Kudos to Acronis

After years of seamless operation of a critical system with an occasional minor issue, the inevitable arrived this morning, a toasted Hard Drive

1.5 hours later its back up and running with out any issue, only a few days of missing email .....

Thank you people at Acronis, you made/saved my day...........

 

So why did you miss that much email?

 

For the future you could change your mail settings so that a copy of your incoming mail stays on your ISP's server. This could down load again on recovery.

Xpilot

 

Dear Poster,

I keep all my files/email on a different partition (drive)... that way no matter how many times I image/re-install image my data/emails all are current and up todate plus it make it easy to backup strickly the data.

Example (I use):

C: OS - Image Every Major Program/Update - Backup Using Daily
D: Pagefile - Backup Never
I: Internet Files - Those your internet browser cache - Backup Never
F: All data files - Backup Every Hour

korona

 

The system is a server; email is setup for personal mail only. I've a notebook, that is also backed up by Acronis, and that's were the work/critical emails reside

 

Right. Full image is not the way to save 'data' files. No need to do full image very often. Data files - as often as you feel comfortable. There are some products available that provide continuous backup for data files.