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Is it worth moving from ATI 2017 to 2018 or 2019?

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I have my main pc on ATI 2017. To date I run the full 1/diff 5 pattern, keeping two copies. I am going to experiment with also running another backup with ATI in either nonstop mode or else increasing the full 1/5 diff to full 1/hourly, I will write separately about that.

ATI has been pretty ok. Here are the things I wish were better:

  1. image restore is more complex than I like, have to resort to the docs that the kind Steve has be sure of what I'm doing.
  2. Consolidation can be a pain to go through
  3. I suspect that ATI has been responsible for some of the few system crashes or lockups that my system experiences, though this is hard to prove
  4. ATI UI can be sluggish

Since I'm about to experiment with more frequent backups, could either 2018 or 2019 have improvements in that area?

I asked many months about about 2017=>2018, and got advice that there are only mild feature improvements, but that 2017 wouldn't be getting updates any more, both valuable bits of info.

I bought ATI 2018 but never installed it. ATI 2019 is out now. Do either have interesting improvements in stability, in the consolidation operation, or restore? Since I own 2018, are there mild incremental improvements, and low risk of increased problems, if I move to it? 2019 is so new that I'm not sure anyone has a well formed opinion about it.

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Sim, the key areas of change with ATI 2018 and 2019 are in the protection / security areas with the introduction of Acronis Active Protection to protect against ransomware; the other areas being in terms of device support for newer hardware and compatibility with the latest Windows 10 OS builds.

ATI 2018 did introduce a volume tracker function under the covers which continues with 2019 which is intended to improve performance of backups.

There are some new features introduced with ATI 2019 and both 2019 & 2018 have started the move away from using Linux for the Acronis Rescue Media, (this is still available, but the default is to try to create WinPE media where possible).

I was never sold on the extra protection / security features of the 2018/19 versions. The biggest upgrade for me was 2017 for Windows 10 compatibility.

Rely on your favorite antivirus and/or malware protection for lightweight effective protection and let Acronis do what it is great at, data backup.

I back up to multiple locations to protect my family against ransomware.

  1. Network Attached Storage which includes incremental and full backups but excluding files that I back up to online storage.
    1. A rotation of 5 incrementals to 1 full backup while clearing full backups older than 5 versions.
    2. I use this pattern for 2 computers in our household and have over 2100 backups done between the two.
  2. Online file storage such as OneDrive and GoogleDrive; documents, photos, videos, game save files and any critical files I need access to remotely.
  3. Offline USB hard drive. The keyword here is offline. Once weekly I briefly connect the drives to my NAS and transfer the most recent full backup to the drives and then disconnect to protect against ransomware.