Acronis True Image Home 2012 Upto 50% Discount

Acronis True Image Home 2012 Upto 50% Discount
Team up to grow your True Image discount up to 50%

http://www.acronis.com/promo/grow-discount/

Web site says,
Each new registration takes one cent off the regular price. So the more people to participate, the more the discount grows.
On June 17, 2012 or once we reach the maximum discount – whichever happens first – the game ends, and you get an email with your final price and purchase link. Then you simply click through to buy True Image Home 2012 and save like never before.

Acronis rocks!!! I've been using them for YEARS.

Less than 50 to go. There're lots of bad reviews in Amazon. I have to check whether it's really worthless or whether it's just wrong usage. May be people aren't using it correctly. Anyway backup is only good if it works when disaster strikes. Until then it works perfectly So far I'm thinking of buying it. $25. I never used any backup software before.

TellyTubby said:   Horrible reviews just about everywhere. Plus I've seen it for a lot cheaper than this.

Wow, you weren't kidding. I have True Image 10 and it's been great. I've actually restored from a backup before and it's saved a ton of time. However, the newer version sounds awful. Plus - only 30 days of support, then you have to pay for each incident. On software that apparently has a lot of bugs. And awful support that tends to deny refunds where they're guaranteed and just generally be unhelpful.

Seems like the company is going downhill, which is really depressing. I love True Image 10, and I really need something like this for ongoing backups. I'd love to upgrade, but everything I read says that previous versions are better. Are there any real alternatives, besides norton?

DrKlahn said:   Version 8 was very good; I used it and recommended it to all my clients.

However, I can't recommend the recent versions to anyone ... not even my enemies.

Then may be they could give downgrade discounts like they give for upgrades. Actually may be it's the fault of the Windows OS getting too unwieldly, hard to manage or doing things differenty or unusual ways.

Looks like they're going to do it again. I should check whether it's worth $25.

WalterGuy said:   You must be still using a few versions old. This USED to be a great product but the "features" added in the last few versions have been nightmares-especially (in my case) the continuous backup mode. I spent hours trying to patch it, dealing with customer support, etc. before admitting defeat...

I always see deals on Acronis, and I'm always tempted to get it since the older versions worked so well. With the newer ones being crap, what alternatives are there?

What did you guys start using instead? How does it compare? Thanks!