Acronis True Image (Backup Software)

Backup and Recovery that is EASY to Perform! Acronis True Image Home 2009 complete PC protection: back up your entire PC, including the OS plus your data, applications, pictures, video, financial documents, settings and everything! 

"... if you’re hunting for an extremely thorough backup package, this is the one for you." LAPTOP Mobile Solutions for Business & Life

Acronis True Image Home 2009 is an award-winning backup and recovery solution for a good reason: it protects your PC after just one click and allows you to recover from viruses, unstable software downloads, and failed hard drives. Create an exact copy of your PC and restore it from a major failure in minutes, or back up important files and recover them even faster.

Features

• New!One-click™ protection
  Initially, you decide what, where and when to back up. After that, backups occur automatically or with just one click.
• New!Full text search
  Search for file name and/or content within an archive, using Windows or Google™— desktop search.
• Making reserve copies of your backups
  You can make reserve copies of your backups and save them on a network drive, or a USB storage device. You have a choice of making a reserve copy as regular (flat) files, a zip compressed file, and a tib file.
• New!Zip archive format support available
  In addition to Acronis' powerful TIB data compression backup format, one of the most densely compressed backup file types available to consumers, Acronis True Image Home 2009 also supports the popular ZIP® format.
• Consolidation
  You can define rules for consolidating your archives to reduce storage space. Merge an older full backup with several incremental backups to quickly create a new full backup; subsequent backups are based on the newly-created full backup.
• New!Windows Vista® -style Interface
  The new, sleek interface of this product works on Microsoft® Windows XP and Vista operating systems.

Key Technologies

• Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
  Boot your computer after a failure to start the recovery process simply by selecting the F11 key, even if your operating system has failed.
• Exclude files and folders
  Back up only the data you want to keep and save disk space.
• Incremental and Differential Backups
  Save disk space and time by performing differential and incremental backups.
• Live Backups
  Keep working right through your backup for maximum convenience.
• Improved! Smart Scheduling
  Run backups automatically at preset or elapsed time when user is idle, on user log-in/logout, on system startup/shutdown, and in coordination with other events.
• New! Set & Forget backups
  Configure once and perform backups automatically.
• 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 is being restored.