User's Guide
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Table of contents 1 Getting started ......................................................................................................................7 1.1 Introduction ...............................................................................................................................7 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 1.1.4 1.1.5 1.1.6 1.2 Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition installation and startup .............................14 1.2.1 1.2.2 1.2.3 1.2.4 1.2.5 1.
3.10.12 File-level security settings for backup .......................................................................................................... 57 3.10.13 Performance of backup operation ............................................................................................................... 57 3.10.14 Notifications for backup operation .............................................................................................................. 58 3.11 Validating backups .................
6 5.5 Removing data from Online Storage .....................................................................................108 5.6 Viewing Log ............................................................................................................................109 Useful information ............................................................................................................. 110 6.1 Protecting your system and data ................................................................
9 8.2 Acronis System Report...........................................................................................................159 8.3 Acronis Smart Error Reporting ...............................................................................................159 8.4 Creating a custom rescue CD .................................................................................................161 8.5 Viewing log.....................................................................................
1 Getting started 1.1 Introduction In this section What is Acronis® True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition? .................... 7 Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition basic concepts ............. 8 New in Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition .......................10 System requirements and supported media ...........................................11 Technical Support ....................................................................................13 Trial version information...........
1.1.2 Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition basic concepts This section provides general information about basic concepts which could be useful for understanding how the program works. Backup and recovery Backup refers to the making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to recover the original after a data loss event. Backups are useful primarily for two purposes. The first is to restore a state following a disaster (called disaster recovery).
Once the program starts the partition backup process, it temporarily freezes all the operations on the partition and creates its "snapshot". Snapshot creation usually takes just several seconds. After that, the operating system continues working as the imaging process is under way. The Acronis driver also continues to keep the point-in-time view of the partition. Whenever the driver sees a write operation directed at the partition, it checks whether these sectors are already backed up.
If necessary, you can delete the base full backup from the chain. The program will create a new full backup in place of the oldest remaining backup. Consolidation keeps whichever backups you choose and deletes any backups that are not selected. Since consolidation may require significant time and system resources (including disk space), we recommend using it sparingly. In many cases, starting a new backup chain and then deleting the old one will be a better choice.
New Backup Explorer – Now you can use the Acronis Backup Explorer's time line for exploring not only Acronis Online Backup contents, but contents of all other backups as well. Clicking My backups in the main window will show all your backups on the time line. In addition, you can start recovery of disks and partitions right from the time line. Enhanced scheduler – the completely redesigned scheduler makes scheduling much easier.
Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 (32 Bit) Windows Vista SP2 x86 (32 Bit) Windows 7 Starter Windows 7 x86 (32 Bit) 1.1.4.3 Supported file systems FAT16/32 NTFS exFAT Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 * ReiserFS * Linux SWAP * If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition can copy data using a sector-by-sector approach. * The Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP file systems are supported only for disk or partition backup/recovery operations.
Z520 Z510 Z500 N270 N280 N450 N470 D625 300 Series 200 Series C7-M VIA Nano V105 AMD Athlon II Neo K125 1.1.5 Technical Support Maintenance and Support Program If you need assistance with your Acronis product, please go to http://www.acronis.com/support/ Product Updates You can download the latest updates for all your registered Acronis software products from our website at any time after logging into your Account (https://www.acronis.com/my) and registering the product.
Click Activate if you have already purchased the full version and have a valid product serial number. 1.2 Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition installation and startup In this section Installing Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition ....................14 Extracting Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition ..................15 Running Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition .....................15 Upgrading Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition ..................
Acronis True Image Backup Archive Explorer). Do not disable or uninstall this device, as it is necessary for connecting image backups as virtual disks (see Mounting an image (p. 149)). 1.2.2 Extracting Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition When installing Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition, you can save the setup (.msi) file on a local or network drive. This will help when modifying or recovering the existing component installation.
The backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions. If you roll back Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition to an older version, you likely will have to re-create the backups using the older version. We strongly recommend that you create new bootable media after each Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition upgrade. 1.2.
If you have a large number of preexisting backups or if the overall performance of your system is low, the search for backups may take a long time. In this case, the Welcome screen may also appear. Welcome screen offers you to choose the following items: Back up my critical data Select this item to use the Acronis One-Click Backup tool that allows you to begin protecting your computer as soon as you install Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition.
When you choose to protect your critical data, the program will offer to back up the system partition to a destination it considers the optimum place for backups (see the destination selection algorithm later). You can choose another destination for backups by clicking the down arrow to the right of the destination and browsing for a destination you prefer. By default, Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will schedule subsequent full backups of the system partition once a month.
1.3.1.2 Backup assistant If you want to protect your data, but you are not sure what data to protect and how to do this, the backup assistant will help you to make an optimum choice. In a few simple steps, you will create a backup of your data. The backup will allow you to recover your data to a known good state in case of corruption. Now let's go through the backup assistant steps together. Click Use backup assistant on the Welcome screen.
If you have not created any backups yet, the program will offer to create a new backup with Acronis One-Click Backup tool or manually. If you have at least one backup, the screen will display the list of your backups. Add backups area To create a new or add an existing backup to the backup list, you can use the Add backups area.
My backups area The area shows the backups you already have. It provides access to all operations with the existing backups and allows you to start recovery of your data. To start recovery of the latest backup, select the backup containing the data you need to recover and then click Recover. When an image backup contains more than one backup version, click the Explore all versions link below the Recover button. This will open the Acronis Backup Explorer.
Consolidate versions - allows you to delete the backup versions you no longer need while maintaining the consistency of the backup. Clone backup settings - clones the current backup settings when you need to create several similar backups. Clone the backup settings and then introduce the required changes. Move backup... - allows moving all the backup files to another location. The subsequent backup versions will be saved to the new location.
1.3.3 Tools & Utilities screen This screen allows you to select the tools and utilities provided by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition. To go to the screen, click Tools & Utilities in the main menu. Launch the required tool or utility by clicking the appropriate link. For more information see Tools & Utilities. To return to the main screen, click the "Back to" button in the navigation field at the top of the screen or Home in the same field. 1.3.
