I had heard that newer versions of Acronis were not of the same quality, however. In the Windows world, I had been using Acronis True Image Home 2011 (not a free or open-source program) for some years. With the insight afforded by subsequent adverse experience, however, I found myself distinctly less pleased with that tool, relying instead on Clonezilla. I found that, for me at this point, Redo was a simple, well-designed tool that did the job. I tried Clonezilla and Redo Backup & Recovery. I was able to eliminate some Linux programs. I also found them undesirable, in the sense that I would not usually want surprises or complexities when my system crashed or my hard drive died: I would want to be able to restore the thing promptly, with absolute clarity as to what the imaging program and I were doing. There were Linux-oriented alternatives, but I found these intimidating, given my still-limited knowledge of Linux. That turned out to be true of other Windows-oriented programs as well (e.g., AOMEI, Macrium). I also found, however, that Acronis was not very good for imaging Linux ext4 partitions. I had been using Acronis True Image Home for years, and found that few other programs matched its features. This post describes the steps I took to explore backup imaging software for use on a computer running Linux Mint Xfce.
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