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|name = Herbert "Zeppo" Marx
|image = Zeppo Marx.jpg
| name = Acronis True Image
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|caption = Zeppo in 1931
| screenshot = [[Image:Acronis True Image.png|300px]]
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| caption = Acronis True Image Home 2009
|birth_name=Herbert Manfred Marx
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|birth_place = [[New York]], [[New York]]
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|death_place = [[Eisenhower Medical Center]]<br />[[Palm Springs, California]]
| latest release version = Home version: 12 build 9608 (2009)
| nationality = American
| latest release date = {{release date and age|2008|10|09}}
| other_names = Herbert Marx
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| known_for = "[[Duck Soup]]," "[[Monkey Business (1931 film)|Monkey Business]]"
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| occupation = [[Comedian]], [[Actor]], [[Inventor]], [[talent agent|Theatrical Agent]]
| religion = [[Judaism]]
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| spouse = Marion Benda (m. 1927-1959)<br />[[Barbara Marx|Barbara Blakeley]] (m. 1959-1972)
| operating system = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows 2000, XP, Vista]]<ref name="datasheet11">{{cite web | url=http://us2.download.acronis.com/pdf/TrueImage11_datasheet.en.pdf | title=Acronis True Image 11 Home Datasheet | format=PDF}}</ref>
| children = Timothy Marx (1921, adopted), Bobby Oliver Blakeley Marx (Barbara Blakeley's son, adopted by Zeppo)
| platform = [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]] and [[Linux]] for live imaging. <br> Recovery CD runs on any [[x86]] machine.
| parents = [[Minnie Marx|Minnie Schoenberg]] and [[Sam Marx|Sam "Frenchie" Marx]]
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| relatives = [[Al Shean]], [[Chico Marx]], [[Harpo Marx]], [[Groucho Marx]], [[Gummo Marx]]
| language = English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and German [http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/]
| status = Active
| genre = [[Disk cloning]] software
| license = [[Commercial software|Commercial]] [[proprietary software|proprietary]]
| website = [http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ Acronis True Image Home]
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[[Image:Acronis True Image - Live CD.png|thumb|300px|Acronis True Image Home running from the Live CD ([[Acronis Rescue Media]])]]
'''Acronis True Image''' is a [[disk image|disk imaging]] and disaster recovery [[application software|application]] for computers, produced by [[Acronis]]. True Image can create an [[disk image|image]] of a disk while it is running [[Microsoft Windows]] or [[Linux]], or offline by booting from [[CD]]/[[DVD]], [[USB flash drive]]s, [[Preboot Execution Environment|PXE]], or other [[bootable]] media. As a disk imaging solution, True Image can restore the previously captured image to another disk, effectively replicating the structure and contents to the new disk, also allowing partition resizing if the new disk is of different capacity.


==Operation==
'''Herbert Manfred Marx''' ([[February 25]], [[1901]] &ndash; [[November 30]], [[1979]]) is best known as '''Zeppo Marx''', the name he used when he performed with his brothers, [[The Marx Brothers]].
As a live imaging application, True Image offers functionality such as restoring data or creating a backup image without rebooting the system. In case of operating system corruption or hard disk failure, the machine can be booted to the Acronis Recovery Manager, which offers [[Bare-metal restore]] capability, and can return the system to a previous [[Point-in-time recovery|point in time]].


The Workstation and Enterprise Server versions allow a [[software agent]] to be installed which can be controlled remotely from another machine, enabling centralized management of all operations.
==Name==
There are different theories to where Zeppo got his stage name: [[Groucho Marx|Groucho]] said in his Carnegie Hall concert ca.1972 <ref>[http://www.ibras.dk/comedy/marx.htm ''An Evening with Groucho'' transcript]</ref> that the name was derived from the [[Zeppelin]], a new invention at the time of his birth. However, the chronology of the history of that airship company does not correlate with Herbert's birth. In his autobiography ''Harpo Speaks'', ca.1964, [[Harpo Marx|Harpo]] states (p.130) that there was a popular trained chimpanzee named Mr. Zippo, and that "Herbie" was tagged with the name "Zippo" because he liked to do chinups and acrobatics, as the chimp did in its act. The youngest Brother objected to this nickname, and it was altered to "Zeppo".


