The “fix” eventually seemed to buy Acronis 2010, but I’m not sure if that helped, either, as I had already gone to EaseUS by that time, as the free version (at that time) did everything I wanted. I couldn’t get it to do what I wanted (differential b/u with email notification), and when I went to the forum found that numerous people were having problems also, with no substantial help from the company (“we’re working on it”). In response to PaulT’s question above, I purchased 3-4 copies of Acronis Backup in 2009 after seeing multiple glowing reviews of earlier versions. I use FreeFileBackup to do a backup of my data nightly, but haven’t had the necessity of restoring. I think Macrium has a better and more transparent model there. Few problems at all, though I do miss the convenience of having a public forum. I’ve had to restore 2-3 times, and have used the program to clone the OS drive many times, on several computers. I have been using EaseUS Todo backup since ~2010 to perform a nightly differential backup of my System drive. And 90 minutes to validate the most recent backup. Maybe 10 minutes for incremental backups. In using the 2021 Acronis True image version I found that validating the backups takes far longer than the backups themselves. I store everything to do with my machine’s backups, including their Windows restoration media, on a big, external USB drive. I don’t use their cloud storage because I live in the country and I’m unwilling to pay $800/month a gigabit data line would cost me here. In searching for cloning or backup tools which would be reliable, and have live support (chat or phone) I days ago opted to switch to Acronis True Image 2021 with a negotiated (‘upgrade’ to them, ‘cross-grade’ to me) price of $35. ![]() In my records I see that I was licensed for 2018, -19 and -20. But they do offer granular controls, and they keep up with the times by including anti-ransomware and anti-malware features. ![]() Their interfaces are sometimes unnecessarily complicated for my tastes. ![]() Long story short… I’d fiddled lots with four versions of Acronis since maybe 2015.
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