Acronis true image 11

[Welshjim]

There are many recommendations on this Board for Acronis True Image for the purpose of backing up (in my case to an external USB Hard Drive) and restoring data if needed.
My reason for posting is that I see there recently is a new version 11, but v10 continues to be offered, even by Acronis.
Is there any reason to chose v10 compared to v 11?

[HAN]

I don't follow all the ins and outs of TI (I use something else) but I feel it's safe to assume you are better off with the latest version. Development of Version 10 is ended and whatever issues may have existed for it will remain... permanently. My rule of thumb is to never start out with an older version of anything unless you have very specific , knowledgeable reasons for doing so. (An example, I run older versions of free Zone Alarm. The later versions provided nothing I wanted and were bloated beyond belief.)

[SpywareDr]

What's New in Acronis True Image 11 Home
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...id=872&cid=175

Last update: September 18, 2007

This article lists all the new features of Acronis True Image 11 Home and describes them

Description

Backup

• Try&Decide. Create a temporary, safe place on your hard disk where you can perform changes to your system that otherwise might not be advisable, such as installing new software, downloading files from the Internet, or opening e-mail attachments. If the operations are successful, you can apply those changes to the real system or discard the changes as you wish.
  
  
• Exclude Files and Folders from Image Backup. Save space when creating backups by ensuring that you are not backing up the information you don?t want to keep
  
  
• Backup your system state. Registry, boot files, as well as important system files from system crashes
  
  
• Automatic catalog of all your backups. Easily locate your archives as system automatically remembers their placement
  
  
• Raw Images support for other partitions and corrupted file systems

Recovery

• [b]Message-level Outlook restore. Quickly locate and recover your important messages from mail backup
  
  
• Search and explore archives. Easily search for and recover particular files from all your known backup archives
  
  
• Preserve files and folders during restore. Make sure your newly entered important data would not be overwritten by recovering from older backup

Management

• [b]Set and forget. Configure it once and you do not have to care about your backups as long as traffic light indicator shows green
  
  
• Smart Scheduling. Start backup on user idle, login/logout or other events: Automatically protect your system from potentially hazardous changes
  
  
• Schedule periodic backup validation. Ensure that your backups do not get corrupted, so restore would actually work

Privacy protection

• [b]Acronis Drive Cleanser. Protect your sensitive data when you are discarding a hard drive or returning leased system by securely easing the whole hard drive
  
  
• File Shredder. Wipe private or confidential data in individual files using latest multi-pass algorithms
  
  
• System Clean-Up. Protect your privacy by cleaning up your activity track stored by Windows

More information

The information about all the program features is available at http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../features.html

The more detailed information about the whole product usage can be found in Acronis True Image 11 Home user guide available at http://download.acronis.com/pdf/TrueImage11_ug.en.pdf

[buf]

Jim perhaps this forum wil be of help to you:
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=64

[Welshjim]

Thanks to all. It looks like there are some problems based on the Forum link provided by buf. But I did not go back far enough to see if they are more or less than with v10 or v9.

[buf]

I have no qualms with Version 9; build 3854. It has saved my bacon several times and I haven't seen any reason to upgrade.

[liam858]

I've used 9 on XP with no problems, at the time i was running 3 hard drives, long-story short 2 went bang, i had imaged just before, 20 minutes later i was back up and running, then when i made the move to Vista i used 10 for a while, made a boot image, and just do my data backups and relax. No problems with either, and don't feel the need to switch to 11 just yet.


Liam

[buf]

WOW---that's cutting it close Liam. Good going