It was only when I attempted to Recover one of those backups that the Acronis Recovery Media informed me with a popup, 'Index Corrupted', followed by 'Recovery operation failed'. For weeks the Acronis software had been creating and validating nightly disk image backups that would later not Recover. SOME BACKGROUND, for those who are interested…Īfter the Recovery failure, the Acronis support people traced the problem to a File System issue on the drive. I'm asking because last year I had an Acronis recovery fail and I'm looking to make some changes to my backup routine, including adding redundancy. Can you boot off of a thumb drive or DVD only?Īnd is Backup & recovery Home good enough or are there some great features one would want in hard Disk Manager 15 Professional.Can Acronis TI 2020 and Macrium Reflect be used on the same windows machine? the others?Īlso speed and reliably, flexibility etc. What features does Paragon have that are a 'Must Have' vs. I have a couple of SATA drives (WD 7200 RPM) that I want to Clone the OS drive with.ĭoes Paragon offer superior cloning to the ones mentioned above? Also what about booting off of an external drive I used to Clone the OS drive with? Has anyone done this before with 100% success? Also, my OS drive is about 500 gigs and I use about 350 gigs. My plan is get about 4 - 3TB drives and use 2 to backup data and 2 to work off of. I also have about 4TB worth of data to archive. I want a reliable program that WORKS where Macrium Reflect seems to not have any negative reviews that I can find. I have a computer I use for recording and have spent MONTHS setting up 100's of programs on my OS drive. I heard good things about it as well, but since then I believe Paragon and/or Macrium reflect v5 professional would be a better choice between the others.

So I purchased NovaBACKUP 16.5 Professional (cause it was 50% off) for $24.97. I have True Image 2015 (just upgraded from 2011) but before I make a Clone drive to try to boot off of, I read some negative reviews.

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