Acronis Backup Question...

I'm new with Acronis. Last night I did a full backup of everthing.
selected "normal" for compression (the default recommended that) but a
wondering is that "the best" selection in regard to compression for you
music and pictures. The point of this backup is that everything come
out well (if I crash). Wondering if I should have selected "n
compression" at all. Has anybody ever "recovered" everything usin
"normal" compression - was your music and pictures just life before

Thanks
Sand

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The San

God is my "back up."

The Sand wrote:
> I'm new with Acronis. Last night I did a full backup of everthing. I
> selected "normal" for compression (the default recommended that) but am
> wondering is that "the best" selection in regard to compression for your
> music and pictures. The point of this backup is that everything comes
> out well (if I crash). Wondering if I should have selected "no
> compression" at all. Has anybody ever "recovered" everything using
> "normal" compression - was your music and pictures just life before.

I've recovered from ALL the compression settings. You can get Acronis to
verify the backup to make sure it is good.

I have found the best for size and speed is "High", I have all my
backups at this compression setting.

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The Sand;383271 Wrote:
> I'm new with Acronis. Last night I did a full backup of everthing. I
> selected "normal" for compression (the default recommended that) but am
> wondering is that "the best" selection in regard to compression for your
> music and pictures. The point of this backup is that everything comes
> out well (if I crash). Wondering if I should have selected "no
> compression" at all. Has anybody ever "recovered" everything using
> "normal" compression - was your music and pictures just life before.
>
> Thanks,
> Sandy

Hi Sandy,

The higher the speed and the more compression the more risk of a
failure for backup, but you do get faster and less disk usage. Just use
verify to make sure everything was backed up ok.

Like Annie, I never had a problem on any of the settings for Acronis.
This of course will vary from computer to computer.

Shawn


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"The Sand" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> I'm new with Acronis. Last night I did a full backup of everthing. I
> selected "normal" for compression (the default recommended that) but am
> wondering is that "the best" selection in regard to compression for your
> music and pictures. The point of this backup is that everything comes
> out well (if I crash). Wondering if I should have selected "no
> compression" at all. Has anybody ever "recovered" everything using
> "normal" compression - was your music and pictures just life before.
>
> Thanks,
> Sandy
>
>
> --
> The Sand
>
> God is my "back up."

I have a large number of video and audio files. I had to restore yesterday
(long story deleted). With default settings using the Acronis 10 Secure
Zone backup, it restored everything perfectly. I therefore sing the praises
of this program....for now

Thanks everybody for your feedback... It sounds like "normal" or usin
the "default" in regard to compression will be okay. I did a custo
backup last night - maybe that is why it didn't ask me to "verify th
backup." Or I just missed that. I still have to learn the progra
better but I had no idea what compression level to pick because ther
wasn't much help about that in the Acronis "help menu."

I'm also glad to know you all had success with "restoring" fro
Acronis, regardless of what compression level you picked - that is goo
to know. I'm glad I went with Acronis..

Thanks again..

Sand

--
The San

God is my "back up."

"The Sand" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Thanks everybody for your feedback... It sounds like "normal" or using
> the "default" in regard to compression will be okay. I did a custom
> backup last night - maybe that is why it didn't ask me to "verify the
> backup." Or I just missed that. I still have to learn the program
> better but I had no idea what compression level to pick because there
> wasn't much help about that in the Acronis "help menu."
>
> I'm also glad to know you all had success with "restoring" from
> Acronis, regardless of what compression level you picked - that is good
> to know. I'm glad I went with Acronis...
>
> Thanks again...
>
> Sandy
>
>
> --
> The Sand
>
> God is my "back up."

Turn on verify from options menu. That way it backs up and verifies without
user input.

Music and pictures are already compressed. Further compression, using any
compression utility, will gain you little to nothing - except a loss of
quality.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)



"The Sand" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> I'm new with Acronis. Last night I did a full backup of everthing. I
> selected "normal" for compression (the default recommended that) but am
> wondering is that "the best" selection in regard to compression for your
> music and pictures. The point of this backup is that everything comes
> out well (if I crash). Wondering if I should have selected "no
> compression" at all. Has anybody ever "recovered" everything using
> "normal" compression - was your music and pictures just life before.
>
> Thanks,
> Sandy
>
>
> --
> The Sand
>
> God is my "back up."

The Sand;383500 Wrote:
> Thanks everybody for your feedback... It sounds like "normal" or usin
> the "default" in regard to compression will be okay. I did a custo
> backup last night - maybe that is why it didn't ask me to "verify th
> backup." Or I just missed that. I still have to learn the program bette
> but I had no idea what compression level to pick because there wasn'
> much help about that in the Acronis "help menu."
>
> I'm also glad to know you all had success with "restoring" fro
> Acronis, regardless of what compression level you picked - that is goo
> to know. I'm glad I went with Acronis..
>
> Thanks again..
>
> Sand

Sandy

Your welcome

The verify option is in the same manual settings area as th
compression level. Just flip through all the different options to se
it

Shaw

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Sandy,
FYI...video and picture files are usually quite compressed by default, thus a compression selection is more than likely to compress other non-media type files.
As an example...I keep my digital camera pictures, Itunes music, and Media Player music files on separate drives/partitions and backup to CD and DVD instead of imaging those drives. For the o/s drives I use the middle level of compression for both Acronis 10 and Ghost 12, image to hard drive and archive to an external drive or dvd.

....winston
MS-MVP WLMd

"The Sand" <> wrote in message news:...
:
: Thanks everybody for your feedback... It sounds like "normal" or using
: the "default" in regard to compression will be okay. I did a custom
: backup last night - maybe that is why it didn't ask me to "verify the
: backup." Or I just missed that. I still have to learn the program
: better but I had no idea what compression level to pick because there
: wasn't much help about that in the Acronis "help menu."
:
: I'm also glad to know you all had success with "restoring" from
: Acronis, regardless of what compression level you picked - that is good
: to know. I'm glad I went with Acronis...
:
: Thanks again...
:
: Sandy
:
:
: --
: The Sand
:
: God is my "back up."

"Richard Urban" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Music and pictures are already compressed. Further compression, using any
> compression utility, will gain you little to nothing - except a loss of
> quality.

This last sentence is wrong! Data compression will not effect video for the
reason you state...it is already compressed. All compression for data in
this context is LOSLESS!

MVP needs to go back to school.