Solved Acronis CyberProtect (Formerly True Image) vs Macrium Reflect Home 8.1

cereberus · Feb 18, 2024

Winuser said:
I have Hasleo installed on my second laptop. Using it to make backup images was OK. Unless I was doing it wrong making the rescue disk was a pain. All it did was format the flash drive. I wound up making it manually and using Rufus to make it bootable. I haven't tried doing a Hasleo restore yet.

I had no issue creating rescue drive. Done restore a few times with Rapid Restore - worked fine.

Winuser · Feb 18, 2024

cereberus said:
I had no issue creating rescue drive. Done restore a few times with Rapid Restore - worked fine.

I'm going to uninstall Hasleo with Revo and retry again with a new download. I'm also going to make a new image and try restoring it. I'll also make a Macrium image to be on the safe side.

Steve C · Feb 18, 2024

Try3 said:
Steve,

When I asked you to justify that oft-repeated comment, you were unable to do so.

All the best,
Denis

Yes I did in post 22 as repeated before if you can be bothered to read before making a rude post.

Winuser · Feb 18, 2024

Winuser said:
I'm going to uninstall Hasleo with Revo and retry again with a new download. I'm also going to make a new image and try restoring it. I'll also make a Macrium image to be on the safe side.

I changed my mind about reinstalling Hasleo and just went ahead and made a new image. I used Shift Key > Restart to get to the menu to use the Hasleo boot disk. I'm on my main desktop and watching the progress. The image finished the restore process. Now I'm waiting to see if the computer reboots into Windows. The Computer booted and seems to have restored OK. Looks like I can now say that Hasleo does work.

Froggie · Feb 18, 2024

Winuser said:
How did you create the USB boot disk. All I could get it to do was format the flash drive. I had to create the ISO and use Rufus to create the bootable flash drive. Like I said earlier I may have been doing it wrong.

Well, the building of the image actually occurs after the WinPE download request and before the window that asks for your UFD or ISO selection. If it formatted your UFD and did nothing else, that's pretty weird. At the point of selection, it will not accept either a HDD connected via the USB or a UFD that just happens to be a Windows-To_Go device (I have one of those)... they are both considered "Local Disks" and HBS won't write to them at all when creating the Emergency Disk... not until you get a real, portable UFD plugged in will it even acknowledge the existence of a connection there.

To get you UFD formatted then stuck... maybe it was the version of the software you were using. There were some issues like that during development but they were resolved and I don't believe they exist in the current release (V4), which is very solid at the moment.

Bree · Feb 18, 2024

Froggie said:
Personally, I'm not sure I would continue to use an imaging product unless I knew it can restore its images correctly ...

Wisewiz said:
Just a personal opinion and observation: I wouldn't trust any imaging installation with my valuable files before I'd run it through its restore routine on at least one image.

Steve C said:
Reflect has the viBoot feature to test booting from the backup image file to a virtual machine

viBoot is a good test, but there's nothing like doing your first full restore to instil confidence in your chosen software (and your ability to use it). Of course, you may not actually want to risk bricking your only PC just for a test. I wrote this tutorial some time back as a way to safely practice a full restore without having to wipe your PC to do so. It uses Reflect, but it could just as easily be adapted to use any imaging solution.

Testing Macrium Reflect restore using VirtualBox virtual machine

When making your first Macrium Reflect image of your PC the final test that the image is full and complete would be to boot from the Reflect rescue media and perform a full restore. This is not something you'd want to risk trying just as a test, so many do not do a restore until circumstances...

www.elevenforum.com

cereberus · Feb 18, 2024

Bree said:
viBoot is a good test, but there's nothing like doing your first full restore to instil confidence in your chosen software (and your ability to use it). Of course, you may not actually want to risk bricking your only PC just for a test. I wrote this tutorial some time back as a way to safely practice a full restore without having to wipe your PC to do so. It uses Reflect, but it could just as easily be adapted to use any imaging solution.

Testing Macrium Reflect restore using VirtualBox virtual machine

When making your first Macrium Reflect image of your PC the final test that the image is full and complete would be to boot from the Reflect rescue media and perform a full restore. This is not something you'd want to risk trying just as a test, so many do not do a restore until circumstances...

www.elevenforum.com

Personally, I find it easier to directly restore to a vhdx file and create native boot entry.

If image contains the EFI partition viboot tests that part.

rwstarkey · Dec 25, 2024

In Dec. 2024, using Acronis True Image (no longer Cyber Protect), all works very well. Backups, images and dissimilar universal restore (Macrium's redeploy). The interface is much cleaner than Macrium and it all works. Dissimilar is crucial, and driver injection is handled well in Acronis. I have MR loaded, but see no reason to switch.

Almighty1 · Dec 25, 2024

Just curious but does anyone remember during the 2nd half of the 2000's, many people stopped using TrueImage because of something TrueImage did, does anyone remember what it was? Only thing I know is Acronis TrueImage basically allowed backing up while Windows was running and things like Ghost was done while Windows wasn't running.

garioch7 · Dec 26, 2024

@Almighty1 ,

I was one of those who instantly migrated to another backup solution because Acronis issued an update that eliminated the need for a low-level driver, as I recall, but they neglected to properly amend the registry, where this driver was still listed as mandatory for Windows to boot. There being no driver as a result of the update deleting it, computers wouldn't boot.

The irony is that I had to use the Acronis recovery disk to boot up, and then restore previous TrueImage system images to get both of my computer back online. As soon as they were restored, Revo Uninstaller Pro made Acronis TrueImage disappear from my computers, never to reappear!

Just my hazy recollection. Have a great day.

Regards,
Phil

Almighty1 · Dec 26, 2024

@garioch7 - Wow, never heard that one before. I just know why I never did disk images back then because basically the images should the HDD fail would require another HDD in addition to the HDD holding the images as I know DVD/CDRs are not reliable as they can fail without much effort which was why I prefer cloning instead so atleast if the HDD died, the other HDD with the cloned data can be swapped and the system will be working immediately. With system images, I would basically need 3 HDD's instead of two, one for the original, one for the images and the third to restore the images to should the original HDD fail.

Steve C · Dec 27, 2024

garioch7 said:
@Almighty1 ,

I was one of those who instantly migrated to another backup solution because Acronis issued an update that eliminated the need for a low-level driver, as I recall, but they neglected to properly amend the registry, where this driver was still listed as mandatory for Windows to boot. There being no driver as a result of the update deleting it, computers wouldn't boot.

The irony is that I had to use the Acronis recovery disk to boot up, and then restore previous TrueImage system images to get both of my computer back online. As soon as they were restored, Revo Uninstaller Pro made Acronis TrueImage disappear from my computers, never to reappear!

Just my hazy recollection. Have a great day.

Regards,
Phil

I suffered a similar problem when the Acronis software installed low level disk filter drivers which were not uninstalled when the program was uninstalled requiring me to edit the registry. This was due to poor software engineering and their support is also poor.

pietcorus2 · Dec 27, 2024

Cant remove " system32\DRIVERS\fltsrv.sys " ( Acronis-file ) !
If I remove it , by total uninstalling Acronis , my Windows backup does not work anymore ...............!! :grrr:

Acronis sucks

, its a real disaster , will never use it anymore.............

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