Acronis True Image Home 2009 is a complete backup and recovery software suite for your PC for data archiving and disk mirroring.
Acronis True Image Home 2009 delivers comprehensive protection of data stored on your hard disk including files, media files, folders, application settings, system settings and the operating system itself.
Using Acronis True Image Home 2009 you can recover from major hardware failures such as a hard disk breakdown or from software failures such as a virus attack. Even if your operating system is rendered unbootable, Acronis True Image can still recover your damaged files and system settings.
You can backup your entire disk contents or selected parts of it. Mirror your hdd as a whole or archive only files of special importance such as financial statements, Word documents, vacation pictures and so on.
To start protecting your files simply configure scheduled backups. Archiving is performed continuously and incrementally, which means only new and changed files are added to the archive on-the-fly preserving storage space and shortening backup times.
In an event of a hardware or software failure you can run recovery tool that will recover the system from your backup files in minutes.
This software uses Acronis' TIB data packing system ensuring a very high level of compression rate. ZIP format is now available for compression.
To provide extra security to your archived data, Acronis True Image Home 2009 can create a hidden disk partition to store backups on. This partition is normally not accessible and will be visible only to the Acronis backup and recovery program.
The newest additions to the Acronis True Image Home 2009 version include full support for Vista accompanied with the new, Vista-like user interface and the Consolidation feature. The Consolidation facility will merge old full backup files with incremental backup files that had been added later to preserve storage space.
You can store your backup files on virtually any recordable device including network drives, memory sticks, DVD, CD and portable USB memory sticks.
Backups can be set to run periodically so that you can “set and forget” them and they will be performed on specified intervals.
Very large or irrelevant folders can be easily excluded from being archived and you can set Acronis True Image Home 2009 to turn off your computer when all backups complete.
This edition of Acronis True Image Home 2009 includes the Acronis Drive Cleanser tool that wipes out the sensitive and confidential data you have stored on your disk so that no one can view it.