Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0

[Paragon]

Paragon furnishes us with Part 2 of his three part Acronis software review. Today he discusses in detail Acronis Disk Director Suite 9.0 and the many services this software can perform for today's consumer.

Feel free to post your comments and questions here!

Link to the Article (http://www.bleedinedge.com/reviews/software_reviews/acronis_drive/acronis_drive_01.html)

[Hawk]

Looks great, gotta get to work on my Ghost 9 writeup. . .

[malinois1]

Nice job Miles :thumbs: . I do have a question though. In the review you said this product can mirror the drive similar to the true image software? If that is true what we be the reason to choose true image over this product or vise versa? Thanks

[pointreyes]

Some issues to consider with this software.
While it runs on server software which is greatly appreciated, it will generate an error at the end of each partition resize when it has to be done when Windows is booting up. The resizing still worked but you get nervous since this is a server OS.

OS Selector is the worst product of this kind I have ever dealt with and I sincerely hope that Acronis gets it fixed. System Commander can accomodate for my multi-OS systems considerably better than OS Selector. I have rarely gotten this software to work with my systems. Linux will not be seen part of the time. The fact that System Commander can work effortlessly with my systems denotes that there is no problem with my setup, the problem is with Acronis' OS Selector.

[Paragon]

malinois1 Disk Director will do a real time copy of a partition from one drive to another and in this one sense it does perform like True Image. Realize of course the copied partition is in an active state on the drive it was copied to and not in an imaged format.

True Image offers vastly more functions that are associated with imaging software such as: 1) The ability to create a safe zone that can only be accesed by True Image for secuirty of the image you copy; 2) The True image copy is not in an active state and cannot be accessed until it is restored; 3) True Image has various levels of compression built in; 4) True Image allows you to append data to an image that is new since the last backup.

Disk Director has the one feature which is more like cloning a disk partition than imaging it; this is only one of the features included in True Image.

[Paragon]

pointreyes I must admit that I was remiss in not testing this portion of the software with Linux; as the vast majority of the BleedinEdge's readers (and me) use only one or more versions of Windows I kept my tests to multiboot scenarios with several versions of Windows and it performed flawlessly for me...Don't know if you are using the latest version or not; but I've been led to believe that Linux functions well with it as the problems that once existed have been improved or corrected...This however is not firsthand information. :wave:

[pointreyes]

Paragon, I'm starting to find out that I'm 1% of the population for nutcases that use 'puters the way I do. :p
See, I have proof now: http://www.abxzone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83849 See? :D
I will eventually try the OS Selector to see what happens. I have the latest version of Acronis software. I have True Image 8, Disk Director 9, and Disk Cleanser 6.0.

Just an FYI, here's what I'm running at home:
Dual Opteron: Windows XP Pro, 2003 Enterprise Edition, 64-bit Windows, Turbo Linux for AMD64.
Dual Xeon: Windows 2003 Small Business Server
Prescott system: Windows XP Pro (connects to AD); 2003 Standard Server (connects to AD); Linux SuSE 9.1 Pro
Northwood HT System: Windows XP Pro
Northwood non-HT system: Windows ME; 2000 Advanced Server; Linux SuSE 9.1 Pro; Solaris 10
Northwood Celeron system: Windows 98SE; 2000 Pro; Linux SuSE 9.1 Pro.

See? I'm just your normal 'puter user. :bonk: :bonk: :coocoo:

[eva2000]

i just installed this software, but confused how to go about installing the 2nd OS (fresh copy of winxp pro) ?