Acronis True Image 10 backs up your computer and digital media
March 8th, 2007 by <ADMINNICENAME>
I have been using Acronis True Image to back up all of my computer for the last couple of years. True Image is a useful piece of software that can make an image of your entire hard drive and store it on any shared drive on your network. Once the image is made, it can be accessed by booting your computer from the CD, even if your operating software is completely cooked. Acronis has recently released version 10 of True Image with the following new features:
- Outlook backup — Preserve your emails, contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, signatures, news folders, e-mail rules and user settings with just a few mouse clicks
- Application protection — Protect your application settings and avoid the time consuming process of redoing your custom settings
- Quick backup of specific files — Initiate backup of specific files without being in the Acronis True Image application
- Restore application settings — Avoid the hassle of customizing your applications again in case of failure
- Explore backups — Easily search and recover particular files in archives just like in Windows Explorer
- Create backup rules — Ensure that you never run out of space by setting limits on the amount of space allocated for backups, the number of backups and the amount of time you keep backups
- Email notifications — Peace of mind by obtaining notification that your backups have completed
The ability to save a back-up image to another computer from your network and then access that image without a functional operating system makes True Image a great recovery tool from either a hard drive failure or a virus. The other way I use True Image is to use a back-up image as an archive of an older computer I do not feeling like turning on. The last time I upgraded my computer to a new one, I made an archival copy of the old computer and stored it on the new system. True Image lets you mount a back-up image as a virtual hard drive with its own partition, which makes it easy to find one file or folder without having to reboot an old machine.
The only drawback I have with True Image is the size of the back-up images. The back-up files are not compressed well, even when full compression is selected, resulting in large back-up files that eat up space on your shared drive. If you are interested in finding a way to easily back-up your computer, check out Acronis’ True Image.
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