User`s guide

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. After completing a new full backup, the program will delete the

old one to save disk space.

If you choose a removable media as the backup destination (for instance, an USB hard drive), it will

be made bootable by default. In other words, a bootable recovery environment, a standalone Acronis

True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition version and the backed up data, will be written to the

removable media.

You will be able to run Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition from the removable media

on a bare-metal system or a crashed computer that cannot boot. Just make the removable media

device the first boot device in BIOS, boot to Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition and

recover your system.

To start One-Click Backup, click the Back up now button. Clicking Cancel will cancel One-Click Backup.

If you decide to use this feature later, click Tools & Utilities in the main program menu and then

choose Acronis One-Click Backup.

Destination selection algorithm

For those interested in how One-Click Backup tool selects a destination for backup, here is the

algorithm the program uses:

1. First of all, the program estimates the space required for operation of the One-Click Backup tool.

2. If there is an external hard drive with enough free space, the backups will be stored on that drive

because such backup location will provide better protection for your computer.

3. If the first option is unavailable but you have at least two internal hard drives, the program will

back up to a non-system hard drive using a partition with the maximum free space.

4. If your computer has only one hard drive with several partitions (not counting hidden ones), then

the program will use the non-system partition with maximum free space.