If you already own a perpetual license for True Image from the last couple of years, I don’t think you’ll find much to warrant ponying up yet another $50, but check your version’s features against this year’s and make up your own mind. If you’re a current owner on a subscription plan, True Image 2020 is nothing but good news. This is not always spelled out clearly by Acronis. They are not in addition to the free 50GB that comes with a plain subscription, which basically disappears when you upgrade. Note: Larger storage plans upgrade to the amount specified. Those variations will cover most users, but it would be nice to see Acronis market the recovery media on its own, or a Lite version without all the fancy doodads (backup/restore only) for an entry-level price. Additional seat licenses for the Advanced and Premium subscription models are discounted. Additional seat licenses are discounted, and the program is also available for Macs and various NAS boxes (Linux-based).Īcronis’s pricing schemes and details. The $100 Premium version uses the same subscription model as Advanced, but includes the blockchain and electronic signature functionality. It’s a true subscription in that all but the restore functionality will cease after the one year you paid for. The Advanced version is the same price and includes 250GB of cloud storage plus Office 365 backup. The Standard version of True Image is a perpetual license without cloud storage for $50 and is the version I use. Overall, however, the look is attractive and modern-looking, and things improve a bit with every iteration. Tiny, somewhat indistinct ‘+’ signs to expand trees, and minor language and organizational issues all add up to inefficiency in spots. Even after several years, I still grab the wrong part of the scroll bar, as the handles are light and the background dark-the opposite of the norm. Once you know your way around the True Image GUI, it’s efficient, but there is the occasional “what the heck” moment. Not that True Image has any issues restoring data, but if you want to browse a backup in 20 years’ time, it would be nice not having to hunt down an old program to do it. There are two things I wish True Image supported: the aforementioned multiple destinations beyond the proprietary cloud adjunct, and non-proprietary container formats such as ISO, VHD, or even Zip. The main program, which admittedly you’ll rarely need to run, is also rather slow to boot-no doubt because it is checking your account/update status and the state of True Image’s various functions. The download is a whopping 600MB, the installation about the same, and there are six separate background processes running at all times. If all those features sound like they will use a significant amount of system resources, you’re correct. True Image has a number of auxiliary tools that are very useful. True Image supports restoring to different hardware (bare metal restore), though that’s generally become far less of an issue with Windows 10’s more robust driver functionality and infrastructure. Add to that the ability to create a restore partition, and Try & Decide, which is something like creating a restore point before you install new software, allowing you to roll back to the pre-install state easily. There’s also a clean-up utility that erases histories and securely wipes the free space on your hard drive. There’s scheduling, of course, plus pre- and post-backup commands, email notifications (where’s the social media, Acronis?), file exclusions, validation and backup splitting settings, backup performance throttling for slower systems, and just about every other option ever included in a backup program. You can fine-tune which versions are kept, how older backups are culled, and more. The program will back up partitions, whole drives, and files, and do so with versioning, incrementally (all post-initial backups contain only changes since the last backup), differentially (all post-initial backups each include all changes since the initial backup), and as a one-time event. One thing to know about True Image is that it has more features than you can shake a stick at, though some are only tangentially related. You can still clone the job and change the destination. True Image provides Acronis Cloud as a secondary destination, which is great if you want to use the subscription-based service, but otherwise not that much help. The account page where you can upgrade, add cloud storage, or access you online management console.ĭual protection is the one I find most interesting, as it partially addresses my major complaint about many backup programs: the lack of multiple destinations (local, cloud, removable, network, etc.) for a backup job.
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