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Acronis True Image

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51 Reviews and Ratings

What is Acronis True Image?

Acronis True Image is a backup, cloning, cyber protection and privacy tool suite for home users.

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Screenshot of data control, which supports backup in just two clicks, and all data and backup information is displayed in one place

Basic Data Backup & Recovery with Data Security Software: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Acronis Cyber Protect provides data backup for critical servers and VM that are more important for business and not acceptable if any data loss in case of hardware failure, OS failures or malware or ransomware it can be up system with minimum downtime. In case of bussiness problems it will also provide data security using encription of data. We are using Acronis as backup facility, cyber security protection and compliance protection .

Pros

  • Its mostly used for data backup and recovery,data backup we can schduled as per our requiremen. we can take Image backup of any system, or can take any drive backup on network device or in cloud.also we take incremental backup that can help us to manage backup size.
  • It has One feature named Active protection protects data from ransomware or remote injection and crypto mining processes.
  • Vulranabulity assesment that will detect any vulraneble system.
  • Acronis encrypt backups with AES-256 encryption and ensure sensitive information will get protected while taking backup and restore in system.

Cons

  • Its Cloud storage Price is some what high for small business
  • While using the antimalware feature face issue of slow system performance
  • Feature of Real Time sync for backup like onedrive

Return on Investment

  • Easy to manage backup with data protection
  • Easy to use for non tech person
  • Pricing will impact for one user

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Veritas Backup Exec, OneDrive, eazyBackup, NETGEAR ReadyNAS and Synology Active Backup Suite

Other Software Used

Veritas Backup Exec, OneDrive, Acronis Advanced Backup

Acronis Home Office Suite - Lots Of Functionality With A Low Cost!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilize Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office primarily to create custom bootable media for image creation and deployment. Acronis allows me to add local driver folders to a boot image so that any model of the machine I need to utilize will function without issue. You can also create bootable CDs/DVDs with the same software - however, we stick to custom ISOs and USB drives for this usage.

Pros

  • Price Point is phenomenal for what you get.
  • Windows & Linux Bootable Media Creation.
  • Clone Disk Software.
  • Drive Cleanser software is used to strip/wipe a drive fully to protect sensitive data before physical destruction.

Cons

  • Being able to have several Windows ADK folder structures (For different versions of Windows Deployments (Win 10/Win 11) would be great. I've not figured out a way to do this properly yet.

Return on Investment

  • Positive - pairing the bootable media with an SSD allows us to deploy images to newly purchased machines in less than 7 minutes each.
  • Positive - Local software for installed computer such as software scanning for updates, System Clean-Up Software, and cloud backup gives the end-user plenty to utilize under a single "pane of glass".
  • Positive - the amount of time and money saved on quick local device backups/recoveries is substantial. Hundreds of hours per year saved.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft 365, Adobe Acrobat, Watchguard Endpoint Security, Sophos Intercept X and Sophos Intercept X for Server

Other Software Used

Watchguard Endpoint Security, ExtremeCloud IQ

Fairly easy to use backup software that ticks most boxes, but don't rely on this as your only backup

Pros

  • Delta backup makes backups super fast of larger files that do not change in its entirety (e.g. VM images, large PSD files)
  • Easy to use (set it and forget it)
  • Rescue media makes it easy to restore backups to different hardware and migrate to other work stations
  • Lots of backup options on the Windows version of ATI

Cons

  • Like many other backup software, its reliance on volume shadow service (VSS) can be troublesome to troubleshoot. Errors around VSS tend to be cryptic and could be caused by completely unrelated issues (Acronis VSS doctor can only help so much)
  • Mac version of ATI has many issues and occasionally fails to restore an image because of the split system and data volumes in macOS Catalina and later
  • Updater in Mac version of ATI causes constant kernel_task activity (20%+) randomly until internet connection is cut off or the updater file is made non executable
  • Error messages in ATI are often too generic and not helpful
  • ATI will also randomly delete all the previous backups except the recent one even though ample disk space is available on the destination disk. As mentioned previously, the mac version will sometimes fail to restore on Catalina (10.15) and later.

Most Important Features

  • Fast scheduled backups
  • Easy to use, (usually) easy to restore
  • Delta backup (backing up only the parts of a large file that has been changed)

Return on Investment

  • Able to quickly deploy and test new configurations since restores are generally fast with ATI
  • Saves lots of time by not having to re-configure the basic set of apps when restoring a clean image to a system

Alternatives Considered

Code42 (formerly CrashPlan) and Macrium Reflect

Other Software Used

Code42 (formerly CrashPlan), Apple iCloud

Acronis True Image - my long and successful history with a trustwarthy product

Pros

  • Full, automatic backups with no user action required.
  • Email notifications of backup completion status for confirmation that successful backups are occurring.
  • Protection of backup files from accidental deletion or malware interference/encryption.

Cons

  • Some features have actually become more complicated over the years. One that comes to mind is creating a backup plan that can execute daily to an external USB media that is changed daily (older versions would back up to the, for example, "F" drive regardless of which drive was attached - newer versions identify each drive uniquely, and a backup task created with a given external drive will fail due to the lack of media presence if the drive is replaced).
  • Error messages could be less cryptic.
  • Support turnaround time and live assistance could be faster.

Most Important Features

  • Automatic full system backups.
  • Email notifications of backup results.
  • Real-time protection of backup archives.

Return on Investment

  • Helped me to recover both internal and client systems from complete system failure in a timely manner.
  • Helped me to recover internal and client data that had become corrupt or inadvertently deleted.
  • Consequently, this has on many occasions reduced business down time, which is critical.

Alternatives Considered

Veeam Backup & Replication and Macrium Reflect

Other Software Used

Veeam Backup & Replication, Macrium Reflect

Online Backup Solution that Works Well!

Pros

  • It is seamless. Set it and let it do its magic in the background.
  • The online portal allows you to quickly check the status of all backups easily.
  • The program includes an Antivirus scan in the background. Although I rely on different, more comprehensive software for virus scanning, every little bit helps.

Cons

  • My main complaint is that the interface for choosing which folders / files to back up is not that great. It takes a little digging to make sure that you have everything chosen correctly.
  • The initial backup takes a long time. Other companies provide a portable disk that you can 'seed' with your data and ship to them to shortcut the process, but they don't.

Most Important Features

  • Reliable backup. That is obviously key.
  • Easy interface that so you can quickly check to make sure that all is working well in the background.
  • Good scheduling so that the backup procedures do not interfere with everyday work.

Return on Investment

  • Peace of mind - knowing that if anything happens to our data, we can recover it.
  • File Versioning has saved us a few times - we can grab prior versions of a particular file if there is a problem.
  • Reasonably priced - there are more comprehensive backup solutions out there, but for online backup, this was the right product for the right price.

Alternatives Considered

SpiderOak

Other Software Used

1Password, Splashtop Business Access