This is a mainstay feature for “easy-to-use” backup products that’s saved more than one user’s bacon. Missing in action, but hopefully next up on the True Image road map is automatic selection of important data, i.e. Note that if you have a lot of drives attached to your system, the program might not appear right away, as it enumerates them without providing any visual feedback. The program sports many ease-of-use features, such as automatically scanning the drives on your system for existing backups. The only minor gap in said logic was the grouping of backup and recovery actions under the single heading of “backup.” Most users think of these as separate tasks and start the program to do one or the other. It’s handsomely styled à la Windows 8 and logically laid out. Maiden-version bugs aside, the new interface looks and feels great. Selecting data to back up is much simpler that with previous iterations of True Image. Based on past experience with Acronis, the issues will be resolved once the company is convinced they exist. The update function and license functions were ersatz as well, although this could have been due to the multiple builds I needed to install. Acronis fixed the first two issues by the time this went to press, but the latter remained in the release version. So, let us take a deep dive in to the world of Acronis and see if their reputation is warranted or not.Acronis True Image 2015’s interface is miles better than the company’s previous efforts.Īs for the wrinkles: Initially the scroll bars required for mouse use didn’t appear (some are hidden, à la the Mac), were too small, or were non-functional due to overlapping the resize border on the right-hand side of its windows. Mix in advanced features that may not be new, but promises to be the most advanced implementations to date and on the surface there certainly is a lot to be said for purchasing Acronis True Image 2019 over the competition… even if it does cost somewhat more and comes with fewer ‘upgrade’ options than the competition. To spice things up Acronis has also now included Cyber Protection features similar to what paid antivirus / antimalware providers offer. Low level improvements to their ‘tried and true’ features like backing up to file/removable storage/NAS and even the cloud, cloning to dissimilar hardware, even ‘nonstop backup’ are all covered nicely. On the surface the latest version of Acronis True Image 2019 does seem to tick all the right boxes. This is why they put so much time effort, and user feedback, into each new version. Once they stop moving forward, they start dying. Put simply with higher than average asking prices, Acronis True Image development team is like a shark. Of course, with an asking price that starts at $49.99 USD and is only good for that version (albeit all upgrades to said version are included) and goes all the way to 99.99USD per year for their ‘premium’ subscription… they have to continuously set the bar higher. About once a year Acronis releases a new version of Acronis True Image and every year they try and set the bar a little bit higher than it was before. This is for a very good reason: Acronis True Image is considered by many to be the gold standard in this arena. In the past we have consistently compared and contrasted various backup and restore ‘imaging’ applications against Acronis True Image.
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