Window's 7 & Acronis TI?

Hey all,

Windows 7 seems to have a VERY strong Back-up & Recovery system when it arrives!

http://www.pixel2life.com/tutorials/windows_7/backup_and_restore/

Will that be the end of Acornis as I know it or will Acronis have something else up their sleeve?

Anyone know?

Thanks,
Steve

 

Windows Complete PC Backup and Restore is not new. It was introduced in early 2007 with Vista.

 

I'll be testing it as soon as I finish downloading and instal the RC1 which came out today.

 

I've used it and I can't tell any difference from Vista (Ultimate) except for gui. Even if Windows did improve their backup imaging, it still wouldn't compare to the options available in Acronis (and others). Anyways, Windows Defender certainly hasn't killed the anti-malware market.

 

Major difference between vista version and the windows 7 version is file selection, you did not have any way in the vista version to cherry pick files/folders. As with all MS products there are nearly always other products that are better in certain area's than the MS product. Acronis imaging solution is stronger than the MS solution give it a go you will see what I mean, mount an MS created vhd as a virtual machine.

 

I tried the Win 7 backup feature and I have to say that Acronis need not worry about a thing. For about 7Gb of used space Win 7 produced a folder containing 13 files. And it is not that the Image file was split - far from it, the main Image file was about 6Gb and the other files ranged in size from 2kb to 38Mb. It's not my idea of how a backup Image file should be.

Maybe someone can point out some advantages of the Win 7 backup. I'm willing to learn.

 

For those wanting to backup their system drive *and* cherry-pick their data files (many here store such files on a separate partition) to archive to another internal drive or USB drive, Windows 7's backup solution seems quite good. It manages space automatically to delete older data sets and system images based on a % of free space on the backup drive. The only thing that I'm a little leery of is not being able to browse (or mount) the archive.

EDIT: You can browse your data files after hitting the restore button to select either individual files or the whole shebang.

Documentation is a little wanting too in terms of what Windows 7 is actually doing with its backups. Are they incrementals or differentials? Does it perform a full backup after a set number of interim backups? For those running Windows 7, I'm now seeking a reason to install Acronis. Until now, I've been using Acronis for system images and Syncback to backup data files (no compression). I think I may stick with Syncback just because I like to see real duplicates.

 

Hopefully not viewed as a threadjack, I cannot get scheduled tasks to work on either of my W7 32bit installs - manual works, but not scheduled.

 

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Dmitry Nikolaev

 

Some nice improvements - still won't mount an archive in W7 RC1 correctly. Drive letter gets assigned, virtual partition becomes available, TI finishes assigning and drive letter disappears - partition becomes unmounted.

Competitors product manages to mount correctly.