Acronis True Image WISH-LIST thread

Better network browsing when using the boot CD to pull down an image to the machine. The Acronis splash screen on the Boot CD is very slow (about 30-40 seconds to load the software)

 

It would be extremely helpful to be able to manage images in the Secure Zone. To be able to delete a specific image, etc. - feature has been already requested

 

1.)Allow for differential backups - feature was implemented

2.)Support all DVD formats including DVD-RAM (DVD-RAM is superior for backups because it has hardware-based error correction) - feature has been already requested

3.)Have the manual edited by a native English speaker

 

It would also be very nice to be able to copy or backup an image from the Secure Zone to another disc. This limitation is one very good reason NOT to use Secure Zone. - feature has been already requested

 

It would be nice to have support for logical volumes(LVM) in Linux since this is the current default for RedHat(latest) Linux installs.

 

Support Tablet PCs - feature has been already requested

 

standalone image explorer executable

a necessity for those of us who want to simply create/restore images via the bootable cd. currently we are forced to keep the entire program installed just to extract individual files from an image. - feature has been already requested

 

I thought that could be done with the BartPE plugin. ? Reatogo version.

I'm not 100 % sure though.

 

It would be nice to have an option to reboot into the boot-time TrueImage straight up. Even adjusting the order of the Wizard would be enough to make it easy to use.

At present, you have to select an image file, select a drive to restore, enter the password image password, select the target partition THEN you are told you need to reboot. All the information you enter is not remembered when you have rebooted, so most steps turn out to be superfluous.

I suggest either passing the information to the boot time automatically (as Norton Ghost does, then reboots, runs, and reboots again without intervention) or having the first step in the Wizard select the partition to be restored so that the system can reboot straight away without asking for stuff that won't be used. - feature has been already requested

 

Yup HI,

After a few days tinkering around with Acronis & Ghost, I would like to make a couple of recommendations:

1. Please just let me burn the image directly to DVD (DVD+R). Roxio's directCD had me going a bit, when I first switched over to Acronis to check out its functionality. I was failing to close the DVD preformatting option and this was banging out my image creation between swapping disc's over. - feature has been already requested

2. Please write a better manual. I've read the entire thing from front to back, and the let down is that it tells me how to use TrueImage without telling me how to use TrueImage. Are you on the same page with me here?

All-in-all, I think Acronis TI is quite a nifty product. I haven't had time to do a lot of different things with it, in different scenario's etc, but my impressions are favorable. I like the bootup CD-ROM and accessing network share thru it, as the GUI kinda makes it idiot-proof. Its got a lot more personality than Ghost. Though I 've been using Ghost a lot at home recently & it has my confidence. I've only recently started using TI, but I like it a lot. I want to spend a bit more time with it, but I think it's quite cool! It seems like there's a quantity of support with it, and a impression of belief in the product from the company itself. I have not hit any major hurdles with this product apart from the 2 above.

I think the murky water associated with different DVD standards and preformatting even, threw me a little, when all I wanted to do is create an image to DVD. I didn't want to bone up on standards & another application to get this thing running smoothly.

The stuff I've listed, really bugged me at the beginning and could of sapped a less motivated person, say a casual home internet user.

I found burning to DVD was moderately quick. To USB a bit of a wait. But over the network (Gigabit speed) was blazing.

Acronis have a cigar on me, you did well here and I think you will go on to make it even better.

 

Hi, i was wondering there is an Bart PE version why is'nt there a knoppix version? I've tried it, the software starts but it dousn't see any harddisks.

So requested is a Knoppix add-in such as the one for PE.

An other request more like a question is why isn't it possible to make some kernel changes on the command line at startup so that i can choose for example not to load USB but load LAN drivers. or to load USB an not load the LAN drivers or something else. Some kind of debugmode i call it for now.

So 2nd request is a debug mode.

Please let me know when thing are possible.

Kind Regards
Smartuser

 

I have been using acronis for a while and have versions six onwards. One of the big problems I found was that newer versions do NOT read backups made by old versions and even more scary tell you that the back up is corrupt. Boy that gave me a heart attack. I ended having to reinstall a workstation from scratch until the same thing happened again and I figured I could not have so many corrupt backups and tried experimenting.

In short support old versions and get rid of corrupt backup message when it is not true. - feature has been already requested

 

PLease add the disk format utlity so that I only insert a blank dvd-r; it should format, make bootable if chosen, then image to it, report the number of disks necessary (i know it would be approx) and then prompt me when an additional disk is needed, auto-label the additional disk with the orig name & #, it should then start the process over again. JUST THAT SIMPLE.

No additional keys or button to push.

If you would do that for CD's and DVD's then this long list would be server image issues and a few very current and needed little issues. Then you could move the server image issues to a different list and different program.