Wizards have a sidebar listing all the steps (both required and optional) needed for completing the operation. For example, see the Mount Wizard screen shot below. The completed steps are marked with green checkmarks. The green arrow shows the current step. After you complete all the required steps and come to the Finish step, the program displays the Summary screen. Check the summary of the operation to be performed and then click Proceed to start the operation.
You can switch between the backup versions by using the time line at the bottom of the screen. For more information see Time line (p. 27). To recover disks and/or partitions: 1. On the time line, select the backup version from which you want to recover your disks/partitions. The version's exact date and time will be displayed near the backup name. Your data will be recovered to the state it was at that point in time. 2. Select the corresponding check boxes of the disks or partitions you want to recover. 3.
Validate - select to check the integrity of the backup version data. Mount (for image backups) - select to mount the backup version as a disk. Convert to Windows backup (for image backups) - select to convert the backup version's TIB file to VHD file. Delete version - select to delete the backup version (the backup chain will not be corrupted). View - select to set up the time line to show some additional information.
Selecting a disk, partition, file or folder to make it the current item in a list does not mean selecting it for recovery! The majority of user interface elements located on this tab are described in the Disks and partitions tab (p. 24) section. Here we describe the items specific for the tab. When you click an item, short information on this item is displayed under the browser area. The set of displayed parameters depends on the item's type.
The picture below shows various states of a time line. Its states vary depending on the number of backups and the time interval through which you are navigating. The "Now" interval shows backup versions created during the last hour. The "Today" interval shows backup versions created from the beginning of the current day to the last hour. The "week" interval can be named either "Week ago" or "This week". When today is Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, the "week" interval is named "Week ago".
The "Older" interval shows backup versions created from earlier than the beginning of the current year. Working with time intervals and backup versions Time intervals may be expanded (when the number of backup versions fits onto the time line) or folded into a square "block". When a time interval is expanded, the squares representing backup versions may contain a "warning" or "error" icon. Such an icon indicates that warning(s) or error(s) have been written into the Log during version creation.
Online backup version: Explore and recover Delete version Backup version packs and time blocks: Right-clicking on a folded version pack or time interval's block opens the shortcut menu with a single item: Expand Viewing additional information on the time line You can also set up the time line to show additional information. The appropriate commands are available in the View submenu. The View submenu is opened by right-clicking on a backup version or by right-clicking on time line's free space.
The most significant changes occur in the System and Security category of Windows 7 Control Panel. Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition replaces Windows Backup in the Backup and Restore item. If you first installed Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition without performing backups, the Backup and Restore window allows you to create a backup using Acronis One-Click Backup tool.
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2 How to Due to the size of this User's Guide, it is sometimes not so easy to find how to perform a particular task. This section lists some frequently used tasks and provides links to the appropriate parts of the User's Guide. Click the corresponding page number (or the link, if you are viewing the Help), if you need information on how to: 33 protect your entire system from a disaster (p. 110) recover your system when your computer refuses to boot (p.
3 Backing up data Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition includes a wealth of sophisticated backup capabilities that would please even an IT professional. They allow you to back up your disks (partitions), files, and e-mail. You can choose a backup feature that suits you most or use them all. The below sections describe the backup features in more detail. In this section The difference between file backups and disk/partition images ............34 Full, incremental and differential backups ...........
A disk image includes images of all disk partitions and the zero track with the master boot record (MBR). By default, files in all Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition backups have a ".tib" extension. This extension should not be changed. It is important to note that you can recover files and folders from both file backups and from disk/partition images. To do so, mount the image as a virtual disk (see Mounting an image (p.
A "differential" backup scenario uses the same weekly full system backup with the backup of files that have changed since the last full backup on a daily basis. While this scheme takes up progressively more storage space as each new day of the week passes, a recovery would only involve two backups - the last FULL backup followed by the previous day's differential backup. Many users prefer this method as it simplifies recovery and most backups are done overnight.
If you delete an incremental backup version or a differential backup version - the program will also delete all subsequent incremental versions till the next full or differential version. 3.3 Backing up partitions and disks The image backup is made as easy as ABC. a) Select a partition to back up by selecting its check box. If the disk has several partitions and you want to back up the whole disk, click Switch to disk mode and then select the disk's check box.
2. You may exclude certain files and folders from backup. For example, you transferred some movies from your DVDs to a folder on the data partition. They occupy quite a lot of space and it doesn't make sense to back them up because you have the DVDs. To exclude the folder, click the Add link to the right of Exclusions and add the folder to the excluded items list. 3.
3.4 Backing up files and folders To back up files and/or folders, click File backup on the main screen. This will open the File Backup window. Let's consider how to use this backup type for backing up a folder. 1. Select the folder on the directory tree in the What to back up area. The right side will show the folder contents with all the files and subfolders selected. There you can unselect the files you do not need to back up, if any. 2.
add task name - the name of the task that includes the backup will be added add task run number - the sequence number of the task run will be added 4. Click the Back up now button if you want to run backup immediately. You can also delay the start of backup for up to 6 hours by clicking the down arrow to the right of this button and selecting a delay interval from the dropdown list. When you need to change the default backup options, click File backup options and set the options you require.
To add a custom data category, click Add category. To change the default name of a custom category, double-click the name and enter a new one. Select the data source (e.g. a folder) for the new category by clicking the Browse... button. By default the new category will contain All data from the source, but you can apply filters to select the specific types of files that you wish or do not wish to back up.
Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition gives the zip format most of the functionality available for the tib format. You can schedule backups, validate zip backups, recover files and folders from zip backups, make incremental and differential backups, etc. However, it does not provide password protection and encryption. Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition can recover and validate only its own zip backups.
News Folders User Settings Address Book For Microsoft Outlook Express Mail Folders Address Book (select Windows Address Book). Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition provides backup of IMAP (Internet Messages Access Protocol) mail folders for Microsoft Outlook. This means that you can back up folders stored on a mail server. For Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail only backup of local e-mail folders is available.
