Acronis True Image 2016 Review

Acronis True Image 2016 Review: The complete backup solution.
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[andyinsames]

I just used the Acronis bootable media (created with Acronis TI 2016) to restore an image to my drive and on the first attempt it incorrectly attempted to restore a 193GB image to a 100GB drive. I didn't pick the 100GB drive as the target and, in fact, I couldn't because the option was greyed out due to it being too small. Despite the fact that I chose the correct drive (I'm sure because I always read the confirmation before doing an operation) it tried to restore to the wrong drive and failed halfway through with a "disk full" error. I figured maybe it was a fluke (the 100GB drive was connected via USB) so I tried the operation again. I didn't think my other drives were in danger as they were connected via SATA. The operation succeeded and I booted into Windows and opened Disk Management to see if there were any partitions on the 100GB drive. Unfortunately, it somehow deleted the partition from a 500GB drive as well. Luckily the data is replaceable (Steam games and .iso/utilities) but a pain nonetheless. The desktop application is crap as well. It costs $50 yet it's basically nagware. There are a bunch of utilities in the program that are locked behind a paywall. Not to mention the fact that it wouldn't even run on my laptop until I forced it to use the high performance graphics mode in CCC. It's a known issue that was supposed to have been fixed on the newest build. I never had an issue with Acronis TI 2013 and decided to upgrade to 2016, in part, because of the fact that the bootable media supports WiFi. Except it doesn't work. It recognizes my network adapter but never locates any WiFi networks. Every other Linux based utility I've used works just fine with my wireless NIC. I guess I'll go back to Clonezilla as I don't even trust TI 2013 now.

[dalwhin]

This Acronis True Image 2016 is not able to create an incremential image on my computer. Bad program, I think. And the customer service is free during only 30 days, after that you have to pay. Not cool at all. Acronis was interesting some years ago but today that's no more the case.