CPU usage was quite heavy, about 75 percent, far greater than with most programs at their default settings. But it was twice as fast as Backupper when handling our 48GB mix of files and folders.
It completed our timed small 115GB Windows system backup in less than four minutes, faster than most of the other programs (though several seconds slower than Aomei’s Backupper Standard). We run a number of backups and restores with every program we review and True Image aced all of them. When Acronis says subscription, they mean it. (Note that blockchain, or block chains, also refers to the technology/methodology employed-the company simply uses the name.)Īll True Image versions provide bootable recovery media with the ability to restore to dissimilar hardware, i.e., not the same type of hardware that the backup was created on. The Premium version also features Asign (not a misspelling), which signs your backups for authentication and stores the record with Blockchain, an online service and repository for digital assets.
IDGĪcronis Active Protection is a hedge against ransomware, but it’s available only in the $100 Premium version. $30 will buy you the local backup features in perpetuity.
Those prices reflect that fact that the Plus and Premium versions are true subscription software-only the restore functions are available if you don’t re-up. The $100-yearly Premium version ups that to 1TB of online storage plus Active Protection, which checks images and the program itself to see if anything has been altered, to fend off ransomware. The $40-yearly Plus version offers 50GB of online storage as well as backup of your Facebook page, phone support, and updates. Those are just the features in the Essential version, which costs $50. There’s also a one-way (mirroring) function for syncing a folder to a destination, as well as client apps for your mobile devices to keep those backed up. There’s every conceivable backup option: incremental, differential, super flexible scheduling, pre/post operation commands, email notifications, just to name a few. In addition to imaging your system, whole disks, partitions, and groups of files, there’s a boot-time startup recovery option and an optional hidden partition for images. Little time-wasters like this appear throughout the interface.ĭesign oddities or no, True Image 2017 is a titan when it comes to features. It’s pretty, but don’t grab the dark portion of the slider-that’s the background.