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Update 3 User Guide

10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Backups are useful primarily for two purposes. The first is to restore a state following a disaster (called

100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.14.5 Overwrite file options Choose what to do if the program finds a file in the target folder with th

101 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.14.7 Notifications for recovery operation Sometimes a backup or recovery procedure can last an hour or

102 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  To send a notification concerning process failure, select the Send notification upon operation failure

103 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 5 Using Acronis Online Backup In this section What is Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup? ...

104 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If you do not have an Acronis account, fill in the appropriate fields, and the account will be created for

105 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To remove the selected computer from the registered computers list and delete all its online backups from

106 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 current computer, you can collapse it by clicking the down arrow at the right-side end of the Legend line.

107 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 6 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage In this section Log in to the online storage ...

108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 6.1.2 Computer selection If this is the first time that you are logging on to the online storage, you

109 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  After the computer connects to the Acronis True Image Online Server, set up an online backup task for t

11 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Snapshots Acronis True Image Home 2011 uses "snapshot" technology which permits you to create sys

110 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 6.1.2.1 Data encryption in Acronis True Image Online To protect your data on the online storage from unau

111 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To start backup immediately, click Back Up Now. You can also delay online backup start for up to 6 hours b

112 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 You can include both file categories and individual files and folders. When selecting the file category(ie

113 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Creating a custom data category To add a custom data category, click the Add category icon in the Categori

114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 You can exclude hidden and system files from online backup by selecting the corresponding check boxes. I

115 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 6.1.4.3 Scheduling The Scheduler window allows you to specify the online backup task execution settings.

116 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Some of these options might be disabled depending on the operating system. Having finished scheduling of o

117 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  If the computer is switched off when the scheduled time comes, the backup won't be performed, but

118 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 In this window Acronis True Image Home 2011 shows the approximate backup time and data transfer speed. The

119 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 In case of any network problems, if the first connection attempt fails, the program will repeat the attemp

12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 from a tib file containing the system partition image. It converts the tib file into a VHD file which is th

120 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 6.2.3 Storage cleanup You can configure the cleanup settings for the Online storage to optimize usage of

121 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To test the proxy server settings, click the Test Connection button. If you do not know your proxy server

122 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 6.2.5 Backup priority Changing the priority of a backup process can make it run faster or slower (dependi

123 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Enter the password in the Password field To specify additional notification settings, click the Additi

124 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 and/or the subject in the Subject field. If you leave the From field empty, the e-mail will be composed us

125 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Unselecting the Do not perform operations until the command's execution is complete box, selected by

126 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 7 Recovery from Online Storage In this section Recovering data from Online Storage ...

127 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To select multiple files/folders, you can use the Ctrl and Shift keys like in Windows Explorer. After you

128 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  In the File Versions dialog window that appears, select a version, and then click Recover, or simply dr

129 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 7.2 Removing data from Online Storage Because the available space on Acronis Online Storage is limited,

13 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Check points - The Acronis Backup Explorer timeline shows Windows and software installation and update d

130 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 7.3 Viewing Log If you want to view the log of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup operations, cli

131 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8 Useful information In this section Protecting your system and data ...

132 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1. Start Acronis True Image Home 2011 and then click Disk and partition backup in the main window. 2. T

133 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If you use Windows 7, the program will also select the System Reserved partition. Do not clear its check b

134 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8.2 Preparing for backups If you would like to create your own backup strategy, you will need to consider

135 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Due to the necessity of swapping discs, it is strongly recommended to avoid backing up to DVDs if the numb

136 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 When you click the Test connection button, the computer will try to connect to the selected network share.

137 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8.2.3 Deciding how often to back up Disk and partition backups Let's first discuss backing up your s

138 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 their native format by copying them using Windows Explorer. If those files are important to you, Acronis T

139 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To check the drives, start Backup Wizard by clicking My Disks below Back Up on the Welcome screen. Select

14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1.1.5 System requirements and supported media 1.1.5.1 Minimum system requirements Acronis True Image Home

140 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2. When the command line appears, type "vga=ask" (without quotes) and click OK. 3. Select Acr

141 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To test another video mode, close Acronis True Image Home 2011 and repeat the above procedure. After you f

142 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8.5 Trying system changes safely In this section What is Try&Decide ...

