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Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows XP
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Home
Operating System: Windows 7
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.6 x 0.8
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MPN: 8046338
Model: TI-13-DV-RT-W-EN
UPC: 890204002425
EAN: 0890204002401
ASIN: B002MFSG0M

Release Date: October 13, 2009
Availability: Pre-Order (0-0 Business Days)

Features:

•	Solution for reliable backup and recovery of systems, applications, settings, and personal files
•	Automatically creates incremental backups every 5 minutes, preventing data loss
•	Intuitive graphical interface works on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 operating systems
•	Create a backup strategy of the system and implement it with just one click
•	Try&Decide mode for safe installations; new scheduler offers expanded scheduling options

Features and Benefits

Acronis True Image Home 2010 meets home-user needs with a simple, yet comprehensive, backup and disaster recovery solution. This is a unique consumer software, providing a full set of advanced features in an affordable and easy-to-use solution.

Get Ready for Windows 7
Planning on moving your system over to Windows 7? Make a full backup image of your system before beginning the upgrade or migration process. If something goes wrong during the installation, simply restore your full system from the backup. Once Windows 7 is up and running, use the full backup image to move files and folders into the new operating system.

Virtual Hard Disk Support
Convert Acronis' backup images (.tib) into virtual hard-disk files(.vhd) and vice versa, providing compatibility for Microsoft Windows 7 backup.

Tasks and logs screen shows the log of program operations and scheduled tasks. A calendar provides quick access to the logs (for past dates) or tasks (for future dates). Click to enlarge.

New Powerful Scheduler
In addition to the scheduling tools found in previous versions, the new scheduler expands the amount of scheduling options available. Use the new calendar view to build schedules and tasks. Suspend and enable tasks, specify dates to run tasks, and copy tasks to new dates.

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.

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.

Boot from Windows 7 image
Windows 7 Ultimate users can boot from a backup image (.tib file) containing a backup of their system partition. This will allow the ability to test a backed up system without actual restoration. If the operating system boots from the .tib file, then it will boot when the need arises for a system recovery.

Online backup: Keep your data secure by storing it off-site. So the risk of data loss as a result of theft, fire, or other natural disasters is practically eliminated. Click to enlarge.

Core Features and Technologies

Backup

Live Backups: Keep working right through your backup for maximum convenience.

File Backup: Backup individual files, folders or file categories.

Disk Imaging: Backup and restore the entire system on-the-fly.

Incremental and differential backups: Acronis True Image Home 2010 gives you alternatives to performing full backups. You can also choose incremental and differential backup types. Both capture the changes made since the last backup, and with Acronis data compression, both save disk space.

Exclude files and folders: Back up only the data you want in order to save disk space.

Image Encryption with AES: Protect your backup data by encrypting with industry-standard security tools.

Set&Forget Backups: Configure once and perform backups automatically.

Smart Scheduling: Run backups automatically at preset or elapsed time, when the user is idle, on user long/logout, on system startup/shutdown, or in coordination with other events.

Reserve Backup Copy: Store multiple copies of the backup in another pre-defined location in a pre-selected format.

System Protection

One-Click Protection: Create a backup strategy of the system and implement it with just one click.

Acronis Secure Zone: Protect your system by saving an image to a special partition on your hard disk where it can be accessed when the system needs to be restored.

Try&Decide: Safe environment for risk-free testing of new software or visiting Web sites with potentially dangerous content.

Privacy tools: Thorough system cleaning and reliable data destruction of files, partitions, or volumes.

Try&Decide mode: Safely install system updates, drivers, and applications worry-free--if anything goes wrong, simply discard the changes. Click to enlarge.

Recovery

Acronis Startup Recovery Manager: Boot and restore a system without using an additional boot medium.

Recovery of the entire PC

Recovery of individual files and folders

Selection or exclusion of files and folders

Acronis Startup Recovery Manager: Boot and restore a system after a failure. Start the recovery process simply by selecting the F11 key, even if your operating system has failed.

