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Hey Folks,
Just wondering if anyone has upgraded to Acronis true image 2018 from a previous version of true image, and if so what do you think of it?
I do have 2010 version myself working fine in windows 7, but only the initial release version will work in windows 10.
I notice now that you do have to activate and just wonder if Acronis are understanding in this regard, for example allocating extra activations should you happen to use them up through hard drive failure etc?
I just got an email from them for a three computer licence upgrade for £20.99 for a perpetual licence.
Thanks for any info.
Musiclover
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I have purchased it (upgraded from 2017), but haven't used it yet, but will as I'll be doing my October monthly image very soon.
You do have to activate it on each computer (I have the 3-pack license); however, I have found that if you download the Linux image (which is slightly different from the one you create from within Windows, it seems to work fine without "phoning home". The activated copy lets you do backups from within the Windows environment in real time while you are doing other things (although I've often wondered what would happen if I was working on a file it was trying to back up).
I'll post back after I use it. I usually use it for full disk images, booting form the DVD anyway.
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I have Acronis 2016 for 5 computers but have no reason to update - I skipped 2017 and will skip 2018.
I'm sure 2018 is more up-to-date, fine tuned, maybe better interface, etc. but nothing Earth shattering to me. I use it on WIN XP, WIN 7, and Win 10 (3 installs) but still have one license to go becasue on a multi-boot PC - Acronis only counts itself as being installed once no matter how many boot drives it is installed on for that PC (actually a lot of SW works that way).
The touted new features of 2018 are unimportant to me.
I probably WON'T update Acronis unless/until 2016 version becomes incompatible with some future Win 10 update and I am forced to update Acronis, or they advertise a newer Acronis that is significantly faster, compresses better, etc.
I DO LOVE Acronis and I have tested the recover images on EACH drive and each OS (at least one) and actually recovered a laptop three times (while I was building up it's SW I tinkered too much and had to go back a few steps LOL), and I've recovered my desktop multiple times - sometimes easier and faster than trying to "undo" some experimental installs or undo some excessive "tinkering."
Every time I do an image (once a week for desktop with incremental every night - and have copies on both internal and external drives that are physically elsewhere).
Even with incremental backups - I also keep a log of all SW installed, patched, updated, etc. since last full image so I can get back to where I was (minus whatever caused me to re-image drive) - just in case!
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I've been using Acronis True Image Home since version 10 (which came out around 2007), so about a decade now. And I've done successful backups and (even more importantly) successful restores with every version since then.
I did upgrade (it wasn't expensive), but I agree with Larry that the new features aren't that major.
I have on occasion had a problem where a restored image didn't boot properly immediately after a restore, but I just loaded the OS disk, and repaired boot, and everything worked fine.
I have also used Acronis Disk Director to successfully resize and move partitions (usually in the process of upgrading to a new hard disk. Disk director also used to include a very nice Dual Boot utility in version 10, but they dropped that in version 11 because it kept crashing. I was involved in the testing of that way back when and lots of folks were not happy when they dropped the dual boot support (you got a very nice graphical user interface to select which OS you wanted to boot into. And now on Disk Director 12, they haven't brought it back. No matter, I haven't felt the need to dual boot in a long time (especially after I bought VMWare and just run other OS's in a virtual machine).
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I've been using Acronis since Norton Ghost gave up the ghost  I've yet to upgrade though. I'm in the beginning of a new disk release, and as soon as that settles down I plan to get the upgrade. It's not expensive and if it lets me backup important files to the cloud without stifling performance, it's worth the money. Right now I load my customer database up to the cloud, encrypted, and to a secret location manually (no customer credit card numbers are either kept on my site or uploaded). If anyone has tried that function, let me know how it works. I'll probably upgrade anyway even if I can't use that function. Insights and incites by Notes.
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Hi folks,
Well went ahead and put in order for a perpetual licence, got an email from Cleverbridge, must be some sort of payment system run by Acronis confirming my order and asking for payment.
I choose Paypal, I was directed to paypal page and correct amount shown, but after reading the instruction there I am very reluctant to agree and pay, as I think this could well be a auto renew system where Cleverbridge could take additional monies next year even though I don't want to upgrade, I would be giving them permission to automatically upgrade and they of course would take payment.
This is the wording on the paypal site,
"By clicking Agree and Pay I confirm that I want to use mybanks name for my current and future purchases with cleverbridge AG. I authorise cleverbridge AG to charge my PayPal account for such purchases and I instruct PayPal to pay such amounts. I understand this lets me check out faster by not having to log in to PayPal to complete my purchase. I understand that if I have a PayPal balance, that balance will be used first and that if my preferred funding source has expired or been declined, PayPal will charge my backup funding source. I can change my preferred funding source or cancel this authorisation at any time in my PayPal Account. The payments will be treated by PayPal as pre-approved payments as specified in the PayPal User Agreement"
In my opinion not clear at all as I don't want any money being taken automatically from my account by auto renew, a very common practice nowadays with a lot of companies.
Just wondering how anyone else sees this?
Thanks
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That would be a show stopper for me. I might have to look at some of the free image backup programs and/or a different paid one if/when I have to upgrade.
The only programs that I have on auto renewal are anti-malwarebytes and Sound Cloud. Both which I use very frequently and find valuable enough to pay each year. YMMV
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Well I think I have managed to sort it out, I went into settings on Paypal and then under payments, manage pre approved payments, you can cancel pre approved payments which should sort it. Cleverbridge are indeed there.
It might be a quicker way to check out as they say and not have to go to paypal but I prefer having control over it.
On acronis 18 itself it installed ok and did a backup of a partition but I can't see any of the old backups done with 2010 acronis.
Ah well that's software or maybe I'm on a bit of a learning curve here.
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Musiclover,
Thanks, that's definitely good feedback for others. A very worthwhile learning curve, probably.
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