143 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 After starting Try mode you can safely install any system updates, drivers and applications without worryi

144 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 When your computer reboots for whatever reason while working in the Try mode, before booting of the operat

145 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Try&Decide and Nonstop Backup cannot work simultaneously. Starting the Try mode suspends Nonstop Backu

146 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 You can change the following Try&Decide options and notifications:  Protected partitions: specify th

147 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  On time elapsed since Try&Decide started: - using this option, the program will notify you if T&

148 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 guarantee complete uninstallation. The Try&Decide feature, however, will ensure complete and perfect u

149 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8.6 Scheduling The Scheduler window allows you to specify the backup and validation schedule settings. Y

15 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1.1.5.4 Supported storage media  Hard disk drives*  Networked storage devices  FTP servers**  CD

150 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 check box will let you perform a missed operation when the USB flash drive is attached if it was disconnec

151 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  If you select On, choose the date(s) for operation execution (example: you may want the operation to be

152 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the Acronis True Image Home 2011 window. Y

153 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8.7.2 Windows Search and Google Desktop integration Acronis True Image Home 2011 has plug-ins for Google

154 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To open the Indexing Options window in Windows Vista or Windows 7, open the Control Panel and then double-

155 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 the backups will not be indexed. To include the disks, click Modify and select them in the window that app

156 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Give Windows Search some time for indexing Acronis backups on your computer's hard disks and adding t

157 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8.8 Choosing columns for viewing in wizards You can change the way the columns are represented in various

158 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9 Tools & Utilities Acronis Tools & Utilities include Protection tools, Conversion tools, Disk ma

159 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Mounting tools:  Mount image With this tool you can explore a previously created image. You will be able

16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To purchase the full version, please visit http://www.acronis.com/buy/atih/ Click Go to main screen to star

160 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2. Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated, it ove

161 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Acronis True Image Home 2011 installat

162 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Acronis System Report - the component allows you to generate a system report that is used for collectin

163 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Description The following parameters can be used to load Linux kernel in a special mode:  acpi=off Disab

164 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Gets the list of the video modes available for your video card and allows selecting a video mode most suit

165 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To cancel operation and quit Acronis Media Builder, click Cancel. After you create a boot disc, mark it an

166 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Go to the Acronis True Image Home 2011 installation folder. (The default folder is C:\Program Files\Acroni

167 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Close the Plugins window and click the Build button to start the building process. If you want the image t

168 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 3. Install the Microsoft .NET Framework v.2.0 from this kit (NETFXx86 or NETFXx64, depending on your hard

169 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4. Specify the path to the folder WinPE\ISO, e.g. c:\winpe_x86\ISO. 5. On the next screen choose the Ad

17 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 by Acronis Media Builder for placing on the bootable media and you will be able to add Acronis True Image H

170 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 7. Check your settings in the summary screen and click Proceed. 8. Burn the .ISO to a CD using a third-

171 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2. Specify the path to the source WINPE.WIM file. The standard path to this file for x86 hardware is \Pro

172 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 In the Acronis True Image Home 2011, the zone is listed along with all locations available for storing bac

173 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 You can back up data automatically on a schedule (see Scheduling (p. 149)). In order to not worry about zo

174 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To select a partition:  Select the appropriate partition check box and click Next. 9.3.4 Size of Acr

175 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9.3.5 Managing Acronis Secure Zone You can manage the Acronis Secure Zone.  Increase size (p. 175) - c

176 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9.3.5.3 Acronis Secure Zone protection Here, you can set up password protection for the Acronis Secure Zo

177 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9.3.5.4 Convert file system to NTFS When you upgrade from a previous version of Acronis True Image Home 2

178 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Click the Proceed button to start the listed operations. Click the Options button if you want to protect A

179 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9.4.2 Security Please note the following: if the power goes off or you accidentally press RESET during th

18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4. After the install wizard window opens, choose Typical, Custom or Complete installation for repairing or

180 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9.4.4 Selecting a source disk You can determine the source and destination using the information provided

181 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9.4.5 Selecting a destination disk After you select the source disk, you have to select the destination w

182 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Manual - you will specify a new size and other parameters yourself If you elect to transfer informatio

183 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Along with the hard disk number, you can see disk capacity, the label, volume and file system information.