True Image is known for its simple, [[Wizard (software)|wizard]] driven interface,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/reviews/review.phtml/2105/3129/acronis-true-image-pc-software.phtml |title=Acronis True Image 10 (home) - PC Review |author=Patrick, Stephen |publisher=Pocket Lint |accessdate=2007-05-19}}</ref> and receives positive reviews from both editors and users alike.<ref>{{cite news | first= | last= | coauthors= | title=Acronis True Image Reviewer's Comments | date= | publisher= | url =http://data-backup-software-review.toptenreviews.com/acronis-true-image-review.html | work =Top Ten Reviews | pages = | accessdate = 2008-05-27 | language = }}</ref>
==Career==
Zeppo appeared in the first five Marx Brothers movies, as a [[straight man (double act)|straight man]] and romantic lead, before leaving the team. According to a 1925 newspaper article, he also made a solo appearance in the [[Adolphe Menjou]] comedy ''[[A Kiss in the Dark]]'', but no known copy of the film exists, and it is not clear if he actually appeared in the finished film. <ref>[http://www.marx-brothers.org/marxology/kiss.htm ''A Kiss in the Dark'' public domain information.]</ref>


The program can backup a Windows system disk while the [[operating system|OS]] is running but must boot separately to perform a restoration of a system disk. The BootCD used to run the program to perform a restoration of a system disk uses a version of Linux, and therefore relies on different hardware drivers than Windows. It is not uncommon for a user to have made backups and then find that the BootCD cannot see one of the drives needed to perform a restore. This issue also affects many other backup/imaging programs as most rely on linux to perform restores. Some folks avoid these driver issues by using a plug-in of TrueImage on a BartPE disk (Acronis provides the Bart plug-in along with the TrueImage program) or a VistaPE disk.
Though a straight man on stage, he was reputed to be very funny in person, perhaps the funniest of his siblings. As the youngest and having grown up watching his brothers, he could fill in for and imitate any of the others when illness kept them from performing. "He was so good as [[Captain Spaulding]] [in ''[[Animal Crackers (theatre)|Animal Crackers]]''] that I would have let him play the part indefinitely, if they had allowed me to smoke in the audience," Groucho recalled. (Zeppo did impersonate Groucho in the film version of ''[[Animal Crackers (film)|Animal Crackers]]'' in the blackout scene in which the Beaugard painting is stolen. Despite popular belief, the blackout scene was not added to the film because Groucho fell ill, but was in fact in the original Broadway play.) However, he never invented a comic persona of his own that could stand up against those of his brothers. As critic Percy Hammond wrote, sympathetically, in 1928,<blockquote>"One of the handicaps to the thorough enjoyment of the Marx Brothers in their merry escapades is the plight of poor Zeppo Marx. While Groucho, Harpo and Chico are hogging the show, as the phrase has it, their brother hides in an insignificant role, peeping out now and then to listen to plaudits in which he has no share."</blockquote>


While enjoying a widespread reputation as Best in Class, based on earlier versions of its product and its versitile features, the TrueImage reputation has suffered since the Fall 2007 release of TrueImageHome Version 11, which, according to the forums, has more bugs than prior versions. These problems are not limited to the driver issues associated with the Linux on the BootCD and therefore could not be avoided by using a BartPE or VistaPE boot disk. Although Acronis released two updates to TrueImageHome 11 during the subsequent 9 months, most of the bugs were never repaired -- see for example:
Though Zeppo continued to play straight in the Brothers' movies at Paramount, he did occasionally get to be part of classic comedy moments in them--in particular, his role taking dictation from Groucho in ''Animal Crackers''. As he also showed in the movies, he probably had the best singing voice of the brothers.
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Acronis offers free trials of the software.
The popular assumption that his character was superfluous was fueled in part by, interestingly enough, Groucho. According to Groucho's own story, when the group became the Three Marx Brothers, the studio wanted to trim their collective salary, and Groucho replied, "We're twice as funny without Zeppo!"<ref name="britannica">[http://blogs.britannica.com/blog/main/2006/11/on-the-silver-and-plasma-screen-duck-soup/ ''Duck Soup''] – ''[[Encyclopaedia Britannica]]''. Groucho later said of his brother, "Except for the chorus girls, being a straight man in the Marx Brothers wasn't fun for him. He wanted to be a comedian too, but there just wasn't room for another funny Marx Brother. . . . But offstage he was the funniest one of us."</ref>


