Acronis True Image 9.0 - Protection From Accidental Data Loss
Two disk imaging backup products in one - Acronis True Image
Acronis True Image 9.0 Home provides you two hard disk backup options in one solution:
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A new file based backup option which enables you to backup and restore individual files and folders, like your My Documents folder or a specific file, like your latest tax return.
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A disk imaging backup option which enables you to create an image of your entire hard disk drive, including the operating system, applications, user settings, and all data. Use the image to restore your PC to a known working state without any reinstallation.
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No need to purchase an extra hard drive, CDs, or DVDs to protect valuable and irreplaceable computer data because you can save data to a special hidden partition on your hard drive.
Lightening speed restore of your PC from a backup image. You can start working again in seconds while your system is still being restored.
If your hard drive is full, Acronis True Image 9.0 Home will help you to quickly and easily migrate all data operating systems, programs, software patches and updates, configuration files, preferences, e–mail and everything else to a new hard disk automatically!
Acronis True Image 9.0 Backup And Restore Software Edges Past Norton Ghost 10
PC World Magazine
By Jon L. Jacobi
For backups, Acronis's latest True Image remains powerful and affordable, while Symantec's newest Norton is simple and effective
Disk–imaging software lets you create sector by sector copies of hard drive partitions, including boot information - so when disaster strikes, system recovery is a snap. Symantec and Acronis take different approaches to this crucial task in the latest updates of their disk–imaging applications. While Symantec's $70 Norton Ghost 10 focuses on improved usability, Acronis's Acronis True Image 9.0 contains several new, must have features.
Both programs perform the same basic functions of creating and restoring full and incremental images to hard drives, CDs, or DVDs. And the two apps simplify automating and scheduling those processes. But the shipping version of Acronis True Image 9.0 that I tested permits differential images, which Norton Ghost 10 does not. Whereas incremental backups include only the data that has changed since your last backup, differentials allow you to create a single file containing all of the changes that have occurred since your initial full backup.
“A full backup created from within Windows, of course, backs up all the files in a partition or on a disk by copying all disk sectors with data to the backup image file. Creating a full backup for unknown or damaged file systems Acronis True Image copies all sectors to the image file, whether or not the sector contains data. This is the simplest form of backup, but it is also the most time consuming, space intensive and the least flexible.”
“I have had two occasions in the last five months to have to completely restore my computer. Each time Acronis True Image worked flawlessly and completely restored my C drive and all programs even the very protected ones with digital signatures. Acronis True Image has saved me countless hours of rebuilding and reconfiguring time and is one of the best programs I have ever worked with.”