Solved Maybe this will help you decide victor in Acronis/Macrium debate

lenovomi · Apr 16, 2023

@hdmi
reading your technical arguments it really makes a sense to skip Macrium ... and sounds like really kiddish tool compare to acronis.

Just wondering in case i want to virtualise phy hw to vmware i assume one can do image backup; boot rescue media within vmware and "restore" to vmware "virtual hdd" and might work?

still after reading your points i dont get why ppl prefer Macrium, i read that ppl mentioned that acronis restore failed multiple times... and macrium never... so thats why i was thinking about macrium.

hdmi · Apr 16, 2023

lenovomi said:
@hdmi
reading your technical arguments it really makes a sense to skip Macrium ... and sounds like really kiddish tool compare to acronis.

Just wondering in case i want to virtualise phy hw to vmware i assume one can do image backup; boot rescue media within vmware and "restore" to vmware "virtual hdd" and might work?

still after reading your points i dont get why ppl prefer Macrium, i read that ppl mentioned that acronis restore failed multiple times... and macrium never... so thats why i was thinking about macrium.

For things like that, I recommend using the MVP Custom PE Builder script tool to create your own custom bootable (WinPE based) Rescue Media ISO of Acronis True Image 2021 / Cyber Protect Home Office.

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lenovomi · Apr 16, 2023

@hdmi okay seems its also possible, in that case i am serious struggling to find some serious technical arguments that can clarify that Macrium is the best/better then Acronis.

Still not sure about discussions, how arcronis restore failed and marcrium restore failed never.

cereberus · Apr 16, 2023

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
I'm unaware of any forum rule against thread bumping if they were mods could easily lock the thread after a time so I call bullshit

Nobody said it was a rule. It is just site advice. Go and try to reply to an old post and see the message. Then realise your answer is silly.

Example:

lenovomi · Apr 16, 2023

cereberus said:
It is just site advice.

But advice has to be based on something .. some facts etc... not just bc of weather etc...

cereberus · Apr 16, 2023

lenovomi said:
But advice has to be based on something .. some facts etc... not just bc of weather etc...

Have you tried replying to an old post - the advice is obvious - consider starting a new thread if old post has not had a reply in over 30 days. The post is over 30 days old is the fact!

The advice was added, primarily because new users were replying to posts often as much as a year old. In many cases, the replies were giving "technical solutions" which is absurd after a year or more - in part, the problem is exacerbated because the original posters do not close out thread, or worse do not even reply in some cases.

Unfortunately, once a thread gets reopened, people start replying based on last couple of posts but never really go back and read history. In part, that is because threads can get very long.

No point in discussing anymore - if you wish to ignore site advice, that is your prerogative.

hdmi · Apr 16, 2023

lenovomi said:
@hdmi okay seems its also possible, in that case i am serious struggling to find some serious technical arguments that can clarify that Macrium is the best/better then Acronis.

Still not sure about discussions, how arcronis restore failed and marcrium restore failed never.

AFAIK all complaints about Acronis failing to restore boil down to one thing only: they all installed Acronis True Image and used that to create their image with, i.e. as opposed to used (either the Linux based or the WinPE based) bootable Rescue Media for this task. In the vast majority of cases, they also don't give you any useful specifics (or they barely do) about what exactly it was that they did, kind of like saying "I'm going to buy a Mac or stick to Linux because Windows refused to work". OF COURSE Windows doesn't work. Before it can work, you have to state the nature of your psychiatric emergency. LOL

lenovomi · Apr 16, 2023

@cereberus i dont get it ... from my point of view doesnt matter how old thread is .. same applies to other forums ...

I was asking technical details that fits into that thread, @hdmi provided reasonable answers that i assume noone can disprove.
If something is recommended without any evidence its nonsense.
Whats the point to create a new thread?

lenovomi · Apr 16, 2023

hdmi said:
AFAIK all complaints about Acronis failing to restore boil down to one thing only: they all installed Acronis True Image and used that to create their image with, i.e. as opposed to used (either the Linux based or the WinPE based) bootable Rescue Media for this task.

@hdmi i thought it doesnt matter if u use linux based or winpe based bootable rescue media or the one u create directly from Acronis. Maybe i was wrong.

cereberus · Apr 16, 2023

lenovomi said:
@cereberus i dont get it ... from my point of view doesnt matter how old thread is .. same applies to other forums ...

