User Guide

Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction...........................................................................................7
1.1 What is Acronis True Image Home?....................................................................................7
1.2 New in Acronis True Image 9.0 Home.................................................................................7
1.4 System requirements and supported media.........................................................................8
1.4.1 Minimum system requirements ....................................................................................8
1.4.2 Suppor ed operating systems.......................................................................................8 t
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1.4.3 Suppor ed file systems................................................................................................8
1.4.4 Suppor ed storage media ............................................................................................8
1.5 Technical support..............................................................................................................9
Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Home installation and starting ...........................10
2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Home.................................................................................10
2.2 Extracting Acronis True Image Home................................................................................11
2.3 Running Acronis True Image Home ..................................................................................11
2.4 Upgrading Acronis True Image Home ..............................................................................11
2.5 Removing Acronis True Image Home................................................................................ 11
Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ................12
3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ...........................................12
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups..........................................................................12
3.3 Acronis Secure Zone........................................................................................................13
3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ...................................................................................14
3.4.1 How it works............................................................................................................14
3.4.2 How o use ..............................................................................................................14
3.5 Acronis Snap Restore.......................................................................................................14
3.5.1 How it works............................................................................................................14
3.5.2 How o use ..............................................................................................................15
3.6 Viewing disk and partition information ..............................................................................15
Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Home .........................................................17
4.1 Main program window.....................................................................................................17
4.2 Available operations........................................................................................................18
Chapter 5. Creating backup archives ....................................................................20
5.1 Backing up files and folders (file backup) ..........................................................................20
5.2 Backing up disks and partitions (image backup).................................................................24
5.3 Setting backup options....................................................................................................25
5.3.1 Archive protection..................................................................................................... 26
5.3.2 Source files exclusion................................................................................................26
5.3.3 Pre/post commands.................................................................................................. 26
5.3.4 Compression level..................................................................................................... 27
5.3.5 Backup priority.........................................................................................................27
5.3.6 Archive splitting........................................................................................................27
5.3.7 File-level security se ings..........................................................................................28
5.3.8 Media components....................................................................................................28
5.3.9 Additional settings .................................................................................................... 29
Chapter 6. Restoring the backup data ..................................................................30
6.1 Restore under Windows or boot from CD?.........................................................................30
6.1.1 Ne work settings in rescue mode ...............................................................................30
6.2 Restoring files and folders from file archives...................................................................... 30
6.3 Restoring disks/partitions or files from images...................................................................33
6.3.1 Starting the Restore Data Wizard ............................................................................... 33
6.3.2 Archive selection.......................................................................................................34
6.3.3 Res oration type selection .........................................................................................34
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