Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office

"Acronis True Image is now Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office...

When Acronis True Image launched in 2003, it was the first personal disk imaging software. We named it so people knew they would get a true image of their data...

But as the challenges of protecting data evolved, Acronis True Image evolved too. With its unique integration of backup and anti-malware technology, it does so much more now than simply back up your data that it’s time its name reflects that fact..."

email from Acronis

 

oh nuts

 

Its really sad how Acronis have destroyed True Image over the years as it used to be a really good imaging program (just like Symantec Ghost, not Norton Ghost)

I installed True Image 2021 a while back to see why so many people was ranting about how bad and bloated that the program has become, which the first thing I noticed is it immediately hogs the system with running processes due to the unneeded and unwanted always running "active protection" and other anti-virus stuff that has no place whatsoever in an imaging product (or at least make it fully optional when installing the software).

Then to make it even worse True Image became rentware like pay Acronis £34.99 per year to install a system hogging, invading, bloated beast of a program? No bloody chance when better alternatives are available like Drive Snapshot costs a one off fee of £33.40 or Terabyte sells their whole bundle of software for £36.45.

 

The desktop version of Symantec Ghost still exists as Veritas System Recovery 21.3, and is definitely superior to Acronis Truly Bloated.

 

And this is why they lost my business some time ago. All I want the program to do is image my drive. As they added features and made it more buggy and unreliable I was forced to find something else to do the job. Acronis has failed to restore an image more times than I should have given it the chance to. Even the spam email they still send me has no unsubscribe option. I don't think they do anything to meet my expectations anymore.

 

It would be nice to know why Acronis gets such low regard and I don't mean by the customers who found it to be unsteady and unreliable for them. But the name recognition seems keeps them churning forward.

Frankly any software imaging industry company that's been around as long as that one is surely by now would have a spectacular product line.

No personal opinion either way for this camp. Never bothered since years old solutions on this end were and still are solid as ever.

 

It's like Norton. People know the name so they buy it. True Image Echo was excellent. They don't make it anymore. I don't need a Swiss Army Knife application. I need one that can restore the image it made. The last 2 times I needed it to it couldn't. This was at work. People get fired for recommending products that don't work. Fortunately I found workarounds both times.

 

Don't that just bug you to no end? I mean they fashion what turns out to be an excellent reliable program for it's purpose then like that they just stop.

 

Was it ever an excellent, reliable program?
I didn't find that when I used it many years ago. I thought the opposite.
Maybe it improved in recent times.

 

@Hadron It wasn't much count for me either many years ago. I couldn't run away from it fast enough after it ruined what should have been a simple perfectly routine restore.

These days it seems it had some user's who prefer it but I lay odds that's mostly because on inaccurate info not as much as real results.

 

Easter, your findings pretty well match mine.

And apart from it not being reliable, I remember having issues with uninstalling it.
It left many remnants behind.

 

...and that was a major problem. Those "remnants" you mentioned used to cause other software apps to fail installations or just not work properly.

It drove me crazy! GONE since v9.1 Echo...

 

Oh, yeah.
It made me wish I had made an image using another backup application to be able to rid my computer of it.
I guess I was a bit careless back then.

 

Veritas System Recovery is Norton Ghost.

I'm referring to Symantec Ghost, the most recommended and reliable imaging software in its heyday, which Id still be using it today if it wasn't so extremely slow at making images compared to other imaging software.

True Image and Symantec Ghost are both has-beens that was once leaders but now failed followers.

 

The do have a cleanup utility that works very well. Always look for the latest version of it and run it after an uninstall, even it it appeared to uninstall correctly.

 

Yeah, that may work, Jack. Or even tracing the installation with Revo Uninstaller or something similar.
But I don't plan on trying it ever again. I've discovered other better options.

 

It's free and works after the fact. Revo is good it you used it upfront. I also dropped that when they went to an annual subscription model. The free version lags behind the paid.

I have also moved on but at some point when a neighbor or relative asks for your help at least you know there is something you can do without them wasting your entire evening or weekend.

 

Wow, sounds really bad, so I won't be checking this stuff out. From what I understood, they are probably using Bitdefender as AV, but then you might as well use Bitdefender itself. I think I've used Norton Ghost in the past at work, it worked pretty good.

 

I took a look in the Acronis forums and the new name changed version is already causing people issues, which means they've yet again released an untested version.

The worst part is if you search for "True Image 2021 reviews" in a search engine, you'll get so many obvious "paid to promote" shills posting positive reviews praising the software like with True Image 2020 and the exact same thing will happen with Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office.

R.I.P True Image (2002 - 2014)

 

I am considering purchasing Acronis True Image 2017, as a secondary backup/restore program. My primary is Macrium Reflect 7. I am requesting suggestions and or recommendations. As always I will appreciate all replies and would thank you in advance.

John

 

If you're serious about disk imaging. Purchase either Drive Snapshot or Image for Windows.......You will have 100% complete control over both pieces of those software and once you get the hang of either of them. You can completely automate all backups / restores etc and make great boot media that can automate everything (ie you can make a usb stick that will boot on a computer, backup just the OS or full hard drive then switch off the computer without having to do anything).

True Image, Macrium Reflect and similar software are so extremely restricted. A complete waste of money in my eyes.

 

@Gaddster - I'd love to see a new thread/post actually explaining what you mean by "extremely restricted" when it comes to True Image & especially REFLECT... thanks! Or feel free to do it here in this thread if you wish.

 

Macrium has so many options that I needed the late Peter2150 to help me learn it.
Acadia

 

Hi,

I consider Macrium Reflect, True Image and other similar software to be extremely restricted for various reasons, which I'll state below (and yes some will obviously be against the terms of using the software).

You have to activate the software over the internet. So you cannot even just run the software on another computer without messing about deactivating / activating.........I can just simply drag Snapshot64.exe (or IFW.exe & IFW.ini) onto another computer and run it.

You cannot wrap them up into a nice standalone package for automation purposes (that alone is extremely restrictive).

You cannot control those programs completely by batch scripts / commands (I know Macrium Reflect does allow some commands but not that extensive).

Or to put it more clearer. With Drive Snapshot / Image for Windows I can go to a complete strangers house that I've never used their computer before and boot my usb stick, which it'll automatically create an image of their Windows partition (or full hard drive) without me having to do a thing.

Making a hidden factory restore partition with image(s) and a simple automated script on someones computer is easy to do with the two mentioned programs above.

Most people probably wont do what I've mentioned above but I expect that from disk imaging software, which if it doesn't do that then it is restricting my workflow.