Mount images in read/write mode

Create bootable media using BartPE

User Interface

Windows-style interface: The new, sleek interface of this product works on Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 operating systems.

Supported Systems

Storage Media

Hard-Disk Drives
Networked Storage Devices
FTP servers
CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R (NEW! Blu-ray)
ZIP, REV, and other removable media
PATA (IDE), SATA, SCSI, SAS (NEW), IEEE1394 (FireWire), USB 1/2.0 drives

Supported Operating Systems

Windows 7 all Editions (x32/x64)
Windows Vista all Editions (x32/x64 SP2)
Windows XP (x32 SP3/x64 SP2)
Windows XP Professional (x32 SP3/x64 SP2)

Supported File Systems

FAT16/32, NTFS
Raw Images support

Customer Reviews:

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I must be dreaming, Acronis reality actually meets Acronis marketing hype! October 6, 2009
S. Gore (Newark, De USA)
180 out of 184 found this review helpful

True Image 2010 worked reliably for me, including 2 actual bootable hard-drive restorations. I've been using Acronis True Image in several versions over the years, and the previous 2009 edition was the nadir of their product line. For me at least, Acronis has redeemed themselves after the erratic and dangerous-to-your-data behavior of their last edition.

Pros: Disk imaging for TOTAL disk restoration capabilities, full and incremental backup, selective directory/file type data backup, editing capability of the backup image, back-up image mounting as a logical drive for easy viewing and cut & paste from image to other drives with Windows Explorer, live backup (use computer while backing), recovery manager in conjunction with Acronis Secure Zone (restoration of operating system drive while still having use of computer), bootable CD with backup and recovery capabilities, bootable from image of disk.

Cons: None that I could find so far. I am suspicious that uninstalling may be an issue, as it was in the past.

Major improvements from the past:

1) The Try & Decide feature now works even if a reboot is required for the newly installed application or system change. The Acronis Try & Decide can truly undo a change in its entirety, even if critical files are over-written, something window's System Restore could never do. But, System Restore could survive a reboot, which in the past Acronis couldn't. Now, all situations are covered by True Image 2010, and I have been able to fearlessly change, upgrade, or install on my system and effortlessly reverse the changes if I don't like the results.

2) USB/multi-boot support is robust. In the past, forgetting to remove a flash drive while using True Image could result in dangerously wacky behavior such as corrupting the master boot record or deleting the C:\ drive. Having a complex computer system, say USB drives and multiple operating systems, was a recipe for disaster. Legacy FAT32 application software also clashed if the Acronis Secure Zone was installed. All these past issues appear to be resolved. I did a backup and fully-bootable disk-image restoration for a Windows XP/Windows 7RC-64-bit multi-boot system using an external USB 2.0 hard drive for storing the images, with other USB flash drives plugged in, and 2 internal SATA hard disks in 4 partitions.

What I didn't test: I didn't make backups to DVD media; Acronis states it is possible make images spanning several DVDs.

Other Thoughts: A reasonable person might wonder why anyone such as myself would give Acronis another chance after the problems of the recent past. There are 2 things about this addition of True Image that I find very valuable compared to other imaging software I've tried: 1) The Try & Decide feature was always useful, but with the improvement to survive reboots it's now the single most important feature for me; I like to try a lot of new configurations, and completely undoing experiments can be easily accomplished. 2) I have use of the computer while backing up, which makes it unobtrusive to do frequent backups.

Backup speed on my system is about 3 gigabytes/minute, so a drive with 120 gigs of data took about 40 minutes to image (and I could still surf the net during the process). Restoring a drive goes at 3 gigs/minutes based upon compressed image size, so a 9 gig image took 3 minutes to restore to the uncompressed size of 20 gigs.

