Acronis True Image Plans

A Comprehensive Guide to Acronis True Image

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Acronis True Image Packages: Essentials, Advanced, and Premium

Acronis True Image offers three distinct packages—Essentials, Advanced, and Premium—each tailored to meet different levels of data protection and security needs. Each package builds upon the previous one, adding more features and enhanced capabilities. Here’s a breakdown of what each package includes to help users select the best option for their specific needs.

Essentials

The Essentials plan is the foundational package in Acronis True Image, offering comprehensive local backup, recovery, and basic security features for users looking to safeguard their data effectively. Designed for individuals and families, this plan provides protection for up to five PCs or Macs and an unlimited number of mobile devices. This makes it an excellent choice for those needing reliable, multi-device coverage without cloud storage. Here’s a detailed look at what the Essentials plan offers:

• Protection for Up to 5 PCs or Macs and Unlimited Mobile Devices: Depending on the subscription selection, the plan covers up to five PCs or Macs, along with unlimited mobile devices, making it an ideal choice for families or small teams with multiple devices. This extensive device coverage allows users to secure all of their personal and shared devices under a single subscription, simplifying protection management.
• Free Upgrades with Active Subscription: Users with an active subscription to Acronis True Image receive free upgrades to the latest version, ensuring continuous access to new features, performance improvements, and the latest security updates. This benefit keeps users’ protection up-to-date with minimal effort, safeguarding them against emerging threats and vulnerabilities.
• Phone, Email, and Chat Support: Acronis provides comprehensive support options via phone, email, and chat, enabling users to reach assistance in the way that’s most convenient for them. This 24/7 support ensures that help is available when needed, whether for technical questions or troubleshooting backup and recovery processes.
• Multi-Platform Support: Acronis True Image is compatible with Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS, allowing users to secure data across a wide range of devices. This multi-platform support ensures that all devices—computers, smartphones, and tablets—can be protected within a single Acronis plan.
• Supports Windows, macOS, Android, iOS: The Essentials plan is compatible with all major operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. This cross-platform support ensures users can protect data across their computers, tablets, and smartphones, regardless of the device.
• Full Image Backup: Backs up an exact image of the entire system, capturing the operating system, applications, settings, and personal files in one secure file. This allows users to completely restore their system to its exact previous state, even in cases of severe system failures.
• File and Folder Backup: Provides the option to back up specific files and folders, allowing users to customize their backup and save only essential data. This selective backup option conserves storage space and reduces the time needed for each backup.
• Incremental and Differential Backups: Allows users to back up only the data changes made since the last backup, rather than creating a full backup each time. This feature saves time and storage space, making ongoing data protection more efficient and manageable.
• Active Disk Cloning: Enables real-time disk cloning, allowing users to copy their entire system to a new hard drive or SSD without needing to power down. This feature is especially useful for upgrading to new hardware, as it facilitates seamless data transfer with no interruption to work.
• Recover to Similar or Dissimilar Hardware (Windows Only): Allows Windows users to restore their data to a different computer, even if the hardware setup is not identical to the original device. This capability is valuable for users upgrading devices or moving their data to a new system with different specifications. This capability of Acronis software is also called Universal Restore.
• Disk and Partition Backup: Supports targeted backup of individual disks or partitions, enabling users to protect only specific parts of their storage if a full backup is not required. This feature is particularly helpful for those who need customized backup solutions for particular data sets or applications.
• All-in-One Recovery Drive (Acronis Survival Kit): Creates a bootable recovery drive that includes a full system image, making it possible to completely restore the system even if it cannot start on its own. The Acronis Survival Kit serves as an all-in-one emergency backup tool, ensuring users can recover their data under any circumstance.
• Backup Scheduling: Allows users to set up custom backup schedules, automating the process to fit their needs, whether daily, weekly, or monthly. With scheduled backups, users can ensure their data remains protected consistently without needing to manually start each backup.
• Local Backup Only: The Essentials package is designed exclusively for local backup, using internal or external drives, or NAS (network drives) for data storage.
• Automatic Mobile Backups: Provides secure, automatic backup options for mobile devices, covering essential data like photos, videos, contacts, and calendar entries. This feature ensures that important mobile data remains safe and can be recovered even if a device is lost or damaged.
• Anti-Ransomware and Cryptojacking Protection (Windows Only): Actively monitors the system for ransomware attacks and unauthorized cryptomining, blocking suspicious activities that could compromise data or affect performance. By protecting against these common threats, Acronis ensures that user data and device resources remain secure and intact.
• Vulnerability Assessments: Scans for vulnerabilities and outdated software, identifying potential security risks in applications and the operating system. This feature helps users keep their systems up-to-date and secure by highlighting areas where updates or patches are needed.
• Videoconference App Protection (Windows Only): Provides extra security for videoconference applications like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and Webex, blocking malware and unauthorized access attempts. This protection ensures safe and secure online meetings, reducing the risk of digital intrusion during virtual communication.
• User-Defined Passwords: Allows users to assign individual encrypted backups with custom password protection, enhancing privacy and security for multiple users on shared devices. Each user can create their own password for their backup, ensuring that personal data remains private.
• Control Backup-on-Battery: Enables users to manage backup activities when their device is running on battery power, pausing backups to preserve battery life if needed. This feature is particularly useful for laptop users, ensuring that backup tasks don’t drain power while away from a power source.
• Protection Pause: Lets users temporarily pause protection activities, which can be useful during tasks that require more system resources, like software installations or updates. Once paused, protection can easily be resumed, giving users flexibility over when Acronis True Image operates.

