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How to use Acronis TrueImage 11 in Linux

There are a plethora of ways how you can backup your system in Linux, however none offers the reliability or ease of use as Acronis TrueImage does. I've been on g4L previously, however, unfortunately it is not reliable and I can not count on it as I can count on commercial backup solutions, which have been in the market for years.

Acronis TrueImage is advertised as a Windows only solution, however it can be used in Linux as well with ease. This tutorial will show how:

1., Get yourselves a copy of Acronis TrueImage. The software is priced reasonably. I do my computing exclusively on my laptop, and laptops have pretty high rate of hard disk failure because of the wear and tear, so once a failure occurs the disruption for me would be far beyond the cost for paying for such a solution like this.

2., Once you purchase Acronis, they don't ship you a media rather offer an internet download, which is an exe file. You can install the software through Wine, without any problems.

3., After the software is installed, you can not use the GUI because of sporadic errors which you will get for example, when you to create a backup:

So the normal GUI does not work well in Linux, however, Acronis offers a great feature in which you can load the application into a bootable cdrom, and you can use this cdrom to boot your computer and create your backups.

You can access the option from:

The bootable CD has almost all options the normal GUI offers, and form the CD you can select your drives and back them up to FTP/ another computer in the network/external hard drive etc. You can select either the data or sector by sector backup. Acronis apparently only supports ext2 and 3 so if your using an exotic file system, you will have to do with the sector by sector backup. Backups can be encrypted and password secured.