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Recover data from any backup located in Acronis Cloud, including backups from PCs, Macs,
and devices running iOS and Android.
Resolve some product-related issues.
Data archiving—Acronis True Image 2016 scans the folders that you selected and analyzes how
often you use your data. Relying on that analysis you will be able to easily transfer the rarely
used files to Acronis Cloud. This operation saves the free space on your hard drives and helps
keep your data in perfect order. Since the archived files are stored on Acronis Cloud, they are
accessible from all your computers and mobile devices that are running iOS and Android.
Try&Decide is back in the product—By popular demand, Acronis Try&Decide was returned to
Acronis True Image 2016. You can find this feature in the Tools section.
Single multilingual build—Language of the product interface can be changed with an easy
setting, without requiring reinstallation of Acronis True Image.
User interface improvement—The usability of Acronis True Image 2016 was improved by
redesigning the interface, including dialogs for backup and recovery.
Windows 10 support—You can install Acronis True Image 2016 on Windows 10 Insider Preview.
It is also partially optimized for running this operating system.
1.2.1 Alternatives to the removed features
After a detailed review, it was decided to remove a number of outdated and redundant features
from Acronis True Image. The following is the list of the features that were removed and alternative
ways of performing the same functions and operations in Acronis True Image 2016.
For more information, refer to the Knowledge Base article: https://kb.acronis.com/content/48662.
Email backup. This feature becomes less and less popular, since most of our customers use
web-based email systems. Please use disk-level backup instead. Refer to Backing up disks and
partitions (p. 38) for details.
Local and mixed synchronization. We recommend that you use cloud-based sync, instead.
Acronis Cloud is much more reliable storage than a USB flash drive, an internal hard drive, or an
external hard drive. One more important advantage — your data in Acronis Cloud is accessible
anytime, anywhere. Refer to Sync creation (p. 98) for details.
Backup version consolidation. You can control the number of your backup versions by specifying
it in the backup scheme. Refer to Backup schemes (p. 44) for details.
Manual backup deletion. You can delete an entire backup, configure automatic cleanup rules, or
delete a specific backup version while working in the recovery environment (bootable media).
Refer to Deleting backups and backup versions (p. 63) for details.
The following features have been removed, as they were originally designed for Windows XP.
Acronis Extended Capacity Manager. In Windows Vista and later, hard drives of over 3 TB in size
are supported by the operating system.
Trim SSD. In Windows 7 and later, trimming SSD is natively integrated in the operating system.
1.3 System requirements and supported media
1.3.1 Minimum system requirements
Acronis True Image 2016 requires the following hardware:
Processor Pentium 1 GHz