The Essentials plan provides a solid foundation for data protection, delivering essential backup and security tools without compromising on quality or ease of use. It’s a great starting point for users looking for reliable local backup and basic cybersecurity at an affordable price. This plan includes a user-friendly cyber protection dashboard and a tray notification center, making it easy to monitor and manage protection activities in real-time.

Advanced

The Advanced plan builds on the Essentials package, adding cloud storage and enhanced cybersecurity features, making it an ideal choice for users who want both local and cloud-based protection. This plan not only covers essential data backup and recovery needs but also integrates proactive security measures, providing users with more comprehensive, multi-layered data protection.

• All Essentials Features: Includes the full range of local backup and recovery tools, plus selective and full image backup options.
• Cloud Storage - 50GB Included: The Advanced plan includes 50GB of secure cloud storage, giving users the ability to back up critical files to the Acronis Cloud for extra data protection. This remote storage option provides an additional layer of security against local device failures or loss, making data accessible from anywhere with an internet connection.
• Cloud Storage Upgrades - Up to 500GB: Users can increase their cloud storage capacity up to 500GB, accommodating larger backup needs and making it ideal for storing extensive photo libraries, videos, and important files. This flexibility allows users to expand storage as their data needs grow, ensuring they always have sufficient space for critical backups.
• Microsoft 365 Backup, Including Outlook and OneDrive (Windows Only): Provides dedicated backup for Microsoft 365 accounts, covering both Outlook emails and OneDrive files, ensuring users’ cloud-based data is also securely backed up. This feature protects users from accidental deletions or data corruption within their Microsoft 365 environment, offering peace of mind for personal and business data stored in the cloud.
• Local-to-Cloud Backups: Allows users to replicate their local backups to the Acronis Cloud, creating a dual-protection system where data is stored both locally and in the cloud. This redundancy provides an extra layer of security, ensuring that users can access their backups even if their local storage is compromised.
• Cloud Restores: Supports recovery from the cloud, enabling users to access their backups and restore data directly from the Acronis Cloud to any device, anytime. This capability is particularly useful for users needing to restore files while on the go or transitioning to a new device without access to local storage.
• Cloud Sync and Share (Windows Only): Provides secure cloud-based syncing and sharing options, allowing users to access files across multiple devices and share them easily with others. This feature combines data security with convenience, making collaboration and data sharing simple and safe.
• Real-Time Anti-Malware Protection: Offers continuous monitoring for malware, detecting and blocking threats in real-time before they can affect user data. With advanced AI-based algorithms, Acronis scans for suspicious activity to proactively protect against both known and emerging cyber threats.
• Antivirus Scans: The Advanced plan includes on-demand antivirus scanning for users to check their system and files for potential threats. This tool provides peace of mind by detecting and eliminating malware, spyware, and viruses, ensuring that backed-up data remains secure and clean.
• Web Filtering (Windows Only): Prevents access to malicious or suspicious websites, reducing the risk of phishing attacks, malware downloads, and online scams. By blocking potentially dangerous sites, web filtering helps maintain a secure browsing environment and adds an extra layer of internet safety.
• Quarantine and Exclusions: When malware is detected, the system quarantines it to prevent any potential harm while allowing users to decide if the file should be restored or permanently removed. Users can also create custom exclusions to manage which files and programs are protected, giving them greater control over their security settings.
• Identity Protection (U.S. only): Protects users’ personal information with dark web monitoring, alerting them if sensitive data such as emails, passwords, or financial details are exposed online. This feature provides proactive identity security, helping users prevent unauthorized use of their personal information by monitoring for potential identity theft.
• Back Up on Preferred Wi-Fi: Allows users to set specific Wi-Fi networks as trusted for automatic backups, reducing data usage by preventing backups on mobile or untrusted networks. This feature is especially beneficial for users with limited data plans, as it ensures backups are performed only when connected to approved networks.
• CPU Load Balancing: Monitors system performance to manage the CPU load of backup and security tasks, reducing interruptions or slowdowns during high-demand activities. This intelligent balancing feature ensures that Acronis’ operations do not interfere with other system processes, maintaining smooth performance for the user.
• Remote Data Management: Provides users with the ability to manage their backups, monitor system health, and adjust security settings from any location via a web-based console. This feature is particularly valuable for users managing multiple devices or needing to access backup functions on the go, ensuring data is always secure and accessible.

