Windows Backup with Acronis Review

As I just found out, Acronis True Image is an excellent tool to backup your system with! I thought that Norton Ghost was the industry standard, but Acronis just blew me away with its ease of use and powerful feature set.

With Acronis, you can backup either individual files and programs (even preferences) or backup your entire hard drive. And on top of that, you can also make incremental or differential backups. These are very useful features that allow you to save either space or time.

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What’s the difference? Well in any case, you’ll need to make a full system backup initially. But in the future, any changes will be compared with the full system backup, and the differential or incremental backup only includes the changes since then. As you can expect, this is much faster than doing a full system backup everytime, and saves you tonnes of backup space.

However, you might face a higher risk of data corruption if you do too many differential or incremental backups. So you might want to do a few diffferential or incremental backups, then have a full system backup done as well, every once in a while.

The best thing about Acronis is that I am now protected against data loss from a system or hardware failure. If I keep to my regular backup schedule, it means that I only need to pop in my system backup disc to restore my computer system to its original configuration almost instantly.

And in Acronis, it’s really easy to create a system backup disc. Just select the “My Computer” option, and Acronis will guide you through the recovery process. Acronis True Image also gives you the power to specify the compression level of the backup - you can choose either normal, high, or maximum compression. Normal compression takes the most storage space while maximum compression takes the least space - but the drawback is that the backup process will take longer. If you need extra security, you’ll be pleased to know that Acronis also allows you to set your own password.

One very unique feature about Acronis True Image is that it will create a secure zone on your hard drive. This is a partition on your hard drive set aside specifically for backup and recovery, in the case of a system crash. It contains your bootable rescue data, and to make it secure, this partition is hidden, so no other software can access it. This secure zone backup feature is unique to Acronis - no other backup program has this, and I find it really useful to have.

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If the world was perfect, Windows would never crash, viruses and spyware can be removed with one click, and installing new programs will never cause irreversible damage to our systems. But the world isn’t perfect - which is why the premium PC protection that Acronis True Image offers is something that absolutely no computer user should be without.

Millions of users have been using Acronis True Image, and that’s what started me on it. Now I’m a fan of it! You should try it out for yourself - there’s a free trial available, so there’s zero risk.

Note: Some of you have asked me about the difference between Acronis True Image 10.0 Home and Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation. Well the main difference between Acronis True Image 10.0 Home and Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation is that the latter provides you with the ability to manage backup/recovery process remotely. Generally, Acronis True Image 9.1 Workstation is meant for use in business and networked environments allowing IT staff to manage backup tasks and protect employee laptops and desktops throughout the organization from one central location.

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