Acronis True Image

Backup Software that Works!

Acronis True Image was revolutionary when I came across it a few years ago. It achieves its blazing speed and unique abilities by saving the data on your hard drive as an image of the way it resides on your hard drive. Prior to this, nearly all backup softwares did file by file copying which is very time consuming on drives with lots of files.

As you might know, copying one large file is a whole lot faster than copying lots of small ones. Imaging goes one step farther than that by bypassing the operating system and going straight to the hardware itself.

Acronis True Image is my favorite backup software This software has bailed me out more than once. I use it with new machines, old machines, problem machines, you name it. I get out the USB hard drive, Acronis Boot CD and get a good, quick backup.

But more importantly, Acronis True Image Home is quick and easy to use for the average person.

Let's take a look at some features

• Inexpensive. $49.95 for the Home version. And this home version isn't lacking features you want either. Corporate version is $30 more, tailored for large scale manageability.
• Bootable Recovery CD. Windows can be dead; boot from the CD, backup the data, take it to another PC. Or, use the backup in case you are going to format and reinstall Windows.
• Backup to a large variety of media. USB hard drives are my favorite, but CD's, DVD's and even an FTP server which means you can emulate online backup services. You can also backup to another computer across a network.
• Fast, especially to USB 2.0 hard drives.
• The backup image can be mounted and accessed with a drive letter. Nothing can be easier to restore a few files, just by browsing in explorer!
• Schedule backups, full or incremental. Even manage backup space required.
• Operating System independent. Reads the disk, not the operating system. Recognizes all major drive formats.

I love Acronis True Image and I use it continually. Try it out for yourself and see if isn't everything you are looking for in a backup software.

• A friend of mine relied on my advice to protect his system. Now his hard drive has crashed and he's going to put my advice to the test! How did it come out? Find out here.

• I'm going take a brand new laptop loaded with Windows Vista Home Premium and "downgrade" it to Windows XP for use in a business environment. After I've formated the drive and installed XP I find out that Sony not only does not support XP on this laptop, but there is no recovery CD either. Am I S.O.L.? Read this to find out.

Acronis True Image Backup Software

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