==Recovery methods==
Offstage, Zeppo had great mechanical skills and was largely responsible for keeping the Marx family car running. Zeppo later owned a company which machined parts for the war effort during [[World War II]], [[Marman Products]] Co. Inglewood, CA later known as the Aeroquip Co. (still in business today) This company produced a motorcycle, called the [[Marman Twin]]<ref name= "Marman Twin">[http://www.50sville.com/Marman.htm Marman Twin - Herbert Zeppo Marx - Marx Brothers<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and the [[Marman clamp]]s used to hold the "[[Fat Man]]" [[atomic bomb]] inside the [[Enola Gay]] <ref name="IMDb">[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0555688/bio Zeppo Marx] at [[IMDb]].</ref> He also founded a large theatrical agency with his brother [[Gummo Marx|Gummo]], and invented a wristwatch that would monitor the pulse rate of cardiac patients and give off an alarm if they went into cardiac arrest.<ref name="IMDb"/>
True Image offers several different options for system recovery, including the retrieval of lost files or other chunks of data, as well as entire system recovery due to corruption or failure. The following is a quick list of methods:
* True Image can access files within an existing image file by mounting the image file as if it were a disk, in either read-only or read-write mode. This enables the user to quickly copy data files from the image file back to the local system. A virtual device driver must be installed in the operating system in order to use the mounting feature,<ref>[http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATISWin/ Online data backup solution for Windows servers<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> but this driver is installed during the original installation of True Image. Separately, files can be read from and, in read-write mode, written to the image, which effectively creates an incremental file, and has the advantage of leaving the original image files untouched by saving the changes in a new file.
* True Image offers a bootable media wizard, which creates a recovery environment to CD or other media, and is used to boot the machine to a proprietary environment for quick recovery. While this method also provides the ability to recover lost data, the primary focus is restoring the complete system back to a given [[Point-in-time recovery|point in time]] in case of complete failure.
* Starting with Home version 10 and Corporate editions of True Image Echo, a [[shell extension]] feature has been added that allows archives to be viewed as drives in [[Windows Explorer]] without specifically mounting the image beforehand.
* The [[Acronis Secure Zone]] is a bootable, hidden partition option created and managed by True Image. This space, which is not accessible to the user or other applications such as [[malware]], is used to store the backup image files. The Secure Zone can be created as bootable, enabling the user to boot directly into the recovery environment by pressing the F11 key, very useful when the machine doesn't contain a CD drive or other access to external media.


==Acronis Universal Restore==
During his time as a theatrical agent, he and Gummo, although primarily Gummo, represented their brothers, among many others.<ref name="Louvish">[http://www.amazon.com/dp/0312252927 ''Monkey Business: The Lives and Legends of the Marx Brothers''] ([[Hardcover]]), [[Simon Louvish]]. Thomas Dunne Books; 1st U.S. edition (2000). Also [http://books.google.com/books?id=LUDTxbB-ipoC&pg=PA277&dq=Zeppo+agent&ei=IUCIR9XNBpP-7gK86ZGVBg&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=j1h14Ps9JEaQQQMhDQ0hVmlmN24 e-text at Google Books]</ref>
Images of computers running Microsoft Windows cannot simply be restored to different hardware as Windows will typically fail at boot time with a STOP: 0x0000007B [[Blue Screen of Death|error screen]] if the proper Microsoft [[Hardware Abstraction Layer]] (HAL) and/or storage drivers are not installed in the [[OS|operating system]] at boot time. Acronis Universal Restore is designed to overcome this problem.


Universal Restore<ref>[http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATISWin/universal-restore.html Acronis Universal Restore - complete disaster recovery planning<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==Personal life==
is an add-on utility for True Image Echo versions running under Windows, and is designed to replace the HAL and inject updated storage drivers embedded within the image during the recovery process, allowing an image of a machine to be restored to different hardware.
On [[April 12]], [[1927]], Zeppo married Marion Benda. The couple would adopt one child, Timothy, in 1944 and would later divorce on [[May 12]], [[1954]]. On [[September 18]], [[1959]], Zeppo married [[Barbara Marx|Barbara Blakeley]], whose son, Bobby Oliver, he [[adoption|adopted]] and gave his surname. Zeppo and Blakeley would [[divorce]] in 1972. Blakeley would later marry singer [[Frank Sinatra]].