3.6 Making reserve copies of your backups You can create reserve copies of your backups and save them on the file system, a network drive, or a USB flash drive. In addition to enhancing the backed up data security with replication, this feature allows you to copy a set of documents, for example, to a USB stick for working on them at home. So now you can perform a normal backup and copy the same files to a USB stick or any local hard drive.
2. Choose how to duplicate the project file(s) on the USB stick. If you need to save space, choose duplicating as a zip file. Click on the Set location... link, select the drive letter of the USB stick and create a folder for a reserve copy by clicking on the Make New Folder button. 3. Finish configuring your backup as usual. 4. Click Back up now and do not forget to take the USB stick home.
To complete the backup, you may either try to free up some space on the disk and click Retry or select another storage device. To choose the latter option, click Browse... in the confirmation window. The Browse for Destination window appears. The left pane shows the storage locations available on your computer. After you select a suitable location, assign a name for the file that will contain the remaining data being backed up. You can enter the name manually (for example, "tail_end.
You can exclude hidden and system files from a backup by selecting the corresponding check boxes. In addition, you can exclude files meeting the criteria you specify. To do this, select the Files matching the following criteria check box, enter the exclusion criterion, and then click Add. By default, the program excludes from backups files with the following extensions: .~, .tmp, and .tib. You can enter explicit file names for exclusion from the backup: file.
settings as default check box to apply the modified settings to all further backup operations by default. Note that disk backup options, file backup options and e-mail backup options are fully independent, and you should configure them separately. If you want to reset all the modified options to their initial values that were set after the product installation, click the Reset to initial settings button. In this section Backup schemes .......................................................................
Backup methods that will be used to create backup versions (full, differential or incremental) Sequence of the backup versions created using different methods Version cleanup rules Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition allows you to choose the following backup schemes: Single version (p. 49) - select this scheme if you want to use the smallest backup storage, or if you back up data that changes insignificantly. Version chain (p. 50) - this is the most recommended and optimal scheme.
Result: you have a single up-to-date full backup version Required storage space: minimal. 3.10.1.2 Version chain scheme This backup scheme differs for disk backup and file backup types. Disk backup version chain At first the program creates the 1st full backup version. The version will be kept until you delete it manually.
You can configure the scheme by using one of the following options: Create only differential versions after the initial full version - select this item to create only one backup version chain. Automatic cleanup is not available for this option. Create a full version after every [n] differential versions - select this item to create several backup version chains. This is a more reliable but more space-consuming backup scheme. Incremental (p.
3.10.2 Image creation mode You can use these parameters to create an exact copy of your whole partitions or hard disks, and not only the sectors that contain data. Note that the Back up unallocated space check box is available only when the Back up sector-by-sector check box is selected. To make a sector-by-sector backup, check the Back up sector-by-sector parameter. By default the program copies only the hard disk sectors that contain data.
3.10.4 Pre/Post commands for backup You can specify commands (or even batch files) that will be automatically executed before and after the backup procedure. For example, you may want to start/stop certain Windows processes, or check your data before starting backup. To specify commands (batch files): Select a command to be executed before the backup process starts in the Before backup process field. To create a new command or select a new batch file, click the Edit button.
If you do not have enough space to store the image on your hard disk, the program will warn you and wait for your decision as to how you plan to fix the problem. You can try to free some additional space and continue or click Back and select another disk. When backing up to a CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE: Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will ask you to insert a new disk when the previous one is full. Alternatively, you may select the desired file size from the drop-down list.
3.10.7 Backup reserve copy You can create reserve copies of your backups and save them on the file system, a network drive, or a USB flash drive. To make a reserve copy: Select the Create a reserve copy of my backups check box Click Set location...
Acronis One-Click Restore can be added to the media only when creating a full backup of an entire hard disk. It cannot be added when creating an incremental or differential backup, as well as backup of a partition. In such case the Place Acronis One-Click Restore on media check box will not be present on the General tab of the current backup options, even if the box is selected in the default Removable media settings.
3.10.11 Computer shutdown If you know that the backup process you are configuring may take a long time, you may select the Shut down the computer after the backup is complete check box. In this case, you will not have to wait until the operation completion. The program will perform the backup and turn off your computer automatically. This option is also useful when you schedule your backups. For example, you may want to perform backups every weekday in the evening to save all your work.
The optimal data compression level depends on the type of files stored in the backup. For example, even maximum compression will not significantly reduce the backup size, if the backup contains essentially compressed files, like .jpg, .pdf or .mp3. Operation priority Changing the priority of a backup or recovery process can make it run faster or slower (depending on whether you raise or lower the priority), but it can also adversely affect the performance of other running programs.
If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup is being run, the program will display the same message and you will have to make the same decisions.
3.11 Validating backups The validation procedure checks whether you will be able to recover data from a particular backup version, so when you select for validation on the time line… a full backup version, the program validates the full backup version only. an incremental backup version, the program validates the initial full backup, the selected incremental backup version, and the whole chain (if any) of backup versions to the selected incremental backup version.
Follow the wizard's steps 3.12.1 Archive to consolidate protection The archive you chose is password-protected in order to prevent it from unauthorized access. You need to specify the previously entered password to obtain access to the archive. To specify the password: Type-in the password in the Password field. If you enter the wrong password, the consolidate archive procedure will not be able to continue. Click OK to continue. 3.12.
Click the Cancel button to exit the wizard without performing any operations. 3.13 Cloning backup settings When you already have a backup and you need to create a new backup of the same type (disk, file or e-mail backup), there is no need to configure the backup process from scratch. The program allows you to copy all settings from an existing backup. After that, you only have to slightly correct the copied settings for your new backup and click Back up now.
4 Recovering data The purpose of data backup is to recover backed up data when the original is lost due to hardware failure, fire, theft or accidental deletion of files. We hope that you backed up your system and data using the backup features provided by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition. If so, nothing will have been lost. The following sections describe how to recover disks, partitions, files and folders. In most cases, you will use Acronis Backup Explorer to recover files and folders.