184 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If the cursor turns into two vertical lines with left and right arrows, it is pointed at the partition bor

185 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Cloning a non-system disk or a disk containing an operating system, but one that is not currently active,

186 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9.5.1 Selecting a hard disk Select the disk that you have added to the computer. If you have added severa

187 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  partition letter and label. If you allocate all unallocated space on the disk to the new partition, th

188 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 one then no unallocated space will be reserved for system needs. Later, you may convert this unallocated a

189 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Partition letter Select a letter to be assigned to the partition being created from the drop-down list. If

19 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  If you have a large number of preexisting backups or if the overall performance of your system is low, t

190 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9.6 Security and Privacy Tools Acronis True Image Home 2011 contains utilities for secure destruction of

191 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Click Tools & Utilities on the toolbar, and select Acronis DriveCleanser.  Follow the Acronis Dri

192 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If the disks and/or partitions you have selected include the system disk or partition, you will see a warn

193 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Acronis DriveCleanser offers you another useful capability — to estimate the results of executing a data d

194 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The window has the following legend: The first column of the list contains the type of operation on a disk

195 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 In the same way, you can create any data destruction algorithm to match your security requirements. Savin

196 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9.6.1.5 Disk Editor (read-only mode) Acronis DriveCleanser offers you another useful capability — to esti

197 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Go to sector You can go to the necessary sector according to its absolute offset by selecting the Go to… l

198 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Having selected the contents for shredding, click Next to continue. 9.6.2.2 Data destruction method

199 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 In some cases, the operation may take a long time to be completed. If this is the case, select the Shutdow

2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011. All rights reserved. "Acronis", "Acronis Compute with Confidence", "Acronis Recov

20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 When you choose to protect your critical data, the program will offer to back up the system partition and y

200 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 After you run the wizard by selecting Tools & Utilities -> System Clean-up in the main program menu

201 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Temporary files  Hard disk free space  Find Computer list  Find File list  Recently Used Do

202 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Data destruction method System Clean-up utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction methods. He

203 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 All files with names corresponding to at least one of the search strings will be cleaned. Upon entering th

204 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 After entering the Computers setting value, you can browse the search strings found by the System Clean-up

205 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To select/unselect a component  Expand the System Components item in the System Clean-up tree and make s

206 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 9.6.4.1 Functioning principles of Information wiping methods Physically, the complete wiping of informati

207 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 No. Algorithm (writing method) Passes Record cryptographically secure pseudo-random sequence. 8. Fast

208 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If you selected a backup containing incremental images, you can select one of the successive incremental i

209 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 You can also select a letter to be assigned to the virtual disk from the Mount letter drop-down list. If y

21 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1. First of all, the program estimates the space required for operation of the One-Click Backup tool. 2.

210 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If you have mounted several partitions, by default all of them will be selected for unmounting. You can di

211 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1. Click Convert Acronis backup to Windows backup on the Tools & Utilities screen. 2. Select the di

212 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1. Click Convert Windows backup to Acronis backup on the Tools & Utilities screen. 2. Select the vh

213 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4. Choose the vhd backup file to be used for recovery by its creation date. When the required vhd backup

214 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 into a tib file. When you boot from a dynamic vhd file, the VHD is automatically expanded to the maximum s

215 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The settings content can be different depending on a backup type. In case of "classic" disk and

216 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 10 Troubleshooting In this section General recommendations ...

