My experience with Acronics goes back to Windows XP.

Let’s go just a bit deeper into each package. In this case all three packages meet my basic needs. The last thing I expected was a tie, making a spreadsheet always works. That covered, I quickly built a spreadsheet containing all the essential features. I either back up onto my network or use a dedicated hard drive. Because of my typical rural internet capability, cloud storage is out of the question. Oops, almost forgot the Linux network server that I keep running but do almost nothing with. I have a Windows 10 laptop with about 100 gb of storage and finally a Windows XP system with 1 TB of storage. My wife and I each have our own Windows 7 system with approximately 2 TB of storage. Throw in my copy of Acronis 2018 and my evaluation was ready to start.įirst, a short description of the computers I have to support. Research led me to two candidates, Paragon Hard Disk Manager and AOMEI Backupper. Having blamed my recent recovery troubles on the differences between MBR and GPT boot formats, I used the ability to convert MBR to GPT and GPT to MBR to select candidates for my testing.

Given my love hate relationship with Acronis I knew that I was going to have difficulties being fair about it. After my experiences last month, I decided to see what else was out there for backup software. As hard as I tried, this review is no exception. Unfortunately most reviews are anything but unbiased. The idea behind a software review is to give an unbiased appraisal of the program.

Paragon system backup