Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office

Works fine for me. I use it for system image backups. Never failed. I would only like to disable all the unnecessary services running in the background.

Until now I knew only Paragon Backup & Recovery 2011 free, Macrium Reflect Free Edition and the System Image Backup of "Windows 7". With all these 3 applications I missed a configurable cleaning up of old backups in order to prevent the overloading of the backup disk. Only the Windows 7 backup ( from these 3 applications) can clean up old backups, if the backup hard disk is full to approx. 35%. Unfortunately, this percent value is not adjustable, e.g. to 90%.
I was glad to see, that "Acronis True Image Home", Version 2011 can carry out the automatic deleting of old backup files very comfortably and freely configurable. You can specify a max. folder size or max number of backups. If the folder or max backup-number grows bigger, the oldest backups will be deleted automatically.
Acronis True Image Home 2011 has an automatic cleanup philosophy, where you can set a max. folder size for the backup-file, as you can read on page 60 of the User Guide [1]:

"Acronis True Image Home 2011" offers comfortable automatic cleanup rules:

• Store no more than [n] recent versions (available for full method only) - Select this option to
  limit the maximum number of backup versions. When the number of versions exceeds the
  specified value, the oldest backup version will be automatically deleted.

• Keep size of the backup no more than [defined size]

[1] http://www.acronis.com/download/docs/atih2011/userguide .

The Ghost version 15 also is able to delete old backup files very comfortably and freely configurable.

The "Paragon Backup & Recovery 2011 free" similar as Macrium Reflect cannot cleanup old Backups automatically. You must use DelAge32 for this purpose, if you do not use a commercial backup solution.

Looking at some of the pervious reviews I would have to add my agreement with how bad True Image has become. Not only is the software slow, buggy and crash prone they have started a forced subscription model just to keep your current version working. This is Totally greed on the part of the companies part. I could understand a subscription if your were using their cloud back-up system but making forced subscriptions for local copies not only makes no sense it seems criminal! Steer far away from this product the best thing the company has going for it is a marketing.

Does not work reliably.

If you are looking for something quick, something just plug and play then this is not it.

Free/trial or with license it will still force you to register /login to their cloud something. Considering I was doing a recovery of failing drive in a disconnected VM this was a hard miss.

It is one of the best tools in this field but one issue to watch out which made me use another tool called "Gs Richcopy 360 " as a backup and copy tool is that "Acronis "makes backup Data into a single large file, that can only be accessed via Acronis, and any corruption on this file means this file is unusable. Thanks

Acronis ATI has become terrible. I need to restore twice last year and neither times would it work. I checked the backup and it passed as working but ay attempt to restore failed. I spend the equivalent of days with support. They'd keep having me do the same thing again and again. Eventually, after more than a month, I just gave up and told them to stop trying.

The 2021 product is unusable with useless extra features that I don't want. The 2020 version switched to a new file forma .tibx which dropped most of the useful features.

I discovered, and this has been verified by many users, the differential backup doesn't work, to restore, for example, a third differential backup you need all the previous backups, 1 & 2 in the example. I.e. Differential is actually Incrememental.

Try and find out how to make an off site backup by copying s regular backup - you can't move or duplicate a backup.

One last example - ATI 2021 has new features one of which is "deduplication" yet I have tried going through my support agreement and through sales but no one can tell me what the are deduplication.