Office 2007 strange prob.

[Char Jackson]

In my case, three. I agree with what you say about "personal
threshold of pain". For me, this is below the threshold.

Cool. Like Clint Eastwood said in one of his movies, "A man's
gotta know his limitations." Mine is 1 and yours is > 3.

 

[XS11E]

That reminds me of why I switched to Macrium...

I didn't know that Macrium could restore restore points when restoring
an image? How do they do that?

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I took a look here:
http://www.macrium.com/features.asp
and it does look like a pretty cool little tool. For $40.00 I think I will
read up on it and give it a try. I noticed it had a free trial to let you
see how you like it. Looks if I am reading it right, like I can have it
exclude stuff I do not want to waste space backing up, like all the DVD's on
here. Right now 195 Gigs of space is used by saved DVD's. I don't need to
back those up, they already are backed up.

Yes, you can set up "file filters".

Filtering out the already safe DVDs is sure to speed up your backups

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I didn't know that Macrium could restore restore points when restoring
an image? How do they do that?

I was not addressing the issue you asked about. I have no idea whether
Macrium can restore Restore Points, or how it chooses to do it. To me,
the obvious guess is that, if it did so, it would be by backing up the
shadow files with the rest of the drive, and by copying them back during
a restore operation.

In my case, Acronis lost Restore Points when it was doing a backup. On
one occasion I managed by luck to see evidence of it as it was
happening. That was the end of my relationship with Acronis.

 

[Stan Brown]

Say what? I had no idea, but I've just looked and there are no
restore points earlier than my most recent backup. Holy unexpected
consequences, Batman!

Acronis Support tells me that True Image 11 does not remove restore
points. I've downloaded it but haven't installed it yet. (Luckily,
I bought TI 10 exactly 30 days before the release of TI 11, so I
qualify for a free upgrade. It would certainly rankle if I had to
pay for the fixing of such an obvious flaw.)

I really liked True Image 8 (I think that was my version), but I've
not been so happy with TI 10. Since I back up to an external drive,
I never run a scheduled backup. But even unscheduled backups require
not one but two Acronis scheduler services to be running. And Acronis
support says that's still true in TI 11. Also, TI 10 and (according
to support) 11 require full elevation, which makes no sense to me at
all.

 

[Stan Brown]

Acronis Support tells me that True Image 11 does not remove restore
points. I've downloaded it but haven't installed it yet. (Luckily,
I bought TI 10 exactly 30 days before the release of TI 11, so I
qualify for a free upgrade. It would certainly rankle if I had to
pay for the fixing of such an obvious flaw.)

I really liked True Image 8 (I think that was my version), but I've
not been so happy with TI 10. Since I back up to an external drive,
I never run a scheduled backup. But even unscheduled backups require
not one but two Acronis scheduler services to be running. And Acronis
support says that's still true in TI 11. Also, TI 10 and (according
to support) 11 require full elevation, which makes no sense to me at
all.

I've run a backup with True Image 11, and I can confirm that it
doesn't delete restore points.