Ease of Use:  

The imaging control panel is designed for anyone; help wizards walk you through each step of disk imaging, and you can reach help or online support from the control panel menu or a help button.

This imaging software is versatile; Acronis is one of few imaging programs with tools that securely delete sensitive data with several passes. Completely deleting data is important if you are selling or donating a computer that was used to store personal financial information.

Acronis True Image can restore an image to multiple computers at the same time. The program can skip copying bulky hibernation and paging files, allowing for faster backups on smaller disk space. Acronis also includes a log viewer so you can watch activities of your system as they occur.

Acronis True Image even incorporates some one-click functions, so getting a backup started is only a single click away. You also have quite a bit of versatility in scheduling automatic backups.

Backup/Restore Process:  

Unlike other disk imaging products, the process of creating a copy in Acronis True Image is an easy, one-step task. Just use the wizard tools and follow the instructions to get the image you want.

We created an image of our hard drive directly to a network drive in less than 20 minutes by imaging just the necessary files. When we created an exact image of a full 34–gigabyte hard drive to a CD-ROM, the process took about 70 minutes—both brief copy times.

Acronis True Image didn't balk at creating images to a network, as some disk imaging programs did. We appreciated this versatility.