It's easy to back up an entire partition, or complete hard drive, for instance - just choose your backup source, then its destination, and the program will quickly go to work. It's now possible to save your backup as a virtual hard disk (vhd) file, too, which means you can directly access your files in Windows 7 Professional or Ultimate (or any system running Virtual PC).
Acronis True Image Home 2010 is equally at home with file-based backups, letting you back up your email, application settings, or your choice of files and folders with the absolute minimum of clicks. Your archive can be saved to a local folder, external, removable or network drive, FTP server, CD, DVD, or Blu-ray disc. Or, for even more security, you can use the built-in online backup service and copy your files to a web vault (you get 2GB of storage space included with the program).
Support for incremental and differential backups means Acronis True Image Home 2010 can save only new or modified files, greatly improving performance. A revamped Scheduler allows you to run backup jobs when you're not around. Or you can take advantage of the new Acronis Nonstop Backup feature, which creates incremental backups every five minutes, so it's easy to restore your system to almost any point in time.
And a host of useful utilities add valuable additional features, including support for cloning disks, securely wiping a hard drive, automating the process of adding a new drive to your PC, or creating bootable rescue media to recover your PC if Windows will no longer start.
Review by Mike Williams.
Key Features:
- Easy and Fast Backup and Recovery. Acronis True Image Home 2010 provides home users reliable and timeless backup and recovery of their operating system, applications, settings and personal files.
- Friendly, Windows-style User Interface. From an intuitive graphical interface, you can easily define where, locally or online, and how often to backup a PC based on your needs.
- Acronis Online Backup to a secure location. Optional Acronis online storage services are available to automatically backup valuable data or files over the internet to a secure location.
- Continuous data protection. In addition, Acronis Nonstop Backup provides continuous system and data protection, preventing data loss.