==Versions==
The last surviving Marx Brother, Zeppo died of [[lung cancer]] in 1979 at the age of 78.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Zeppo Marx Dies on Coast at 78; Last Survivor of Comedy Team; 'Tired of Being a Stooge'|url= |quote=Zeppo Marx, the surviving member of the Marx Brothers comedy team who left the quartet in 1934 for other businesses, died yesterday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Palm Springs, Calif. The youngest of the brothers, he was 78 years old and had lived in Pal... |publisher=[[New York Times]] |date=[[December 1]], [[1979]] |accessdate=2007-08-21 }}</ref>
;Home version
* Acronis True Image 11.0 Home
;Corporate standalone versions
* Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux
* Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows
;Corporate versions containing the Acronis Management Console
* Acronis True Image Echo Workstation
* Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server


The Echo Server for Windows and Linux products are standalone applications only, while the Workstation and Enterprise Server versions include the Acronis Management Console for centralized remote operations. While the Workstation version supports Windows desktop operating systems only, the Enterprise server contains remote agents for both Windows Servers and many varieties of the Linux operating systems.<ref>[http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATIES/linux-agent.html Remotely manage backup and restoration tasks on Linux servers in your network with the Acronis True Image Linux Agent<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
==Legacy==
In recent years, a surge of adamant Zeppo supporters have risen to challenge the notion that he did not develop a comic persona in his films.


The Home version, while costing less than Echo Workstation, is not merely a cut-down version of it: Home has some facilities, such as excluding specified files from an image backup, not supported by Echo editions.<ref>[http://www.acronis.co.uk/enterprise/products/ATICW/comparison.html Acronis backup software and Recovery services in UK. Comparison between different versions of Acronis True Image (corporate workstation and home) - backup and recovery software<!-- reflinks title -->]</ref>
[[James Agee]] considered Zeppo "a peerlessly cheesy improvement on the traditional straight man."<ref>Joe Adamson, [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671470728 ''Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A Celebration of the Marx Brothers''] New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973.</ref> Along similar lines, Gerald Mast, in his book ''The Comic Mind: Comedy and Movies'' (University of Chicago Press: 1979), notes that Zeppo's comedic persona, while certainly more subtle than his brothers', is undeniably present:
<BLOCKQUOTE>[He] added a fourth dimension as the cliché of the [romantic] juvenile, the bland wooden espouser of sentiments that seem to exist only in the world of the sound stage. [... He is] too schleppy, too nasal, and too wooden to be taken seriously. (282, 285).</BLOCKQUOTE>


===OEM bundling===
Danél Griffin, film critic for the [[University of Alaska Southeast]], elaborates on Mast's theory:
As of May 2007, [[Seagate]]/[[Maxtor]] include a rebadged version of True Image under the name of the DiscWizard and MaxBlast hard drive utilities.<ref>http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/05/22/one-of-the-best-hdd-utilities-is-free</ref> It is free to use on any computer with at least one Seagate/Maxtor hard drive.
<blockquote>Zeppo's parts were always intended to be a parody of the juvenile role often found in sappy musicals of the 1920s-30s era. Sometimes, he would just have a few lines, and he would otherwise be reduced to standing in the background with a big smile on his face. In these roles, he was a lampoon of the infamous extra, always grinning widely as a needless decoration, and always stiff and wooden. In other films, Zeppo would have a more significant role as the romantic lead, but he would still always be stiff, wooden, and, yes, with a big smile on his face. Either way, he could never be considered a ''real'' straight man. He was a sappy distortion of the real thing, and sort of the gateway through which we connected with the other Brothers. We perceived him as the "normal, good-looking" one of the bunch, but was he really? Wasn't there something about that line from ''[[The Cocoanuts]]'', 'You can depend upon me, Mr. Hammer,' that was a little too ... happy? [[Roger Ebert]] called Zeppo 'superfluous,' and that is the point of his character in the five Paramount films. He was the straight man only in pure Marxian sense — while his Brothers spat on movie clichés, he imitated them, proving in his own way to be quite a brilliant comedian.<ref name="Griffin">[http://uas.alaska.edu/pub/filmasart/nightattheopera.htm "Film as Art": Critic Danel Griffin's review of ''A Night at the Opera"]</ref></blockquote>
In her book ''Hello, I Must be Going: Groucho & His Friends'', [[Charlotte Chandler]] defends Zeppo as being "the Marx Brothers' interpreter in the worlds they invade. He is neither totally a straight man nor totally a comedian, but combines elements of both, as did [[Margaret Dumont]]. Zeppo's importance to the Marx Brothers' initial success was as a Marx Brother who could 'pass' as a normal person. None of Zeppo's replacements ([[Allan Jones]], [[Kenny Baker (entertainer)|Kenny Baker]], and others) could assume this character as convincingly as Zeppo, because they were actors, and Zeppo was the real thing, cast to type" (562).


