Acronis

[Badger]

Hello all,

I've heard a few people mention Acronis to backup FSX and wondered what the advantages of this are over the standard backup software that comes with Windows Vista.

I have so many downloads and addons for FSX now that it would take me forever to rebuild it all again so an easy to backup and replace solution seems sensible.  Having said that, I don't want to be paying for backup software if it's not much better than the default Vista version as there are plenty of Orbx products I've yet to spend some cash on.

Any ideas and thoughts on Acronis would be appreciated.

Also, I have all my FSX files on a seperate disk (D:) to everything else but the .cfg etc is in the C: drive so apart from backing up the FSX (D:) drive, what other locations would I need to backup?

Cheers

Badger

[Ray1935]

Try Macrium Reflect Backup. There is a free version which allows for the backup and reinstallation of individual drives annd restoration of individual files. I find it better than Acronis - which has failed on me several times in the past.

Ray

[bees knees]

Have to agree with Macrium, using the payware version and it does exactly what is says on the tin.

Bryan.

[TenBlade]

Would Macrium enable me to port FSX onto a new harddrive on a new rig? Or am I getting my hopes up too high?

Bjorn

[Blitzer]

I find it better than Acronis - which has failed on me several times in the past.

Likewise I've had a few issues with Acronis in the past having, I have now switched back to Norton Ghost which seems to work just fine. 

[rohan]

Bjorn,

if you port FSX as you suggest, the one thing that you won't get is the registry data to go with it, including not only the FSX keys but also those for all your other add-ons,

regards,

Ro

[TenBlade]

That's a no go for my next rig then.

Thx, Ro.

Bjorn