Now, some general words of caution for would be users who are new to the disk imaging game. This type of software works with and independently from the host operating system. By its very nature it is a law unto itself, and the operating system can't really protect you from rogue behavior. The potential for trashing your system is very real. That's why I did extensive testing of True Image 2010 on a fully cloned system. I can't suggest strongly enough that BEFORE you install True Image to your computer's HD you should attempt to make a back up by simply using the bootable True Image CD in your optical drive. If you can't make a back up from the bootable CD, things may go badly should you choose to install True Image 2010 on your computer. Since this sofware interacts directly with the BIOS, be cautious about BIOS upgrades. Keep current with upgrades from Acronis. Finally, it's just a plain good idea to have partition management software (such as Acronis Disk Director or Active @ BootDisk) available for emergency use to recover deleted partitions. Sorry to make it all sound so scary, but any disk imaging software (acronis or not) is powerful stuff. And when things go wrong, the results can be quite bad.

My system as tested: Dual boot Windows XP Pro SP3 32-bit/Windows 7 RC 64-bit; Acronis True Image Home 2010 software installed to 64-bit Windows 7 RC partition; Acronis Secure Zone (FAT32) partition installed; Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard w/Intel P45 + ICH10R Chipset and Award BIOS version F7; Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 processor.

5 out of 5 stars

Works well, with great support... February 4, 2010
Scott Harvey (Laguna Niguel, CA USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful

Before I relate my experience, I want to make it clear what I've done and not done so that I don't mislead anybody. I have used the basic functions in the software - creating full system backup images and also recurring backups of manually-selected data. I have not used the more advanced features. Also, I'm one of those strange "direction-reader" people, so I spent time getting to know the software and followed the directions closely.

As other reviewers have said, this is a powerful program if you use it for disk imaging or the advanced features, and with that power comes a little bit of danger if you don't do it right, follow directions, test, etc. (But for the basic features...it really is pretty simple).

That all said, I give Acronis True Image Home 2010 my highest honor: IT WORKS. Before you think that "rating" is nothing special, think about all of the products you buy and install that function acceptably, but have stability issues, or are slow, or have features that don't really quite work, or aren't intuitive so you never really use them, or whatever. True Image does what it is supposed to do without any drama - and when what it is "supposed to do" is arguably one of the most important things there is - protecting your priceless and unrecoverable data - that is a big deal.

I've used it for a couple years now, and although I've done some test restores, thankfully I never needed to restore anything after a disaster. Recently, however, our primary computer crashed and died (even with mirrored disks - long story), and the image of the disk that I created every week was all we had left.

Even though I'd done data restore tests in the past, I went through the (well-done) documentation again and did what it told me to, and was able to access all of our data easily so that we could rebuild our computer. I didn't lose anything because I wasn't smart enough to select the right files - I simply created complete images of the hard disk, and it saved everything.

I did lots of research before I decided on this product long ago, and I am still very happy with my decision - especially after the recent successful restore. For the trivial cost for something this important - just stop your search, buy this software, and implement it so you are protected.

UPDATE:
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I very recently purchased a new fairly high-end Dell computer, and purchased another copy of True Image Home for it. My computer hung the first time I ran a backup overnight. Even though I couldn't guarantee that the hang was caused by True Image Home, I had my suspicions.

I was pleasantly surprised to get a very quick, proactive response to my support inquiry. Rather than getting the run around, pointing fingers to other applications, etc., the support person dug in to the issue and again, quickly came back with a solution for me. Turns out that for new and unusual hardware configurations like my new system had, it was necessary to install a quick patch. I installed it quickly and easily, and everything has worked perfectly since then.

Would I have preferred it to work perfectly right out of the box? Sure. Do I understand how difficult it must be to keep a complex product like this working will all possible system combinations out there? Yep.

Bottom line for me is that I'd rather experience a slight hiccup with a product that is then resolved quickly and efficiently when I contact support, rather than the other way around.

