yet.
Thanks for your help.

 

Hi Danny9

As you probably know GoBack is running in the background all the time so you can revert your computer back to any safe point it has saved, which are quite frequently.

Acronis however has to be run to take a full or incremental image of your hard drive which can be quite large and take some time to do, therefore is not practical to do on a very regular basis. You can only revert back to any images you have taken.

Both programs in my opinion are very good but they do have different uses, and they can be run together (with provisos).

Hope this helps

 

Yes it helps and thanks.
Would you know what the provisos are?

 

From Acronis FAQ

Is Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 compatible with Norton GoBack?

Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 is compatible with Norton GoBack, but you will need to disable Norton GoBack first if you want to resize a partition (running Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 either in Windows or from bootable rescue media), because Norton GoBack prohibits other applications from changing the partition table. NOTE: When you disable Norton GoBack, you will lose all past history backups and will not be able to undo the changes.

 

Goback changes the partition id - it would be worth creating rescue media and checking the TI can recognise the disks.

if it does not you can change them to proper NTFS values manually - but don't boot into window or you will loose goback rsotore points

 

Hi danny9,

If not already done, check out <Acronis True Image Online FAQ #29>.

Regards

 

Thanks menorcaman but one question please.
The first line says its compatible with Acronis True Image 9 except, then it lists exceptions like the stand alone version of Acronis True Image 9. Is there a difference and if so what am I missing here.
From what I have been reading though it looks like it comes down to one or the other.
If the computer would not start for what ever reason and I used the Acronis boot disk I think there would be a conflict with GoBack which always starts with the boot up. I don't believe it could be shut off to use Acronis to restore the full image. Please correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks for the help.

 

Hi again danny9,

When Acronis talk about the "standalone version of True Image" they mean the Linux based rescue environment. You can enter this environment in one of three ways:

1. Boot from the TI rescue CD/floppies.
2. Let TI reboot the system when restoring the C: partition from within Windows.
3. Activate the Startup Recovery Manager and press F11 during system boot.

Regards