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mbigna
07-10-09, 02:50 PM
Upper Left Corner--Make sure to use the COUPON CODE!

http://promotions.newegg.com/NEemail/July-0-2009/IT10/index-landing.html?nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL071009&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL071009-_-email-_-E0-_-peekA

Direct Link to Product:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832200008&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL071009&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL071009-_-SoftwareSecurityUtilities-_-LC1A-_-32200008

Again--price does NOT reflect additional discount CODE.

If you don't have a backup program already--I highly recommend Acronis.
Pinky
07-10-09, 03:48 PM
I used Acronis, then just like Ghost it stopped working one day. Thankfully Vista Ultimate has decent integrated backup and that's been doing fine for a few months now. Prior to the sudden issues I was a fan. Not sure how/why these backup apps seem to have such fundamental issues mounting drives within windows after a period of time. If you google it you'll discover, as I had, that it's a very common problem and it's all directly related to buggy software. It happens regardless of windows versions, updates, and specific hardware. That's why I don't bother with paying for this stuff anymore. I can write a simple script to run once a week to do a copy using some freeware tools (like rsync (http://www.samba.org/rsync/)) that perform the same tasks with zero bugs. I'd skip it for $4 and spend the hour getting something better that you program, understand, and support yourself. Power to the peeps.
ciku
07-10-09, 04:31 PM
The thing I like about acronis is after a full install with all your proggys and drivers installed, you simply make an image and put it in a disk (2-3 dvds). It's like making your own recovery cd. If something should fail, you can simply load acronis boot disk, load your image dvds and tada! full system restore. Data, you normally put on a different drive anyways :)
Pinky
07-11-09, 02:59 PM
Data, you normally put on a different drive anyways :)

Just make sure you back THAT up too. Just because it's a data drive doesn't mean it may not fail someday. A lot of people I know who are PC savvy seem to forget the USB/eSATA external drives are still hard drives with the same fail rates as internal drives. That's to say - don't trust them as you're only copy! :p

I just discovered I still have Acronis Home on my main box. I'm going to try a full backup now to see if it's still broken. lol
ciku
07-11-09, 03:10 PM
Just make sure you back THAT up too. Just because it's a data drive doesn't mean it may not fail someday. A lot of people I know who are PC savvy seem to forget the USB/eSATA external drives are still hard drives with the same fail rates as internal drives. That's to say - don't trust them as you're only copy! :p

I just discovered I still have Acronis Home on my main box. I'm going to try a full backup now to see if it's still broken. lol

I did mention somewhere in this forum that I put my data stuff on dvds/cds and put it in a control humidity/temp storage (along w/ cigars) :) I still have mp3 cds (cdrs made by tdk and verbatim) since 1994, 600 songs per disk at 128bit hehe
nd4spdbh2
07-11-09, 03:26 PM
love acronis such a great easy to use program. does an awesome job of coppying a COMPLETE install makes things very easy such as chaning out os hds without the need to reinstall everything!
rainless
07-11-09, 05:43 PM
I still contend that there's no such thing as "Shipped... After Mail-in Rebate."

There is only "$4 AMIR... Free Shipping."

Because they aren't shipping it after you give them $4. So logically... the sentence doesn't work.
nd4spdbh2
07-11-09, 06:02 PM
lol ya im with rainless.... rebates suck.
Pinky
07-13-09, 09:20 AM
Acronis worked, but I didn't verify the image and I had it set to ignore bad sectors/errors while doing the backup. Hopefully I never need to test the backup... :D

If it was critical I would have either verified the image immediately after backup or run their boot disc and verify the image using that. This is just my main machine and if I had to reinstall windows it would just suck. My critical data is backed up elsewhere (in triplicate :p ).

I think in the past the verifying kept failing, same issue that pushed me from Ghost to Acronis.
SteveLord
07-23-09, 09:31 AM
Reviews on this particular product stink. I like their non-home products better.