New Generation Acronis True Image Released

paintb4707

Got an email on this today. Figured I'd share it with you guys since I know we have some Acronis fans here.

They now have deduplication which is pretty intriguing.

Backup software for data backup and disaster recovery in Windows and Linux - Acronis

Would be fantastic if this "new generation" True Image actually works they way its advertised.

edit: Whoops wrong section. Please move.

cleanwithit

I love Acronis. Thanks for the update!

brad-

$1700/server license...thats almost 3 times what we would pay for Backup Exec 12.5

wweboy

oh man I love Acronis such a great piece of software.

paintb4707

brad- wrote: »

$1700/server license...thats almost 3 times what we would pay for Backup Exec 12.5

They make their money off the versatility. Acronis doesn't require any plugins to work with a specific type of server.

/usr

Acronis is nice for workstation/server imaging, but trying to restore specific files from an image in 2009 is painfully slow.

paintb4707

/usr wrote: »

Acronis is nice for workstation/server imaging, but trying to restore specific files from an image in 2009 is painfully slow.

I think its pretty fast restoring individual files.

/usr

I've tried it multiple times, on multiple machines, using multiple images. Each time I've tried it's taken so long that I simply canceled the restore and went another route. Haven't attempted to use it since then.

I don't know.

paintb4707

/usr wrote: »

I've tried it multiple times, on multiple machines, using multiple images. Each time I've tried it's taken so long that I simply canceled the restore and went another route. Haven't attempted to use it since then.

I don't know.

I guess it depends on the size of the file. I haven't had the need to restore any huge files (in gb) just yet.

wweboy

I used it for workstation / server imaging. I was responsable for rolling out new hardware and oh man it may a world of difference.

The awesome part was upgrading an existing user, walk over to their machine with a CD-R pop her in and start up the backup program, let the software back up to the 1tb drive I had installed on the Acronis server.

Once done un box the new hardware power it on, put the CD-R in the new machine and let it **** back to the hard drive.

set a time up with the end user to switch machines done and done. from start to finish maybe an hour and half the back up time took a while but the restore only took about 7 minutes.

Average size was 13GB of data. Acronis at my first job paid for itself just in time saved alone. That it saved our butts on a few server upgrades too.

snadam

thanks for the heads up, always good to be aware of new backup software!

Lamini

just got my procurement people to buy it, cant wait! whats up with the server price??? i paid $1200 a pop for backup exec before and when i joined the program i got us using acronis at server at only $600 a pop, now its $1,700?!? whaaa?!

just checked the site, Server for Windows is $853 (quantity 1), no UR feature or deduplication crapola. Their top of the line is Advanced Server for $1200, nice huge jump, their stuff gets more expensive every time i go there