When I bought my new computer running Vista Home Premium, I also bought an
external hard drive for backing up. That drive came with its own backup
software --Retrospect 7.5 by EMC. I assumed that's what I should use but now
learn that they haven't issued a driver compatible with Vista. I now see
that Vista has its own backup software. Is there any reason I shouldn't use
the Vista backup software and just forget about Retrospect?

Personally, I like the updated backup utilities in Vista. I would recommend it.

--
Jason
Windows Vista RTM
MS Office 2007 RTM
"Clipper" wrote in message ...
When I bought my new computer running Vista Home Premium, I also bought an
external hard drive for backing up. That drive came with its own backup
software --Retrospect 7.5 by EMC. I assumed that's what I should use but now
learn that they haven't issued a driver compatible with Vista. I now see
that Vista has its own backup software. Is there any reason I shouldn't use
the Vista backup software and just forget about Retrospect?

Western Digital for some time has been including Retrospect software -
unfortunately it is the "light" version with limited capability.
The backup utility provided with Home Premium provides for backing and
restoring files and folders - it does not do a "complete" backup (image
backup) of the computer for disaster recovery.
Vista's "Complete PC Backup" utility is not included with Home Basic or
Premium.



"Clipper" wrote in message
...
When I bought my new computer running Vista Home Premium, I also bought an
external hard drive for backing up. That drive came with its own backup
software --Retrospect 7.5 by EMC. I assumed that's what I should use but
now
learn that they haven't issued a driver compatible with Vista. I now see
that Vista has its own backup software. Is there any reason I shouldn't
use
the Vista backup software and just forget about Retrospect?

Acronis true is free for 15 days and works really simply also vista ready

http://www.pcw.co.uk/personal-comput...trueimage-home


Billy
"AJR" wrote in message
...
Western Digital for some time has been including Retrospect software -
unfortunately it is the "light" version with limited capability.
The backup utility provided with Home Premium provides for backing and
restoring files and folders - it does not do a "complete" backup (image
backup) of the computer for disaster recovery.
Vista's "Complete PC Backup" utility is not included with Home Basic or
Premium.



"Clipper" wrote in message
...
When I bought my new computer running Vista Home Premium, I also bought
an
external hard drive for backing up. That drive came with its own backup
software --Retrospect 7.5 by EMC. I assumed that's what I should use but
now
learn that they haven't issued a driver compatible with Vista. I now see
that Vista has its own backup software. Is there any reason I shouldn't
use
the Vista backup software and just forget about Retrospect?

Acronis "True Image" 10. Works well with Vista. Use it now.


"Clipper" wrote in message
...
When I bought my new computer running Vista Home Premium, I also bought an
external hard drive for backing up. That drive came with its own backup
software --Retrospect 7.5 by EMC. I assumed that's what I should use but
now
learn that they haven't issued a driver compatible with Vista. I now see
that Vista has its own backup software. Is there any reason I shouldn't
use
the Vista backup software and just forget about Retrospect?

Diamontina Cocktail:
Acronis "True Image" 10. Works well with Vista. Use it now.


Acronis TI has too many restrictions under Vista now. So I've chosen
Paragon Drive Backup - http://www.drive-backup.com

Note: I have Vista x32 and Paragon's solution works fine with it, but
as far as I know Vista x64 isn't supported yet.

wrote:


Acronis "True Image" 10. Works well with Vista. Use it now.


Acronis TI has too many restrictions under Vista now.


Exactly what restriction are you referring to? I'm not aware of any, and TI
works fine here.

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Also curious about the "restrictions" - works fine here!

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Diamontina Cocktail:
Acronis "True Image" 10. Works well with Vista. Use it now.


Acronis TI has too many restrictions under Vista now. So I've chosen
Paragon Drive Backup - http://www.drive-backup.com

Note: I have Vista x32 and Paragon's solution works fine with it, but
as far as I know Vista x64 isn't supported yet.

On 27 ÆÅ×, 01:25, "AJR" wrote:
Also curious about the "restrictions" - works fine here!

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Diamontina Cocktail:
Acronis "True Image" 10. Works well withVista. Use it now.

Acronis TI has too many restrictions underVistanow. So I've chosen
Paragon DriveBackup-http://www.drive-backup.com

Note: I haveVistax32 and Paragon's solution works fine with it, but
as far as I knowVistax64 isn't supported yet.- óËÒÙÔØ ÃÉÔÉÒÕÅÍÙÊ ÔÅËÓÔ -

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OK "too many" is overstatement There wasn't hot backup under Vista
(except VSS) in trial I've tried, so it's very bad for me. Also, I
tried Acronis on my newest hardware and TI couldn't detect it, but
Paragon did (not only under Vista).

I also checked Microsoft's site before purchasing and didn't find
Acronis in "work with Vista" list. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/933305

That's why I've chosen Drive Backup.

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Diamontina Cocktail:
Acronis "True Image" 10. Works well with Vista. Use it now.


Acronis TI has too many restrictions under Vista now. So I've chosen
Paragon Drive Backup - http://www.drive-backup.com

Restrictions? Such as? I use it and it works well. I have even had to
restore my Vista twice already and it worked perfectly doing that.