For a software publisher to expect you to do a Registry hack on their installation of software is sublimely ridiculous. So quickly combining my recent, first-hand experiences, I checked these fora here and got our most reliable geeks’ opinions, and also looked at on-line reviews from other sites including PC magazine and Tech Radar.Īomei Backupper failed my tests: It won’t back-up Outlook. I’d negotiated a $35 single machine license for the 2021 version, but the software won’t work without incessant tech tickets. Their True Image interface would load slowly, but it might take 7 to 10 minutes additional minutes to change its scheduled execution time. With Acronis’s latest software patches to its 2021 True Image, they eventually, completely tanked their product for my otherwise comparatively happy main desktop. But a backup software that works most of the time is something anyone should find unacceptable. Google Backup and Sync uploads file changes when the file is closed.Īcronis often had, little, niggling issues but it worked most of the time.

So I’ve two local drive backups and two in the cloud and these run every day. I’d backed them up to an external but local USB 3.x, spinning drive. Over the last year and a half I’d used both the 20 versions of Acronis True Image. I also keep two separate cloud backups, one in iDrive and one in Google Drive using their Backup and Sync client.

I’m running Windows File History to a local, spinning disc from my SSD system drive.

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