

It’s another step towards simplifying backing-up. Auto-start on connectĪnother clever, helpful update is that you can set the software to start backing-up when a new external USB drive is plugged-in.

In truth these are both variations on Acronis True Image’s main theme, although they give you more back-up options. This is like Active disc cloning, you can use it to make a bootable back up of your start-up partition. There’s no way to select directories for cloning.Īcronis’ other new 2019 feature is a Survival Kit. I couldn’t clone my Mac drive to the home network drive. The external drive needs to connect directly to the computer being cloned. You can use it to move data from one computer to another, or to make a bootable image on an external hard drive. The main new feature in the Mac version is Active disc cloning. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a difference. The process is so unobtrusive and the upgrade from True Image 2018 was so seamless that it’s hard to see any difference between the two versions.

Every evening it updates some 200 GB plus sending it to Acronis’ cloud for safe keeping. It has backed up my iMac to the cloud for four months without any attention. I know this date is correct because that’s when I swapped to a new iMac. The last time I checked the older edition of the software was in May. Going by my experience with the 2018 version, I can verify this. If you came here via search, you may prefer to read the review of the 2021 version of True Image.Īcronis says True Image 2019 provides set and forget protection.
