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I'm a great fan of good backup tools and have tried alot of them.

Very worthy of note has been Driveclone 5, which does imaging, universal restore as well as snapshots.

I've used it for some time now and have only 2 gripes with it - even though it's regged it keeps nagging, and it fails at taking live snapshots from within XP.

Neither of those is a huge problem - just annoying.

Also worthy of note is that EaseUS Todo Backup Workstation has all the really good features that Driveclone had (until v7) - and it also has virtualization features built in so you can do a P2V right from an image much like some Paragon apps - but those do not make snapshots.

Todo in this version also makes a boot CD and has a pre-OS feature for doing restores.

There was a giveaway months ago for v5.8 and since then it is up to v6.1 which apparently is more compatible with newer OSes.

Their pro and server versions do not have the snapshot feature.

There's also a free version, but it lacks the really good features - and the home version (which just had a giveaway too) lacks the universal restore feature - so I would say their workstation version is the best.

If there's any way you can ever get a chance somehow to grab the latest workstation version...grab it !!

(I know I will.)

This is one I will be watching for, in hopes it will show up soon.

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Update:

The v5.8 WS version is very fast - made a snapshot of my C: partition in 2 minutes - and then a snapshot on reboot so fast that it was just a blink.

It's pre-boot option does not alter the MBR either, instead it is a boot menu option for WinPE with Todo Backup and it works very nicely.

Now I've tested this to my satisfaction and it is definitely a keeper.

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Nothing that I know about by Acronis offers the snapshot & quick restore function.

The older versions of Acronis I've used were good and showed all the options clearly, but the newer versions have been made less useful IMO - and I've found that nothing made recently by Acronis is as good as it once was.

Now that pretty much every competitor of theirs has some sort of Universal Restore - they've lost their edge completely, I think.

I really got alot of good use out of their older boot CDs and keep them around - but I am very disappointed in the 2013 version I just tried.

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To say 'like' is not nearly enough for this !!!!!!!!!!

AFAIK, no other backup s/w offers ALL the features of this in ONE compatible, reliable package.

For anyone wanting image backup, snapshot backup, virtualization ability AND universal restore=> this has them all.

Having this as well as Drive Snapshot for a 2nd set of images really covers all the bases.

Thank You Very Much Avmad, for sharing this gem of an app.

PS:

Do you know if the medicine shared for the other version also covers this one by any chance ??

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user@nsaneforums

If there's any way you can ever get a chance somehow to grab the latest workstation version...grab it !!

(I know I will.)

This is one I will be watching for, in hopes it will show up soon.

i have some bootcd only

but don't know what is what ;p

Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Windows
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Server for Linux
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Server SBS Edition
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Workstation
Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Advanced Workstation
if u have a time to check ill send the links on PM
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I have yet to find a reliable solution for server backup that also backs up client computers on a network (most only back up the shared folders, not the client boot drive) The few that do backup the client, don't support uefi/efi. If they do support uefi and backing up a client boot drive, then they don't offer individual folder selection for backup. It is truly a mess. Any suggestions?

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