Solved Help in the right backup software

[1337]

Hello everyone and sorry for the trouble again.

I am looking for a backup software but wasn't sure of which one is really good to use. I am going to buy the software but I am holding back on which one to go for.

I was told that Acronis is really good with it's boot-disc and software and can do incremental backup monthly. The backing-up process seems really fast though and since I am only going to backup my SSD's data. All the information I know from there are based off what my friend said but haven't really seem it in action.

Is there any other software that could out-perform Acronis?
Or am I better off using the default Windows backup?

Sorry and thanks.

 

[Golden]

Hi,

Can you clarify whether you are addressing full system images, or individual user data/file backups?

If its the latter, you might consider SyncToy. For full system images both Acronis and Macrium seem quite popular. I'm not familiar with Acronis and use Macrium.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html

Regards,
Golden

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Macrium is probably the easiest to understand, quite fast, and as reliable as any.

The built-in Windows tool works fairly well, but is fussy and not particularly intuitive.

But I wouldn't rely on images for data backup. As Golden says, use something like Synctoy for that.

Probably no need to buy anything. Macrium has a free edition and Acronis has a free version available to anyone with a Western Digital or Seagate hard drive.

Many would tell you to avoid incrementals and just do the periodic full images.

 

[1337]

Hi,

Can you clarify whether you are addressing full system images, or individual user data/file backups?

If its the latter, you might consider SyncToy. For full system images both Acronis and Macrium seem quite popular. I'm not familiar with Acronis and use Macrium.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/73828-imaging-free-macrium.html

Regards,
Golden

Thank you, Golden for the wonderful link to SyncToy but I am not very sure how to use SyncToy because I am looking for a full system backup solution. I am looking into Macrium right now and thanks for the tutorial. Tyvm!

Macrium is probably the easiest to understand, quite fast, and as reliable as any.

The built-in Windows tool works fairly well, but is fussy and not particularly intuitive.

But I wouldn't rely on images for data backup. As Golden says, use something like Synctoy for that.

Probably no need to buy anything. Macrium has a free edition and Acronis has a free version available to anyone with a Western Digital or Seagate hard drive.

Many would tell you to avoid incrementals and just do the periodic full images.

Thank you, ignatzatsonic for the heads-up. Really appreciate it. I have no idea about that Acronis is free for WD and SG HDD. I happens to use WD HDD for my storage. Damn sweet. Thanks again!

 

[pirej]

I would go for Acronis WD edition, its free, fast, reliable, easy to use, nice boot CD that loads FAST... and did i say it was free??
I was testing and trying a lot of system imaging apps for full cold backup-restore from boot cd, and i allways come back to my favorite Acronis WD edition.
Macrium free/paid is good too but Acronis boot cd loads faster and the backup/restoring is faster too.