Best IBM Backup Program

[Mark Hardman]

(11-22-2014 12:06 PM)John W Kercheval Wrote:  Ok we bit the bullet & bought Acronis.

Again it is an encrypted drive. Does anyone have an Acronis citation that says this works?

The following article is from their support web site:

1649: Compatibility of Acronis Backup Software with Encryption Software

Key points in the article:

The following situations can occur:

• Acronis Backup software may fail to access an encrypted partition from Windows and thus will not back it up;
• Acronis Backup software may fail to resize an encrypted partition during restore;
• Acronis Backup software may back up an encrypted partition from Windows, but restoring such a partition will make it unencrypted. If an encrypted system partition is backed up and then restored, then the machine will become unbootable after the restore. This is only true when working in Windows;
• Some files may be missing in the backup.
  

The article goes on to suggest that even a forensic sector-by-sector backup may fail to restore.