Review: Acronis True Image vs Symantec Ghost. When Gizmo asked me to review Acronis True Image V9, I was delighted. I had been using Norton Ghost V9 and wasn't happy with the product due to on- going problems with corrupted images. Installation Woes. Life was not meant to be easy. Right from the start I had problems with both Norton Ghost and Acronis True Image on my PC. Eventually, I  wrote a personal letter to the Chairman & CEO of Symantec, John W.

Thompson, asking for his help and assistance. My plea worked and I was put in contact with an “Executive Support” group. They seemed much more anxious to help and started off well by sending me the latest version of  Ghost 1.

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I was optimistic that with the receipt this new version that the problems I had been experiencing with corrupted Ghost image backups  would disappear. Even with the latest V1. I had more invalid backup’s, completely baffling the “Executive Support” group. After a number of emails back and forth, they adamantly pronounce that not one but BOTH of my U3.

SCSI hard drives were broken and needed to be immediately replaced! Anything it seemed other than their product.

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Their last email to me was pure bathos: “Do not bother responding to this email as there is nothing else I can help you with and it will not be responded to.” So much for Symantec . The experience with Acronis support was much better. Their support team was also baffled, but at least they maintained their composure, didn’t make any nonsensical recommendations such as replacing my hard drives and were civil. Eventually I solved the problem myself; another application, Process Guard, was interfering with the operation of the programs. Furthermore some serious problems with Ghost remained. Corrupted Images. Even after removing Process Guard from my PC,  I continued to have on- going problems with Ghost V1.

Not all images had the problem, only some. I only discovered this when I attempted to recover from an image file only to find the image was unusable. Worse still you get no warning or notification of the problem other than entries in the log files. Here's a typical entry.

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EVENT # : 5. 10. 8EVENT LOG : Application. EVENT TYPE : Error. SOURCE : Norton Ghost.

CATEGORY : High Priority. EVENT ID : 1. 00. COMPUTER : MYCOMP1. TIME : 2/1. 0/2. 00. AMMESSAGE : Description: Error EC8. F1. 7B7: Cannot create recovery points for job: Recovery point of I: \.

Error EA3. 90. 70. A: The internal structure of the image file is invalid or unsupported.

Details: 0x. EA3. ASource: Norton Ghost This problem may be unique to my PC but I suspect not. And of you are experiencing problems, don't expect too much help from Symantec. Ghost and True Image Product Features. True Image will run on any Windows version from Windows 9.

Both products offer the ability to do full or incremental backups. Ghost has changed the nomenclature for their backups in Ghost 1. Recovery Points”. True Image can backup individual files or folders. While True Image does not offer the ability to start a backup on the pre- configured events like Ghost does, it does offer a feature called Pre/Post Commands that allows you to do just about any task before and/or after a particular backup runs. Examining the UI’s for both applications, they are reasonably similar Windows driven interfaces both designed to show pretty “eye candy”.

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There was a significant change in the UI from Ghost 9 to Ghost 1. This is the main UI for Norton Ghost 1. This is the main UI for Acronis True Image: 1. True Image has extra functions such as being able to turn off Windows System Restore and preparing and adding a new hard disk to your system, which Norton Ghost 1. True Image allows you to setup a secure and private partition called the Acronis Secure Zone to store backups in. Norton Ghost 1. 0’s help file is more robust and easier to locate information in than the True Image implementation: a)      Clicking on the help button in True Image always takes you to the main help window, not to the section applicable to the area that you were in and are looking for help with. Unlike Ghost, True Image doesn’t include a menu drop down link to check for new updates (Live Update).

Both products require activation/registration of the product first. The True Image update check is a manual process.

True Image does not have the ability to limit the number of backups for a specific drive/partition as Ghost does. With Ghost, you can set a limit of say two backups for whatever backup job you have defined. I run a freeware program called Spy- The- Spy, which lets me monitor changes to files in certain folders on my C: drive in real time. Levi Smith claimed this was “proprietary” information!

Doing a comparison of the backups of Ghost vs. Manually Uninstall Site Recovery Manager on this page. True Image, I found that on equal backups, True Image had an 8- 1.

Looking at the image restore capabilities of both productsa)      The Ghost DOS interface is driven by the original install CD. Both programs can backup to a hard disk.

But note that backing up to removable media is a manual operation and cannot be scheduled, as additional media may have to be inserted to contain the full backup. Ghost 9 & 1. 0 provides the user the ability to select destinations for error messages from the system event log, the Ghost internal log or SMTP email.

The Ghost log viewer for a completed backup provides only minimal information that the backup succeeded or failed. True Image can export status to a text log file, which Ghost can’t do. Finally, it has been my experience over the years that few people verify their image backups or experimentally try to boot up the image restore DOS program before they need it.

I cannot stress strongly enough that it is CRITICAL that you VERIFY image backups. Second, you MUST test that you can boot into the DOS recovery program BEFORE you actually need it. Third, if you want to go the full mile, then you should also create a copy of your hard drive (or a logical disk) first using a process that you have confidence in and know works.

Furthermore, Symantec has a long & sordid history of acquiring products or complete companies and then discontinuing the products. I have removed Symantec Ghost from my system. If you don't feel comfortable with this then go directly to the vendor's site.