Help With Drive Image V2I Protector

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Can someone tell me what the difference is between these two? Also is
PowerQuest better then Acronis Stuff?

They both make themselves sound great on their websites and I am not very
familiar with any of their stuff.

I need help!
 
Sam said:
Can someone tell me what the difference is between these two? Also is
PowerQuest better then Acronis Stuff?

They both make themselves sound great on their websites and I am not
very familiar with any of their stuff.

I need help!
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When you are referring to the differences between the products Drive Image
7.0 and V2i Protector 2.0 Dekstop Edition, please, read the products specs
on http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage,
http://www.powerquest.com/v2i/protector and
http://www.powerquest.com/v2i/protector/desktop respectively...

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Can someone tell me what the difference is between these two? Also is
PowerQuest better then Acronis Stuff?
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I have been using Drive Image 2002 for the last year.

About 3 weeks ago I bought the upgrade to Drive Image 7 from their
site. I downloaded an iso image.

Having used it for the last 2 weeks I must that I am very impressed for
what it does fOR ME!

I have simulated a crash and did a recovery from a USB drive image and
it worked fine.

Whilst reading about Drive Image 7 on the web came across this thread
in the google newsgroup archive.

http://groups.google.
com/groups?
q=Drive+image+7&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=238kfvsnvar80aocpkbc2arfc3rff
pardv%404ax.com&rnum=2

Drive Image is MUCH faster than Acronis

Farouk Dindar
 
When you are referring to the differences between the products Drive
Image 7.0 and V2i Protector 2.0 Dekstop Edition, please, read the
products specs on http://www.powerquest.com/driveimage,
http://www.powerquest.com/v2i/protector and
http://www.powerquest.com/v2i/protector/desktop respectively...
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I have already done that. I was hoping for some knowledgeable advice from an
experienced user here. No where on that site does it tell me the differences
between the two products, that I can see anyway.

They both back up to CD or hard drive, they both work in windows. The points
just below here seem to essentially say the same thing in different ways. If
you back up with out leaving windows then it is a live system. Won't Drive
Image also restore to the previous Active State™?

PowerQuest V2i Protector 2.0
Create live system and storage backups
Quickly restore to a previous Active State™
Eliminate server/workstation restoration steps
Recover individual files or folders in minutes

PowerQuest Drive Image 7
Backup without leaving Windows
Save backups to virtually any media or drive
Restore your entire system or individual files
Schedule automatic backups
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In the past I have found that most companies avoid direct comparisons
hoping that people will decide that the most expensive one (V2i Protector
2.0) is all they really need.

Is there anyone who knows the major differences between these two programs?

Thanks
Sammy
 
I have already done that. I was hoping for some knowledgeable advice from an
experienced user here. No where on that site does it tell me the differences
between the two products, that I can see anyway.
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Having used Drive Image 7 for the last 2 weeks I can state that incremental
backup is not available..

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http://www.crn.com/sections/infrastructure/infrastructure.asp?ArticleID=43271

"For environments that require multiple daily backups, V2i Protector includes
an incremental backup option, which updates images with only the data that has
changed since the last complete backup."
 
(e-mail address removed) (Farouk Dindar) wrote in
Having used Drive Image 7 for the last 2 weeks I can state that
incremental backup is not available..
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Thanks Farouk. I have since installed both programs on separate machines
and ran through the product tour on each and noticed that difference. I
also noticed another difference. Here is the story.

V2i Protector Desktop seems to work much better then Drive Image here.
After installing Drive Image I created a small backup from a partition
with just a little data on it to play with it. It worked fine. I did the
same thing with V2i Protector Desktop on the other machine and it also
worked fine.

Later I decided to go back and restore that partition with Drive Image to
try it out. When I clicked on the shortcut to Drive Image the second time
(from the program menu) to start the program, a box popped up saying,
installing Drive Image. I tried to stop it by clicking on cancel but it
would roll back the attempted install then start it over again. The only
way I could get it to stop was to cancel it from task manager. I tried
the same thing from the other machine with V2i Protector Desktop and it
worked fine.

I decided to switch the programs from one machine to the other machine.
After removing them I checked the temp folder on the Drive Image machine
and found 9 attempted installs of drive Image into the TEMP folder?? I
cleaned up that mess and continued.

Well, I got the exact same results by switching machines. I should add
that the first Drive Image machine was Win 2K and that Drive Image is now
installed on the second one, a Win XP Pro machine. I now notice that the
attempt to reinstall does not happen until after I reboot the machine. I
can start Drive Image as many times as I want with no problems until I
reboot and then the problem occurs. If I look in the Drive Image folder on
this XP machine right now, the executable seems to be missing? Where did
it go? I guess the attempts to install are trying to replace that file.
This is real strange. I removed Drive Image, cleaned the old install
folder and the temp folders and ran Win Doctor on the registry and it came
up with only the stuff Drive Image did not remove when uninstalled. I
reinstalled and had the exact same problem again. So much for Drive Image
here.

