True Image 10 Home Edition
Acronis is a company that specialises in storage management solutions, from backup & restore, to partition and boot management, scaling as large as enterprises and going as small as the home. True Image is one of its better known, if not best known, products. It uses technology taken from a number of the aforementioned areas of storage management, in an effort to create a well-rounded, easy-to-use backup app.
The core functionality of True Image is, as its name suggests, taking images of disk partitions, much like Norton Ghost or the free Drive Image XML. However, Acronis has extended the functionality of True Image beyond this over the course of new releases. Here's a quick lowdown on the main features of the software:
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Key features
- Copy your entire PC
- Backup selected files
- Backup Microsoft Outlook content
- Backup application settings
- Windows Vista support
- Selected file backup
- Outlook backup
- Application protection and restoration
- Quick backup
- Explore backups (without mounting)
- Create backup rules
- Email notifications
- Save to FTP
New features introduced in version 10
Get the full skinny on the Acronis website.
Before we go any further, a quick announcement for users of older True Image versions who have been waiting to hear this: Windows XP x64 edition is now supported! Do a little dance; it never appeared in version 9 of the Home Edition, which is a shame, but at least it's here now.
A number of features jump out from the page. Vista support is a great thing to see on there. It could also help Acronis get its software bundled with PCs this Christmas. The software will still work once those Vista upgrade coupons have been used.
The ability to backup specific application settings is potentially useful too, depending on just how flexible and portable it is. Save to FTP is great to see, particularly for the 'power' home user who might have an FTP server running on a NAS box somewhere.
Let's get stuck in with True Image, then.
