I recently upgraded from Acronis True Image Home 9 to Acronis True Image Home 10. True Image 10 offered me some real compelling features.
I perform an image backup of my 160 GB RAID 1 array in my Media Center to a 120GB Western Digital Passport USB drive. Every six months I perform a full backup, then daily incremental backups and weekly differential backups.
The major problem I had with version 9 was the lack of a quota system to manage how many backups were being kept on the USB drive. Every week I would have to manually delete files to make room for new incremental and differential backups. Version 10 now has a quota feature associated with a backup location. This feature allows you to control the total backup location size, the maximum number of backups, and storage period limits. I currently have the location size set to 111MB, the maximum number of backups to 14, and the storage limit period limits. As I use version 10 and monitor space usage I will adjust the last 2 parameters to try to keep 14 days of incremental backups and 2 differentials.
Another very nice feature is the email capability which emails you the completion status of a scheduled backup. You never have to check to verify that your backup ran. Very professional feature...I did find a little idiosyncrasy with the email feature, you have to surround your email address with "<" and ">". Thanks for the Acronis forum for the help in solving this issue.
Version 10 also allows you to backup to an FTP location, allows for easy configuration of email/Oultook only backups, and supports Windows Vista.
So far True Image Home 10 has been very stable and is a must have application for you PC.
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