Both of these machines are fully updated and clean of viruses (scanned
with Norton) on a regular schedule. And I regularly run both Spybot Search
and Destroy and Ad-aware on these machines. One machine Win2K is loaded
with software (bosses machine) and the other has nothing but Office XP and
Win XP on it.

Anyway My boss decided on V2i Protector Desktop, no problems at all, and
left with the machine this morning. I did a full backup and restored it to
a spare drive here and it went perfect. Hopefully everything will work
fine with V2i Protector Desktop.

Thanks for the help.
 
Yes, that is *the* difference. V2i does incremental imaging.
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I just noticed in another post here that Drive Image cannot store an image
on a partition on the same drive as it created the image from? Is this the
same with V2i Protector Desktop? I don't see any mention of this on the
website either. I hope not.

I was looking at the possibility of using this software to create
incremental backups on notebooks and storing them on a partition on the
notebook till they can be moved to CDR or something. The guys travel by
car a lot so incremental backups could be done while traveling. They would
have no excuses then. :)
 
Having used Drive Image 7 for the last 2 weeks I can state that incremental
backup is not available..
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Yes, that is *the* difference. V2i does incremental imaging.

Joep
 
I *think*, if I read the explanation of the *new* V2i engine correctly,
that theoretically this is an option, DM7 uses the same thing, in fact
is seems the same as V2i-Protector, they simply left some goodies out.
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For $10.00 price difference I don't know why anyone would bother with
Drive Image at all. V2i Protector desktop seems to be the answer.

On the other hand I'd never do it, writing the image to the partition
you are imaging. Pitty that V2iP + DM7 don't seem to offer the option to
create a backup partition like DM2002 did. I'd never back up to the same
partition so the suggestion would be to create an extra partition on the
laptops using PartitionMagic or a similar tool.
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Oh, that is for sure what I intended to do. All the portables have an
unused partition around 4 gig already which should be perfect for that
purpose. I did read here just recently that Drive Image 7 can not back up
to a partition on the same drive it is imaging. I will have to try it out
I guess. I will have his system here again next weekend so I will get a
chance to play with it some more.

If you go for V2i protector then they're all out of excuses I' say ...
backups can be scheduled, and they don't prevent you from continuing to
work.
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I'm sure they will come up with something. Sales people are never at a
loss for excuses. :)

Thanks Joep.
 
Sam Manson said:
I just noticed in another post here that Drive Image cannot store an image
on a partition on the same drive as it created the image from? Is this the
same with V2i Protector Desktop? I don't see any mention of this on the
website either. I hope not.

I was looking at the possibility of using this software to create
incremental backups on notebooks and storing them on a partition on the
notebook till they can be moved to CDR or something. The guys travel by
car a lot so incremental backups could be done while traveling. They would
have no excuses then. :)
Click to expand...

I *think*, if I read the explanation of the *new* V2i engine correctly, that
theoretically this is an option, DM7 uses the same thing, in fact is seems
the same as V2i-Protector, they simply left some goodies out.

On the other hand I'd never do it, writing the image to the partition you
are imaging. Pitty that V2iP + DM7 don't seem to offer the option to create
a backup partition like DM2002 did. I'd never back up to the same partition
so the suggestion would be to create an extra partition on the laptops using
PartitionMagic or a similar tool.

If you go for V2i protector then they're all out of excuses I' say ...
backups can be scheduled, and they don't prevent you from continuing to
work.
 
Powerquest v2i protector 2.0 desktop edition better than Acronis 2337

I have used and continue to use Powerquest Drive Image V2i Protector 2.0 Desktop Edition. I also have Acronis True Image 9.0 build 2337. The Powerquest product is far superior to the Acronis 9.0 product. It is very complicated to make backups using Acronis to DVDs. It works great in making backups to external usb drives. The only advantage that Acronis has over PowerQuest V2i protector is making backups to windows 98,98se or windows ME. The PowerQuest product does not work on these Os's. The PowerQuest V2i protector only works on Windows 2000,Windows XP Home and Windows XP Pro. Symantec has purchased PowerQuest and you will have to buy the product listed as Symantec 10. You might be able to buy a copy of PowerQuest V2i protector 2.0 Desktop Edition on the internet or E-bay. It is currently the best product that you can buy to back up your home system.
 
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