Acronis True Image Home description
Can make an exact image of hard disk or separate partitions

Acronis True Image is your ultimate data insurance policy!

It takes an exact image of your hard disk drive or separate partitions for complete backup, and allows you to restore all of their contents, including operating systems, programs, personal data and settings.

In the event of fatal software or hardware failure Acronis True Image protects your data, even when ordinary file backup software does not work.

Acronis True Image stores disk images on hard and floppy disks, any recordable CD/DVD media, ZIP, Jaz and other removable storage devices as well as network drives, allowing to protect archives by a password with an extremely easy Windows XP-like wizard-driven interface.Acronis True Image is a software that makes an exact image of hard disk or separate partitions.

Acronis' exclusive innovative technology allows to create and restore complete disk images online in Windows, so you don't have to deal with annoying reboots to DOS or other systems, even when backing up system partitions.

Here are some key features of "Acronis True Image":

· Image creation and restoration without reboot in most cases
· Acronis True Image images only the sectors that contain data, so images are created in just a few minutes!
· Acronis True Image supports a wide variety of IDE, SCSI, USB, FireWire, and PC Card (formerly PCMCIA) storage media
· Support for all hard disks, regardless of capacity
· Complete and incremental backups
· Scheduled and periodical image creation
· Automatic or manual hard disk installation
· Partition relocation and resizing
· Support for all Windows and Linux file systems, including FAT 16, FAT 32, NTFS, Linux Ext2/Ext3, ReiserFS-3 and Linux Swap; sector-based support for other operating systems
· User-friendly Windows XP-like interface with full mouse support
· Comprehensive wizards simplify even the most complex operations
· Ability to create a hidden partition (the Acronis Secure Zone) where the user can store a copy of his disk image
· Adjustment of a priority for process of image creation
· Excluding paging/hibernate files from images thereby decreasing the image file size.
· Partition/disk image integrity check before restoration
· Partition/disk file system integrity check after restoration.
· Control of data compression level, image volume splitting and password protection
· The ability to clone a disk drive so that multiple systems will have the exact same base disk drive configuration and software
· The ability to migrate data from one drive to another
· The ability to take an existing drive and prepare it to be redeployed as a new system drive or a data drive
· The ability to recover an entire disk, a specific partition, an individual folder or an individual file
· The ability to change a partition type, file system, size and location during recovery.
· The ability to create a bootable diskette or CD as a system rescue disk
· OS-independent operation of Acronis True Image 8.0 from the bootable diskette or CD.


Requirements:

· CPU: Pentium 133 (and alike) or higher
· RAM 128 MB or more
· Disk space: 150 MB
· Extra space for installation: 25 MB


Limitations:

· 15 day trial
· Can not create and restore a disk image when launched from the bootable rescue media