What would you recommend in preparing the drive for use with another backup utility software program/Acronis? I previously used the manufacturer’s backup software included with the drive for my current backups. Yes, In Acronis you choose the backup name while backup process. Q: Can a single external HDD be used as a backup target for multiple PC’s? Has anyone experience problems with doing this?
I have since upgraded to the paid version on my family’s desktop machines, though I still use the (latest) free version on our laptops, which are only occasionally backed up.
The “fix” eventually seemed to buy Acronis 2010, but I’m not sure if that helped, either, as I had already gone to EaseUS by that time, as the free version (at that time) did everything I wanted. I couldn’t get it to do what I wanted (differential b/u with email notification), and when I went to the forum found that numerous people were having problems also, with no substantial help from the company (“we’re working on it”). In response to PaulT’s question above, I purchased 3-4 copies of Acronis Backup in 2009 after seeing multiple glowing reviews of earlier versions. I use FreeFileBackup to do a backup of my data nightly, but haven’t had the necessity of restoring. I think Macrium has a better and more transparent model there. Few problems at all, though I do miss the convenience of having a public forum. I’ve had to restore 2-3 times, and have used the program to clone the OS drive many times, on several computers. I have been using EaseUS Todo backup since ~2010 to perform a nightly differential backup of my System drive.
And 90 minutes to validate the most recent backup. Maybe 10 minutes for incremental backups. In using the 2021 Acronis True image version I found that validating the backups takes far longer than the backups themselves. I store everything to do with my machine’s backups, including their Windows restoration media, on a big, external USB drive. I don’t use their cloud storage because I live in the country and I’m unwilling to pay $800/month a gigabit data line would cost me here. In searching for cloning or backup tools which would be reliable, and have live support (chat or phone) I days ago opted to switch to Acronis True Image 2021 with a negotiated (‘upgrade’ to them, ‘cross-grade’ to me) price of $35. In my records I see that I was licensed for 2018, -19 and -20. But they do offer granular controls, and they keep up with the times by including anti-ransomware and anti-malware features. Their interfaces are sometimes unnecessarily complicated for my tastes. Long story short… I’d fiddled lots with four versions of Acronis since maybe 2015.
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