Acronis True Image 9

The complete disk imaging, system disk backup, and bare-metal restore for workstations and home PCs

Version 9.0 of award winning Acronis True Image PC Backup provides the maximum flexibility to ensure you are adequately protected and can recover from unforeseen events such as viruses, unstable software downloads and hard drive failures. Create an exact copy of your PC for a full backup or backup specific files and folders your choice!

Acronis True Image 9.0 PC Backup is the easiest and the most convenient and intuitive disk imaging, backup, and system restore software you've ever seen. Its automated, wizard-driven operations make the backup and restore a no-brainer.

Acronis True Image 9.0 allows you to create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning providing the most comprehensive data protection.  The disk backup file contains the exact copy of a hard disk, including all the computer data, operating system, and programs.  After a system crash you can restore the entire system or simply replace lost files and folders from your disk backup.  Based on the exclusive Acronis Drive Snapshot disk imaging technology, Acronis True Image allows you to create an online system disk backup without reboot to keep the system productive. The product provides the fastest bare-metal restore dramatically reducing downtime and your IT costs.

    *   Create an exact copy of your PC for a full backup
    *   Instantly restore the entire disk - no reinstallations!
    *   Easily restore individual files and folders
    *   Schedule backups automatically
    *   Clone and upgrade hard drives

New Features:

• New! File-based Backup: Backup and restore individual files and folders, like your My Documents folder.
• New! Exclusive: Acronis Snap Restore: Restores from an image at lightning-speed. Start working in seconds while your system is still being restored.
• New! Excludes Files: Save space when creating backups by only backing up the types of files you want to keep.
• New! Differential Backup: Decrease the number of backups you manage by capturing the changes made since your last full backup.

Additional Features: 

• Acronis Snap Restore: Lightning-speed restore of your PC from an image. You can start working in seconds while your system is still being restored.
• Online system disk backup and instant bare-metal system restore
• Backup and restore individual files and folders
• Restore from an image at lightning speed!
• Integrated compression and password protection
• Disk imaging and disk cloning
• Incremental disk backup and disk-backup image verification
• Adjustment of a priority for process of image creation
• Exception paging/hibernate files from images for the decreasing of image file size
• Partition/disk image integrity check before restoration
• Partition/disk file system integrity check after restoration
• Logs viewing
• Two boot disk variants: complete and safe
• Improved interface and performance
• Includes Acronis Secure Zone and Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

Unique Advantages:

What is Acronis True Image?

• Acronis True Image solves all backup problems, ensuring the safety of all information on your PC.

• Using it, you'll be able to create exact hard disk images, including all operating systems, applications and configuration files, software updates, personal settings and all of your data.

• If failures occur that block access to information or affect system operation, or if you accidentally delete necessary files, you'll be able to restore the system and lost data easily.

• You won't have to select files and folders for backup, as many backup applications require. Instead, you will store all your disk data. As a result, Acronis True Image is simpler and faster than competitive applications.

• You can store images on almost any PC storage device: local hard drives, network drives or a variety of IDE, SCSI, FireWire (IEEE-1394), USB (1.0, 1.1 and 2.0) and PC card (formerly called PCMCIA) removable media drives, including CD-R(RW), DVD-recordable, magneto-optical, Iomega Zip and Jaz drives.

• You can restore the partition or lost data from an image any time. You can also connect an image as a virtual drive, browse its contents and extract selected files to the hard disk.

• The unique technology developed by Acronis and implemented in Acronis True Image allows you to create exact, sector-by-sector disk images and restore their content directly from Windows without the reboots typical for similar products.

• If you are going to install a new hard disk drive, Acronis True Image will help you transfer information from the old one in minutes, including operating systems, applications, documents and personal settings.

• Wizards and a user-friendly, Windows XP-styled interface will make your work even more convenient. Just answer some simple questions and let Acronis True Image take care of everything else! When a problem occurs, it will get you up and running in short order.

