Scott Hanselman's ComputerZen.com

I've been using TrueImage for a few years now. I chose it over Ghost because I run Windows 2003 on my development machine, and Ghost wouldn't even install in that environment. I regularly schedule differential backups, and never have to worry about locked files.

Also worth checking out are the products from Terabyte Unlimited: Boot IT, Image for Windows and Image for DOS. http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

thanks scott , looks like great software

I've been using TrueImage for a few months now. It has saved my bacon once already - and makes building out images to 'fdisk' from tons easier.

Scott,

I used Acronis TrueImage for several years on an unreliable PC. The backup capability is great, however there was a big issue. It would not do a restore after about a year. Oddly, the next version of TrueImage that came out in the meantime had no trouble performing the restore! How nice of them to anticipate my problem and only charge $35 or so for the upgrade.

After upgrading TrueImage three times I now have a new computer and my latest version of TrueImage may not work anymore... Maybe I should try Image for Windows?

-- Walt Lounsbery

btw... you can buy it off newegg for a decent price all the time. $32 right now (which is a steal for workstation backup software)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E1681279691SF

I just bought Norton Ghost 10.0. It fully runs in Windows now and does not need to reboot at all. It's quite good and is currently free after rebates at buy.com. I also tried the latest version of TrueImage and it seems comparable in features and experience. I use Ghost with a Rev drive and an external hard drive and the experience is quite good. I highly recommend this as a backup method as it allows you to go back to any day in the past month and restore select files or the entire system.

Don't forget System Restore that comes with Windows XP. I saved my ass a few times.

Well, 'n' is now at least 1. Thanks for the link, Scott.

Hi Scott, Thanks for the link - 'n' appears to be at least 2 now !:)

Wasn't too happy to notice the 17.5% tax being added thanks to being part of the glorious european 'union'... shock horror - that's a whole £4!

Oh, and their download is not Government firewall friendly it appears... (sigh) not having a good Thursday it seems :)

Thanks a million Scott for the link, and your continous words of 'wisdom' :P

David C, Glasgow, UK

As far as I remember, TrueImage doesn't use VSS..
Rather it installs a driver (you can see it in the device manager) and streams data from kernel mode to the backup device..

+1 for TrueImage. Very easy to incorporate a scheduled image to a store every night, haven't tried that with current version of Ghost. I did try migrating machines into vmware with Ghost and that was a nightmare... TrueImage does it flawlessly. No more hardware!