I played around with Acronis and made an interesting discovery. But I learned a valuable lesson, and it is this: when Acronis says in the fine print that the only way to be certain that a backup will restore is to test it by restoring to a spare drive… believe it.Īs I said earlier, after the Acronis recovery failure of last year I'm making some changes to my backup routine, including adding more redundancy.Ĭan Aronis TI 2020 and the free version of Macrium Reflect 7 be used on the same machine?Īn interesting thing about those File System errors… Luckily, this problem happened on a secondary computer that contained no vital data. I've learned the hard way that it may not. Holy Cow!Īfter weeks of back and forth with Acronis, an Acronis manager contacted me to apologize and say, "this was an unfortunate situation where the product failed to work." He also said that he had contacted the development team about my case.įor years I had trusted that if an Acronis backup Validated, it would also Recover. Worse, the Recovery Media only informed me of the index problem AFTER it had wiped my drive clean in preparation for the Restore operation.
It was only when I attempted to Recover one of those backups that the Acronis Recovery Media informed me with a popup, "Index Corrupted", followed by "Recovery operation failed". For weeks the Acronis software had been creating and validating nightly disk image backups that would later not Recover. SOME BACKGROUND, for those who are interested…Īfter the Recovery failure, the Acronis support people traced the problem to a File System issue on the drive. I'm asking because last year I had an Acronis recovery fail and I'm looking to make some changes to my backup routine, including adding redundancy. Can Acronis TI 2020 and Macrium Reflect be used on the same windows machine?
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