By the way, like all Acronis True Image plans, the Advanced plan includes a user-friendly cyber protection dashboard and tray notification center, simplifying monitoring and management of all backup and security activities.

Premium

The Premium plan is Acronis True Image's most comprehensive offering, designed for users who require extensive cloud storage, advanced security, and data verification features. Building on the capabilities of the Advanced plan, Premium introduces high-capacity cloud storage, document authentication, and electronic signature functionality. All this makes it an ideal choice for users who handle sensitive or high-volume data and need robust security and accessibility.

• All Advanced Features: Includes full Essentials and Advanced functionalities like cloud backup, cybersecurity protection, ransomware defense, and identity protection.
• Cloud Storage - 1TB Included: The Premium plan includes 1TB of secure cloud storage by default, giving users ample space to back up large files, entire systems, and extensive media collections. This significant storage allocation provides peace of mind, ensuring that even high-capacity data remains protected and easily accessible from the cloud.
• Cloud Storage Upgrades - Up to 5TB: For users with substantial data requirements, the Premium plan offers cloud storage upgrades up to 5TB, accommodating large datasets, multimedia files, and extensive system backups. This flexibility allows users to expand their storage as their data grows, making it ideal for photographers, videographers, and professionals handling sizable files.
• Electronic Signatures (Acronis ASign): Acronis ASign provides users with a secure, legally binding way to digitally sign documents, making it convenient for users who frequently need signatures on agreements, contracts, or other documents. This feature streamlines workflows by allowing documents to be signed electronically, eliminating the need for physical signatures and providing secure storage of signed documents.
• Blockchain Notarization (Acronis Notary): Acronis Notary uses blockchain technology to authenticate the originality of files, creating a unique digital fingerprint for each document. This ensures the integrity of files by providing verifiable proof of authenticity, which is especially valuable for legal documents, intellectual property, and any content where data integrity is critical.

The Premium plan includes all the features from the Essentials and Advanced packages, delivering a complete, top-tier solution with multi-layered protection, cloud flexibility, and advanced data integrity tools. Like all Acronis plans, Premium comes with a user-friendly cyber protection dashboard and tray notification center, making it easy to manage and monitor all aspects of data protection.

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Each Acronis True Image package is designed to cater to different levels of user needs, from essential backup to advanced cybersecurity and premium security tools. By choosing the package that best matches your requirements, you can secure your data effectively with the features that suit you best.

 

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