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I have had my own system just recently go down do to a corrupted driver. I also watched a co-workers system go down this week and all her work that was not backed up to a network drive. Computer failures are a way of life, whether they are hardware or software. That is why there are tons of backup solutions in the market place. Most decent backup software allows for files to be backed up and recovered. Recovery is the biggest key for the question is if a backup solution allows all the files to be recovered, and what is the process. This is why today I am reviewing a backup software package from Acronis, Acronis True Image Home. Acronis is known for their bare metal restore backup software, let's see how well it performs. </p> <p align="center"><img src="atruereview/acronis/acronis.jpg" alt="Acronis True Image Home Backup Software" title="Acronis True Image Home Backup Software" width="93" height="115" border="0"></p> <p> <strong>Downloading:</strong></p> <p>I did not receive a packaged version of the Acronis True Image backup software. Acronis True Image Home backup software can be downloaded from <a href="http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/download/trueimage/">Acronis' web site</a>. </p> <p><strong>Features:</strong></p> <p>Features for Acronis' True Image Home backup software can be found on <a href="http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage/features.html">Acronis' web site</a> as well. </p> <ul> <li> Scheduler: Automate backups, so you don't need to remember to run them<br> Exclusive Acronis Secure Zone: No need to purchase an extra hard drive, CDs, or DVDs to protect data because you can save data to a special hidden partition on your hard drive </li> <li>Exclusive Acronis Secure Zone: No need to purchase an extra hard drive, CDs, or DVDs to protect data because you can save data to a special hidden partition on your hard drive</li> <li> Exclusive Acronis Recovery Manager: Boot your computer to start the recovery process without boot media by selecting the F11 key, even if your operating system has failed </li> <li>Exclusive Acronis Recovery Manager: Boot your computer to start the recovery process without boot media by selecting the F11 key, even if your operating system has failed</li> <li> PC cloning: Upgrade to a new system disk without the need to reinstall the operating system and applications, or configure user settings </li> <li>Add a new hard disk: Expand your PC's storage capacity</li> <li> A wizard driven interface: The product walks you through each task so that you don't need to be a computer wiz to use it</li> </ul> <blockquote> <p><strong>Disk Imaging </strong></p> <ul> <li>Backup only the necessary server disk sector contents</li> <li> User-defined compression levels</li> <li> Multivolume archives </li> <li> Password protection </li> <li> Reduce your disk backup time and storage by excluding paging and hibernate files from the disk backup image </li> <li> Manage a PC performance by changing the disk imaging process priority </li> <li> Supports hard disks of all sizes </li> <li> Create full images (everything on your PC), incremental images (changes since last backup), and differential images (changes since last full backup) </li> <li> Use your PC during image creation with our no reboot feature </li> <li> Verify disk backup image before a restore </li> <li> Change partition type, file system, size, and disk location during restore </li> <li> Check the file system after a restore </li> <li> Acronis Secure Zone </li> <li> Acronis Startup Recovery Manager </li> </ul> <p><strong>Disk Cloning</strong> </p> <ul> <li> Clone an old hard disk drive to a new one</li> <li>Install new hard disk drive as a boot disk or as an additional storage device</li> <li>Install new hard disk drive as a boot disk or as an additional storage device</li> <li> Re-deploy old hard disk</li> <li> Resize transferred partitions to match new hard disk size </li> <li> Create, copy, move, and delete partitions </li> <li> Securely clean and wipe old hard disk </li> </ul> </blockquote> <p><strong>Installation:</strong></p> <p>Installing Acronis True Image backup software is very easy. Run the file that is downloaded from the web site. If the custom option is chosen, the option to install the Media Disk builder is also included. Bart PE is not included by default, but can be enabled. Bart PE helps to build a bootable Windows DVD.</p> <p align="center"><a href="atruereview/acronis/install2.gif"><img src="atruereview/acronis/Image2th.gif" alt="Acronis True Image Home Backup Software" title="Acronis True Image Home Backup Software" width="350" height="288" border="0"></a><br> <font size="-1">Click on image for larger picture</font> </p> <p align="right"><a href="atruereview/acronis/backup_software.php"></a> <a href="acronis/backup_software.php">Next (Backup)</a></p> </div> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <div id="footer" class="clr"> <div class="rk-1"> <div class="rk-2"> <div id="the-footer"> <script type="text/javascript"> var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? 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