Backing Up Windows Computers Using Acronis True Image– Updated
Please read our tutorial on Professional-Grade Backup Plans before proceeding with this article.
Of all the lessons in digital photography nothing is as important as learning to protect your files using multiple external hard drives and good backup software. Maintaining an up-to-date backup is painless if you choose the right software.
For Windows (PC) users my favorite backup software is a product called Acronis True Image Home 2011
I found these video tutorials on the Acronis True Image Home software quite useful.
Click here to see more tutorials on this great product.
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- My Photo Storage System: Multiple External Hard Drives
- Recommended External Hard Drives
- Backing up a Mac with Carbon Copy Cloner
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Hello to all
Equal software with different price: Free
For those who are about to buy Acronis True Image I need to inform that Seagate has the Disk Wizard backup software, which is made from some kind of accordance with Acronis itself and is almost equal to it.
To use this software you only need to have at least one Seagate or Maxtor HDD connected to your computer (it could be internal or external).
To download or more information, go to Seagate web site and navgate to:
Seagate / Suport and Downloads / Disk Wizard
Good luck and… better backups, for free and from an absolutely trust able brand as Seagate.
Dear Miguel Garcia,
Last time I checked the Seagate Disk Wizard is a very out of date version of the Acronis True Image Home Software. It lacks the version chain system introduced in Acronis True Image 2010 and I am not sure that it works with 64-bit versions of Windows. It’s a nice freebee if you have an older operating system and a Seagate disk but that’s about all….
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David Marx
Great software, saved a lot of times! One tip… if you really want to protect your data and OS make sure that bootable disk that you have created is bootable… So insert it into you CD/DVD as soon as you created it and try to boot, in some cases the disk can’t boot the system, ha-ha… Just recreate the disk and try again
Dear Disk Backup,
Good point. Never trust a backup system, or a boot disk, without testing it out before you have a crisis.
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David Marx
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