[dba-Tech] Petulant PC

Be very careful with Acronis TrueImage, with out going into detail, the
product seems to get worse with every update. I have been dealing with
several known issues from version 7, on top of new problems in version 10.
They rarely seem to correct existing problems. 



WBR
Robert

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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:56 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Petulant PC

Well, my saga with TrueImage is beginning.  It refuses to install on one
machine, I haven't tried it on any others yet.  Google shows this install
problam dating back to at least version 8. 


John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 10:25 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Petulant PC

John,

I took the drive to my sysadmin at work and he hooked it up with this
hydra-headed connector to an external IDE drive controller.  He saw that the
registry was, indeed hosed.  He was able, however, to rebuild the registry
from a restoration point made Saturday morning.  He said, though, that at
one point my drive took down his own machine!

I got the drive plugged back in and it was like it was a Bic pen:
first time, every time!

Now to begin the removal of Symantec products from my system...

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI


On 6/5/07, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> I decided to try True Image 10.  I have just had all I can stand from 
> Symantec, their tech support is about as bad as it gets.  True image 
> is available through NewEgg for $35 including shipping.
>
> My biggest issue with this stuff is actually trying a restore.  I read 
> one service site that said "never do a restore over existing data"
> (they were talking images here).  The reason is simple, if the restore 
> fails you have hosed whatever chance you might have had of getting the 
> original data recovered.
>
> Of course that means getting another disk large enough to perform the 
> restore on, and of course in the case of a laptop, which will 
> physically fit in the machine once you are done recovering the backup.
>
> I was reading a side by side review of Symantec's product and True Image.
> The author stated that he was a die hard fan of the Symantec product 
> until the latest versions started creating corrupt backups.  While the 
> product would say that things failed in the LOG FILE, it never 
> actually said so on the screen, so the only way to know whether you 
> got a good backup was go read the log file.  Which of course the 
> average Joe will not think is required.  In fact the author was burned 
> and discovered this when his backup was corrupt.
>
> Anyway, I am going to do this stuff once I get my software.  Get a 
> good image of both my laptop and my wife's laptop, then get both 
> backing up critical data.  I have already moved my family photos off 
> onto the Raid 6 system, and have a backup area out on that machine for 
> raid protected storage.
>
> John W. Colby
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