For example, I used Quicken for years without a problem, and then after upgrading a couple years ago, had it completely trash all my financial data after a month on the new version. Even with numerous backups, they couldn't help me get the new version working after a couple weeks of mind-numbing support personnel, patches that didn't work, suggestions that made things worse, wasting my time, etc. I finally gave up, lost a month worth of entries, and went back to the old but reliable version.

Due to the quick, accurate, and friendly support, I still give this product five stars.

Scott

5 out of 5 stars

Excellent product, requires some preparation and planning on healthy system December 27, 2009
Nikolai N Bezroukov (Budd Lake, NJ)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful

True Image is a Ghost-style program in a sense that it can perform backup and restore by booting from a specially created CD with the custom, proprietary loader. Like Ghost it can resize the NTFS partition on the fly (both shrinking and expanding is possible). You do not need a working OS to restore the image. As Norton Ghost problems demonstrated this is not an easy task. DOS is no longer suitable, flavors of linux are not always compatible with the hardware. True Image is suffering from the same problem.

The forte of this utility lies in the ability to resize NTFS partitions. Products that perform such complex operation as "on the fly" NTFS resizing should not try to be "all things for all people". Ability to reliably resize NTFS partitions, speed and ability to recognize hardware for restore without OS are three requirements that are really important. Everything else is peripheral and should be viewed as such. Too high and/or unrealistic expectations lead to disappointment.

A lot of people who experienced difficulties and gave the product low marks belong to this category. Most have a complex setup. Some want the product to work seamlessly with Ext3 (linux) partitions. Some tried to perform some complex operation without much thought or preparation and were amazed that it failed. I think each second negative review was written by users who were either not well prepared or expect too much from the program.

First of all the installation and burning the CD (or better creating a copy of C-drive on USB drive for future restore operation using "disk clone" capability) should be done on a healthy system. While attempt to save a dying or infected system might succeed, failure in such case is more typical and should not surprise anybody...

Standalone (bootable) restore utility is a weak spot of any Ghost-like utility, so in case of restoration with OS some work should done to make your restore configuration as transparent for True Image as possible. Minimal amount of drives should be connected. For example laptops should taken out of dock and USB drive should be connected directly to laptop port without any hubs. That increases the chances of success. But any program that relies on custom standalone loader works badly without Windows and that's a critical problem of this class of programs. I think this is an irresolvable problem, so you need to find a way to avoid it completely (see below). Fortunately, with cheap USB drives available now this is possible.

The best way to avoid using the standalone loader is to create full copy of the existing C drive on a small USB disk drive (80-120G disk drive usually suffice, which can be bought or assembled for $60-$80) and then do regular backups on a larger (1-2TB) USB drive. In case your computer disk crashes or system became infected or other serious problem with Windows arise, you can boot from this reserve USB drive, load True Image (remember this is a copy of C-drive so True Image is installed) and restore your system partition from the most recent backup without using standalone loader.

If you fail you still can use this bootable copy for some time and have time to simplify your setup and to prepare for a new attempt to restore the image without too much time pressure. This additional ability of bootable UCB drive to alleviate the time pressure is extremely important for success of the restore operation. In my experience the most stupid and most damaging for data blunders were done when I was under time pressure and need working computer "now".

One problem with True Image that I have found is that when I try to create an image of C drive it does not give me an option to perform the operation without rebooting to a specialized standalone loader. That's a blunder in the design of the program. In other words, for C-drive backup it does not uses Microsoft Volume Shadow copy Service (VSS). This makes some sense as this removes any malware from the memory but as standalone loader is unreliable and always will be unreliable user should be given a choice. At least it is completely inexcusable in disk copy operation that True Image also provides (see below).

Again as it is inevitable that many users have problems with standalone loader (no matter on which OS it is based, Linux or something else) this is a blunder that need to be corrected. But at least using the trick that I proposed you can avoid using standalone loader when restoring the image.