If the utility correctly detects your system hard disk drive, then the cause of the crash is probably a virus, malware or corruption of a system file required for booting. If the system drive is healthy, try to recover the system using a backup of your system disk or system partition. Because Windows does not boot, you will have to use Acronis bootable rescue media. You will also need to use a system disk backup when recovering the system after replacing the damaged hard disk drive. 4.1.
3. Select My disks below Recover on the Welcome screen. 4. Select the system disk or partition backup image to be used for recovery. Right-click on the backup and choose Recover in the shortcut menu.
Click Browse and show the path to the backup. 5. Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step. 66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
6. Select the system partition (usually C) on the What to recover screen. If the system partition has a different letter, select the partition using the Flags column. It must have the Pri, Act flags. In case of Windows 7 the System Reserved partition will have the Pri, Act flags . You will need to select for recovery both the System Reserved partition and the System partition. 7.
8. Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step. If you have not resized the partition, the sizes in the Deleting partition and Recovering partition items must match. Having checked the summary click Proceed. 9. When the operation finishes, exit the standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition, remove the rescue media and boot from the recovered system partition. After making sure that you have recovered Windows to the state you need, restore the original boot order.
If you want to recover the partition to the state it was at an earlier date, click Explore and recover under the Recover last version button. This will open Backup Explorer which allows you to select the image backup version created on that date. Clicking Recover after selecting the required version will open the Disk Recovery window. a) Select the corresponding check boxes of the partition(s) to recover.
We recommend that you clear the Recover disk signature check box when: You use an image backup not for disaster recovery but for cloning your Windows hard drive to another one. In this case, Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition generates a new disk signature for the recovered hard drive, even if you recover to the same drive. Disk recovery options - click to set up additional parameters for the disk recovery process. 4.
8. Make the settings for the second partition. Leave enough unallocated space for other partitions to be recovered. 9. Select the next partition, etc. 10. Repeat the above actions until you handle all partitions in the backup. 11. Click Recover now to recover all partitions to the destination hard disk. 4.
5. At the What to recover step, select the boxes which indicate the partitions to be recovered. Do not select the MBR and Track 0 box, as this will result in selecting the entire disk for recovery. Recovering the entire disk does not allow you to resize partitions manually. In such an event, the new disk space will be proportionally distributed between the recovered partitions. If necessary, you can recover the MBR later. Select the partitions and click Next.
Boot the computer to Windows. It may report that new hardware (the hard drive) has been found and that Windows needs to reboot. After making sure that the system operates normally, restore the original boot order. 4.4.2 Recovering a disk with a hidden partition A hidden partition may be created by the PC manufacturer for diagnostics or system recovery. Recovering a backup of a system disk with a hidden partition requires that you to take into account some additional factors.
8. Proceed to specifying the partition size by clicking Change default in the Partition size area. By default the partition will occupy the entire new disk. You need to keep the hidden partition size unchanged and place it in the same location on the disk (at the start or the end of disk space). To do this, resize and relocate the partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse on the horizontal bar on the screen.
1. Select in the Backup Explorer the files and folders you want to recover. For more information on selection in the Backup Explorer see Files and folders tab (p. 26). Click Recover to start recovery. This will open the File Recovery window. 2. Select a destination on your computer to where you want to recover selected files/folders. You can recover data to its original location or choose a new one, if necessary. To choose a new location, click the Browse... button. 3.
3. To start the recovery process, click the Recover now button. 4. The recovery progress will be shown in a special window. You can stop the recovery by clicking Cancel. Please keep in mind that the aborted recovery may still cause changes in the original location. 4.6 Recovering file versions If you need to recover a specific version of a file, select the file in the Backup Explorer. When you select the file, the View versions link appears below the file size information.
If Windows won’t load, this feature allows you to run Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition by itself to recover damaged partitions. To be able to use Acronis Startup Recovery Manager at boot time: Click Tools & Utilities on the menu bar and select Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Click the Activate button Attention When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated, it overwrites the master boot record (MBR) with its own boot code.
4.9 Arranging boot order in BIOS BIOS has a built-in setup utility for initial computer configuration. To enter it, you have to press a certain key combination (Del, F1, Ctrl+Alt+Esc, Ctrl+Esc, or some other, depending on your BIOS) during the POST (power-on self test) sequence that starts immediately after you turn your computer on. Usually the message with the required key combination is displayed during the startup test.
In this section Pre/Post commands for recovery ............................................................79 Validation option......................................................................................79 Computer restart .....................................................................................80 File recovery options ................................................................................80 Overwrite file options ...............................................................
Check the file system after recovery The preset is disabled. Having recovered a partition from an image, Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition can check the integrity of the file system. To do so, enable this option. Limitations on use of this option: Check of the file system is available only when recovering partitions using FAT16/32 and NTFS file systems.
Click Add specific files and folders to manage the list of custom files and folders that you do not want to overwrite. To disable overwriting of specific files, click the Add... button to create an exclusion criterion. While specifying the criteria, you can use the common Windows wildcard characters. For example, to preserve all files with extension .exe, you can add *.exe. Adding My???.exe will preserve all .exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with “my”.
If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup is being run, the program will display the same message and you will have to make the same decisions.
5 Using Acronis Online Backup In this section What is Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup? .......................83 Subscription information .........................................................................83 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage ......................................................84 Recovery from Online Storage ...............................................................105 Removing data from Online Storage......................................................
If you do not have an Acronis account, fill in the appropriate fields, and the account will be created for you. Provide your first and last names and e-mail address. You will be offered a country selected on the basis of the IP address of your computer, though you can select another country, if you wish. Then provide a password for your new account and confirm the password by retyping it once more in the appropriate field.
have forgotten your password, click Forgot password? and follow the instructions on the opened Web page. A new password will be sent to you by e-mail. have forgotten which e-mail address you used for opening your Acronis account, click Forgot Registration E-mail? and follow the instructions on the opened Web page. connect to the Internet via a proxy server, click Proxy settings and then provide the settings for your proxy server. For more information see Proxy settings (p. 100). 5.3.
