When I bought my new computer running Vista Home Premium, I also bought an
external hard drive for backing up. That drive came with its own backup
software --Retrospect 7.5 by EMC. I assumed that's what I should use but now
learn that they haven't issued a driver compatible with Vista. I now see
that Vista has its own backup software. Is there any reason I shouldn't use
the Vista backup software and just forget about Retrospect?

Personally, I like the updated backup utilities in Vista. I would recommend it.

--
Jason
Windows Vista RTM
MS Office 2007 RTM
"Clipper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:31894B69-74F6-4772-A422-(E-Mail Removed)...
When I bought my new computer running Vista Home Premium, I also bought an
external hard drive for backing up. That drive came with its own backup
software --Retrospect 7.5 by EMC. I assumed that's what I should use but now
learn that they haven't issued a driver compatible with Vista. I now see
that Vista has its own backup software. Is there any reason I shouldn't use
the Vista backup software and just forget about Retrospect?

Western Digital for some time has been including Retrospect software -
unfortunately it is the "light" version with limited capability.
The backup utility provided with Home Premium provides for backing and
restoring files and folders - it does not do a "complete" backup (image
backup) of the computer for disaster recovery.
Vista's "Complete PC Backup" utility is not included with Home Basic or
Premium.



"Clipper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> When I bought my new computer running Vista Home Premium, I also bought an
> external hard drive for backing up. That drive came with its own backup
> software --Retrospect 7.5 by EMC. I assumed that's what I should use but
> now
> learn that they haven't issued a driver compatible with Vista. I now see
> that Vista has its own backup software. Is there any reason I shouldn't
> use
> the Vista backup software and just forget about Retrospect?

Acronis true is free for 15 days and works really simply also vista ready

http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-comput...trueimage-home


Billy
"AJR" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Western Digital for some time has been including Retrospect software -
> unfortunately it is the "light" version with limited capability.
> The backup utility provided with Home Premium provides for backing and
> restoring files and folders - it does not do a "complete" backup (image
> backup) of the computer for disaster recovery.
> Vista's "Complete PC Backup" utility is not included with Home Basic or
> Premium.
>
>
>
> "Clipper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:31894B69-74F6-4772-A422-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> When I bought my new computer running Vista Home Premium, I also bought
>> an
>> external hard drive for backing up. That drive came with its own backup
>> software --Retrospect 7.5 by EMC. I assumed that's what I should use but
>> now
>> learn that they haven't issued a driver compatible with Vista. I now see
>> that Vista has its own backup software. Is there any reason I shouldn't
>> use
>> the Vista backup software and just forget about Retrospect?
>
>

Acronis "True Image" 10. Works well with Vista. Use it now.


"Clipper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:31894B69-74F6-4772-A422-(E-Mail Removed)...
> When I bought my new computer running Vista Home Premium, I also bought an
> external hard drive for backing up. That drive came with its own backup
> software --Retrospect 7.5 by EMC. I assumed that's what I should use but
> now
> learn that they haven't issued a driver compatible with Vista. I now see
> that Vista has its own backup software. Is there any reason I shouldn't
> use
> the Vista backup software and just forget about Retrospect?

Diamontina Cocktail:
> Acronis "True Image" 10. Works well with Vista. Use it now.
>

Acronis TI has too many restrictions under Vista now. So I've chosen
Paragon Drive Backup - http://www.drive-backup.com

Note: I have Vista x32 and Paragon's solution works fine with it, but
as far as I know Vista x64 isn't supported yet.

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:


>> Acronis "True Image" 10. Works well with Vista. Use it now.
>>
>
> Acronis TI has too many restrictions under Vista now.


Exactly what restriction are you referring to? I'm not aware of any, and TI
works fine here.

--
Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
Please reply to the newsgroup

Also curious about the "restrictions" - works fine here!

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Diamontina Cocktail:
>> Acronis "True Image" 10. Works well with Vista. Use it now.
>>
>
> Acronis TI has too many restrictions under Vista now. So I've chosen
> Paragon Drive Backup - http://www.drive-backup.com
>
> Note: I have Vista x32 and Paragon's solution works fine with it, but
> as far as I know Vista x64 isn't supported yet.
>

On 27 ÆÅ×, 01:25, "AJR" <ajr...@comcast.net> wrote:
> Also curious about the "restrictions" - works fine here!
>
> <sadpr...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
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>
>
>
>
> > Diamontina Cocktail:
> >> Acronis "True Image" 10. Works well withVista. Use it now.
>
> > Acronis TI has too many restrictions underVistanow. So I've chosen
> > Paragon DriveBackup-http://www.drive-backup.com
>
> > Note: I haveVistax32 and Paragon's solution works fine with it, but
> > as far as I knowVistax64 isn't supported yet.- óËÒÙÔØ ÃÉÔÉÒÕÅÍÙÊ ÔÅËÓÔ -
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> - ðÏËÁÚÁÔØ ÃÉÔÉÒÕÅÍÙÊ ÔÅËÓÔ -

OK "too many" is overstatement There wasn't hot backup under Vista
(except VSS) in trial I've tried, so it's very bad for me. Also, I
tried Acronis on my newest hardware and TI couldn't detect it, but
Paragon did (not only under Vista).

I also checked Microsoft's site before purchasing and didn't find
Acronis in "work with Vista" list. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/933305

That's why I've chosen Drive Backup.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> Diamontina Cocktail:
>> Acronis "True Image" 10. Works well with Vista. Use it now.
>>
>
> Acronis TI has too many restrictions under Vista now. So I've chosen
> Paragon Drive Backup - http://www.drive-backup.com

Restrictions? Such as? I use it and it works well. I have even had to
restore my Vista twice already and it worked perfectly doing that.