You can backup entire hard disks, individual partitions or folders. You can hold a tight reign over the size and method of backup, and set automatic consolidation limits - either related to the number of backups, their size, or on a time-limited basis - for the incremental and differential backups.
The first is a scheduled backup process that creates an initial image of the data to be protected, then adds regular incremental, differential or full backups – these can run at pre-defined intervals or be triggered by specified events. Once in the main application, True Image Home 2011 provides two methods of backing up your system. Choosing to backup critical data will create a one-time backup of your entire system, while the backup assistant provides a little more control and quickly activates ongoing coverage by guiding the user toward continual or scheduled backup options. To ease the backup process, on first run True Image Home 2011 asks whether you want to backup critical data, use the backup assistant or launch the main application. While a little cluttered, the main screen is an improvement on previous versions and groups tasks around common themes such as Protection Tools and Disk Management. Acronis has significantly changed True Image Home’s interface for the 2011 version and tightened the application's integration with Windows 7. True Image Home 2011 is a comprehensive backup suite that allows you to carry out both scheduled and one-off backups of your computer and data.