FD-ISR and Acronis TI

Hey guys,

After briefly trying FD-ISR, I have a few questions for the experts.

I currently use Acronis TI to make full backups of my C drive on Monday and Thursday.

According to FD-ISR you need to disable the pre boot function to use an imaging program. So, if you disable the pre boot function how would you recover in an emergency?

Would I have to make my backups with ATI manually and then enable pre boot in FD-ISR?

My ATI backups are run automatically now and I would hate to change that. Surely I'm missing something on how to run FD-ISR and ATI together.

Also, I ran a manual back up with ATI and of course it took twice as long as normal to complete and was twice as big in size apparently from me making a snapshot with FD-ISR.

I guess what I'm trying to ask is this: if I have two full backups running with ATI that would fill up my hard drive quickly. How do guys have 7 or 8 snapshots do it? No imaging program?

Anyhow, thanks for listening,
John

 

Pete,

Thanks. I'll try some of your suggestions.

Why does it say to disable pre boot in the FD-ISR program if you use an imaging app?

Thanks again,
John

 

The older versions of FirstDefense used to jealously guard and demand top priority over the Master Boot Record. The later versions no longer demand such control. (Or something like that ).

Acadia

 

Thanks Guys,

Just to be sure though, I have FD-ISR Professional v3.21 build 205 and you're saying it is ok to leave pre boot enabled and run Acronis TI without issues?

TIA
John

 

I used FDISR and Acronis TI for more than one year successfully and I never disabled the Pre-boot, not even with older versions of FDISR. This combination never failed on me.
Disabling Pre-boot = working without FDISR, no Immediate System Recovery anymore. So avoid this as much as possible.

 

Same here, i've had no trouble imaging with ATI v10 or v11 while the fd-isr pre boot screen is enabled.

 

Thanks to all,

Pre boot is enabled again.

John