After the computer connects to the Online Backup Server, set up an online backup task for this computer. For more information see Setting up online backup for a new computer (p. 87). What is an encryption key To protect your data on the online storage from unauthorized access, you can use encryption. In this case your files will be encrypted before transmission over the Internet and your data will be stored on the online storage in encrypted form.
5.3.2.1 Data encryption in Online Backup To protect your data on the online storage from unauthorized access, you can use encryption. In this case your data will be stored on the online storage in encrypted form. To encrypt and decrypt your data, the program needs the encryption key, that you should specify when you register your computer. An encryption key is a unique alphanumeric code, like a password. You can specify any set of characters you like. Note that the key is case-sensitive.
To start backup immediately, click Back Up Now. You can also delay online backup start for up to 6 hours by clicking the down arrow to the right of this button and selecting a delay interval from the dropdown list. 88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
5.3.4 Main window This window shows the current state of your space on the Acronis Online Storage. The online storage space is presented as a stripe. All your registered computers are displayed as tabs that share the stripe. You can see the amount of storage space that every computer has used, as well as the amount of free space left on the Online Storage in accordance with your quota. If you want to increase the Online Storage space quota, click the "+" icon to the right of free space stripe.
Options - click to open the Options menu where you can specify all Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup options and settings, as well as remove a computer from the Online Storage. The Options menu includes the following items: What to Back Up - select to open the dialog box where you can specify the data to back up and the data you want to exclude from the backup. Your selection will be stored in the online backup task.
Click Options Schedule in the main window and set up scheduling for the online backup task. For more information see Scheduling (p. 94) Click the Back Up Now button if you want to start the first online backup immediately The first online backup may take a considerable amount of time to complete. Further backup processes will likely be much faster, because only changes to files will be transferred over the Internet. 5.3.5.
To include particular items in a folder, click the folder's name in the folders pane, and then select the items' check boxes in the folder contents pane. Excluding items File filtering can be applied to manually added folders by specifying which files to exclude from backup. For more information see Excluding items from online backup (p. 93).
5.3.5.2 Excluding items from online backup Excluding unnecessary files from online backup may be useful as the data transfer rate and available storage space are limited. To exclude files, click the corresponding link at the bottom of the What to back up window. You can exclude hidden and system files from online backup by selecting the corresponding check boxes. In addition, you can exclude files meeting the criteria you specify.
To delete a criterion, for example, added by mistake, click the Delete icon to the right of the criterion. To cancel changes in the items to be excluded, click Cancel. After you make changes in the items to be excluded, click OK to confirm the changes and exit from the What to exclude window. 5.3.5.3 Scheduling The Scheduler window allows you to specify the online backup task execution settings. Choose one of the following backup frequencies: Daily (p.
Every () hours. Choose backup periodicity from the dropdown list (for, example, every 2 hours). This setting is available only for daily backups. Clicking the Do Not Schedule button turns off the scheduler and online backup will be performed only when you click Back Up Now in the main window. Advanced settings Clicking Advanced Settings allows you to specify the following additional settings for online backup scheduling.
Select the days on which to execute the task by clicking on their names. Start: either at a certain time or upon a certain event If you select At, set the task's start time. Enter hours and minutes manually, or set the desired start time, by using the up and down buttons. If you select Upon event, choose the event you need: At user logon, At user logoff, At system startup or At system shutdown. To run a backup only at the first occurrence of the event, select the Once a day only box.
5.3.5.4 Credentials In some cases when you plan an operation to be performed in the future, you have to specify the credentials (Windows account name and password of the user). For example, this is required when you schedule a backup or specify Pre/Post commands for backup operation. If you do not enter the credentials, scheduled execution will be impossible. To specify the credentials: Enter the user name in the appropriate field. By default this field displays the current user name.
5.3.6.1 Connection attempts On this page you can specify the number of connection attempts and the time interval between the attempts. In case of any network problems, if the first connection attempt fails, the program will repeat the attempts till a connection is successfully established. You can set the number of connection attempts and the time interval between the attempts in seconds. To do so, type or select the values in the appropriate boxes. 5.3.6.
Select the Limit transfer rate to check box and specify an optimal value and an appropriate measure (kilobits or megabits per second) 5.3.6.3 Storage cleanup You can configure the cleanup settings for the Online storage to optimize usage of its space. To set the limits for the amount of versions in the Online storage: Select the Delete versions that are older than check box and enter a value that limits the maximum age of the older versions.
5.3.6.4 Proxy settings If your computer is connected to the Internet using a proxy server, you can adjust the proxy server settings. To use the proxy server, select the Use proxy check box. Acronis Online Backup supports only http and https proxy servers. To set up proxy server settings: In the Host name box, type the name or IP address of the proxy server, such as proxy.example.com or 192.168.0.
5.3.6.5 Backup priority Changing the priority of a backup process can make it run faster or slower (depending on whether you raise or lower the priority), but it can also adversely affect the performance of other running programs. The priority of any process running in a system, determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process. Decreasing the backup priority will free up more resources for other CPU tasks.
Enter the password in the Password field To specify additional notification settings, click the Additional e-mail parameters... link.
and/or the subject in the Subject field. If you leave the From field empty, the e-mail will be composed using the name from the outgoing account. To send notification concerning process completion, select the Send notification upon operation's successful completion check box. To send notification concerning process failure, select the Send notification upon operation failure check box.
Unselecting the Do not perform operations until the command's execution is complete box, selected by default, will permit the backup process to run concurrently with your command execution. If you want the backup to be performed even if your command fails, unselect the Abort the operation if the user command fails box (selected by default). You can test execution of the command you created by clicking Test command. 5.3.6.
5.4 Recovery from Online Storage In this section Recovering data from Online Storage ....................................................105 Selecting a version to recover ................................................................106 Recovery operation progress .................................................................107 5.4.1 Recovering data from Online Storage Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup allows you to browse and recover data that was backed up on Online Storage.