===Compatibility===
Zeppo's comic persona is highlighted in the "letter scene" of ''[[Animal Crackers (film)|Animal Crackers]]''. In his book ''Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Zeppo'', [[Joe Adamson]] analyzes the scene, showing how it reveals Zeppo's ability to one-up Groucho with simple, plain-English rebuttals. In the scene, Zeppo is told to take a letter to Groucho's lawyer. Adamson notes,
Acronis states that True Image provides backward compatibility for image files (in [[.tib]] format) created with a single previous version, that is, images created with an immediate previous version can be successfully restored. Backups are compatible between different editions of True Image; e.g., between True Image Echo Workstation and True Image Echo Enterprise Server, or between Linux and Windows versions.<ref>[http://www.acronis.co.uk/enterprise/support/kb/?aid=477 Restoring the Images Created with the Previous Version of Acronis True Image Using the Latest Version<!-- reflinks title -->]</ref>
<blockquote>There is a common assumption that Zeppo = Zero, which this scene does its best to contradict. Groucho dictating a letter to anybody else would hardly be cause for rejoicing. We have to believe that someone will be there to accept all his absurdities and even respond somewhat in kind before things can progress free from conflict into this genial mishmash. Groucho clears his throat in the midst of his dictation, and Zeppo asks him if he wants that in the letter. Groucho says, 'No, put it in the envelope.' Zeppo nods. And only Zeppo could even try such a thing as taking down the heading and the salutation and leaving out the letter because it didn't sound important to him. It takes a Marx Brother to pull something like that on a Marx Brother and get away with it. (114)<ref name="Adamson">[http://www.amazon.com/Groucho-Harpo-Chico-Sometimes-Zeppo/dp/0671470728 ''Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Sometimes Zeppo: A History of the Marx Brothers and a Satire on the Rest of the World'', Joe Adamson. Simon & Schuster, Paperback. (1983)]</ref></blockquote>


==Supported filesystems==
Allen W. Ellis writes in his article ''Yes, Sir: The Legacy of Zeppo Marx'' (''The Journal of Popular Culture'', Vol. 37, No. 1, 2003):
File systems supported by software:<ref name="datasheet11"/>
<blockquote>Indeed, Zeppo is a link between the audience and Groucho, Harpo and Chico. In a sense, he ''is'' us on the screen. He knows who those guys are and what they are capable of. As he ambles out of a scene, perhaps it is to watch them do their business, to come back in as necessary to move the film along, and again to join in the celebration of the finish. Further, Zeppo is crucial to the absurdity of the Paramount films. The humor is in his incongruity. Typically he dresses like a normal person, in stark contrast to Groucho's greasepaint and 'formal' attire, Harpo's rags, and Chico's immigrant hand-me-downs. By most accounts, he is the handsomest of the brothers, yet that handsomeness is distorted by his familial resemblance to the others — sure, he's handsome, but it is a decidedly peculiar, Marxian handsomeness. By making the group four, Zeppo adds [[symmetry]], and in the [[surrealism|surrealistic]] worlds of the Paramount films, this symmetry upsets rather than confirms balance: it is [[chaos]] born of symmetry. That he is a plank in a maelstrom, along with the very concept of 'this guy' who is there for no real reason, who joins in and is accepted by these other three wildmen while the [[narrative]] offers no explanation, are wonderful in their pure absurdity. 'To string things together in a seemingly purposeless way,' said [[Mark Twain]], 'and to be seemingly unaware that they are absurd, is the mark of American humor.' The 'sense' injected into the nonsense only compounds the nonsense. (21-22).</blockquote>
* [[NTFS]]
* [[File Allocation Table|FAT16]]
* [[File Allocation Table|FAT32]]
* [[ext2]]
* [[ext3]]
* [[ReiserFS]]
* [[Reiser4]]<ref name = "linuxfs" >[http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/faq/linux-file-system/ FAQ: Linux file systems and Linux operating system support<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>
* [[Virtual memory|Linux Swap]]
In addition to the officially supported filesystems, Acronis True Image also provides raw sector backup and restore options for all other filesystems. ''''Raw'''' mode provides support for a file system that is corrupt, or that isn't officially supported, by capturing a complete image of all sectors on the disk. This method results in a larger image file as it isn't able to compress, resize, or selectively restore files on the unrecognized filesystem.


==Limitations==
In a eulogy for Zeppo written in 1979 for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', columnist Tom Zito writes, <blockquote>Thank goodness for Zeppo, who never really cracked a joke on screen. At least not directly. He just took it from Groucho, in more ways than one. ... If Groucho, Chico and Harpo were the funny guys, Zeppo was the [[Everyman]], the loser who'd come running out of the grocery store only to find the meter maid sticking the parking ticket on his Hungadunga.<ref>Tom Zito, "The Last of the Marxes." ''The Washington Post'': December 1, 1979.</ref></blockquote>


Although True Image officially supports operating systems using the newer [[GUID Partition Table]], it reportedly will not work with Windows XP running on a [[MacBook Pro]].{{Fact|date=June 2008}}
It turns out Zeppo did have one surprising fan, as revealed in Marc Eliot's 2005 [[biography]] of [[Cary Grant]]. Grant, a teenager performing in Vaudeville under his real name, Archie Leach, loved the Marx Brothers. And as Eliot puts it,<blockquote>"While the rest of the country preferred Groucho, Zeppo, the good-looking straight man and romantic lead, was Archie's favorite, the one whose foil timing he believed was the real key to the act's success."<ref>Eliot, Marc. ''Cary Grant: The Biography''. New York, New York: Aurum Press (2005).</ref></blockquote>


==In popular culture==
==See also==
*[[Disk cloning]]
Another measure of Zeppo's legacy and impact are some [[popular culture]] references, some of which acknowledge Zeppo's minimal flair, some acknowledge his usefulness to the team, and still others ironically paint Zeppo as being the funniest:
*[[List of disk cloning software]]
*In the movie ''[[Good Morning Vietnam]]'', a grinning officer compares [[Adrian Cronauer]]'s comic broadcast as being "like one of the Marx Brothers." The uptight Lieutenant Hauk replies "Which one? Zeppo? I don't think it's very funny at all."


==References==
*As the [[Philadelphia Phillies]] approached their 10,000th all-time loss in the summer of 2007, ''[[Sports Illustrated]]'' ran an article about the Phillies' many trials and tribulations through the years. The article pointed out how the Phillies often seemed to end up with the lesser players of a ballplaying family, for example hiring [[Vince DiMaggio]] instead of [[Joe DiMaggio]] or [[Dom DiMaggio]]. Making a comparison with the brothers [[Felipe Alou]], [[Matty Alou]] and [[Jesús Alou]], the writer said, "If there had been a Zeppo Alou, the Phillies would have signed him."<ref name="sports">[http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/baseball/mlb/06/25/phillies0702/ ''Sports Illustrated'' - CNN.com]</ref>
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*In [[The Zeppo|an episode]] of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV series)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', [[Cordelia Chase]] tells [[Xander Harris]] that he is "the Zeppo", the least useful member of the [[Scooby Gang]], whose only functions are to fetch [[doughnut]]s and make unfunny jokes. That evening, Xander proves himself every bit the hero, and saves the day without anyone else knowing.
*On the ''[[Mary Tyler Moore Show]]'', Murray asks, in reference to the dim [[Ted Baxter]], "What can you expect from a man whose favorite Marx Brother is Zeppo?"
*[[Lilith Sternin]], the straight laced ex wife of [[Frasier Crane]], considered Zeppo to be the funniest of the Marx Brothers
*In an episode of ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'', [[Jon Arbuckle|Jon]] fills out a questionnaire for a date service that includes the question "Favorite Marx Brother", which Jon (and his subsequent date) answers "Zeppo".<ref>[http://www.tv.com/garfield-and-friends/date-of-disaster/episode/178911/summary.html ''Garfield and Friends'' - TV.com]</ref>
*On ''[[The Daily Show With Jon Stewart]]'', Stewart occasionally throws in references to the Marx Brothers (most commonly [[Groucho]] imitations). After [[U2]] sent their drummer to make a public statement, Stward said that "when The Marx Brothers wanted to make a statement, they didn't send out Zeppo." The joke was clearly intended to mock the general impression that Zeppo was the least significant of the Marx Brothers; however, ironically, Stewart's antics with his "reporters" have been compared to Zeppo's interpretation of the role of the [[straight man]].<ref>{{cite web|author=Nguyen, Keneth|url=http://www.theage.com.au/cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/01/21/1074360828900.html|title=News Takes a Beating|work=The Age|date=2004-01-22|accessdate=2008-07-14}}</ref> Also, him even making the joke implies that modern young audiences would have the general knowledge to understand Zeppo's role, almost three decades after his death.
* In the 1999 animated film ''[[The Iron Giant]]'', when the character Kent Mansley first hears the protagonist Hogarth's name, he remarks "Hogarth? That's an embarrassing name. They might as well have called him Zeppo or something."
* In an interview on ''[[Parkinson (TV series)|Parkinson]]'', [[Paul Merton]] was asked about the departure of ''[[Have I Got News For You]]'' presenter [[Angus Deayton]]. Merton said "I feel it's like the Marx Brothers... we lost Zeppo, it's not a big deal" making reference to Deayton's straight man persona and comic inferiority on-screen.

