Review by Fred Woodbridge

Acronis, rightly, is known in the IT world I occupy as a solid backup and restore player in the business. On servers, I have always relied on Acronis to help me restore everything from the Operating System itself to the application specific data, such as Exchange Server mailbox databases.

I am very pleased to report that Acronis is doing the same thing in the PC market. I did not use the whole-PC recovery, choosing instead to use the Non-stop backup primarily. In this, I found it almost childishly simple to operate. I chose which particular folders I wanted to have a continuous backup of and within minutes, it was running seamlessly. This kind of backup is suggested to be placed onto an external drive, which I have. If the USB drive that I use is not presently connected, non-stop backup does not operate, but will instantly start once you do plug it in.nUnfortunately, within a few weeks of turning it, I mistakenly deleted almost 1GB worth of Word documents, but not only was I able to restore them, I was able to do so for several versions of the documents running back to when I first turned on Non-Stop backup.nI would use the PC backup tools installed on here, but for me, it’s easier to re-apply my laptop image and safeguard my data. Interestingly, the re-application of images is exactly how True Image operates as well!nFive stars.