Selecting data The main area displays the data backed up on the Online Storage. The area contains the folder tree (on the left) and the folder contents pane (on the right). You can select the items using both panes. To select multiple files/folders, you can use the Ctrl and Shift keys like in Windows Explorer. After you finish selection, right-click and select the required action in the shortcut menu.
In the File Versions dialog window that appears, select a version, and then click Recover, or simply drag the version to a destination in Windows Explorer To remove a file version from the storage, select the version and click the Remove icon (cross) to the right of the version number. To exit the window without recovering, click Cancel. 5.4.3 Recovery operation progress Once you start recovery of the selected files, the recovery progress window appears.
5.5 Removing data from Online Storage Because the available space on Acronis Online Storage is limited, you need to manage your Online Storage space by cleaning up the obsolete data or the data you do not need anymore. Cleanup can be done in a variety of ways. The most "drastic" one is removing a computer registered on the Online Storage. Removing a computer results in deleting all data that was backed up from that computer. Therefore, such an operation must be carried out with caution.
5.6 Viewing Log If you want to view the log of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup operations, click Help Event Log in the upper right corner of the main window. To view the logs for a specific period, select the period from the drop-down list. You can select Today, Week, and Month. To view all logs, select Show all. To delete a log entry, select it, right-click and select Delete in the shortcut menu. To delete all log entries, select Delete all.
6 Useful information In this section Protecting your system and data ...........................................................110 Preparing for backups ............................................................................112 Testing bootable rescue media ..............................................................116 Testing that your backups can be used for recovery .............................119 Scheduling .......................................................................................
1. Start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition and then click Disk and partition backup in the main window. 2. This opens the Disk Backup window with your system partition (usually C:) selected by default. If you use Windows 7, the program will also select the System Reserved partition. Do not clear its check box, because you may need to recover that partition if your system crashes. 3.
4. Click Back up now. Additional recommendations 1) Many IT professionals recommend that you have at least two copies of your system backup (three are even better). It is further recommended to keep one copy of a backup in a different location from the other (preferably on other premises – for example, at work or at a friend's home, if you use the backed up computer at home).
Home file server, NAS or NDAS If you have a Gigabit Ethernet home network and a dedicated file server or NAS, you can store backups on the file server or NAS practically like on an internal drive. If you decide to use an external hard drive, NAS, NDAS, etc., you will need to check whether Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition detects the selected backup storage. You need to check this both in Windows and when booted from the rescue media.
The firewall settings of the source computer should have Ports 20 and 21 opened for the TPC and UDP protocols to function. The Routing and Remote Access Windows service should be disabled. 6.2.1.2 Authentication settings If you are connecting to a networked computer, in most cases you will need to provide the necessary credentials for accessing the network share.
you should also safeguard your personal data using file and folder backups. This is true even if your image backup contains that data. After the initial full backup, file backups usually take little time to run, making it easy to back up your data once (or even several times) a day. This ensures that your most recent backup is never more than a day old.
Data backups You can run your file backups manually or on a schedule. In this case the frequency of backups will depend on how often you make changes in the files being backed up or add new files. For instance, when you are working on a project day after day, you will likely need to schedule a backup of your daily work results at the end of every day. For additional safety you can back up your most important files on a remote storage using Acronis Online Backup.
drives are shown under My Computer. Having checked the drives, click Cancel to close Backup Wizard. 4) If you store your backups on the network, you should also check that you can access the network in the recovery environment. This is necessary because when booted from the rescue media, Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition might not detect the network.
2. When the command line appears, type "vga=ask" (without quotes) and click OK. 3. Select Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition (Full version) in the boot menu to continue booting from the rescue media. To see the available video modes, press the Enter key when the appropriate message appears. 4. Choose a video mode you think best suitable for your monitor and type its number in the command line. For instance, typing 338 selects video mode 1600x1200x16 (see the below figure).
To test another video mode, close Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition and repeat the above procedure. After you find the optimal video mode for your hardware, you can create a new bootable rescue media that will automatically select that video mode. To do this, start Acronis Media Builder, select the required media components, and type the mode number with the "0x" prefix (0x338 in our instance) in the command line at the "Bootable media startup parameters" step, then create the media as usual. 6.
6.5 Scheduling The Scheduler window allows you to specify the backup and validation schedule settings. You can choose and set up one of the following backup or validation frequencies: Daily (p. 121) - the operation will be executed once a day or more frequently. Monthly (p. 121) - the operation will be executed once a month or several times a month on the selected dates. Upon event (p. 122) - the operation will be executed upon an event. Weekly (p.
check box will let you perform a missed operation when the USB flash drive is attached if it was disconnected at the scheduled time. Run the backup upon HDD alarm (available when Acronis Drive Monitor is installed) – if enabled, the backup will run as soon as there is an alarm on Acronis Drive Monitor about a potential problem with one of the hard disks in the backup source. Acronis Drive Monitor is a hard drive health monitoring utility based on information received from hard drive S.M.A.R.T.
If you select On, choose the date(s) for operation execution (example: you may want the operation to be run on the 10th, 20th, and last day of the month) Start time Set the operation's start time. Enter hours and minutes manually, or set the desired start time using the up and down buttons. Description of the Advanced settings see in Scheduling (p. 120). 6.5.
Enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition window. You will be taken to the Acronis Backup Explorer screen. The program shows search results on the Files and folders tab. By default Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition performs the search in all the sources where it can search information. That is, it searches files in all backups and their versions on all local storage devices.
6.6.2 Windows Search and Google Desktop integration Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition has plug-ins for Google Desktop and Windows Search. If you use any of these search engines on your computer, you can install an appropriate plug-in for indexing your backups. Indexing will speed up searches in the backups.
2. Click OK to start plug-in installation. One more confirmation window may appear. In this case click OK to finish the installation. 3. Verify that the plug-in is installed. Right-click on the Google Desktop icon in your system tray and select Options in the shortcut menu. Google Desktop opens the Preferences window in your browser. Make sure that Acronis Indexer (Acronis Backups) is selected in the Indexing Plug-ins area. 4.
