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Acronis True Image 2017 vs Acronis "Backup & Recovery 10"

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I am tryng to figure out what product is best for me. I have a NAS device with plenty of storage and a Windows 7 Pro Media Center box with 5+ TB of Movies and Music.

I found a forum somewhere with a link recommending Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Workstation http://www.acronis.com/en-us/promo/abr-family/abrw/lockergnome.html . I like the Universal restore option since I use RAID.

Where I'm confused is, while that link seems to allow me to buy the product, it isn't mention anywhere on acronis.com.

Should I be looking at True Image 2017 ? Did it replace B&R and it's the same thing plus more?

 

Thanks,

Kenny

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Kenny, welcome to these user forums.

Acronis Backup & Recover 10 is an old product which would now be considered obsolete having been replaced several times.  The current business product in that range is Acronis Backup 12.

Do you really need a business product for your Windows 7 system with your NAS storage device?

Universal Restore has nothing to do with RAID - this is a feature that makes possible the restore of an OS backup to different hardware, i.e. when migrating from one computer system to another, though this has a number of caveats including the need for a Windows license that permits it to be moved to different hardware, and the need to match BIOS and Disk Controller components.

Acronis True Image Home 2017 is the latest in the home product range and is capable of protecting your investment in media system & content.  There are different options to consider with this product, do you want a Perpetual license (buy once, use for as long as possible) or a Subscription license where you need to renew each year (or two years) in order to continue to have the full functionality of the product, plus which provides free upgrades to new versions of the product and an agreed amount of Cloud storage?

Both license types allow you to make local backups to your NAS or other drives in addition to making Cloud backups, though Cloud will always require a subscription.  Cloud storage is subject to your internet upload / download speeds and limitations.

I would recommend taking a browse around the main Acronis web site to get comparisons with different products www.acronis.com

Ditto to Steve's post.  You can also install a free, 30-day trial of Acronis 2017 and take it for a test spin.  With the trial, you can only restore using the recovery media, but backups will function in Windows correctly.  

FYI, there is a bug in 2017 5554 (latest version) with authenticating to a NAS. There is a hotfixt for it that you'd need to apply after installing the trial version though so that you can properly authenticate to the NAS if you are using ANY mapped drives in Windows.  If you are not using mapped drives in Windows, then you should not need the hotfix. 

https://kb.acronis.com/node/59051