Acronis True Image 11 Build 8053 Home

[toyo]

Acronis True Image 11 Home offers you improved point-in-time backup strategy. It has user-friendly interface and the ability to bring your machine back online even if it has crashed and is unbootable. Acronis True Image 11 Home is an easy-to-use, affordable backup and restore solution for home and home office users that can protect family pictures, videos, music, and important documents stored on your home PC. It helps make certain that you are adequately protected, ensuring that you can recover your data in case the machine fails or your computer hard disk is damaged by a virus.

Acronis True Image 11 Home is intended for use at home and in the home office. It is a tool that enables you to protect and recover data on your PC. Its easy-to-use wizards walk you through the steps required to protect and recover your data, including:

* Creating bootable media (floppy disks, CDs, or flash drives), which will enable you to start your computer when the operating system becomes unstable and you cannot boot your machine

* Creating and scheduling the backup procedure to protect all the information stored on your system and backing up specific files and folders, like your My Documents folder or your most recent tax return

* Recovering your data in case of a system failure

With the introduction of Acronis True Image 11 Home, you are provided with several products in one:

* Our original disk imaging backup option, which enables you to create an image of your entire hard disk drive, including the operating system, applications, user settings, and all data. Use the image to restore your PC to a known working state without any reinstallation.

* A file-based backup option, which enables you to back up and restore individual files and folders, like your My Documents folder, your music, video and photos or some specific file, like your latest tax return. A wizard walks you through all of the steps.

* You can also back up your applications settings. If an application seems to malfunction or ceases to run you are supposed to reinstall it using the last updates and then recover your settings from the backup. The list of supported applications will be gradually built up. Updates will be available with new program builds or via the Internet. For Instant Messengers, the program will back up both settings and history.

* Acronis True Image 11 Home offers a straightforward way to back up messages, accounts and settings for Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003 and Microsoft Outlook Express and Microsoft Windows Mail. It preserves your e-mails, contacts, calendar, tasks, notes, signatures, news folders, e-mail rules and user settings with just a few mouse clicks

* Try&Decide feature. Performing potentially dangerous changes in the system, such as installing new software from the internet is sometime a risky operation as it may lead to system instability or even worse add Viruses or spyware to your computer. Thanks to Try and Decide in Acronis True Image 11 Home, you can now safely perform these potentially risky operations. When Try and decide is turned on, all the changes performed will be transparently recorded on a virtual disk automatically created in Acronis Secure Zone. At any time you can decide if you want to validate the changes you made or discard them and therefore revert the system back to its previous state.

* Disk Cleanser, File Shredder, and System Clean-up - Securely wipes data stored on an entire hard disk, individual partitions or in individual files and eliminates all traces of user activities in the system.

There are several exclusive features of the Acronis True Image 11 Home software that distinguish it from other products:

* Provides multiple backup options in one product: our original disk imaging backup option allows you to protect your entire PC, and our backup options allow you to protect your music, photos, videos, email and application settings

* Supports Microsoft Vista, so you can safely upgrade to this new operating system

* Allows you to create backup rules, so you do not have to worry about managing your backups

* Enables you to receive e-mail notifications on your backup status, so you have peace of mind knowing your PC is protected

* Find specific files by exploring backup files

* Use your system during a recovery with the Acronis Snap Restore feature

* Save data to special partition on your hard drive, the Acronis Secure Zone. There is no need to purchase an extra hard drive, CDs, or DVDs to protect your data. This is especially useful for notebook computers.

* Use Try&Decide feature to install potentially unstable software or downloading suspicious e-mails to evaluate them and then decide if you want to keep this stuff on your machine or revert the system back in seconds by simply rebooting your computer.

* Restart your computer by hitting the F11 key in case you computer does not boot correctly with the Acronis Recovery Manager. Even if your operating system has been deleted, the Acronis Recovery Manager can boot your computer

* Run backups while you are using your computer

* Restore your entire PC in minutes, including the operating system, applications, and user settings without reinstallation of any software

* Automate backups on a regular basis by creating a schedule

* Walks you through each task so that you don't need to be a computer expert to use it

What's New in Acronis True Image 11 Home:

Backup

* Try&Decide. Create a temporary, safe place on your hard disk where you can perform changes to your system that otherwise might not be advisable, such as installing new software, downloading files from the Internet, or opening e-mail attachments. If the operations are successful, you can apply those changes to the real system or discard the changes as you wish.

