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Acronis^® True Image Home 2009 Delivers Easy Backup, Fast Recovery and Exceptional Security

Try&Decide; Saving New Files During System Restore Highlight New Features For Home, SOHO Users

September 13, 2007, Paris — Computer users can easily protect their entire computer, including valuable photos, music, videos and work documents, with Acronis^® True Image Home 2009 — the latest version of Acronis' file and system disk imaging backup and restore software for home and home office users.

Acronis^® True Image Home 2009 backs up individual files or an entire computer image to a separate external drive or disc, providing complete protection from viruses, trojans and hardware failures that can cause the catastrophic loss of irreplaceable files and software. In the event of a computer failure, users can quickly and easily restore their data or images to the system to get up and running in minutes.

The new version adds powerful, yet easy-to-use features including the exclusive. Try&Decide feature, which allows users to perform potentially dangerous operations such as software installation or e-mail attachment opening without putting their PC at risk. It does this by creating a secure, temporary workspace that is insulated from the rest of your computer. The user can either commit the changes to their hard disk or simply delete all changes without impacting their hard disk at all.

Added security and privacy functionality includes Acronis Drive Cleanser, which securely erases hard drives before discarding or donating a computer, and File Shredder, which wipes out individual computer files so that they are permanently deleted and unrecoverable.

"Acronis True Image has proven itself again and again as a user's best friend when it comes to protecting their data and operating system," said Mike DiMichele, a Chicago-area consultant who runs a data recovery and remote support service company for end users, as well as the web site Savemybutt.com. "To the average consumer, their digital photos, music and personal financial data are just as important as the business records of a corporation. For a family to protect all of their personal digital assets for less the price of dinner for four at the neighborhood diner is incredible."

"As more of our lives move into the digital realm, it is important that we take the appropriate measures to protect those all-important files and programs," said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis. "We believe that the easier we make it for a user to back up their digital assets, such as music, mail, photos and data, and faster to restore after a failure, the more likely people are to create a regular backup routine. Acronis^® True Image Home 2009 is exceptionally powerful, yet easy enough for anyone to use."

Other new features of Acronis^® True Image Home 2009 include:

• Try&Decide — Allows users to create a temporary, protected space where they can do computing operations without putting their hard drive at risk due to viruses or malware
• System State Backup — Protect Registry, boot files, as well as important system files from system crashes
• Exclude files and folders from backup — Save space by backing up only information that is needed
• Preserve files and folders during restore — Ensures newly entered important data is not overwritten when recovering from older backup
• Automatically maintained catalog of backup locations — Easily locate archives as the system automatically remembers their placement
• Search for file in all archives — Easily search for and recover particular files from all known backup archives
• Message-level Outlook data restore — Quickly locate and recover important messages from mail backup

Pricing and availability

Priced at 49.99€, Acronis^® True Image Home 2009 is due to ship this month.

About Acronis

Acronis is a global provider of affordable, scalable storage management and disaster recovery software that helps enterprises and SMBs safeguard their information and assures the availability, security, integrity and recoverability of their infrastructure. Acronis' patented disk imaging and disk management technology has won broad industry acclaim for data protection, backup and recovery, system deployment, and migration for both physical and virtual servers. A global company, Acronis has offices in the United States, Europe and Asia and sells its products both direct and through enterprise resellers. For additional information, please visit www.acronis.co.uk or contact PR and Marketing Leader Julie Grivel Delillaz at media_eu@acronis.com.