Looking for a Windows backup program

[soul_taker]

I'm looking for a program to do one click 1:1 backups from my boot SSD to a secondary drive. Not looking to use the built in Windows program.

Recommends?

[audit13]

What drive are you backing up the image to? I back up an image of my SSD to a Seagate mechanical drive and I use the Seagate version of Acronis's True Image program. If you are backing up the image to a WD drive, use the WD disk utility.

I really like Acronis True Image because it leaves my SSD's alignment/offset intact when restoring the image. Older versions of Acronis True Image don't always do this.

[jensen1]

What drive are you backing up the image to? I back up an image of my SSD to a Seagate mechanical drive and I use the Seagate version of Acronis's True Image program. If you are backing up the image to a WD drive, use the WD disk utility.

I really like Acronis True Image because it leaves my SSD's alignment/offset intact when restoring the image. Older versions of Acronis True Image don't always do this.

i use norton ghost 2003 for my backups
once you set up your boot usb key, you can backup/restore partitions, or entire drives

[mysticalinfluence]

Just use Clonezilla it's free and easy to use. Acronis True Image has become bloated and to complex for people avoid at all cost.

[audit13]

Just use Clonezilla it's free and easy to use. Acronis True Image has become bloated and to complex for people avoid at all cost.

It's complex? I find it very compact, especially the oem versions.

I guess it really comes down to personal preference.

As long as the image does not change the alignment, it's all good.

[audit13]

i use norton ghost 2003 for my backups
once you set up your boot usb key, you can backup/restore partitions, or entire drives

Does Ghost 2003 changes the alignment when restoring an image to an SSD?

[0xffff]

What drive are you backing up the image to? I back up an image of my SSD to a Seagate mechanical drive and I use the Seagate version of Acronis's True Image program. If you are backing up the image to a WD drive, use the WD disk utility.

I really like Acronis True Image because it leaves my SSD's alignment/offset intact when restoring the image. Older versions of Acronis True Image don't always do this.

I am curious to hear more about this. I have an SSD and a mechanical drive and would like to create a bootable image on the mech drive. Are you able to boot off your mech drive, or is it just an archive file that's created?

[audit13]

I am curious to hear more about this. I have an SSD and a mechanical drive and would like to create a bootable image on the mech drive. Are you able to boot off your mech drive, or is it just an archive file that's created?

I don't have a bootable image on my mechanical drive. I have an image of my ssd on my mechanical drive. If my ssd becomes infected with a virus, spyware, whatever, I just boot my machine with the Acronis boot DVD and overwrite the ssd with the backup image.

I have a 60 GB ssd drive and, with Win7 and all of my programs, I still have 34 Gb of free space. I do not use virtual memory.

[geek12]

I'm looking for a program to do one click 1:1 backups from my boot SSD to a secondary drive. Not looking to use the built in Windows program.

Recommends?

I use and recommend Handy Backup 7, it's the best program for Windows backup I ever used.