After for example an hour, check whether Google Desktop has indexed the Acronis backups by entering in its query field the name of a file which you know for sure that you backed up. If Google Desktop has completed indexing, it will show you the backups where it has found the file. If you want to see all the search results, click the "See all N results in a browser" and you will see something like the screen shot below. 126 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
Clicking in the browser window on a line related to the desired file version opens a small dialog with just two options: View and Recover. Choosing View starts the application associated with this file type and opens the file. Choosing Recover starts Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition and you can then recover the file to a desired location.
2. You can verify that the tib files indexing support is enabled. Right-click on the Windows Search icon in your system tray and select Windows Desktop Search Options… in the context menu. The following window appears. Make sure that the "tib://..." item is present in the Included Locations list. To open the Indexing Options window in Windows Vista or Windows 7, open the Control Panel and then double-click the Indexing Options icon.
3. Click Advanced, select the File Types tab and then make sure that the tib extension is selected and ".tib IFilter" is shown in the Filter Description field. Select Index Properties and File Contents. 129 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
4. Click OK and while the Indexing Options window is open, check that the disks where you store your backups are shown in the "Included Locations" list. If the list does not contain those disks, the backups will not be indexed. To include the disks, click Modify and select them in the window that appears. If you store backups on a network share, Windows Search can index them too.
Give Windows Search some time for indexing Acronis backups on your computer's hard disks and adding the indexing information to its index database. The required time depends on the number of backups and the number of files they contain. After completing the indexing, the Windows Search will be able to search files in tib backups. The search engines in Windows Search and Windows Vista or Windows 7 have similar functionalities, though search results are presented somewhat differently.
6.7 Choosing columns for viewing in wizards You can change the way the columns are represented in various wizards. To sort items by a particular column, click the header (another click will switch the items to the opposite order). To select columns to view, right-click in the right pane and select Choose Columns in the shortcut menu. Then flag the columns you want to display. You can also change the display order of columns using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.
7 Tools & Utilities Acronis Tools & Utilities include Protection tools, Conversion tools, Disk management utilities, Security and privacy utilities, Mounting tools and Backup settings transfer tools. Protection tools: Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Allows you to start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition without loading the operating system by pressing F11 at boot time before the operating system starts.
Backup settings transfer tools: Import backup settings Allows you to get backup settings from another computer. Export backup settings Allows you to copy the settings of your backups and move them to another computer. 7.1 7.1.1 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager How it works The Acronis Startup Recovery Manager lets you start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition without loading the operating system.
Rescue media contents selection ..........................................................135 Bootable media startup parameters......................................................136 Bootable media selection ......................................................................138 Destination file selection .......................................................................138 Bootable media creation summary........................................................138 7.2.
Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition (Full version) - includes support of USB, PC Card (formerly PCMCIA) and SCSI interfaces along with the storage devices connected via them, and therefore is strongly recommended. Acronis System Report - the component allows you to generate a system report that is used for collecting information about your system in case of any program problem.
Additional parameters that can be applied prior to booting Linux kernel Description The following parameters can be used to load Linux kernel in a special mode: acpi=off Disables ACPI and may help with a particular hardware configuration. noapic Disables APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) and may help with a particular hardware configuration. nousb Disables loading of USB modules. nousb2 Disables USB 2.0 support. USB 1.1 devices still work with this option.
the interrupt routing table. Try this option, if the kernel is unable to allocate IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your motherboard. vga=ask Gets the list of the video modes available for your video card and allows selecting a video mode most suitable for the video card and monitor. Try this option, if the automatically selected video mode is unsuitable for your hardware. 7.2.
Click Proceed to start the bootable media creation process. Use the sidebar on the left to navigate through the wizard's steps for revision. To cancel operation and quit Acronis Media Builder, click Cancel. After you create a boot disc, mark it and keep it in a safe place. Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions.
Follow the File shredder wizard steps. 7.3.1.1 Select files/folders Select the files and/or folders you wish to shred. To select files and/or folders: Expand the drives tree and select the files and/or folders you need to shred. You can select a random set of files, folders and even disks. Be careful when selecting the contents for shredding to avoid the loss of necessary data. Having selected the contents for shredding, click Next to continue. 7.3.1.
Note that after you click the Proceed button, the selected files and folders will be destroyed permanently. So the button is disabled until you select the Destroy the selected files and folders irreversibly check box. Click the Proceed button to destroy the selected files and/or folders permanently. Click the Options button to perform the optional steps. Click the Cancel button to exit the wizard without performing any operations.
After you run the wizard by selecting Tools & Utilities System Clean-up in the main program menu, it will search for any traces of user actions stored by Windows. When the search is finished, its results will be available at the top of the wizard window. You can view the search results and manually select the items you wish to remove. If you want to change the default system clean-up settings, click the corresponding link in the first window of the System Clean-up wizard.
Temporary files Hard disk free space Find Computer list Find File list Recently Used Documents list Windows Run List Opened/saved files history User Credentials Windows Prefetch Directory 7.3.2.2 Default clean-up options The default clean-up options are available by clicking the Click to change this setting… link on the Data Destruction Method option page. To change the default clean-up options: Choose on the tree the component clean-up settings which you need to change.
Data destruction method System Clean-up utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction methods. Here, you need to select the desired data destruction method. Use common method - if you leave this parameter selected, the program will use the default method (the initial setting is Fast method). If you need another destruction method to be set as a default, click on the corresponding link.
All files with names corresponding to at least one of the search strings will be cleaned. Upon entering the Files setting value, you can browse the files matching the search strings. To do this, click Show Files. You will see a window with the names of the found files. These files will be cleaned. Drive free space Here you can manually specify physical and/or logical drives to clean up free space on. By default, System Clean-up cleans up free space on all available drives.
After entering the Computers setting value, you can browse the search strings found by the System Clean-up Wizard in the registry. To do so, click Show Computers. You will see the window with full and partial computer names searched for in the network. These items will be deleted. "Commands" setting Here you can select the commands to remove during Windows Run List clean-up. This template can contain any command names or their parts separated by semicolons, e.g.
