[dba-Tech] Petulant PC

Lembit Soobik lembit.dbamail at t-online.de
Fri Jun 8 07:25:15 CDT 2007


Robert,
can you please tell us what these problems are?
I am using Acronis True Image 10 Home, and the only problem I had was a 
misinterpretation on one screen, but once I got it, no problems.
have done many images of system- and other drives and installed them on 
other drives with no failures.

thanks
Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert" <robert at servicexp.com>
To: "'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'" 
<dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:26 PM
Subject: Re: [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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [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
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [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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