- Support for Microsoft Windows 7 that delivers more comprehensive functionality over Microsoft Windows 7 backup capabilities.
- Continuous data protection Acronis Nonstop Backup automatically creates incremental backups every five minutes allowing users to roll back their system, files, and folders to any point in time in the past.
- Convert Acronis¿ backup images (.tib) into Microsoft virtual hard disk files(.vhd) and vice versa, allowing users to run existing systems as virtual machines in Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. Windows 7 Ultimate users can also boot from .vhd images.
- Acronis Online Backup capability Optional Acronis online storage services are available to automatically backup valuable data or files over the internet to a secure location.
- One-Click Protection ¿ Create a backup strategy of the system and implement it with just one click.
Product Description
Acronis True Image Home 2010 provides home users reliable and timeless backup and recovery of systems, applications, settings and personal files. From an intuitive graphical interface, users can easily define where, locally or online, and how often to backup a PC…. More >>
…then you’d better figure out something nice to say. Something, anything…even if you hated the product. Sort of like the film critic whose honest opinion appears in the full review in the newspaper, but who also throws out a few nice-sounding adjectives which might get quoted in ads for the film (putting the critic in the “spotlight”). Caveat emptor. If the quote consists of only one or two words, you’d better try to find the entire review.
Acronis is clunky but not entirely useless. If you never need to do more than a partial restore, you’re in luck.
If you need to restore your entire hard drive from scratch? And all you have is the backup you created with Acronis?
Well…why do you have such unreasonable expectations? I mean, that a product should actually do what it purports to do? The reason you paid for it? The reason you take the time to run it, giving yourself a false sense of security?
If your data is important to you? Look elsewhere.
As for amazon’s page for this product! Over 60% of the reviewers gave the product one star. So why–in order to read just one of those reviews (to see the majority opinion)–must you click beyond the first page?
OK, I understand. This is not a public service; this site exists for the purpose of selling products.
Take it as a lesson: you cannot thoroughly research any issue without bothering to go at least one click deeper than the first page.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought this to clone the hard drives in my windows home server (server 2003) to larger disks.
The software attempted to copy the partitions onto the new drives but could not read the data and ended with errors.
Rating: 1 / 5
This review is about the previous version, True Image 11 Home. I am putting it here as a warning to other would-be buyers.
My motherboard died, and took the video card with it. After replacing both, the PC would POST and open the Windows splash screen, but then a blue screen flashed on and the PC rebooted (too fast to read the screen), and repeated the cycle until I hit the power switch. Eventually I gave up and reloaded Windows (XP Pro sp2), successfully.
Then, rather than reinstalling and reconfiguring all my programs, a several-day job, I tried to use my most recent True Image 11 Home image stored on an external USB hard drive. Trying to run it from the boot CD, and selecting the full backup image from a USB drive, I got:
“The selected partition contains the following error: run list corrupted. Please note that you cannot change the file system and size of this partition. It is recommended that you check these partitions after restoration with your operating system disk tools.”
Oddly, it did offer to restore the image to the USB drive from which I was trying to read it.
On the Acronis on-line forum, I found someone else had gotten the “run list corrupted” message, and he was advised to CHKDSK c: /r on the C drive. I did so, but it did not help.
I added my problem to the thread over three weeks ago, and so far have heard back not a word. I bit the bullet a restored my PC tediously from scratch. I did NOT re-install True Image. Why bother? What good is a drive image if you can’t restore it? It’s like having car insurance and not being able to make a claim. I just wish I hadn’t bought 3 copies for my 3 PCs. I don’t know if the other 2 installations would work, but I’m not inclined to find out. A big waste of money.
Rating: 1 / 5
Positive experience: created backup of partition data (my OS, programs, data files, etc.) with the simple four-click process. Pick your partitions to back up, pick the location or device to copy the images to, and select whether or not to back up stuff like the MBR, etc. BTW, it’s important to note here that I didn’t back up my MBR and Acronis restore did a fine job working that out for me.
Negative experience: the documentation is not easily read or understood. I cursed this product just like all the negative feedback folks did (admittedly for just a minute or two), for many of the same reasons and then I talked to an Acronis user. A hand full of simple instructions made all the difference. For example, if you create a fresh image of your drive, create a boot disc, then it just works.
If you want to ask questions, my fellow power geeks will likely answer. Now that I’m using the product, I will too. My page is on Facebook, [...]/tekanylive. Fan and ask away. I’m officially endorsing this product. It works as advertised and we’ll answer questions.
What doesn’t work?
1) Dynamic Windows Partitions – in the documents, but you’ve got to read around to find it. It explains that plain as day but it’s not easy changing a new hard drive (partition) into a basic partition without a running Windows machine. So, it’s a bit of a pain. Make sure your new boot drive is formatted and set as a basic partition.
2) Certain Backup Systems – the product clearly outlines what it works with, and what it doesn’t – that’s a long list. Learn before you burn. Use the trial software and play with it before you blow up an existing drive or try to move your existing work environment onto a new OS or new equipment.
3) Mounting Without the Boot Disc – The process for creating a boot disc is simple: Tools and Utilities > Create Bootable Rescue Media. It is a bootable version of Acronis. And, it makes life much simpler.
4) Certain odd hardware. RAID is clearly NOT supported, and yet people complain and rate the product badly because it doesn’t support RAID. RAID systems are incredibly complex and don’t offer simple drivers. I recently ordered a Dell server that wouldn’t allow you to install Windows because it couldn’t install the driver during the install process, thus couldn’t see the RAID partition. In fairness to Acronis, they explain this clearly in their “what hardware we support” section.
I’d strongly encourage someone using this product to get with a support group BEFORE you start trying to recover from a disaster. Test it! Test I tell you! Take a perfectly good system, back it up, remove the drive and make sure you can restore before you find yourself stressed to recover your backup. Knowing you can reach over and plug in the working primary drive is very comforting when you find a glitch in the Acronis process. As listed above there are some clear realities regarding what doesn’t work with this software. You shouldn’t complain that it won’t do what it tells you it won’t do.
It’s also interesting to note (and somewhat illusory to me for now) that the test machine ran faster, significantly faster, on the restore drive than the original drive. W.E.I.R.D. A fellow geek told me it was because Acronis throws the bits in an orderly fashion on the new drive during the restore process and they are completely defragmented post recovery. Sounds good, but my original drive was 0% fragmented before the backup. Either way, the backup ran flawlessly and then some.
Rating: 5 / 5
Is it possible to give an item a negative rating? I purchased Acronics True Image Home 2009 to back up my computer and secure my data. I was able to get it to run with great difficulty. I am computer literate. I have been using computers since 1985. I first used one to write my doctoral dissertation. I have learned to use CAD programs, data base programs such as ACT which I love. Twenty years ago I even programmed events in a database program. I have taught myself to use Photoshop CS4 just to name a few. But this program baffles me.
The help section is poorly written and could use a proof reader among other things.
In addition to being difficult to learn this program is immensely slow.
When I finally got it to run a backup it took 16 hours, yes I said 16 hours to perform a back up.
I spent another 8 hours trying to make it work better. I removed and reinstalled the program. This time it said it would take 1 whole day to write the back up.
Unless you have nothing else to do, avoid this program like the plague. That means, “I do not recommend this program.”
Rating: 1 / 5