Backup, cleanse & clone your drive or partition
Platform : Windows XP, Windows Vista
Type: function limited demo
Manufacturer: Acronis
Size: 86.6MB
Rating: 5
Verdict:
One of the best backup and restore tools made even more more substantial with
the inclusion of drive migration, cleansing and other maintenance tools
System Requirements:
Buy a new PC and it will ship with a large hard drive. The obvious choice is
to split this in to multiple partitions so that you have a drive for your
important media files. These can be audio tracks you’ve purchased online and are
given a once-only right to download and store on your machine. It’s only right
that you’d want to keep a regular backup of these files.
A wise choice would be Acronis True Image 2009. This is backup and restore
software that will enable you to select a drive or drive partition and then
select an output for your backup. If it’s a small partition, you could easily
backup online. Alternatively, a blank DVD or external hard drive. As Acronis
True Image supports incremental backup, every time you run another backup of the
same source, in the future, only updated or altered files will be backed up.
With the new one-click backup, it means you can setup your source/destination
and other settings, then click one button for the backup to start.
Acronis True Image 2009 offers far more than drive backup. Try&Decide
enables you to create self-contained area on your drive so you can test new
software without it affecting your PC. You can then install and test the new
software and immediately remove, without having to uninstall. If you ever need
to install a larger hard drive, use the Clone Disk function to move across the
content from your existing drive.
Cleansing tools are included from the old Acronis DriveCleanser tool, which
used to be a standalone application. These tools will shred files and documents
so they can’t be retrieved and also enable you to safely erase the contents of
your drive, in case you need to sell on your PC or ditch an old drive.
The latest Acronis True Image 2009 ships with a brand new user-interface and
other key updates, including the new one-click backup support.