==Notes==
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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.acronis.com/enterprise/products/ATIES/ Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server]
*{{imdb name|id=0555688|name=Zeppo Marx}}
*[http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/ Acronis True Image Home]
*{{tcmdb name|id=124025|name=Zeppo Marx}}
*{{ibdb name|id=73081|name=Zeppo Marx}}
*[http://www.marx-brothers.org The Marx Brothers]
*[http://www.lydiaolydia.com ''"Lydiathetattooedlady.com"'', a Marx Brothers Fansite]
*[http://www.50sville.com/Marman.htm "Marman Twin: The Story of Herbert Marx"]
*[http://www.geocities.com/spazprez/zli.html The last interview with Zeppo Marx (August 1979)]
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Acronis True Image
Stable release
Home version: 12 build 9608 (2009) / October 9, 2008; 15 years ago (2008-10-09)
Operating systemWindows 2000, XP, Vista[1]
PlatformWindows and Linux for live imaging.
Recovery CD runs on any x86 machine.
Available inEnglish, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian and German [1]
TypeDisk cloning software
LicenseCommercial proprietary
WebsiteAcronis True Image Home
File:Acronis True Image - Live CD.png
Acronis True Image Home running from the Live CD (Acronis Rescue Media)

Acronis True Image is a disk imaging and disaster recovery application for computers, produced by Acronis. True Image can create an image of a disk while it is running Microsoft Windows or Linux, or offline by booting from CD/DVD, USB flash drives, PXE, or other bootable media. As a disk imaging solution, True Image can restore the previously captured image to another disk, effectively replicating the structure and contents to the new disk, also allowing partition resizing if the new disk is of different capacity.

Operation

As a live imaging application, True Image offers functionality such as restoring data or creating a backup image without rebooting the system. In case of operating system corruption or hard disk failure, the machine can be booted to the Acronis Recovery Manager, which offers Bare-metal restore capability, and can return the system to a previous point in time.

The Workstation and Enterprise Server versions allow a software agent to be installed which can be controlled remotely from another machine, enabling centralized management of all operations.

True Image is known for its simple, wizard driven interface,[2] and receives positive reviews from both editors and users alike.[3]

The program can backup a Windows system disk while the OS is running but must boot separately to perform a restoration of a system disk. The BootCD used to run the program to perform a restoration of a system disk uses a version of Linux, and therefore relies on different hardware drivers than Windows. It is not uncommon for a user to have made backups and then find that the BootCD cannot see one of the drives needed to perform a restore. This issue also affects many other backup/imaging programs as most rely on linux to perform restores. Some folks avoid these driver issues by using a plug-in of TrueImage on a BartPE disk (Acronis provides the Bart plug-in along with the TrueImage program) or a VistaPE disk.

While enjoying a widespread reputation as Best in Class, based on earlier versions of its product and its versitile features, the TrueImage reputation has suffered since the Fall 2007 release of TrueImageHome Version 11, which, according to the forums, has more bugs than prior versions. These problems are not limited to the driver issues associated with the Linux on the BootCD and therefore could not be avoided by using a BartPE or VistaPE boot disk. Although Acronis released two updates to TrueImageHome 11 during the subsequent 9 months, most of the bugs were never repaired -- see for example: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65

Acronis offers free trials of the software.

