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#Acronis boot cd true image network nfs update#

But that's ok, because it's virtually the same program, and all the older versions of True Image perform just as well, so it's just Marketing (Like Windows 95 is so ANCIENT, it's got 95 in it's name, for god sake, it MUST be no good, no, wait, that's not a very good example, because 95 was fucking horrible. I bought Acronis True Image 11 about 2.5 weeks before Acronis True Image Home 2009 was released. That sounded just like what the doctor ordered, and my partner was ecstatic at the prospect of Never Having To Reinstall Homesite And Other Recalcitrant Buggy No-Longer-Supported software EVER AGAIN. Not just data, but a fully working 'restore this data to a disk drive, reboot, and you'll have a working system just like you left it' solution. She gets homicidal towards anything - traffic, the pusscats, me, the television, I think she even threatened the Microwave oven with eviction, she was so pissed off and angry about 'Her Damned Computer'.ДЄnyhow, my friend, who is paranoid beyond measure, highly recommended Acronis True Image as a full backup solution. My partner's response to such stress is to fall apart, and lie sobbing on the bed, occasionally bashing the pillow with rage because she's lost her 'working' version of Homesite 4.0 -again- and she only just got it working after the LAST crash. to the late 80's), the problem isn't data, it's Windoze and the reinstall the software roundabout. She has backups (and backups of backups) (and backups of backups of backups. This was after I regaled him with the delights of rebuilding my partners computer for the fourth time in five years, and again, she lost her -installed- collection of software, recovering a working system was impossible - reinstall from scratch. It all started last year when a friend suggested that just copying data to a USB connected hard disk, wasn't really a good way of providing 'backup'. Oh, and for the TL DR crowd, fuck off already with your whiny retarded shorthand. Besides, it contains an -awful- lot of swearing, quite a few hundred milli-zeus worth, which isn't overly appreciated in the more 'technical' areas of Ars.

#Acronis boot cd true image network nfs how to#

I don't want, need, solicit or invite 'advice' on how to perform the tasks involved, I'm presenting them here because I find it hugely relevant to the nature of ongoing Lounge threads, and figured some other people might like to read it to. It has technical contents, but that's part and parcel of the ongoing clusterfuck that I'm documenting here, and presenting, to the lounge, as evidence, that god is a bitch. Please note, this is not a technical article.

#Acronis boot cd true image network nfs update#

Update by me, has pix, later on in this thread EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Don't play with large files over networks at 3am.