At one point Acronis True Image 7.0 wouldn't do unattended backups well.
Something about having to close all programs first, I think. Is the latest
version fully clean to do unattended overnight images inspite of what the
user left up?? Is Acronis True Image 7.0 the best choice these days for XP
Pro overnight imaging for a small business's workstations? What about for
Win Small Business Server 2003?
I've been testing it on an assortment of desktops and laptops running
XP Pro. When imaging to a HD directly connected to the PC (by IDE,
firewire, or USB2), it works fine so far (a few weeks) for scheduled
backups, both full and incremental, some overnight, some at startup.
No problems with stuff left up and running.
The laptop, running on a 802.11G card and rarely rebooted, is backing
up over the wireless net (slooow) to a USB2 HD on another system that
is sometimes turned off. It has problems with some aspect of this
(haven't debugged it fully yet), and gets an "unhandled exception"
error that leaves it sitting there in the notification area, waiting
for a response, and failing to do incremental backups. If the user is
not technical, they may never notice, and the backups don't get done.
I haven't discussed this with their tech support yet, so dunno if
there's a fix.
It's handled all the assortment of hardware I've thrown at it except a
VAIO laptop (run away screaming!), which it didn't like the HD drivers
for. Multiple FW, USB1 and USB2, and network cards have all been
handled with no problems.
Neil Maxwell - I don't speak for my employer
