We all love free stuff don’t we? Even more so if it’s a quality product.
Coming from the glorious folks at lifehacker, Acronis is giving away free Acronis True Image 10 Personal Edition.
I very much prefer Acronis than Norton Ghost to do my backup. Amazingly, Acronis 10 is able to detect SCSI harddrives in RAID in a server machine. Norton Ghost did not. Acronis also has a better user interface than Ghost, especially when booting directly from the CD. I also find Acronis to be more user friendly.
One feature I like is the ability to add incremental updates to an image. Say you’ve already took an image of your harddisk. Then you made some changes and you would like to create another backup. In Acronis, you would not need to recreate the entire image again, but simply create an incremental backup. One feature I have not yet tried is saving the backup image to a network shared drive. I’m not sure if that is available for the Personal Edition. But you can backup to a USB drive instead.
What’s the catch? This is a legacy version. The latest version is Acronis True Image Home 2009, which costs £39.95 per license.
Note: The site may be unavailable. I had to try and refresh a few times before I got the registration page.