To select/unselect a component Expand the System Components item in the System Clean-up tree and make sure that the component you wish to clean up is selected. If you do not want to clean up a component, simply clear its check box. If required, you can dig deeper by expanding a component and selecting/unselecting its contents. Having specified the components for clean-up, click the Clean-up button to continue. Windows Vista and Windows 7 do not keep information on file and computer searches.
7.3.3.1 Functioning principles of Information wiping methods Physically, the complete wiping of information from a hard disk involves the switching of every elementary magnetic area of the recording material as many times as possible by writing specially selected sequences of logical 1's and 0's (also known as samples).
No. Algorithm (writing method) Passes Record cryptographically secure pseudo-random sequence. 8. Fast 7.4 1 Logical zeros (0x00 numbers) to all sectors to wipe. Mounting an image Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition offers mounting for images and exploring for both images and file-level backups. Exploring images and file-level backups lets you view their contents and copy the selected files to a hard disk. To explore a backup in Windows Explorer, double-click on the corresponding tib file.
If you selected a backup containing incremental images, you can select one of the successive incremental images (also called "backup versions") by its creation date/time. Thus, you can explore the data state at a certain moment. To mount an incremental image, you must have all previous backup versions and the initial full backup. If any of the successive backups are missing, mounting is not possible. To mount a differential image, you must have the initial full image as well.
You can also select a letter to be assigned to the virtual disk from the Mount letter drop-down list. If you do not want to mount a partition, select Do not mount in the list or clear the partition's check box. 4. If you select the Mount the partitions in the read-write mode box, the program assumes that the mounted image will be modified and creates an incremental backup file to capture the changes. It is strongly recommended that you list the forthcoming changes in the Comments section to this file.
If you have mounted several partitions, by default all of them will be selected for unmounting. You can disconnect all mounted drives together or disconnect only those you do not need mounted anymore. You can also do this in Windows Explorer by right-clicking on the disk icon and choosing Unmount. 7.6 Working with vhd files In this section Converting tib images into vhd virtual disks and vice versa ..................152 Recovery using vhd files created by Windows Backup ..........................
1. Click Convert Acronis backup to Windows backup on the Tools & Utilities screen. 2. Select the disk image to convert. If the backup is password-protected, Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will ask for it. Note that the resulting vhd file will lose password protection. Converting an incremental backup requires all the previous incremental backups and the original full backup. Converting a differential backup requires the original full backup.
1. Click Convert Windows backup to Acronis backup on the Tools & Utilities screen. 2. Select the vhd file to convert. 3. Specify the path to the tib file to be created. By default, the converted file will be created in the same location as the file to be converted. However, you can select another location by clicking Browse. The file can be directed to any storage supported by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition. 4. The next step allows you to set options for the tib backup to be created.
Even if the required vhd backup is shown on the screen, after you choose it Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition may display the following message: "Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition cannot detect volume 1 of "Backup_Name" archive", where Backup_Name is the name of the chosen backup.
paging file (Pagefile.sys), as the paging file is created on the host partition outside the virtual one. Microsoft states that you should estimate approximately 5 GB of available space in addition to the maximum size of the vhd file. So the estimated free space is the size of your system partition plus 5 GB. From the above, it follows that you cannot boot from the vhd file if it is located on your system partition. 6.
backup options backup location schedule backup scheme automatic clean-up rules backup version naming rules You cannot import Online Backup settings from one computer to another. To export the settings of your existing backups, click Tools & Utilities on the menu bar. Then click Export backup settings and browse for the destination to save the script files with the settings.
8 Troubleshooting In this section General recommendations ....................................................................158 Acronis System Report ...........................................................................159 Acronis Smart Error Reporting ...............................................................159 Creating a custom rescue CD .................................................................161 Viewing log ...........................................................................
8.2 Acronis System Report When you contact the Acronis support team, they will usually need information about your system in order to resolve your problem. Sometimes getting the information is an inconvenient process and may take a long time. The Generate system report tool simplifies the procedure. It generates a system report containing all the necessary technical information and allows you to save the information to file.
You can view more detailed information about the error by clicking the More details link in the message box. The detailed information may look like as is shown on the following screen shot: To view the Acronis Knowledge Base article suggesting a solution(s) for correcting the error, click the Knowledge Base button. This will open a confirmation window that lists the information to be sent via Internet to the Acronis Knowledge Base. Click OK to permit sending the information.
More information about this error and an applicable solution may be available online in the Acronis Knowledge base. To access the online resource manually, enter the event code at: http://kb.acronis.com/errorcode/ Event code: 0x00970007+0x00970016+0x00970002" The event codes from different modules are combined with "+" symbols. When manually entering such event codes into the appropriate field to search in the Knowledge Base, enter the event code components without spaces around the "+" symbols.
If you want to view the log of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition operations, click Help View log in the upper right corner of the main window. To view the logs for a specific period, select the period from the drop-down list. You can select Today, Week, and Month. To view all logs, select All. To delete a log entry, select it, right-click and select Delete in the shortcut menu. To delete all log entries, select Delete all. You can also save a log entry to file by selecting Save.
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9 Glossary of Terms A Acronis Startup Recovery Manager A protection tool that allows to start standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition at boot time when F11 is pressed. Acronis Startup Recovery Manager eliminates the need for rescue media. Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is especially useful for mobile users.
C F Consolidation Full backup Combining two or more subsequent backup versions (p. 164) belonging to the same backup (p. 164) into a single backup version. 1. A backup method that is used to save all the data selected to back up. 2. A backup process that creates a full backup version (p. 165). The consolidation procedure allows you to delete the backup versions you no longer need from any backup chain while maintaining the consistency of chain's backups.
To begin to use the Online storage a user should subscribe to the service. R Recovery Recovery is a process of returning of a corrupted data to a previous normal state from a backup (p. 164). V Validation An operation that checks whether you will be able to recover data from a particular backup version (p. 164). When you select for validation… a full backup version (p. 165) - the program validates the full backup version only. a differential backup version (p.
