Vista - Serious Acronis TrueImage problem

When restoring a system drive with TrueImage, all symbolic links, hard links
and directory junctions seem to turn into normal folders!

Isn't this a major problem?? How come nobody has mentioned this before??

ss.

I have restored my drive about 10-15 times now (lots of testing). I am also
using the latest version of TrueImage HOME (Vista ready). I have never had
this happen. Maybe you are an anomaly.

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Regards,

Richard Urban MVP
Microsoft Windows Shell/User


"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
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> When restoring a system drive with TrueImage, all symbolic links, hard
> links and directory junctions seem to turn into normal folders!
>
> Isn't this a major problem?? How come nobody has mentioned this before??
>
> ss.
>

I too have restored an HP laptop several times with HOME TI 10 and have had
no issues at all. perect each time! Hope that you get a solution.

Billy
"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>I have restored my drive about 10-15 times now (lots of testing). I am also
>using the latest version of TrueImage HOME (Vista ready). I have never had
>this happen. Maybe you are an anomaly.
>
> --
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Urban MVP
> Microsoft Windows Shell/User
>
>
> "Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
> news:xo6dncoaS9dGmmHYnZ2dnUVZ8vWdnZ2d@bt.com...
>> When restoring a system drive with TrueImage, all symbolic links, hard
>> links and directory junctions seem to turn into normal folders!
>>
>> Isn't this a major problem?? How come nobody has mentioned this before??
>>
>> ss.
>>
>

"Synapse Syndrome" <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote in message
news:xo6dncoaS9dGmmHYnZ2dnUVZ8vWdnZ2d@bt.com...
> When restoring a system drive with TrueImage, all symbolic links, hard links and directory
> junctions seem to turn into normal folders!
>
> Isn't this a major problem?? How come nobody has mentioned this before??
>
> ss.

Strange.
I've tested the images I created with TrueImage a few times,
and I've not had any problems.


-Michael

"Billy" <billynicol@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>I too have restored an HP laptop several times with HOME TI 10 and have had
>no issues at all. perect each time!

Me too.

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:24:01 -0000, "Synapse Syndrome"
<synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote:

>When restoring a system drive with TrueImage, all symbolic links, hard links
>and directory junctions seem to turn into normal folders!
>
>Isn't this a major problem?? How come nobody has mentioned this before??
>
>ss.
>

I saw something about that happening if you made some registry
changes/hack to move the users folder away from the system drive.

It was in one of the ms.public.vista groups.


Regards

<snip>


.. Maybe you are an anomaly.
>


Are you saying the OP is an anomaly or simply that his results have been
anomalous <G>

"Dennis_N" <dn@nospam.dk> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:24:01 -0000, "Synapse Syndrome"
> <synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote:
>
>>When restoring a system drive with TrueImage, all symbolic links, hard
>>links
>>and directory junctions seem to turn into normal folders!
>>
>>Isn't this a major problem?? How come nobody has mentioned this before??
>>
>>ss.
>>
>
> I saw something about that happening if you made some registry
> changes/hack to move the users folder away from the system drive.
>
> It was in one of the ms.public.vista groups.
>


Yes! this is what I have done. I have moved all but Desktop onto a RAID1
array. So that narrows it down at least.

This is really pretty bad, as there are a lot of standard hardlinks in the
User folder, and I have added a bunch of junctions as well. It will be
quite painstaking to find them all and make a batch file to delete them and
remake them.

I just checked the virtual machines with TrueImage and they are just single
drive/partition installations which don't suffer from this problem, but with
my new way of organising things it looks like restoring images is going to
be more work this way rather than less.

ss.

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 16:16:16 -0000, "Synapse Syndrome"
<synapse@NOSPAMgomez404.elitemail.org> wrote:

>
>Yes! this is what I have done. I have moved all but Desktop onto a RAID1
>array. So that narrows it down at least.
>
>This is really pretty bad, as there are a lot of standard hardlinks in the
>User folder, and I have added a bunch of junctions as well. It will be
>quite painstaking to find them all and make a batch file to delete them and
>remake them.

Ups...


>I just checked the virtual machines with TrueImage and they are just single
>drive/partition installations which don't suffer from this problem, but with
>my new way of organising things it looks like restoring images is going to
>be more work this way rather than less.
>
>ss.
>

Yeah.. but one wonders though... Shouldn't Acronis make an 'image' of
the HDD ? - then why is these changes not backed up with the image ? ¨
That's kind of odd....

Your image was created AFTER you made these changes right ?


Regards

In message <uDuSW1KaHHA.1508@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl> "philo"
<philo@privacy.net> wrote:

>
><snip>
>
>
>. Maybe you are an anomaly.
>>
>
>
>Are you saying the OP is an anomaly or simply that his results have been
>anomalous <G>
>

Can't it be both?
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