

History Īcronis began in 2001 as a division of SWsoft and in 2003 became a separate company and continued to release the Acronis True Image software. This creates a complete image of all sectors on the partition, whether they contain data or not the image will not be compressed, and will be the same size as the partition. In addition to backing up supported file systems, Acronis True Image provides raw sector backup and restore options independent of file system, thereby supporting a file system that is corrupt, or not supported. Supported file systems Īcronis True Image supports multiple file systems including NTFS, FAT32, ext2, ext3, ext4, HFS+, APFS, ReiserFS, and Linux Swap. The company currently offers no way to permanently turn off these advertisements. will interrupt a full screen game or movie) and each advertisement must be disabled individually. One complaint from Acronis users is the inability to disable taskbar popups marketing upgrades and new products from the developer. It can also mount a disk backup as a virtual disk, readable in the same way as any disk drive. Acronis True Image can browse the contents of backups and restore them partially or entirely. The program can back up a system hard drive while the OS is running. Operation Īcronis True Image can make two types of backups: file backup, backing up user-specified files and directories, and full system images, which are exact snapshots of an entire disk partition. Later server backup software was renamed "Acronis Backup".

Until release 9 there were versions of Acronis True Image for personal and business users, with business versions named Acronis True Image Server. Successive versions of Acronis True Image are the local backup editions. Acronis True Image Cloud is a subscription-based software that allows both local and online backup, and offers backup for a selection of mobile phones and tablets.
