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Acronis True Image Home 2010 provides home users reliable and timeless backup and recovery of systems, applications, settings and personal files. From an intuitive graphical interface, users can easily define where, locally or online, and how often to backup a PC.

User Reviews about Acronis True Image Home 2010

Acronis True Image Home 11 is better than Acronis True Image Home 2010. I bought Acronis True Image Home 2010 because Home 11 does not support Windows 7. -- Acronis True Image Home 2010

I like the product, but have a few issues with backing things up. It's not as easy as it sounds and will take a few practice backups to make sure things work the way you want them to work. I like the fact that it can run in the background. What is frustrating is that you have to understand how a backup works and will have to delete old daily backups and then create a new monthly backup etc . . . as you can see it's not easy, but is a great backup if you know how to use it. -- Acronis True Image Home 2010

Over the years, I've lost info to all sorts of things from hard drive crashes to a virus, but mainly due to my own tendency to mess around with my computers. (I teethed on DOS and never lost that love of experimentation.) The point is, I'm forever filling my drive with photos because I somehow manage to end up with multiple copies of each huge file (that's my fault) and pretty soon, I'm running out of gigabytes again. Being impatient and really hating to read directions -- I prefer to let my fingers take over -- I'll use a nice little program like Double-Killer (free) to weed out the extras, but not bother to make sure I'm keeping the right ones. It would take hours and hours to check them, so I inevitably find out I've deleted the wrong files at least half the time. Okay, two-thirds of the time.

I use Carbonite -- cloud back-up -- religiously, but if I've deleted the wrong photos and haven't noticed this for at least a month (I think), Carbonite assumes I don't want them anymore and deletes them as well. And of Course I forget to check them all, so I also back up on an external hard drive. Two of them (they tend to die without warning). This would be perfect if I kept them up to date all the time, but, well. . . I forget.

That's why I ordered Acronis True Image. It's another line of defense and quicker to go through than searching Carbonite or my external hard drives. Also, I really get tired of having to restore my hard drive set-up after I've done something stupid. That's the other reason.

In the past, I've used Ghost, but didn't care for it. After installing Acronis without much difficulty I found out that I didn't care much for it either, but at least I know why: my hard drive, as usual, is too full. Acronis works for my (64-bit 500 gig Toshiba), but far too slowly and it eats up what little space I've cleared.

I have a Pro Flickr account, so I'm in the process of uploading every last photo and only keeping the ones I use frequently on the computer itself. I have a feeling that once that's completed, I'll be able to use Acronis as it's meant to be used and that if I have a blue screen of death or other monster-failure, I'll be able to reboot quickly and repair my machine without program loss.

Acronis does do a nice backup job, as far as it can go right now. It backs up constantly in the background and I can pick and choose what I want to back-up at any given time. (You can also make a full, complete backup - at least if you have space!) Since Carbonite and Flickr and even my external backups are nearly all data files, I'm relying on Acronis for program backup and imaging my disk. I'm only backing up a few programs at this point - one's I'd have difficulty restoring -- and I'm very pleased with True Image's ability to do only what I need for now. I can also edit the back-up, send changes to my external drives and easily make a life-saving boot CD.

A very nice feature is that Acronis True Image allows me to restore things while I'm using my computer. This version doesn't include any anti-virus protection, but I don't want it; I'm happy with Microsoft's free anti-virus program. (Tech guru Leo LaPorte says it's just fine, and he seems to be right, as usual. He was certainly right about investing in Carbonite.)

Would I buy it again? I don't know yet. I'll get back to you on that once I have the disk space to really give True Image a workout. It's fine on the few programs I've backed up with it for safe-keeping already. ([...] is one of my software pleasures.)

I'm reviewing now because I have a feeling a lot of us have the overflowing disk problem, whether it's due to games, movies, music, photos, or some other reason I haven't thought of. I'm giving three stars for now because it doesn't work too well for me -- too slow -- but I can't blame the program for that. Many reviewers are having other problems with it. I'm not. I'll be back soon to tell you what happens once I have plenty of disk space again!


-- Back-Ups: Can You Have Too Many?