Acronis True Image Home v11 - Create Recovery Dvds

[Ben Ramsay]

I am using windows vista home basic and I want to try and create a set of
recovery disks for my system. Does anyone know the best way to do this, I
have a acronis boot disk that allows me to create images outside windows
but
I am unsure how to to this. I would like to try and keep the number of dvds
down to an absolute minimum if possible. My initial drive size is 80 GB and
I want the dvds to be bootable.

Any help would be great.

 

[BChat]

I am using windows vista home basic and I want to try and create a set of
recovery disks for my system. Does anyone know the best way to do this, I
have a acronis boot disk that allows me to create images outside windows
but
I am unsure how to to this. I would like to try and keep the number of dvds
down to an absolute minimum if possible. My initial drive size is 80 GB and
I want the dvds to be bootable.

Any help would be great.

 

[Augustus]

I am using windows vista home basic and I want to try and create a set of
recovery disks for my system. Does anyone know the best way to do this, I
have a acronis boot disk that allows me to create images outside windows
but
I am unsure how to to this. I would like to try and keep the number of
dvds
down to an absolute minimum if possible. My initial drive size is 80 GB
and
I want the dvds to be bootable.

My advice...invest $100 in a USB/SATA external drive enclosure and the
cheapest 250Gb SATA drive you can find. Create your Acronis backup archives
on this and do schedule incremental daily backups (which take 10min or so on
mine). It's fast, it's portable, it more reliable, you can move it system to
system and create multiple off-site backups. You can access, incrementally
or fully restore the image from any system on the network with the Acronis
boot disk you create and backup to the shared drive on any home network.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145393
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145393

 

[Slap]

My advice...invest $100 in a USB/SATA external drive enclosure and the
cheapest 250Gb SATA drive you can find. Create your Acronis backup
archives on this and do schedule incremental daily backups (which take
10min or so on mine). It's fast, it's portable, it more reliable, you can
move it system to system and create multiple off-site backups. You can
access, incrementally or fully restore the image from any system on the
network with the Acronis boot disk you create and backup to the shared
drive on any home network.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145393
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145393

Pretty good advice. Myself I wouldn't be buying 'sally's 300Gb SATA
Drive... $60.00) tho.

I did just buy a 300Gb Western Digital SATA drive that was on sale for
$99.00 (no enclosure). Just my opinion until the no-name brands become
household words. I'm sure they are ok.
--

 

[XS11E]

I am using windows vista home basic and I want to try and create a
set of recovery disks for my system. Does anyone know the best way
to do this, I have a acronis boot disk that allows me to create
images outside windows but I am unsure how to to this. I would
like to try and keep the number of dvds down to an absolute
minimum if possible. My initial drive size is 80 GB and I want the
dvds to be bootable.

I believe what you want isn't possible with Acronis.

AFAIK, making bootable recovery disks is not something Acronis can do
but someone will correct me if I'm wrong.

The image(s) you create with Acronis will be restorable only by using
Acronis. The normal backup technique is to create an image of your
system or maybe only the C:\ drive onto DVDs (I use a removable
harddrive but DVDs will work fine) and then, to restore, you'd boot on
the Acronis bootable rescue disk and tell it where to find the image
and where to restore it.

 

[Augustus]

I believe what you want isn't possible with Acronis.

You create a bootable disk and use it to restore the image, just like with
Ghost.

 

[vista user 43]

Here is what I do.. and some more info that may help you..

First of all acronis ROCKS!!!

when you do this there is an option to customize and split the backup into
parts..

I personally select parts of 700 mb each so that 6 of them fit into 1 dvd
for a total of 4.1 gb per disk..

while acronis is doing this, it is compressing the data too... but Vista is
very big and if you have lots of data in personal folders then you might
have to write many disks.

You can probably manually increase that a bit so you can take advantange of
more of the dvd..

the second option is to select the DVD size option that writes a 4.4 gb file
part.. BUT you need to use a DVD-RW (re-writable) disk in this case
since normal DVD-R have a 2 gig file limit

I save these to a second drive then I fit them into disks later on...

 

[vista user 43]

oh I forgot to tell you,\

you must also make a boot cd from a seperate shortcut in the start menu ..
it has a bootable media creator thing..

you make a seperate bootable cd using that, and then you write the backups
on dvds...