Key Benefits:

Backup/Disk Imaging

• The complete backup and recovery solution
• Easy-to-use wizard driven interface
• Exclusive: Works in all Windows versions without reboot
• Exclusive: Incremental backups
• Schedule automated backups
• Exclusive: Acronis Secure Zone stores a copy of your PC
• Exclusive: Boot your PC with Acronis Recovery BootManger even if your OS fails
• Save backup images to CD and DVD, USB 1.0/2.0 and FireWire devices, and networked drives
• Verify backup images

Disk Cloning and Deployment:

• Create the exact clone of your old drive to a new one
• Exclusive: Automatically deploy a new drive as additional storage
• Exclusive: Redeploy or completely wipe your old disk drive

Product Features:

Backup

• Create the Complete Disk Backup Image
• Controlling Processor Usage while Backing-up (Changing Application Priority)

Sector-Level Backup

• Incremental Backup
• Skip Hibernation and Swap Files
• Locked Partitions without Reboot

Restore

• Verifying before Restore
• Checking File System after Restore

Bare-Metal Restore

• Bare-Metal Restore from Backup Image

Sector-Level Restore

• Locked (Non-System Partitions without Reboot
• Locked System Partitions with Reboot
• Resize Partitions while Restore (Increase / Decrease)

File-Level Restore

• Mount Backup Image as a Virtual Volume
• Restore Individual files and Folders

Partitioning

• Create Service Partition for Backup Images (Acronis Secure zone)
• Add New Disk Wizard

Scheduling

• When:  Once, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Logon, Logoff, Start, Shutdown
• What:  Backup
• Where:  Agent

Notifications and Logging

• History of Events (backups/restores/etc.) per each PC/Volume

Disk Backup Images

• Compression
• Password Protection
• Splitting
• Integrity Checking:  CRC32
• Check/Verification
• Contents Type:  Sectors
• File Systems:  FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Ext2/3, ReiserFS

Backup Image Location

• Acronis Secure Zone (Service Partition)
• Direct Attached Storage (SAN, NAS, etc.)
• RAIDs
• Network Drives (SMB)
• CD-R/RW
• DVD-RW/+RW
• Removable Drives (Floppy, Zip, etc.
• USB
• FireWire

User Interface

• Shell Extensions
• Changing Appearance (font properties, etc.)

Added Bonus:

Included with Acronis True Image 9.0 is Acronis Migrate, easily a $40.00 Value!   Acronis Migrate is data migration software - migrate safely, migrate quickly, Migrate Easy!  software that migrates all your computer data, operating systems, programs, documents, address books, mail, settings and preferences in minutes automatically - just the way you had them. 

Awards & Reviews:

Acronis True Image 8.0 received the CNET Editors' Choice Award
Acronis True Image 8.0 has been named CNET Editors' Choice by the CNET/ZDNet Product Reviews Team. The CNET Editors' Choice seal is awarded to products that display excellence in performance, quality, product design, and value. Products bearing this distinction are endorsed by CNET as outstanding in their category.

PC World - Five Stars

Winner Personal Computer World - February, 2005

"Acronis True Image is a great buy and easily our CNET Editors' Choice for disk-imaging technology."
     - CNET.com

"Acronis True Image received PC Magazine Editors' Choice Award. It is given to the product or service that stand out from all the others in their category."
     - PCMagazine,  April, 2005 - Acronis True Image 8.0

System Requirements:

• Windows 98, Me, 2000 Professional, NT 4.0 Workstation Service Pack 6, XP
• Pentium 133 MHz or higher processor
• 128MB of RAM minimum
• 20MB of hard drive space
• VGA monitor
• CD-ROM Drive
• Mouse

Supported File Systems

• FAT16/32
• NTFS
• Linux Ext2
• Ext3
• ReiserFS
• Linux SWAP
• Special sector-by-sector support for other partitions and corrupted file systems.

Supported Storage

• Hard disk drives
• Networked storage devices
• CD-R(W)
• DVD-RW, DVD+R(W) *
• ZIP, Jazz and other removable media
• P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and USB 1.0 / 2.0 drives, PC card storage devices.

*  Requires third-party DVD recording software to be installed.

Packaging: New in shrinkwrapped jewel case.