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(More customer reviews)I have been a TI user for about a year and a half now and I'm researching a replacement.True Image, simply put, does not produce reliable backup images consisently. Inconsistent and unreliable is exactly what one doesn't need in backup software. I recently backed up a box before doing an os upgrade and of course verified the backup up. The upgrade bombed and I needed to go back to my backup image - 3 hours into the restore TI bombs saying the image is corrupt. I move the Image to another box and indeed it can no longer be read. It seems the restore corrupted the image. I posted to the forums and sure enough others have had this problem, their recommendation to do a test restore to a seperate drive for an image. With 300+GB drives which take 6 hours (at 7200RPM) to back up, and 8 hours to restore - a test restore is not a reasonable solution.
The software is flakey and inconsistent when backing up to CDs/DVDS. Sometimes TI will back up to a CD/DVD sometimes not. It says you need the roxio decoder installed, but that doesn't resolve the problem. It's very particular about the specific media, I've found one brand it seems to like consistently. Since I have over a TB in external hard drive storage I've lived with this as a minor inconvenience, but cd/dvd media backups are a feature and one you can't count on.
I've had messages where it can't find ANY HARD DRIVES, again I've found this in the forums with no solution. A restore of an earlier version solved my problem but not of others in the forum.
I've had it read an image the first time and then not the 2nd time I've tried to access it. I've had to play with the file names to get it to read an image, sometimes that works, someones not.
I adminster 5 home boxes and run a small geek-business and I assure you I WOULD NOT PURCHASE THIS SOFTWARE AGAIN, will not recommend it to my customers and recommend you steer clear. In the area of Backups and Recovery reliable backup software is essential.
Don't buy True Image.
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