Anyone using Acronis?

[sparkplug]

Bit of a long shot, but would be interested in people's opinions on it, why you chose it, why you stopped using it, why you love it - that sort of thing.

I know what it does (in theory) so I'm more interested in your experience of it / other similar solutions that you've used.

Ta.

 

[SOAA]

Hard drive cloning software?

Never used it myself, but as for an alternative Clonezilla is my go to

 

[leadfarmer]

Used it in a past life, can't remember if it was for distributing disk images or for virtualising servers, it's been a while

Must have worked well enough cos I've forgotten about it

 

[sparkplug]

Hard drive cloning software?

Never used it myself, but as for an alternative Clonezilla is my go to

Backup, EDR,MDR,XDR,RMM, attack surface management, DR... all using a single endpoint agent and management interface.

Quite a clever thing on paper.

 

[SOAA]

Backup, EDR,MDR,XDR,RMM, attack surface management, DR... all using a single endpoint agent and management interface.

Quite a clever thing on paper.

That does sound interesting actually. I might look into it at some point, I do like learning about new products

 

[sparkplug]

been around 22 years - so can't really say it's new

New to me, certainly...

 

[leadfarmer]

been around 22 years - so can't really say it's new

New to me, certainly...

Yeah I was using it probably about 15 years ago, hence the fog

 

[trebor]

I've been using Acronis True Image for about 20 years or more. Initially for making disk Images every now and then which I used as backups, but for the last 10 years I've been using it for taking automated weekly, incremental, backups. It is relatively easy to use, I just set it up to back up my NAS, plus a couple of other drives, and forget about it. It has saved my bacon a few times when either I, or my wife, have accidently deleted files.

I first got it free with PC Plus (long since gone), and a few years later, when Acronis had an offer on, I bought a licence. I updated it every few years, but then they stopped offering updates for licenced copies, trying to get users on to annual subscriptions instead. I was not having this, and as my latest version was working well, I just stuck with it. Then last year, out of the blue, they offered an updated at a reasonable price to licenced users, so I'm now up to date again.

 

[NeilDD]

Acronis was the default cloning software used by Siemens it the medical field.
We used to use it for cloning the drives when doing a PC swap out on medical scanners. It was the only software approved by the MHRA