Recovery methods

True Image offers several different options for system recovery, including the retrieval of lost files or other chunks of data, as well as entire system recovery due to corruption or failure. The following is a quick list of methods:

  • True Image can access files within an existing image file by mounting the image file as if it were a disk, in either read-only or read-write mode. This enables the user to quickly copy data files from the image file back to the local system. A virtual device driver must be installed in the operating system in order to use the mounting feature,[4] but this driver is installed during the original installation of True Image. Separately, files can be read from and, in read-write mode, written to the image, which effectively creates an incremental file, and has the advantage of leaving the original image files untouched by saving the changes in a new file.
  • True Image offers a bootable media wizard, which creates a recovery environment to CD or other media, and is used to boot the machine to a proprietary environment for quick recovery. While this method also provides the ability to recover lost data, the primary focus is restoring the complete system back to a given point in time in case of complete failure.
  • Starting with Home version 10 and Corporate editions of True Image Echo, a shell extension feature has been added that allows archives to be viewed as drives in Windows Explorer without specifically mounting the image beforehand.
  • The Acronis Secure Zone is a bootable, hidden partition option created and managed by True Image. This space, which is not accessible to the user or other applications such as malware, is used to store the backup image files. The Secure Zone can be created as bootable, enabling the user to boot directly into the recovery environment by pressing the F11 key, very useful when the machine doesn't contain a CD drive or other access to external media.

Acronis Universal Restore

Images of computers running Microsoft Windows cannot simply be restored to different hardware as Windows will typically fail at boot time with a STOP: 0x0000007B error screen if the proper Microsoft Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) and/or storage drivers are not installed in the operating system at boot time. Acronis Universal Restore is designed to overcome this problem.

Universal Restore[5] is an add-on utility for True Image Echo versions running under Windows, and is designed to replace the HAL and inject updated storage drivers embedded within the image during the recovery process, allowing an image of a machine to be restored to different hardware.

Versions

Home version
  • Acronis True Image 11.0 Home
Corporate standalone versions
  • Acronis True Image Echo Server for Linux
  • Acronis True Image Echo Server for Windows
Corporate versions containing the Acronis Management Console
  • Acronis True Image Echo Workstation
  • Acronis True Image Echo Enterprise Server

The Echo Server for Windows and Linux products are standalone applications only, while the Workstation and Enterprise Server versions include the Acronis Management Console for centralized remote operations. While the Workstation version supports Windows desktop operating systems only, the Enterprise server contains remote agents for both Windows Servers and many varieties of the Linux operating systems.[6]

The Home version, while costing less than Echo Workstation, is not merely a cut-down version of it: Home has some facilities, such as excluding specified files from an image backup, not supported by Echo editions.[7]

OEM bundling

As of May 2007, Seagate/Maxtor include a rebadged version of True Image under the name of the DiscWizard and MaxBlast hard drive utilities.[8] It is free to use on any computer with at least one Seagate/Maxtor hard drive.

Compatibility

Acronis states that True Image provides backward compatibility for image files (in .tib format) created with a single previous version, that is, images created with an immediate previous version can be successfully restored. Backups are compatible between different editions of True Image; e.g., between True Image Echo Workstation and True Image Echo Enterprise Server, or between Linux and Windows versions.[9]

Supported filesystems

File systems supported by software:[1]

In addition to the officially supported filesystems, Acronis True Image also provides raw sector backup and restore options for all other filesystems. 'Raw' mode provides support for a file system that is corrupt, or that isn't officially supported, by capturing a complete image of all sectors on the disk. This method results in a larger image file as it isn't able to compress, resize, or selectively restore files on the unrecognized filesystem.

Limitations

Although True Image officially supports operating systems using the newer GUID Partition Table, it reportedly will not work with Windows XP running on a MacBook Pro.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Acronis True Image 11 Home Datasheet" (PDF).
  2. ^ Patrick, Stephen. "Acronis True Image 10 (home) - PC Review". Pocket Lint. Retrieved 2007-05-19.
  3. ^ "Acronis True Image Reviewer's Comments". Top Ten Reviews. Retrieved 2008-05-27. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ Online data backup solution for Windows servers
  5. ^ Acronis Universal Restore - complete disaster recovery planning
  6. ^ Remotely manage backup and restoration tasks on Linux servers in your network with the Acronis True Image Linux Agent
  7. ^ Acronis backup software and Recovery services in UK. Comparison between different versions of Acronis True Image (corporate workstation and home) - backup and recovery software
  8. ^ http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/05/22/one-of-the-best-hdd-utilities-is-free
  9. ^ Restoring the Images Created with the Previous Version of Acronis True Image Using the Latest Version
  10. ^ FAQ: Linux file systems and Linux operating system support

External links

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