The function of cloning of disks (hidden in Tools menu) is very useful and works really well for all partitions exact system. For system partition it behaves like the operation of crating an image of system partition and uses a standalone loader. Still it can and should be used for creation of alternative bootable drive on USB drive that I mentioned above. Having such drive is much preferable to bootable CD approach that True Image has.

The product is really fast. It took me less then 30 min to clone 30G of data on 90G system partition on 7200 RPM harddrive on my laptop using regular 7200 RPM USB 2.0 drive as the target. This is approximately three times faster then free partimage utility under Linux (1 hour 20 min for the same drive). I think that backup from solid state drive (for example Intel 80G X25-M G2) to 15K RPM eSCSI drive of the same partition will take less then 10 min which is as close to enterprise backup speed as one can get.

Ability to shut down computer after the backup is a nice little touch. It tells that people who wrote it know something about its typical usage.

All-in-all, the better you are prepared for the disk crash or virus infection that cannot be disinfected by regular antivirus, the simpler is your backup and restore configuration, the better are your chances that True Image can save your day.

The product has excellent compatibility with various version of NTFS (for example it does not require that disk be defragmented before the backup). That is the True Image the strongest point. In way this is a "True Image" of NTFS filesystems.

It's priced approximately the same as antivirus programs and works much better that any of them if you have a clone of your C-drive on USB and the most recent C-drive image.

5 out of 5 stars

Nervous about buying, but it has worked perfectly for me. February 1, 2010
Ludwig van Beartrap
6 out of 7 found this review helpful

I feel compelled to defend a product which has been much maligned around these parts, but one which I purchased (not here), downloaded and installed yesterday and have found to be working perfectly. I really wrestled with the decision to buy, based on all the negatives. After all, so many of my purchases, in all areas, are influenced by user reviews on the web (though I've learned to separate much of the review wheat from the chaff).

I don't doubt that a number of good people have had real problems using Acronis TI 2010. Some of these problems may be related to earlier versions of the software, and, if that is the case, there are really no good excuses. TI 2010 is not some freeware video program; it is mission critical to the folks that buy and rely on it. I understand the challenges companies face in a tough, competitive market, especially in these economic times. However, bad news runs around the world while good news is still lacing up its sneakers. You'd better have a product ready to go when you bring it to market or risk losing a share of that market to your competitors. You had also better invest in customer service, because a tepid, confused response to your customer's problems can only be imagined by them to be ineffectiveness, arrogance or a lack of caring. Just ask Toyota.

I also have no doubt that many of the problems in these reviews are due to things beyond Acronis' immediate control, things like hardware/software limitations/incompatibilities in a user's existing setup and, most of all, some users' lack of understanding and preparedness for installing and using this software.

When our trusty, 8-year old XP desktop refused to boot up two weeks ago, it felt like a family pet dying. Soon there was a flash of light and a burnt smell from the motherboard, and I knew that was that. Fortunately, I had a complete backup on an external USB drive under the older version Acronis TrueImage 10. That was a relief. My wife and I each have documents from our small businesses along with our personal stuff, photos, etc. I had no problem restoring everything to our new HP Windows 7, 64-bit machine (love Windows 7, btw).

So, the gratitude I felt for Acronis saving my butt definitely tipped the scales in my decision to buy. The upgrade price also made it easier. Maybe having a new computer, with no previous OS or Acronis versions on it has helped the new software (build 6.053) run better. Maybe my previous experience using Acronis 10 has also helped, I don't know. But installation, creating a bootable disk, full back up to an external USB hard drive, scheduled incremental backup, and restoring individual files have all worked 100%, perfectly and elegantly.

I hope this helps to balance the picture. If you've been happy with Acronis in the past, I'd say you've got no reason to expect anything less from TI 2010, based on my experience. If you're thinking about a first time purchase...well, be sure to read up in advance! Spend some time at [...] and get a feel for things. Above all, learn the names and terms for components and software functions to gain a solid understanding of your machine, it's hard drives and how Acronis deals with them.

