Acronis & Boinc

[vindictive666]

hi all

i use acronis backup and i was wondering if it is ok to run boinc in the background or is best to shut it down ?

on windows 7 64 bit
regards john

[Barrykgerdes]

If Acronis can't handle a program running in the background it will tell you so. However when making a backup image of you HDD it is best to shut down all programs that are likely to be making changes to the HDD while the back up is in progress.

I normally use Drive Image and that is not fussy about background programs but Drive Image does not work on Vista or Windows 7 where I use Acronis. Always store images on an auxilliary drive for safety

The most important thing to have is a recovery disk that will boot if all fails so that a saved image can be restored.

Barry