Exciting New Version of Acronis True Image (9.0) Announced
To User Group Customers:
From Gene Barlow
An excellent backup utility just got significantly better! Acronis
just announced their new Acronis True Image 9.0 release. The new
version of this award-winning backup utility is a major step forward for
end-user backup software. Acronis True Image 9.0 offers many
excellent new features to make this the product that all end-users should
have on their personal computers.
Before Acronis True Image 9.0, users needed two different backup
utilities to adequately backup their hard drive. First, they needed an
imaging backup utility like Acronis True Image 8.0 to backup their
entire hard drive, operating system, application programs, settings, and
data files. Acronis was the best of breed utility in this backup
category and won numerous awards for its excellence. Unfortunately, imaging
backup software required that you backup the entire hard drive, even if you
only need to backup one or two critical data files. So users were forced to
run a file backup utility to backup their important data files on a more
frequent basis than they needed to backup their full system. File backup
software was good at backing up individual files and folders, but were very
poor at backing up your full system. So, two types of backup utilities were
needed to do a thorough backup of your computer. These two backup utilities
often worked very differently and running them together was somewhat of a
challenge. Acronis True Image 9.0 incorporates both a full system
backup imaging utility and a specific file or folder backup utility in one
easy to use package. All of your backup needs can now be handled with one
excellent product.
When backing up individual files and folders with Acronis True Image 9.0,
you simply provide a list of your important data files that need to be
backed up frequently. To make this process much easier, you can list entire
folders and then exclude certain types of files that you would not want to
backup this way. For example, any temporary or system files that might be in
the folder you indicated. When you backup these key files, you do not have
to close down the use of your computer during the backup. Acronis True
Image 9.0 has the technology to backup open files or actively used files
on your computer. Hence, you can accomplish this file backup without
interrupting the normal use of your computer.
The image backup side of Acronis True Image 9.0 was not left out of
some exciting new technology. With this new release, you can make full
backup images of your entire hard drive. You can also make incremental
backup images of any changes to your hard drive since the last full or
incremental backup to save time and space on your backup drive. To these two
standard methods of doing image backups, Acronis has added to Acronis
True Image 9.0 the ability to do differential backup images. With
differential backup images, you initially create a full backup image as the
basis for the differential images. Then each time you make a differential
backup image, it consolidates all of the changes to the hard drive since the
initial full backup image was created. Hence, you only keep the full backup
image and the most recent differential backup image to rebuild your hard
drive from. Using the incremental backup approach, you need to keep the
initial backup image and all incremental images that follow it. Hence,
differential backup images can save space on your backup device.
Other exciting improvements were also included in Acronis True Image 9.0
that users will love. Briefly, they include the following items:
Enhanced Scheduler – The scheduler tasks has been significantly
enhanced to provide many more options and capabilities than the earlier
release. This feature will let you schedule your important backups to run
automatically, so you can forget them and still be protected.
Acronis Snap Restore – Users of the Acronis Secure Zone can
now setup Acronis True Image 9.0 to restore the operating system
immediately when you are restoring your main hard drive and you can actually
start to use your restored computer in seconds after you start the restore
process. The rest of the main hard drive is restored in the background while
you start to use your computer productively. You no longer have to wait for
the restore to complete before you can start using your computer.
Manage Windows System Restore – With the new version of Acronis
True Image 9.0 you can backup your key Windows system files as well as
your important data files. Hence, you may find that the Windows System
Restore function is a duplication of what True Image can do. So, you can
turn on or off the Windows System Restore function directly from within True
Image and not have to go looking for where to turn off this redundant
function.
Improved Interface and Performance – Many other changes have been
made to Acronis True Image 9.0 that makes the product easy to use and
quick and responsive to your backup needs. Ease of use and performance have
always been key reasons that users prefer True Image over other backup
utilities. Now, with these new enhancements, Acronis True Image 9.0
is even better.
Acronis offers
True Image 9.0 for $50 as a download. Our User Group discount price for
the same product is $34. If you had purchased Acronis True Image 8.0
from the Barlows in the past, you can purchase the upgrade to 9.0 for $25.
This upgrade is the same product as the full version.
To order your upgrade copy, go to www.ugr.com/upgrade.html. To purchase your copy, simply click on the yellow Buy Now button near the
product. You can select either a download copy of the product to receive it
quickly and without any shipping cost or you can have us mail you a CD with
the software for the same upgrade price plus a $5 shipping fee. Acronis
charges an additional $13 for a CD mailed to you. You will need to enter the
name of your user group and the order code of UGTI9UPGD to complete the
order. Your product will be shipped promptly and you will have it in just a
few days by mail or a few hours by download.
If you have any questions about Acronis True Image 9.0 please send an
email to gene@ugr.com and I will get back with you as quickly as I can. This
is a must have product for every PC user, so get your copy today at these
great upgrade prices.
Gene Barlow
User Group Relations
PO Box 911600
St George, UT 84791-1600
www.usergroupstore.com
gene@ugr.com