I usually just create an image of my system drive – as all the other partitions on the main drive are setup for My Documents, Music etc – a lot of which do not change and would be pointless creating an image to include these. Acronis) from You can check the documentation there, which clearly shows that it is actually Acronis – the documentation indicates that it is the 2013 version, but this will have to be checked.ġ. Some say that the possibility of getting errors when doing the re-sizing of the partitions is a potential risk, but I haven’t had an issue with that after a number of restores and I expect that I can always do another image restore if an error ever occured.įYI – Seagate provides a free version of Acronis if you use a Seagate Drive. I therefore run Acronis Disk Director 12 to re-establish the over-provisioning after doing the actual restore. I can’t say about other models, but I have used several Samsung EVO 840 and 850 drives and while they do not enforce the creation or use of over-provisioning they do indicate that the extra processing steps required with an SSD make this area important to the operation and the life of the drive.
One additional point about using TI 2014 is that when restoring a full image to an SSD is that while the program will recognize and preserve manufacturer or other special partitions on the drive, it will take any over-provisioning space at the end and use it for the system/data partition(s) when restoring. I also use TI 2014 backup validation options both when creating and restoring images. I don’t think that I get any noticeable backup/restore speed improvements but I just feel more comfortable as to security in using external media to boot into the Linux TI 2014, even after running anti-malware programs. I agree that the running TI 2014 as an installed Win app provides the important bonus of being able to recover specific folders or files versus doing a full image restore and losing later data and changes made after the restore image was created. Your advice and opinions would be appreciated.
My questions are: If I were to actually install the full True Image program on my hard disk, would the imaging process be any faster? Would there be any other advantages to creating an image from the fully installed program? Am I at higher risk of corrupting my system from doing my images in this fashion? My most recent backup (yesterday) took approximately 4 hours to complete (including verification), which seems to me like a very long time. I always allow the program to verify the image. I only use 247GB of my 2TB hard drive, and I use “normal” compression (Acronis’ terminology) to create the image. I boot into True Image from the bootable disk, and I do a disk image of my hard drive (all partitions) to an external hard drive (Seagate Backup Plus) via a USB 3 interface. I do this because I believe this is the best way to isolate my system from corruption, since I never boot to the system, but only to the Acronis environment.
I have not installed the program on my computer, but I have used the Acronis ISO to burn a bootable disk that I use to make my hard disk images.
I have a paid version of Acronis True Image 2014.