* Exclude Files and Folders from Image Backup. Save space when creating backups by ensuring that you are not backing up the information you don?t want to keep

* Backup your system state. Registry, boot files, as well as important system files from system crashes

* Automatic catalog of all your backups. Easily locate your archives as system automatically remembers their placement

* Raw Images support for other partitions and corrupted file systems

Recovery

* Message-level Outlook restore. Quickly locate and recover your important messages from mail backup

* Search and explore archives. Easily search for and recover particular files from all your known backup archives

* Preserve files and folders during restore. Make sure your newly entered important data would not be overwritten by recovering from older backup

Management

* Set and forget. Configure it once and you do not have to care about your backups as long as traffic light indicator shows green

* Smart Scheduling. Start backup on user idle, login/logout or other events: Automatically protect your system from potentially hazardous changes

* Schedule periodic backup validation. Ensure that your backups do not get corrupted, so restore would actually work

Privacy protection

* Acronis Drive Cleanser. Protect your sensitive data when you are discarding a hard drive or returning leased system by securely easing the whole hard drive

* File Shredder. Wipe private or confidential data in individual files using latest multi-pass algorithms

* System Clean-Up. Protect your privacy by cleaning up your activity track stored by Windows

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[gest]

Great software. May want to stick with last ATI 10 build. 11 is kind of rough around the edges still.

[dMog]

I have been using drive clone pro...it allows back up to usb drives ...acronis does not

[Macoland]

Great software. May want to stick with last ATI 10 build. 11 is kind of rough around the edges still.

Or with the latest Workstation Version. 9.1.3887 I have been using their products for about 5 years to backup my machines and have always been impressed with their software. ATI 10 Home seemed to work great, but after upgrading to 11 Home I had nothing but problems. So I can back up what gest says, either use the Workstation or Home edition version 10.

[toyo]

No problems here, I use it on a 3 day schedule. What features does the Workstation have better than Home? I'm too lazy too check their site... I only know that the installer is 300mb - so that's a big minus.

[HATE9X]

Been out for quite a long time already.. Remember not to download the demo (TrueImage11_d_en.exe) as it can't be used with the kg..

TrueImage11_s_en.exe is the retail that works.. Comes with the rls..

[Macoland]

No problems here, I use it on a 3 day schedule. What features does the Workstation have better than Home? I'm too lazy too check their site... I only know that the installer is 300mb - so that's a big minus.

Yeah, I had a lot of problems with the scheduled backups. They would not run no matter what I did. I could run manual backups, but not scheduled ones. Also I read online than many people have had problems with version 11 messing up the actual backups. IE they try to restore and are informed that the image is corrupt (even after they validated) and they can't restore their machines.

As for Workstation vs Home, as with most things there are advantages and disadvantages to both. The big thing I like about Workstation is the fact that is supports universal restore features. This means you can take an image of a machine, and restore it to a VM, or a different machine with different hardware seemlessly. It also offers image encryption and other features that I prefer.

[dMog]

I still think drive clone pro is better... acronis started taking forever to do back ups and i got no support whatsoever from them... and as i said before acronis does no allow back ups to external USB drives whereas drive clone pro does

[Macoland]

and as i said before acronis does no allow back ups to external USB drives whereas drive clone pro does

I have never really had a reason to backup to an external drive, but after reading your post I was curious. I was thinking that since that is something that many people want to do it was just be stupid of them is that wasn't a feature. After doing some quick searching on their website I found this:

Acronis True Image is a user-friendly program that enables users to quickly and easily make an image of their drive or drives, and safely store it on another partition, an internal or external drive, or even a writable CD or DVD.

After reading that, just as a test, I tried to make a backup of one of my smaller drives to an external drive that I have and it worked without a hitch. I don't know if you were using a different, or older version, but after testing it I have had no problems backing up to an external drive.

[DJPrice]

I used ATI 11 when it was released & I had nothing but problems with it myself & when I did a search for the error message I kept getting on google it showed that a lot of other people were having the same problem. I'm currently using norton ghost 12, I've not had any problems with it so far & it does what it should, although it is a bit of a system hog when running. I found aswell with ATI, think 11, but may have been with 10 aswell, that some files were not backed up properly as if it missed them for some reason, even though I didn't have skiplist set.

[dMog]

and as i said before acronis does no allow back ups to external USB drives whereas drive clone pro does

I have never really had a reason to backup to an external drive, but after reading your post I was curious. I was thinking that since that is something that many people want to do it was just be stupid of them is that wasn't a feature. After doing some quick searching on their website I found this:

Acronis True Image is a user-friendly program that enables users to quickly and easily make an image of their drive or drives, and safely store it on another partition, an internal or external drive, or even a writable CD or DVD.

After reading that, just as a test, I tried to make a backup of one of my smaller drives to an external drive that I have and it worked without a hitch. I don't know if you were using a different, or older version, but after testing it I have had no problems backing up to an external drive.

I had problems with acronis..one of them was it would not allow me to back up my drives to my usb hard drive...So i just thought it was the software not a problem with my set up.... I have vista and XP on two separate hard drives on my desktop and XP on my notebook...hence the need to use a usb hard drive for back ups. My biggest problem was that acronis began taking an extremely long time to do back ups.... 6 or 7 or more hours and i was getting no help from acronis what soever (and i did own the software not a hacked copy) that more than anything got me going with drive clone pro....I have a teenager using my computers so i do have a need for a good backup program....had to use it a few times already!

