Last year's Acronis True Image finally revamped their interface to create a genuinely user-friendly experience, however didn't specifically pile on the advanced features. This year, Acronis is making an endeavor to rectify that, with True Image Home 2010 bringing several new additions aimed principally at the experienced user.
Windows seven is at the center of things, with full support for the new OS now in place. The foremost attention-grabbing side is what you can do along with your backup sets. True Image 2010 permits you to save your backups as virtual laborious disk (.vhd) files, thus you'll access and edit backed-up files in an exceedingly virtual machine on another Windows 7 Skilled or Ultimate PC. It additionally offers those users the flexibility to boot directly from the Windows 7 image.
The task scheduler currently includes options for periodic backups, and tasks can be suspended and moved around terribly simply, however that is nothing compared to the new Nonstop Backup. Enable this mode and Acronis will copy changes each 5 minutes; you can then use the Time Explorer to retrace your steps and decide out the precise moment - presumably limited solely by disk house - at which a specific file went awry.
Acronis True Image Home 2010 - Time Explorer
The restore part regresses back to an explorer tree that is smaller and fiddlier than the remainder of the software, however the sheer flexibility it brings over Windows' own Previous Versions tool is tremendous.
The other headline feature is an Online Backup facility - a second line of defence. Upon buying True Image 2010 you'll get 2GB free storage for 90 days, once that it will cost you £3.ninety five a month - the value of the software once more over a full year - and then 60p per month for each additional 5GB. It works as you'd expect, with no major surprises. We can see the appeal of having both on-site and off-web site backups handled by the same piece of software, though Acronis doesn't have the best data for client support, that is worth bearing in mind.
The remainder is according to last year's True Image. On first run you still get the Acronis One-Click Backup, that takes a picture of your MBR and system partition and scans your PC for appropriate external locations. If it can't notice any it can automatically produce a Secure Zone on the system partition - not an ideal resolution however it ensures you are still in a position to run the backup, even on the foremost ill-ready PC. Attempt&Decide remains, for testing system changes while not applying them, and you'll alter the boot sequence and create Rescue Media from among the software.
In all, it's a positive step forward. The net backup component might or could not prove a tempting proposition for the money depending on your desires, but virtual hard disk support and also the Nonstop Backup feature are each excellent additions to an already comprehensive, however reasonable, home backup suite.
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