I've always hated Acronis. I tried adding on their cloud backup and it never worked. I just find it overly complicated. I tried Win7 backup at home and didn't immediately like it, wasn't sure what was actually getting backup up. I will trial Backup Assist, see how it is.
It is ironic. I hate anything that says 'Home' in it. But, the server version is horrible for me. The actual version for the clients isn't too bad, although maybe a little too many options. But, it does give quite a few that are good. I think if I were a consultant to a software company, my only advice would be to keep the nomenclature simple like Apple does. Look at Microsoft. Win95, Win98, then the Win98se. Then Win2000 followed by WinMe (or vice versa). So, off of a year and onto a whole new name. Then Win XP Pro -- which is for xperience. It became an icon, but still an entirely different name. Then Vista. Horrible. Finally back to numbers with Win7 and Win8.
Backup Assist has been Backup Assist for at least 11 years with different version numbers. AC, same way. But, Acronis, which should be Acronis Home and Acronis Server has to have True Image and a new Backup and Recovery (of course it is recovery. Jungle Disk does the same with Workstation and Server, both for enterprise use.
But, Acronis is great for clients and has fallen off on the server. As I stated, I had to pay Microsoft 259 dollars to get my VSS writers back. And, I had issues with the cloud as well.
