Acronis vs Ghost

[Mike Fields]

OK, you get the award for the longest url tonight ... maybe even this week
!!

 

[frodo]

OK, you get the award for the longest url tonight ... maybe even this week
!!

sorry,
not my fault!! symantec did it, really... I just cut-and-pasted...

Like them, I deny all responsibility for the usability of my product.

 

[Dr. Indera]

that is a shame that drive image was ruined when it was bought.
i use to use drive image - it's still on my computer.
i found out about true image last year and switched and really like it a
lot.

--
Indera
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Don't just live life.
Live life well.


:
: : > : >>
: >> "_R" wrote:
: >>
: >>> I know that anything from Dr Nortenstein's labs must be a multiheaded
: >>> monster, but aside from that, what are the general tradeoffs between
: >>> current versions of Norton Ghost and the Acronis tools suite?
: >>>
: >
: >>I think that the biggest trade off between Ghost and Acronis True Image
is
: >> the ability to image within Windows. Acronis will do it, Ghost
requires
: >> a
: >> reboot into the DOS mode in order to function.
: >
: > Ghost 9.0 will image the disk within Windows.
:
: And was one of the last to acquire the ability to do so (I believe Acronis
: was amongst the first), and in fact, seemed unable to do so until they
: acquired and ruined Drive Image.
:
: mxh
:
: >
: > --
: > William
: >
: >
: >
:
:

 

[pc_addicted]

The first: Norton ghost doesn't have protection of image by password as
ATI has. The second: TI allows saving and recovering an image to and
from USB key, Norton doesn't. Nevertheless Norton is good program, but
not the best. Oh, I forgot to say about support of Norton Ghost and
Acronis. You have to wait for response from Norton more than week or
month.
So, I prefer .
'Acronis backup software'
(http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/)

 

[Ed]

what are the general tradeoffs between
current versions of Norton Ghost and the Acronis tools suite?

I have both. I use Ghost 2003 to backup my desktop’s HD and True
Image v8 to backup my laptop’s HD. Until today, I had yet to do a
restore with either because the reasons for having backups had yet to
happen. Anyway, today I upgraded my Paperport Pro Office v9 to
Paperport Pro Office v10. That did it! Lost communications with my
scanner and camera. Uninstalled and installed v10 as a new install
instead of upgrading V9 with no joy…. Did an XP System Restore back to
right before the initial upgrade try with No Joy. Then I found out I
also had lost communications with my printer because of this upgrade
(why I do not know). Anyway, you get the idea….. ScanSoft stuck a
big hard one right up my WaZoo.

Popped in DVD 1 of a 2 DVD Ghost backup and booted on the DVD and told
it to save my Arse and it did just that. The backup went on without a
hitch. Afterwards, the computer booted up just fine and everything
was just as it had been at the time the backup was made which was 11
days ago. I didn’t loose much of anything because I backed up my
email messages and the few data files of interest before doing the
restoration. I had installed a new FTP Client since the backup so I
also had to reinstall it.

So, I can attest to the fact that Ghost 2003 works as it should. As
far as True Image goes, will have to wait until I do some idiotic
thing on that machine like upgrading a perfectly good working program.

True Image directs one through the process a lot better than Ghost
does. That would be a concern to newcomers. IOW, you could go the
wrong direction with ghost and wipe out everything. I had someone
that had used Ghost for years tutor me and I made my own little manual
but True Image made a lot better user interface to lead you through
the process.

Learned three lessons on this though….

1. Don’t upgrade anything if it ain’t broke because if you don’t
break it, they surely will.

2. Backup before doing a major upgrade (mine was 11 days old) and
DVD’s are cheap now. Let’s see, my last purchase of DVD’s was a deal
from Office Depot at $19.99 for a drum of 100. That’s 20 cents each
so a complete system backup for me costs me 40 cents. I’ve been told
to do it on DVDRW’s but I can remember having trouble at times with
CDRW’s so I don’t really trust RW’s when it comes to crucial backups.

Regards,
Ed

 

[Willard]

I have both. I use Ghost 2003 to backup my desktop’s HD and True
Image v8 to backup my laptop’s HD. Until today, I had yet to do a
restore with either because the reasons for having backups had yet to
happen. Anyway, today I upgraded my Paperport Pro Office v9 to
Paperport Pro Office v10. That did it! Lost communications with my
scanner and camera. Uninstalled and installed v10 as a new install
instead of upgrading V9 with no joy…. Did an XP System Restore back to
right before the initial upgrade try with No Joy. Then I found out I
also had lost communications with my printer because of this upgrade
(why I do not know). Anyway, you get the idea….. ScanSoft stuck a
big hard one right up my WaZoo.

Popped in DVD 1 of a 2 DVD Ghost backup and booted on the DVD and told
it to save my Arse and it did just that. The backup went on without a
hitch. Afterwards, the computer booted up just fine and everything
was just as it had been at the time the backup was made which was 11
days ago. I didn’t loose much of anything because I backed up my
email messages and the few data files of interest before doing the
restoration. I had installed a new FTP Client since the backup so I
also had to reinstall it.

So, I can attest to the fact that Ghost 2003 works as it should. As
far as True Image goes, will have to wait until I do some idiotic
thing on that machine like upgrading a perfectly good working program.

True Image directs one through the process a lot better than Ghost
does. That would be a concern to newcomers. IOW, you could go the
wrong direction with ghost and wipe out everything. I had someone
that had used Ghost for years tutor me and I made my own little manual
but True Image made a lot better user interface to lead you through
the process.

Learned three lessons on this though….

1. Don’t upgrade anything if it ain’t broke because if you don’t
break it, they surely will.

2. Backup before doing a major upgrade (mine was 11 days old) and
DVD’s are cheap now. Let’s see, my last purchase of DVD’s was a deal
from Office Depot at $19.99 for a drum of 100. That’s 20 cents each
so a complete system backup for me costs me 40 cents. I’ve been told
to do it on DVDRW’s but I can remember having trouble at times with
CDRW’s so I don’t really trust RW’s when it comes to crucial backups.

Regards,
Ed

I have an external (FWR) duplicate HDD connected to my laptop for
backup, using PowerQuest's DriveCopy every few days....
If I corrupt the C:Windows system, I use Ghost 2003 A: floppy DOS boot
to restore sector by sector; "ghost-clone,mode=copy,src=3,dst=1 -a -b"..
Also if the C: HDD goes bad, the duplicate external HDD can replace the
C:..

 

[Ed]

I have an external (FWR) duplicate HDD connected to my laptop for
backup, using PowerQuest's DriveCopy every few days....

I had thought of setting up a RAID system for both enhanced
performance and "Real Time" backup to the main HD. However, it is my
understanding that RAID would not be a good idea for a backup because
whatever screw up one does to the main HD (that would require a
recovery) would also have been mirrored on the RAID drive.

Regards,
TR

 

[Lil' Dave]

Informative reply. However, the version of Ghost you mentioned is not the
current version as requested by the OP.

 

[Ed]

Informative reply. However, the version of Ghost you mentioned is not the
current version as requested by the OP.

You are right and I did forget to mention in my response why I was
giving my opinion based on v2003 instead of the version in question.
I can't count the times and places I have been directed to use v2003
over prior or later versions of Ghost for doing a single,
non-networked HD image to optical media. The reasons have been many
with some being in-depth technical reasons beyond my understanding.
However, there have been so many suggestions directed toward me to use
only v2003 that I 'assume' there is validity in the suggestions. I
thought that what I had been told might be of interest to the author
but I did forget to add that to my response. Sorry for the oversight.

Regards,
Ed