Acronis True Image Home 2009 - PC Backup & Recovery

Protect Your Entire PC ~ Backup and restore made simple and secure!

Product Information

Acronis True Image Home 2009 complete PC protection: back up your entire PC, including the OS plus your data, applications, pictures, video, financial documents, settings and everything!  Backup and recovery that is easy to perform!  Acronis True Image Home 2009 is an award-winning backup and recovery solution for a good reason: it protects your PC after just one click and allows you to recover from viruses, unstable software downloads, and failed hard drives. Create an exact copy of your PC and restore it from a major failure in minutes, or back up important files and recover them even faster.

Unique Advantages

Acronis True Image Home 2009 provides the maximum flexibility to ensure you are adequately protected and can recover from unforeseen events such as viruses, unstable software downloads, and hard drive failures. Create an exact copy of your PC for a full backup or backup only your important data and application settings - your choice!

You've accumulated a lifetime of memories on your home PC, in addition to important personal documents, such as tax returns and resumes, not to mention all the applications you have installed and unique settings for each family member that took countless hours to set up. Acronis True Image Home 2009 helps makes certain that you are adequately protected; ensuring that you can recover your precious data in case your PC fails or your computer hard disk is damaged by a virus.

New Features

• One-click protection - Initially, you decide what, where and when to back up. After that, backups occur automatically or with just one click.
• Full text search - You will be able to search for files through multiple archives by name or by a part of the name and then restore individual files easily and quickly. You can also perform searches of the files content.
• Zip archive format support available - In addition to Acronis' powerful TIB data compression backup format, one of the most densely compressed backup file types available to consumers, Acronis True Image Home 2009 also supports the popular ZIP^® format.
• Windows Vista -style interface - The new, sleek interface of this product works on Microsoft^® Windows XP and Vista operating systems.
• Auto backup based on destination availability - Users can decide to back up automatically or as soon as a destination drive is available. Works jointly with existing scheduling.
• Automatic computer shutdown after backup or restoration finishes - You can now perform a backup at night and go to sleep without bothering about turning off the computer. The PC will shut down when the back up is complete.
• Archive to various places - You can save full, incremental and differential backups almost anywhere. You now you have ultimate flexibility in choosing a place to store from the same data series: on a network share, CD/DVD, USB stick, FTP-server, any local internal or external hard drive. You can now also give meaningful names to incremental and differential backups, for example, "C-drive-before-repartitioning
• Set & Forget Backups - Configure once and perform backups automatically.

• Try & Decide - Try new software and browse the Web without endangering your computer from malware or unknown software. After testing, you can decide whether to keep or discard changes to your system.
• Smart Scheduling - Run backups automatically at preset or elapsed time when user is idle, on user log/logout, on system startup/shutdown, and in coordination with other events.

Key Benefits

• Backup your entire PC - Acronis True Image Home 2009 is built on the most advanced, highly rated disk imaging technology available to consumers. Copy your entire PC, including the operating system, applications, user settings, and all data. If you suffer a system or disk crash, virus attack or other failure, you can restore the entire system disk in minutes.
• Backup your files - Any computer can fail at any time, regardless of how reliable it is, but you can't afford to lose work-related files and digital memories. Acronis True Image Home 2009 makes sure you won't.
• Protect applications - Use Acronis True Image Home 2009 to restore all the settings for Microsoft Office,  iTunes, Windows Media Player and any other installed applications.

Product Features

• Making reserve copies of your backups - You can make reserve copies of your backups and save them on a network drive, or a USB storage device. You have a choice of making a reserve copy as regular (flat) files, a zip compressed file, and a tib file.
• Consolidation - You can define rules for consolidating your archives to reduce storage space. Merge an older full backup with several incremental backups to quickly create a new full backup; subsequent backups are based on the newly-created full backup.
• Exclude Files and Folders - Back up only the data you want to keep and save disk space.
• Migration tools - Make upgrades easier with built-in PC cloning and migration tools.
• Migration tools make upgrades easier - PC cloning or adding a new disk is simple with Acronis True Image Home 2009's built-in migration tools. No longer must you reinstall the operating system, applications, or re-key user settings when you clone your PC or increase its storage capacity.
• Security, performance and privacy tools - When you replace a hard drive on your PC, Acronis ensures you don't inadvertently give personal or organizational data to cyber thieves.  Acronis Drive Cleaner, a $50 value is included at no charge. It protects sensitive data from view by wiping a disk clean of all data. If you don't need to erase the entire disk, File Shredder safely destroys individual files so they can't be resurrected. A System clean-up utility restores system efficiency.
• Acronis Startup Recovery Manager - Boot your computer after a failure to start the recovery process simply by selecting the F11 key, even if your operating system has failed.
• Incremental and Differential Backups - Save disk space and time by performing differential and incremental backups.
• Live Backups - Keep working right through your backup for maximum convenience, with Acronis snapshot technologies.
• Acronis Secure Zone ^- Protect your system by saving an image to a special hidden partition on your hard disk where it can be retrieved after a disaster.

Windows Requirements

System Requirements:

• Windows Vista
• Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• Windows XP SP 2

Acronis True Image Home 2009 also allows you to create a bootable CD that can back-up and restore a disk/partition on a Windows XP or Vista-based PC.

Minimum system requirements:

To take full advantage of Acronis True Image Home 2009 you should have:

• Pentium processor or higher
• 256 MB RAM
• CD-RW drive for bootable media creation

Supported hardware:

• Internal and external hard disks
• Networked storage devices
• CD-R(W), DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R (Blu-ray, NEW!)
• ZIP Jazz and other removable media
• P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and USB 1.0 / 2.0 drives, PC card storage devices

Supported File Systems:

• FAT16/32, NTFS, Linux Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP;
• Special sector-by-sector support for unknown and corrupted file systems.