![]() ![]() It also automatically remembers your login credentials. ![]() True Image enumerates network locations very quickly, something that seems to stymie many programs. With a relatively new computer, you shouldn’t either. Regardless, I noticed little impact on system performance. There’s little impact on performance, but that’s a bundle.Īs you can see above, True Image has a heavy system footprint and spawns a whopping 12 background processes. IDGĪcronis True Image with all its features sets up a whopping 12 background processes. I’d also like to see a bit more flexibility in the system tray applet, such as the ability to get rid of it. If you don’t want a program that hails the outside world, True Image is not for you. Some of the lag is no doubt due to communicating with the Acronis servers. One area where I’d like to see a bit more speed is in the actual booting of the program. I hate incidents and tend not to trust backup software that suffers them. All proceeded quickly and without incident. I also backed up local folders to hard drives, folders to optical (single BD-R/M-Disc), and some files to the cloud. Sporting a new 2.5GbE network, I very much enjoyed the speed of backing up to and from my NAS boxes, etc. Generally speaking, True Image is as quick as they come. ![]() These are all minor gripes that don’t affect the program’s outstanding overall utility. Most end users have one set of data, and they want to back it up to different locations for redundancy. I also wish that someday True Image would allow multiple destinations for each job. Also, if I didn’t provide credentials (user name and password) for a network destination, I couldn’t double-click on that location to re-enter them until exiting and re-entering the job creation. For instance, after clicking on the Add backup button, the initial creation process was so slow, I found myself clicking again unnecessarily. There were some irritations while defining backups and doing other tasks. If there’s a feature that’s been implemented in the backup space, you’ll find it here. Other related and tangential features include hardware-independent recovery media creation (USB/optical), disk cloning, a OEM-like recovery partition creator, a system cleanup tool (think CCLeaner), and a secure erase utility. If you’re super-old-school, sorry, tape is not supported. It will optionally place a version of the program on removable media for use during restore operations. The program also backs up to nearly any type of destination: optical, the 1TB of cloud storage provided by Acronis, hard drives, network locations, and more. In short, just about every option invented by the backup community has been implemented. True Image lets you schedule backups, will automatically (or manually) cull older backups when space runs low, split backups, copy sector-by-sector or data-only, validate the backup post run, run commands pre- and post-operation, and a lot more. ![]() True Image backs up data from just about any location. These can be full (everything), incremental (everything since the last backup), or differential (everything since the initial backup). You can also back up files from your phone or files from remote shared network locations, and employ Blockchain to notarize backed-up files with the premium version. I’ll get to the malware protection later as first and foremost, the program fulfills the promise of its name by creating image files from drives or partitions, as well as selected files and folders. There’s a lot to talk about with True Image. ![]()
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