RE: My lunch with Microsoft

[J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, so far I am sidestepping most of this in my continuing use of older hardware and previous 
standards -- just saying 'NO' to GPT and EFI.  Although I have licenses for Acronis 2018 & 2019,

the thing I still reach for most of the time is my trusty, bootable Acronis Media Pack 2012 disk, 
that has Acronis TI, DD, OS Selector (the latter never used), and some other stuff on it.  We do 
have some newer hardware at the office, but it is rare that I have a real need for anything later.  
I think there was a later-introduced feature that I needed Acronis 2015 for, on a couple occasions, 
and because the older bootable disk was not being fully recognized with the later hardware.  

The feature you just mentioned of being able to access and extract specific files from an image 
may have come along later.  I'm pretty sure the "restore to dissimilar hardware" module
was also of later vintage.  So I can make use of those also, as needed.


   Jordan

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On Sun, 2/24/19, Philip White  wrote:

 Subject: RE: My lunch with Microsoft
 To: "xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" 
 Date: Sunday, February 24, 2019, 8:20 AM
 
 Acronis is an excellent
 disk/file backup utility. It also has the ability to create
 very good mirror images. One enormous plus is to be able to
 open backup images as if they were file folders and extract
 files; This is a great saver of time and labor.
    
 Since hardware and disk
 formats are constantly being revised, it becomes necessary
 to have utilities that can deal with these changes
 appropriately. This was especially noticeable during the
 transition to EFI disk partitioning.
 
    
 It pays to have current
 versions of system utilities; however it does not follow
 that they need to be upgraded every year. Just upgrade when
 you discover that the features of the version you have can
 no longer cope with your system environment.
 The yearly renewal thing is little more than a racket.
    
 Phil