Acronis True Image Review

Acronis True Image is the perfect choice for backup and restore uses. It offers backup with individual emails, photos, music, videos and other types of information. Apart from individual files and programs, Acronis offers backup for the entire hard drive.
With this new version of Acronis True Image the user is able to burn his backups to CDs and then delete them once the system has been restored.

Acronis Feature Set

Acronis True Image offers indispensable features like zip archive format support and one-click protection. In case you are a Vista fan, you’ll be happy to learn that it also has a Windows Vista style interface.
Acronis is password protected and has a very important feature called Try and Decide that allows the user to test new software and and restore the computer without the software affecting the computer.
In case the computer breaks down, you will be able to recover that personal data that you find so important.
There are three types of compression level soft the backup: normal, high and maximum compression, the last one taking very little space.


When an incremental backup creates a file, it is smart enough to take into consideration the differences with the original full backup.
These differential or incremental backups can save you a lot of space by chaining files for long periods of time, but this offers the risk of data corruption when the chain gets too big.
If the computer happens to suffer a major breakdown, all you have to do is build a system backup disc and restore the computer to its initial configuration almost immediately.
Acronis True Image has an option called My Data which offers the user the possibility to save disc space when he backups certain files and folders.
Another feature of new version of Acronis True Image is the My E–mail option which helps the user back up email accounts, address books and signatures.
Windows applications and Windows settings can be also backed up with the help of My Application Settings options.
Acronis True Image has a unique feature: it will create a safe zone on the hard drive where rescue data will be kept in the event the whole system crashes. It is impossible for the software installed on the computer to access this zone.

How to Use Acronis

Acronis True Image is intuitive and easy to use. The features are well separated , there are the Startup Recovery Manager, System Restore Management and Create Bootable Rescue functions. When following these steps, the user will find relevant information on the matter.

Backup/Restore options

Acronis True Image is the perfect tool for backup and restore. Acronis True Image is in fact able to backup an entire hard drive. Unlike other software with the same purpose, it can be customized in order to suit your needs and make the program function.

Help

Online help, FAQ, forums and interactive information on the Acronis website are available in case the user has questions or wants additional information on Acronis True Image. The program also has complete embedded help.

Conclusions

Acronis True Image was created to do perform data backup and we can say that this software product does it very well. Moreover, it can also save you time and space. Its functions make it one of the best backup software product on the market.