Windows 7 Backup Broken

I am finding that I have a bit of a problem at the moment. I installed a trial version of Acronis True Image Home and decided to give it a try for a few days to compare it to the built in Windows backup.

I liked it but decided it was not much different then the windows backup and uninstalled it. Sense that point my windows backup has not worked. I do not know what to do at this point. I go to the control panel - System and Security - and try to click on either Backup and Restore or Back up your computer and neither are able to be selected. I click on them and nothing happens.

I have asked Acronis about this and they have acknowledged the problem and offered some fixes, but none of them have solved my problem. Is there anyone here who might have some insight into what I might be able to do?

I do not want my option to be that I have to go back to buying and using Acronis after they have caused massive amounts of frustration for me.

On another note does anyone know a way of using a backup utility of some type that would allow me to create multiple backups on multiple drives at the same time? I.E. I have a usb external drive connected to a laptop dock at my office and a network drive at my house. I want them to both be backed up to, but I have not found something that will do the same backup say daily to multiple drives.

Thanks in advance for any help on this.

Matt

You should still be able to do a system restore to before you installed the software.

Personally I only back up files, not whole disk images. If problems arise I always like to start from fresh with only my files being the thing the same as before.

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I am only backing up data not doing a disk image. I just tried out the acronis true image. That is why I want to be able to go back.

I did try doing a system restore, but no luck. The oldest restore I have is after I installed that unless there is something I am not aware of to go back further.

Matt

Sorry about your predicament - and can't help you with that I'm afraid. I use Macrium Reflect free version to image to a second internal HDD and then Teracopy this to the system drive (separate partition). I also save a copy on a USB HDD. With my images being less than 15GB I can store quite a few versions. I believe a back-up utility such as SyncBack or SyncToy can be scheduled to do automatic copying - SyncBack certainly can and there is a free version. I use SyncBack to back-up my data regularly but I don't use an automatic schedule. I have done several restores using the original images all of which have succeeded so I've never needed any back-up copies. Better safe than sorry though since HDD space is (was) cheap.

Both are set to manual and the windows backup is "started". Still no luck.

no acronis stuff in the services not anything labeled as such at least.