Best of luck to all!

5 out of 5 stars

Acronis True Image Home 2010 vs Norton Ghost 15 (loser!), TIPS...! July 13, 2010
scottls1 (Kalispell, MT USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I happily used ATI (Acronis True Image) for years with XP, and ONLY used it for full image Backups/Restores (I beta test Security Products, and a 30yr software tech).
I upgraded (?) to Win 7 (32), and badly needed new Image Backup Software (ATI had growing pains with Win 7 at first)!

-I "Mistakenly" went to G15 (Ghost 15)!-

G15 worked pretty good for normal Backup/Restores, but when my HD (Hard Drive) crashed! It would Not copy my Validated Backup to my new HD!?-
G15's "clueless" outsourced free chat tech support was no help, and wanted to "upgrade" me to paid/no-guarantee support (scam?)? NOT! Grrr! Full System Restore! COLOR ME GONE!

Note!- There was no way to post "detailed" Comments on the G15 backups, so you look at the old dates & try & remember the exact system state...?
( In ATI you create the Backup, go to Recovery, and Right click on the new file/Edit Comments/"Detailed notes...!")!
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BTW!- WD (#1 Western Digital) & Seagate both have free downloads of ATI (Backup/Restore only, which is all I like anyway!- Browse their websites!), but you MUST have "one" of their drives installed on your system (mix is OK, but I had Hitachi, and since "upgraded" to WD Black on my laptop!)!
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I then upgraded to ATI trial, but it did not have all the available features of paid/registered I needed!

NOTE!-I don't like the Incremental File/Image Backups on either G15 or ATI!-
Every time you defrag, they see this as a file change!- Backups recopy & Quickly become HUGE/SLOW!
Only do New/Full backups (I keep last 3, and arcive 1st few... after a fresh System Restore!)!

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"My" 99%(do independent file backups!) Tried-n-True ATI Backup/Restore Procedure ( I'd Print/save... it!!)!-

- For New/Full Backups!- I ALWAYS do A fresh full/Optimization/Monthly... defrag "after" a fresh no-activity reboot (NO other activity until done with Backup!)-
I wait 8min, then defrag (all files are released). Free MyDefrag is GREAT (learning curve)(you MUST disable Win defrag!- same with most Any 3d party defrag!)), and then two no-activity 4min wait reboots!

- For Backup-
On 3d reboot- Wait 4min & "temp disable your AV!", then wait 4 more min (HD light has now stopped flashing?), start ATI (ALWAYS wait 1min before you do anything!!!), and do your Backup/Restore...!
Wait 2min after every closing of ATI, for the first no-activity reboot (it's slow to release files...!).
-Then For Backups- Wait 4min, and go into Recovery, Right click on the new backup file, and Validate/Edit Comments...!

-After Recovery- Wait 4min & do a Reboot.
Wait 4min & Shutdown (not many kernel level changes... are "fully" complete, until "After" a cold startup!)!

Note!- "After" you have registered Trial, be sure & go into Tools, and cut a "New" Full-featured Emergency Boot CD (In case your HD crashes...- Trial CD will Not copy to a new HD!).
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On a new HD copy..., if you ever get a message about a bad BOOTmgr...!-
Reboot from your Win CD/Repair System..., and Repair Start Up, "3" separate times!

Done!
-UPDATE"s"!- Also backup your .tib's/files to a USB notebook (flash drives omit some data!)! My AV became corrupted, and all my .tib's disappeared from my slave HD!?
-ATI's YUCKY file copy altered the "original" file dates on Many files to the date copied! Now I don't no which emails... are the oldest! Use Copy/Paste for backups!
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Yea!- I know This is Very time consuming, but it works "99%" for me (learned this the Hard Way!)!
Sure Beats a System Restore!

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