I was asking technical details that fits into that thread, @hdmi provided reasonable answers that i assume noone can disprove.
If something is recommended without any evidence its nonsense.
Whats the point to create a new thread?

I did not put this in - it is a site thing. Take it up with the moderators.

Subject Closed.

lenovomi · Apr 16, 2023

makes no sense to open new thread on the Same topic ... i mean its better to continue. And still apart of hdmi noeone provided any reasonable Facts/technical data... apart that something is somewhere by someone recco...

Dru2 · Apr 16, 2023

cereberus said:
You just replied to a 16 month old thread.

As a new poster, please check dates before replying.

If you have specific questions, start a new thread,

cereberus said:
I just stated on previous post this was an old thread, and you perpetutate it with a reply that is not relevant.

Mods - please close this thread down!

I'm not so sure why all the noise about people reviving an old thread, and especially if the info is relevant. If anything, I'd think the mods would encourage this considering it reduces clutter of the same posts over and over again. Add there is also a reason why the "search" feature exists.

Seems, again, like you're trying to impose "your" set of rules on what people can and can't post or say. And I would say this same to you... if this is such an issue, "Take it up with the moderators."

Movin on.

Brink · Apr 16, 2023

It is fine to post in an old thread with relevant information. This is how these threads are updated.

hdmi · Apr 17, 2023

lenovomi said:
@hdmi i thought it doesnt matter if u use linux based or winpe based bootable rescue media or the one u create directly from Acronis. Maybe i was wrong.

It only matters in terms of driver support (Linux vs WinRE/WinPE), aside from the fact that MVP Custom PE Builder script tool can only be used to customize the WinPE based version of the bootable Rescue Media─as the 'PE' in 'MVP Custom PE Builder script tool' suggests. But anyway, the Linux based version of the bootable Rescue Media ISO file of Acronis True Image 2021 is here:

http://dl.acronis.com/s/AcronisTrueImage2021_39287.iso

That said, I haven't tried restoring an image to a VM, as I never really felt the need to run a VM. What I do instead is I run Sandboxie-Plus with multiple sandboxes some of which are located on a ramdisk using Romex Primo Ramdisk with SCSI, NTFS, Dynamic Memory Management (DMM), Compact Mode. It ticks all my boxes so, the Linux based one is what I'll use for when my Windows installation gets shot to pieces─which it actually never does, but knowing Microsoft maybe it still suddenly might do that one day. Or if my SSD rolls itself over on its back and dies. I mean, I could always decide to just do a clean install instead of restoring a recent system image of course. It's just that after a clean install it takes such an awful long time to finish up with numerous settings and tweaks having to be applied again.

Ghot · Apr 17, 2023

lenovomi · Apr 17, 2023

@hdmi no idea what is this and for?
could u elaborate a bit on> run Sandboxie-Plus with multiple sandboxes some of which are located on a ramdisk using Romex Primo Ramdisk with SCSI, NTFS, Dynamic Memory Management (DMM), Compact Mode.

@Ghot
i believe its just empty statement :) did u count number of lines of the code?

Ghot · Apr 17, 2023

lenovomi said:
i believe its just empty statement :) did u count number of lines of the code?

No, but I used Acronis for years. It is good backup software.
It's also very bloated now. It runs 2 or 3 times the Services and Processes that Macrium does.

And you know what they say... "a picture is worth (count, count, count), thirty words".

bob3d · Apr 17, 2023

Ghot said:
No, but I used Acronis for years. It is good backup software.
It's also very bloated now. It runs 2 or 3 times the Services and Processes that Macrium does.
...

Bloated or not, it gets the job done well. Restores go flawlessly for me.

bob

Dru2 · Apr 17, 2023

bob3d said:
Bloated or not, it gets the job done well. Restores go flawlessly for me.

bob

Same here. Been using it for years, still do, because it gets the job done flawlessly. The "bloat" noises is simply that.... noise.

At any rate my attitude is use what works best for you and ignore the naysayers noise. For me, I use both: Acronis for backups. Macrium only if I need an "Image", which I rarely do. With that Acronis is my primary backup software. Works like a champ, and why I still use it.