User`s guide

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.

Taskbar notification area icons

During most of the operations, special indicator icons appear in the Windows taskbar notification

area (the right portion of the status bar with the clock). If you mouse over the icon, you will see a

tool tip indicating the operation's progress or state. Right-clicking on the icon opens a shortcut menu

where you can change the operation's status or cancel the operation if necessary. This icon doesn't

depend on the main program window being open. It is present for background execution of

scheduled backups as well.

1.3.5 Acronis Backup Explorer

The Acronis Backup Explorer provides you with a wealth of information on your backups: backup

types, backup versions number, dates, contents, backup results, etc. In addition, the Backup Explorer

allows you to explore and recover backed up data (both partitions and individual files and even file

versions). It also allows for operations with backups - you can validate them, convert to Windows

backup (only disk backups), mount images as disks, and delete backup versions you no longer need.

Let's have a closer look on the Acronis Backup Explorer. It has two tabs for viewing backups and their

content: Disks and partitions (available for disk backups only) and Files and folders.

1.3.5.1 Disks and partitions tab

The Disks and partitions tab shows the backed up disks and partitions that the selected backup

version contains.

The tab shows the disks and partitions state of when the current backup version was created.