The reality is you have a great product, if I want complex gui and multi process's to create an image, I would still be using Gxxxx, I was hoping for an answer here but it seem that you are getting sucked down the road of unseen ghost's. It would not suprise me if the Sym... co was trying to move you to the complex, please beat them and KISS (keep it simple stupid).

Remember the complex is what programers build left unchecked, simple is what the end user wants, simple sells, complex makes for long user list and long (48 hour) response times for issues.

 

Re: Wish-list thread

I have USB and Firewire drives mounted on an NTFS folder on drive C: (you can't mount them elsewhere). When I do an Image of C: the whole content of the mounted drives is included into the image!
How can this happen if the software makes a pure image of the C: drive? This content isn't on the C: drive but is indeed in the image.

How can I avoid this behaviour? (please don't tell me to unmount the drives, I obviously would have if I could)

Regards.

Manuel

 

Better error reporting/readability - feature has been already requested

Be nice if there was an online database of documented errors and fixes where someone can search for a quick fix.

I know a number of fixes that have been documented in these forums are pushed far down and it can be time consuming just to locate them.

error numbers are great, but worthless if you know not what they apply to.

 

Re: Wish-list thread

This would be a GREAT feature!
The ability to edit a mounted image, or mount an unloacked image.- feature has been already requested

 

Date and Time Stamped File Names

I think this has been added, but just wanted to add another voice to the Wish List and some implementation suggestions.

I suggest that True Image is enhanced to allow file names to have a date/time parameter, e.g. "Backup of partition C on %dd %mmm &yy at %hh:%mm" This way each backup will have a unique file name. - feature has been already requested

Another suggestion is a schedule pattern that allows (say) a weekly full backup (with a unique file name as above) plus daily incremental backups.

When the next weekly full backup is done then option to have any of the previous weeks incremental backups deleted plus option to keep/not keep the previous weekly full backup.

To acheive this file names may need to be specified in 2 parts:
Root - e.g. "Backup of partition C"
Suffix - e.g. "on %dd %mmm &yy at %hh:%mm"
Sets of full/incremental files would be identified by their root names. Alternatively, each set could be placed in a different directory.

The same pattern could be extended to Monthly (or 4 weekly) /Weekly cycles and Quarterly (or 13 weeks) / Monthly cycles.

Finally, whilst I know all TI actions are logged, having options to display a successful and/or unsuccessully dialogue boxes would be helpful, so when I return from lunch I can immediate see that the backup has been performed (or not). - feature was implemented

Alan

 

Disk Director Suite should have Full version of Drive Cleanser included!

Please can you include the full version/functionality of Drive Cleanser into Disk Director Suite. DDS is supposed to be an advanced disk management utility, and drive cleansing/wiping is certainly an essential part of disk management/maintenance.

PS. I know DDS can already do basic wiping with 0's, but I still think it should have the full DC functionality included.

Once it has this functionality, DDS will truly become an advanced disk management utility IMO, and I will have no hesitation in dumping my copy PartitionMagic (and various other disk tools) and purchasing a copy of DDS.

Thanks for listening!

 

Re: Wish-list thread

Because TI doesn't make a pure image of the C: drive but of the C: partition. For all practical purposes, anything mounted on C: is part of the C: partition. A single partition can span multiple drives.

 

Please improve the scheduler interface so that a start date can be specified for any task. - feature was implemented
It would also be very helpful to have a review capability (perhaps a calander or list) showing the timeline of when scheduled tasks will execute.

More info here:
https://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=95762

Also, I'd like to be able to schedule and automate image check in addition to image creation. - feature was implemented

Regards,
Don

 

Hi, in a corporate environment, TI desperately needs the ability to have finer control over throttling the application.

One should be able to throttle the application to use a maximum of 1 - 100% of the processor in increments of 5 or 10% at most. Three settings just doesn't cut it.

The network browsing is also fairly clunky at times.

Better Scheduling is also a must.

It's a great product but could use a couple of minor touch ups here and there.

Keep up the good work!

 

I've mentioned this request before, but thought I'd bring it to Acronis' attention since there's been talk of TI 9.

Please can you allow users to Load/Save (or at the very least, Load) Image Descriptions, in both the Windows version AND the Bootable CD version (although I mainly use Boot CD). I need this feature because I make a lot of backups, to which I like to add an informative description of what it contains. Often the descriptions are very similar, so with this Load/Save functionality I could create templates as text files, and then just load them . This would save me a LOT of time, so please can you add this simple feature to the upcoming TI 9. - feature has been already requested

 

I would be REALLY usefull to be able to restore individual files from a backup tape (like you can from a TIB file) rather than having to restore the whole partition. - feature has been already requested

 

I really wish that when I start a backup, I could at that time check a box tospecify that I want a verification to be run immediately after the backup rather than having to create a new operation. - feature was implemented

 

When performing incremental backups verifying the image takes ages for large backups.

Can we have the option to only verify the increment just saved, not the whole image set. (Each file in the set can still be verified anyway). - feature has been already requested