Hacker's ramblings

I've had my issues with Acronis True Image. It fails running backup, restore or consolidate existing backups to reduce storage. See my earlier posts about that (1 and 2).

Then they send this automated e-mail about eligibility of an upgrade with reduced price. I need backup, that's given, but have been unable to find anything reasonable as replacement. After a short pros/cons-weighing type of thinking, I decided to go for the update and got an Acronis True Image 2014 Premium.

Pros:

• I know them and their product
• I'm "pot committed" to them already 
• When I know what not to do, I manage go produce restoreable backups
  

Cons:

• I know them and their product
• I'm "pot committed" to them already
• Consolidation does not work
• Stupid restore errors on raw disks
  

There were no real issues during the update. They still don't support HTTP-proxying and simply assume that everybody can connect to their servers anytime, all the time. I manage to get past that, increasing number of software vendors make that assumption. What about us who'd like to know what goes on in their networks. They completely forget us.

Anyway, my backups run fine after the upgrade. During my consolidation experiments I managed to delete some backup-files from my storage. Now TrueImage wants to see them. When I get rid of that problem, I should be running smoothly.

I'll report here if something nasty happens.