217 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 10.2 Acronis System Report When you contact the Acronis support team, they will usually need information

218 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 You can view more detailed information about the error by clicking the More details link in the message bo

219 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 More information about this error and an applicable solution may be available online in the Acronis Knowle

22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 your system from a crash, you must create a bootable rescue media or activate Acronis Startup Recovery Mana

220 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 it is intended for Acronis Support personnel to help in troubleshoot the issues users have with the featur

221 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Choose Yes, I want to participate in the program if you want to join the program  Choose No, I do not

11 Glossary of Terms A Acronis Secure Zone A secure partition for storing backups (p. 222) on a hard disk. Advantages:  enables recovery of a disk

223 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Bootable media A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine BIOS as a

224 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Incremental backup 1. A backup method used for saving data changes that occurred since the last backup ve

23 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If you have not created any backups yet, the program will offer to create a new backup with Acronis One-Cli

24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 schedule. To be able to perform the unavailable operations, you may recreate the settings of the added back

25 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Operations menu Clicking Operations in the box of a selected backup opens an Operations menu containing th

26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 In case of Nonstop Backup the Operations menu will have less items. The Operations menu of backups created

27 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1.3.3 Tools & Utilities screen This screen allows you to select the tools and utilities provided by Ac

28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Wizards have a sidebar listing all the steps (both required and optional) needed for completing the operati

29 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The tab shows the disks and partitions state of when the current backup version was created. You can switc

3 Table of contents 1 Getting started ...

30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Right-clicking on a backup version opens the shortcut menu with other available operations:  Recover - se

31 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Mixed (filled square) - this state is available for folders only and indicates that some items in the fo

32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Nonstop Backup, and brown for other backups, e.g. created by a previous Acronis True Image Home 2011 versio

33 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 When today is any date from the 16th to 31st day of the month, the "month" interval is named &quo

34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Delete version File backup version:  Validate  Delete version Nonstop backup version and Acronis Tru

35 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The most significant changes occur in the System and Security category of Windows 7 Control Panel. Acronis

36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1.3.6.1 Integration settings You can select the Acronis components that should be integrated into Windows.

37 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2 How to Due to the size of this User's Guide, it is sometimes not so easy to find how to perform a p

38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 3 Backing up data Acronis True Image Home 2011 includes a wealth of sophisticated backup capabilities that

39 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 A disk image includes images of all disk partitions and the zero track with the master boot record (MBR). B

4 3.11.10 Error handling ...

40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 A "differential" backup scenario uses the same weekly full system backup with the backup of files

41 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  If you delete an incremental backup version or a differential backup version - the program will also del

42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2. You may exclude certain files and folders from backup. For example, you transferred some movies from yo

43 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 3.4 Backing up files and folders To back up files and/or folders, click File backup on the main screen. Th

44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  add task run number - the sequence number of the task run will be added 4. Click the Back up now button

45 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To add a custom data category, click Add category. To change the default name of a custom category, double-

46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Acronis True Image Home 2011 gives the zip format most of the functionality available for the tib format. Y

47 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  User Settings  Address Book For Microsoft Outlook Express  Mail Folders  Address Book (select Wind

48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 The main purpose of Acronis Nonstop Backup is continuous protection of your data (files, folders, contacts,

49 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 3.6.1 Protecting your data continuously Let's consider how you can use Nonstop Backup for protecting

5 6 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage ... 107 6.1.1 Log in to t

50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 changed the Nonstop Backup destination, the program will create a new full backup of the data to be protect

51 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 You can exclude from protection files that match the criteria you specify. To add exclusion criteria, click

52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 by other applications. The overload can be caused by running resource-intensive applications (for example,

53 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Backups older than 24 hours are automatically consolidated. Acronis True Image Home 2011 will keep daily ba

54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 A reserve copy always contains all the files selected for backup, that is, when creating a reserve copy the

55 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4. Click Back up now and do not forget to take the USB stick home. Please be aware that built-in support o

56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To complete the backup, you may either try to free up some space on the disk and click Retry or select anot

57 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 You can exclude hidden and system files from a backup by selecting the corresponding check boxes. In addi

58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 settings as default check box to apply the modified settings to all further backup operations by default.

