Family data protection—A modern family often has more than one computer (PC, Mac) and several tablets and smartphones. And usually there is a family member who is more experienced in technology than the others. With the new web application, your family IT administrator can:

• Control the current statuses of all backups and synchronizations on all family devices running Windows, Mac OS X, iOS, and Android.
• Manually start any backup on any computer.
• Recover data from any backup located in Acronis Cloud, including backups from PCs, Macs, and devices running iOS and Android.

See more in this article.

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. See more in this article.

Backup of mobile devices—back up your data to Acronis cloud, access and recover it. See more in this article.

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.

Data upload optimization—A new sophisticated mechanism significantly speeds up the upload process, when you back up your data to Acronis Cloud. This setting is turned on by default.

User interface improvement—The usability of Acronis True Image 2016 was improved by redesigning the interface, including dialogs for backup and recovery.

Yes, Acronis True Image 2016 supports Windows 10.

Please check the confirmation e-mail. It contains links to the installation files.

You can find the installation file of the latest build in your account at any time:

1. Log in into your account.
2. Navigate to Products.
3. Under your registered products locate Acronis True Image and click Download. The latest build will be downloaded.

If you already have Acronis True Image 2015 or Acronis True Image 2014 installed, there is no need to remove the old version and reinstall the software. Start the installation file of Acronis True Image 2016 and install the product. After upgrade, create a new bootable media.

If you already have True Image 2013 by Acronis or older versions, you need to delete these first and then install Acronis True Image 2016.

Proceed as described in Article 46710.

 You will be asked to log in to your account when you first start Acronis True Image (the software remembers your login, so you will not need to re-enter it every time). When you provide your account's credentials, the software will automatically activate the serial number registered in your account and make all features available in Acronis True Image Cloud active immediately (otherwise you will need to log in later).

Serial number can be used on both Windows and Mac. This means you can reinstall the software using the same serial number on a Mac, when you replace a Windows computer with a Mac (and vice versa).

Proceed as described in Article 56646.

Cause

• You exceed the limit of available activations. For example, you have a Acronis True Image 2016 for 1 computer and attempt to install Acronis True Image 2016 on more than 1 machine.
• You reinstall or upgrade your operating system.
• You upgrade your machine with new hardware.
• You replace your machine with a new one.

If you want to use Acronis True Image 2016 on more machines than you license allows, you will need to purchase additional serial numbers and activate the new copies.

If you have reinstalled or upgraded your operating system or hardware, or simply moved the product to a different machine, reactivate Acronis True Image 2016 in the new environment: click here for instructions.

When backing up your computer, you have three options: back up the entire machine, individual disks or individual files and folders. Entire machine backup guarantees the complete protection of your system, programs and documents. You can restore all your data in case your system won't boot or when you decide to replace your computer. Follow this illustrated step-by-step guide.

Alternatively, you can back up individual disks or files and folders (more information here).

This option is available for Acronis True Image Cloud users.

Follow this illustrated step-by-step guide: Acronis True Image Cloud: Backing Up Mobile Devices

You can store your backups in Acronis Cloud when you have an Acronis True Image Cloud license.

We highly recommend using the Cloud storage as it is the only way to protect your data from the hardware damage (as opposed to an internal drive or an external USB drive) or theft. Furthermore it gives you the opportunity to access and restore your data anytime and from anywhere.

1. While creating a backup, click on Options:
   
   
2. Click on Advanced:
   
   
3. Scroll down to Performance:
   
   
4. Select compression level:
   
   

Compression is not available for backup to cloud, data in your cloud backup is deduplicated automatically: before you start an online backup, Acronis True Image analyzes the data that you selected. If there are two or more identical data blocks, only one of them will be uploaded to Acronis Cloud.

1. Start your computer with Acronis bootable rescue media.
2. On the home screen, select My disks below Recover.
3. Select the system disk or partition backup to be used for recovery.
4. Select Recover whole disks and partitions as recovery method.
5. Select Items to recover - partitions you want to recover.
6. Carefully read the summary of operations and click Proceed if all selections were made correctly.

Acronis True Image 2016 can also restore backups created with these older versions: Acronis True Image 2015, Acronis True Image 2014, True Image 2013 by Acronis. For more information see this article.

1. When your new computer's hardware differs from the old, you need to prepare drivers for this hardware, so the operating system in the backup will recognize the new hardware.
2. Start your new computer with Acronis bootable rescue media.
3. On the home screen, select My disks below Recover.
4. Select the system disk or partition backup to be used for recovery.
5. Select Recover whole disks and partitions as recovery method.
6. Select Items to recover - partitions you want to recover.
7. Carefully read the summary of operations and click Proceed if all selections were made correctly.
8. Create Acronis Universal Restore bootable media and boot your new computer.
9. Select Apply Universal Restore.
10. Specify the drivers.
11. Click OK to start Universal Restore process.
12. Start the computer when Acronis True Image finishes Universal Restore.

See a detailed illustrated guide here.

1. Get your serial number using Serial Number Retriever.
2. Register your serial number
3. Download ISO file of the product from MY PRODUCTS & DOWNLOADS.
4. Burn the ISO Image. See Burning an ISO Image.
5. Boot the machine from the ISO Image and restore the machine from your backup archive.

For cloning laptops see this article.

Follow this illustrated step-by-step guide: Acronis True Image 2016: Cloning Disks.

No, you can only clone basic MBR and GPT-disks.

Here is how you can find out the type of partitions layout of your hard drive in Disk Management:

1. Open Disk Management: Start -> Run -> type diskmgmt.msc
2. See if the disk is Basic:
   
   You can clone this type of disk.

If your disk is dynamic, you cannot clone it:

Yes, Acronis Acronis True Image 2016 allows you to clone your HDD to SSD.

Before cloning:

1. Make sure the target disk (SSD) has more free space than is occupied on you old disk (HDD), you won't be able to clone if the data cannot fit to the new disk.
2. Make sure the drive you want to clone is a basic drive.

Cloning procedure:

1. On the sidebar, click Tools, and then click Clone disk.
2. Follow on-screen instructions.

As alternative to cloning, you can create a backup of your drive and restore it to the new SSD. This method provides more flexibility and control over migration.

Data archiving is a tool that allows you to free up space on your computer by moving big or rarely used files to Acronis Cloud. See detailed description here.

Yes, Try&Decide is implemented in Acronis True Image 2016.

1. On the Tools tab click More tools:
   
2. Double-click Try&Decide:
   

Yes, Acronis True Image 2016 supports disks encrypted by BitLocker.

Yes, Acronis True Image 2016 supports UEFI/GPT with the following limitations:

• Creation of Acronis Secure Zone on dynamic disks is not supported.
• Recovery of a dynamic volume as a dynamic volume with manual resizing is not supported.
• "Clone disk" operation is not supported for dynamic disks.

1. On the Tools tab click More tools:
   
   
2. Double-click Acronis Startup Recovery Manager:
   
   

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