Acronis has launched True Image 8.0, a complete disk imaging, system disk backup, and bare metal restore for workstations and home PCs. The reasonably priced software allows you to create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning, including all computer data, operating system, and programs. The greatest attraction of the software is that it allows you to restore your entire system or simply replace lost files after a major system crash. Based on Acronis's Drive Snapshot disk imaging technology, True Image also allows you to create an online system disk backup without needed to reboot. Other key features include the ability to schedule automated backups, create incremental disk backup images, a built-in disk image verification tool, the provision of backup logs, as well as automated wizard-driven operations.

Pros: Full system and incremental backups; runs on all Windows
Cons: Not a major upgrade; not designed for backing up multiple PCs


Release: Acronis, Inc., the technological leader in storage management solutions, has launched Acronis True Image 8.0, the latest upgrade to its expanding family of award-winning workstation and server disk imaging, backup, and bare-metal restore software. Acronis True Image 8.0 is the easiest, most convenient and intuitive disk imaging, backup and system restore software you've ever seen. It's automated, wizard-driven operations make the backup and restore functions extremely to complete.

Acronis True Image 8.0 allows users to create the exact disk image of live workstations for a complete file and system backup, providing a comprehensive and cost-effective protection solution. The disk image file includes amongst others, the computer data including the operating system, programs, software updates and patches, data files, configurations, preference settings, e-mails, pictures and MP3 files. After a fatal system failure, you can restore the entire drive contents to a known, working state or simply replace the lost or corrupted files and folders.

Based on the Exclusive Acronis Drive Snapshot disk imaging technology, Acronis True Image allows you to create an online system backup without the reboot to keep the system productive. The product provides the fastest bare metal restore dramatically reducing and, therefore your IT costs.

New features included in Acronis True Image 8.0 are the ability to exclude paging/hibernate files from the disk image and assign the priority for the disk imaging process to enable the PC to prioritise between disk imaging and other applications. This reduces disk backup time and storage. True Image 8.0 also allows for the verification of a disk image before executing the Restore command and File system checking after restoring an image.

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