[toyo]

I'm just plain sorry to hear that you all are dissapointed. This software I use (from ver 9) is in top 5 of my all time most-respected apps. Hence the "recommended" tag. Never had a problem, it runs unobserved in the background, even on my sys specs. Never let me down, had to restore a few times. Quick&swift. I just feel safe with it, knowing that in 10 mins my system is just as it was 24 hrs ago... I backup a whole 15 gb partition, it takes 25-35 mins. Well, that sums it all up. At least it works for me :)

[HATE9X]

Works well for me too.. I read somewhere that v11 is supposedly slower than v10, but I don't know if that's true..

[gest]

I did not mean to start a backlash against ATI. I currently use v10 and love it. My experience with v11 was not the best, kinda felt like it was trying to be the next biggest baddest thing out there when all it really needed to do was work well like v10 did. As soon as I hear v11 is good, I plan on giving it a try again.

Until then, v10 is solid.

[Macoland]

My biggest problem was that acronis began taking an extremely long time to do back ups....

It is funny you should say that. Acronis just came out with a new version of the workstation software called Echo Workstation. I just installed it on a test machine that normally takes 20 minutes to back up. After upgrading to Echo the SAME drive was taking over an hour! :P

[dMog]

My biggest problem was that acronis began taking an extremely long time to do back ups....

It is funny you should say that. Acronis just came out with a new version of the workstation software called Echo Workstation. I just installed it on a test machine that normally takes 20 minutes to back up. After upgrading to Echo the SAME drive was taking over an hour! :P

Maybe it is just doing a really, really good job..... seriously though, i hope the problem gets fixed because it is a great back up program

[SokraT]

ATI is one of the best solutions i've ever used,no problems since ver.9.it backs up external drives as well.

[jofre]

I'm just plain sorry to hear that you all are dissapointed. This software I use (from ver 9) is in top 5 of my all time most-respected apps. Hence the "recommended" tag. Never had a problem, it runs unobserved in the background, even on my sys specs. Never let me down, had to restore a few times. Quick&swift. I just feel safe with it, knowing that in 10 mins my system is just as it was 24 hrs ago... I backup a whole 15 gb partition, it takes 25-35 mins. Well, that sums it all up. At least it works for me B)

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I also found all versions 11 slower than v.9 or 10. Also with v.11, I couldnt recover from incremental backups.

So in my old computer I use now Acronis True Image 10.0.4871 and till now no problems found.

But I prefer Norton Ghost 11.01. Is faster even working only in "DOS" mode. But this one has a small problem : You must have two Floppy Disks formated with MSDOS Files on Win95 or Win98 and that is a little beat difficult to get on these days. Only this way you can make two boot floppy disks to backup and recover the entire System.I only use WinXP Pro.

Later you can, using Nero Burning Rom, make 2 Boot Cdrom with files from Floppy Disks.

Also, when those Boot CDrom are done and operational, you can uninstall " Norton Save and Restore 2.0 " the program from where you got the 2 Floppy Disks with Ghost 11.01.

Let me tell , I have 8 Gbs installed on Hard Disk and Backup or Restore takes about 3 minutes.

cheers

Jofre

[jofre]

I'm just plain sorry to hear that you all are dissapointed. This software I use (from ver 9) is in top 5 of my all time most-respected apps. Hence the "recommended" tag. Never had a problem, it runs unobserved in the background, even on my sys specs. Never let me down, had to restore a few times. Quick&swift. I just feel safe with it, knowing that in 10 mins my system is just as it was 24 hrs ago... I backup a whole 15 gb partition, it takes 25-35 mins. Well, that sums it all up. At least it works for me B)

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I also found all versions 11 slower than v.9 or 10. Also with v.11, I couldnt recover from incremental backups.

So in my old computer I use now Acronis True Image 10.0.4871 and till now no problems found.

But I prefer Norton Ghost 11.01. Is faster even working only in "DOS" mode. But this one has a small problem : You must have two Floppy Disks formated with MSDOS Files on Win95 or Win98 and that is a little beat difficult to get on these days. Only this way you can make two boot floppy disks to backup and recover the entire System.I only use WinXP Pro.

Later you can, using Nero Burning Rom, make 2 Boot Cdrom with files from Floppy Disks.

Also, when those Boot CDrom are done and operational, you can uninstall " Norton Save and Restore 2.0 " the program from where you got the 2 Floppy Disks with Ghost 11.01.

Let me tell , I have 8 Gbs installed on Hard Disk and Backup or Restore takes about 3 minutes.

cheers

Jofre

Correction :- Where it says "a little beat" you must read "a little bit" (...eh!eh!eh!)... :wacko:

[toyo]

Jofre, you can edit your posts, there's no need of a second one... :sneaky: