Mike, you say you do a full backup each time. Can you tell me if that replaces the one you did before? Or if Acronis allows you to configure it so it will do that. My backup will go directly to my Maxtor External HD each time I do it. I have registered on the Forum so hope to gather up a lot of user information from there. The first post I looked at was a complaint about having to manually delete previous backups and he is using vs. 10 so I am a bit concerned that this won't be as convenient as I had hoped. Sandi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike the mod" <mikebike@xxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 5:43 PM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Backing Up > Hi Sandi, > I have Acronis True Image 10 now and it's feature are here; > > <http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/features.html> > > If my memory is correct in Acronis True Image 9 & 10 > TI will create a hidden restore file on the hard drive. > > Not a Windows recognized partition. > > You need to use a partitioning utility to create separate > partitions. > I bought Acronis Disk Director for that. > > I posted some utilities for partitioning last month. > > I do a full backup each time rather than an incremental. > > That way I always have at least 2. > I try to back up at least monthly or after major > software changes. > One Backup is made on the same hard drive, and > 80gig, on a different partition. > Then that night the whole hard drive is backed up > to the 300gig slave drive onto the backup partition. > > Periodically the full backup is copied to my 300gig > USB drive for external safekeeping. > IHTH > > Mike the mod -- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To unsubscribe or change your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/