59 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Backup scheme defines the following parameters:  Backup methods that will be used to create backup versio

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60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Backup scheduler setting for file backup: daily. Result: you have a single up-to-date full backup version.

61 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Select this method if you want to create backup chains containing only full and differential backup version

62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Note that when the check box is selected, the Store no more than [n] recent versions check box will change

63 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8. Click Create a full version after every [n] incremental versions, and type or select "6". In

64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2. In the File Backup window, select files and/or folders you want to back up, and specify the backup dest

65 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If you want to use AES encryption, choose one of the following keys:  AES 128 - to use 128-bit encryption

66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 3.11.5 Backup splitting Sizeable backups can be split into several files that together make up the origina

67 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 before, your computer must be in the "screen saver" state. The same will occur on September 15, a

68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Acronis System Report - the component allows you to generate system report that is used for collecting info

69 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 disks do not have bad sectors, the possibility that they might occur increases during the course of the har

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70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If you do not use the encryption feature available in Windows XP and later operating systems, simply ignore

71 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Operation priority Changing the priority of a backup or recovery process can make it run faster or slower (

72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 To set the free disk space threshold:  Select the Show notification message on insufficient free disk spa

73 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 backup version) only the most recent differential backup version in the chain and all subsequent incrementa

74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  Click OK to continue. 3.13.2 Backup selection The Backup selection window displays a list of backups b

75 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 3.14 Cloning backup settings When you already have a backup and you need to create a new backup of the sam

76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4 Recovering data The purpose of data backup is to recover backed up data when the original is lost due to

77 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 with the required key combination is displayed during the startup test. Pressing this combination takes you

78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 3. Select My disks below Recover on the Welcome screen. 4. Select the system disk or partition backup im

79 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Click Browse and show the path to the backup. 5. Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recover

8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 1 Getting started 1.1 Introduction In this section What is Acronis® True Image Home 2011™? ...

80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 6. Select the system partition (usually C) on the What to recover screen. If the system partition has a di

81 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 8. Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step. If you have not resized the partition, the

82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If you want to recover the partition to the state it was at an earlier date, click Explore and recover unde

83 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 In this case, Acronis True Image Home 2011 generates a new disk signature for the recovered hard drive, eve

84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 space. To change the partition properties, click the Partition properties link below the recovery destinati

85 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Disk letters may differ when booting from the rescue media. The names will help you find the drive containi

86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 to the new disk, click New location. Select the destination disk by its assigned name or by its capacity. 7

87 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 If the disks have different disk letters in Windows and the recovery environment, the program will display

88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 12. At the next step, select the destination disk as the target for MBR recovery, click Next and then Proce

89 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 How to recover mail, application settings, and system state This refers to recovering data from your E-mail

9 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 When performing scheduled backups, Acronis True Image Home 2011 automatically selects a backup mode (full, i

90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Until you select a file version in the View Versions window, the Open and Recover... buttons remain disable

91 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 2. Click the Recover button on the backup's box if the backup consists of a single version. When ther

92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 3. Click the My Disks link below Recover on the Welcome screen to start the Recovery Wizard. Then, choose

93 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 5. If the target hardware has a specific mass storage controller (such as an SCSI, RAID, or Fibre Channel

94 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.9 Acronis Universal Restore 4.9.1 Purpose of Acronis Universal Restore Universal Restore is part of the

95 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 4.9.2 General principles of Acronis Universal Restore 1. Automatic selection of HAL and mass storage drive

96 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 GRUB), you might consider installing them to a Linux root (or boot) partition boot record instead of an MBR

97 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  When recovering a basic volume to an unallocated space of the dynamic group, the recovered volume become

98 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Some motherboards have a so called boot menu opened by pressing a certain key or key combination, for insta

99 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011  In the Working directory field type-in a path for command execution or select it from the list of previo