Acronis x Macrium x Paragon

Yes it's a great piece of imaging app.
You may also want to try Image for Linux and even Image for Windows, which support UEFI/GPT and secure boot.

 

but clonezilla copy only data, even on corrupted disk.

The big problem with RAW image is that image created is the same size of the disk.

If you have a 1TB disk, a RAW image will be 1TB.

 

OK I see the "data only" copying part.
However, I doubt an image produced under such conditions if of much use and reliability. I think once a disk is corrupted, the most thing you wanna do is probably get your data out of that disk and check if there are physical errors... If yes then it's time for the disk to go.

 

Talking about my own experience, I can successfully create a image and restore under a virtual machine to salvage data of a disk unmontable under windows.

In this particular case, both acronis or paragon failto create a backup image.

Clonezilla have several drawbacks, but is pretty useful in some selected circumstances.

 

Thanks for sharing with us your experience. Yes I agree Clonezilla is very powerful. It's my #1 imaging app for my Ubuntu box.

 

New acronis is not my liking

From where I work we do many backups daily, from clients hard drives.
We have a station with about 6 large hard drives installed for saving backup images.
the main thing I don't like about acronis is, that it always try to be "smart" and scan all he harddrives when you want to do
backup/restore, which is very annoying, if this doesn't bug you, there's more "detecting" to do when you try to open any backup image, and when you choose the destination to restore....

with Paragon, you don't have all the annoying thing that acronis have. the main difference might be acronis can do multiple backups at once(through scheduling), while paragon will give you a progress bar. other than this everything works the same way. Although with acronis you can click open the image file to review the files, or mount the image(takes longer to do...),
with paragon, you can only mount the partition from an image, which is well hidden in the software interface lol..I think they should really improve this function....

And, you can use paragon in your own PE, which is what newest acronis won't let you. You can still include it, but it will reboot your computer after exiting acronis trueimage.

Paragon is better!!!!

 

I use Macrium Reflect Free version and it hasn't failed me yet in restoring my images. I have done it three times and the three times a success.

I would recommend Macrium Reflect Free and if you really want to you can buy a license that will allow you to restore your images to a different PC, haven't tried it myself but it claims it can do it. When I have a little cash to spare I will be buying a license for this product.

regards

cgp

 

Maybe you may want to change the ports for mouse/keyboard. I have had no problems in Acronis 2014 boot cd with both wireless keybd/mouse.

 

" Don't no what to say Iv'e never had acronis fail on me and I have used it since it first came out." ...............yes , using it from XP untill now in Win10 , never problems .
Fast backups ( only using boot-CD for backups and restore !) , installed the program only for Try&Decide-function and making boot-CD............

 

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In recent times I've also been using Macrium Reflect and I'm very happy with it. It allows you to boot your backup image files in Hyper-V which is nice.
Veritas System Recovery (formerly Symantec) was also pretty good when I used that.

 

neither of them always errors of archives if too long in safeguard or the boot and error bcd me I use the good old dism build of the moment for all the windows meme windows xp and yes? I create an image of deployment either on dvd or usb stick no matter and still managed to find my windows without error I advise you to ban all its manufacturer of backup system software nothing is worth the Image deployement tool

 

I am using macrium and acronis and both have successfully restored the image.