Acronis True Image Home 2010

Acronis True Image Home 2010 provides home users with 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 back up a PC. In addition, Acronis Nonstop Backup delivers continuous system and data protection, preventing data loss. Acronis True Image Home 2010 meets home user needs with a simple, yet comprehensive, backup and disaster recovery solution. The variety of backup and restore capabilities, including disk imaging, file backup, local or online backup, and continuous data protection provide ultimate protection for private systems and data. This unique consumer software offers a full set of advanced features in an affordable and easy-to-use solution.

Easy and Fast Backup and Recovery
Acronis True Image Home 2010 provides home users reliable and timeless backup and recovery of their operating system, applications, settings, and personal files.

Friendly, Windows-style User Interface
From an intuitive graphical interface, you can easily define where, locally or online, and how often to backup a PC based on your needs.

Acronis Online Backup to a secure location
Optional Acronis online storage services are available to automatically backup valuable data or files over the Internet to a secure location.

Continuous data protection
In addition, Acronis Nonstop Backup provides continuous system and data protection, preventing data loss.

Features:

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.

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.

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.

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.

System requirements:
Supported operating systems

• Windows XP SP3
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• Windows Vista SP2 (all editions)
• Windows 7 (all editions)

Minimum system requirements
Acronis True Image Home 2010 requires the following hardware:

• CD-RW/DVD-RW drive for bootable media creation
• Mouse or other pointing device (recommended).
• Using Acronis Nonstop Backup requires at least 1 GB RAM.

Acronis True Image Home rescue media has the following hardware requirements:

• 256 MB RAM
• Pentium Processor 1 GHz or faster
• High speed internet connection (for use with Acronis Online Backup™)

Supported file systems

• FAT16/32
• NTFS

Supported storage media

• Hard disk drives
• Networked storage devices
• FTP servers
• CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R (including double-layer DVD+R), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R, BD-RE
• USB 1.0 / 2.0, FireWire (IEEE-1394) and PC card storage devices
• ZIP®, Jaz® and other removable media