User`s guide

and folders or entire disks. One more consideration is the data transfer rate provided by your

network. For example, a Gigabit Ethernet network has a bandwidth sufficient for all amounts of data

to be backed up. However backing up over Wi-Fi connection may be time-consuming when you need

to back up a hundred gigabytes.

Files and folders or data partitions can be backed up and recovered in Windows. If you plan to back

up your system disk or partition, please, make sure that the standalone version of Acronis True

Image OEM Quick Backup can "see" the network share to be used for backups as system recovery

will be done in the recovery environment. After booting from the rescue media make sure that you

can browse to the share in the Backup wizard or Recovery wizard.

It may be advisable to first back up and recover some files to ensure that you can perform those

operations over the network. In addition, it is not recommended to map the drive containing the

network share. Specifying the UNC path makes it easier to establish network connection in most

cases.

Let's suppose you want to back up your system partition.

1. Start Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup and click the My Disks link under Back Up on the

Welcome screen.

2. Select the check box of your system partition on the Source selection screen.

3. When you are connecting to a networked computer, in most cases you will need to provide the

network credentials (user name and password) to access a network share. To do this, select the

Use NT authentication box and enter the user name and password into the appropriate fields.

Pressing the Test authentication and connection button allows testing the ability of the

computer to connect to the selected network share. If testing results in an error message, check

whether you provided the correct credentials and enter the right credentials for the network

share. When the Use NT authentication box is left unselected, the computer will try to log on to

the share with the credentials used for logging on to Windows. Having provided the required

information, click OK to continue. Choose a target archive for the backup task being configured –

you can either add a new backup to an existing archive or create a new one. It is better to use

meaningful names, e.g. Disk_C.tib.

4. Carefully read the Summary of actions to be performed during backup and click Proceed if you

are satisfied with the backup task settings, otherwise click Options on the Summary screen to

change the settings.

5. Choose a backup method. For a more detailed explanation of the methods see Full and

incremental backups (p. 13). Let's reiterate that selection of the backup method may depend on

the desired backup strategy.

6. Set the options for the backup task being created. You can choose to validate the backup

immediately after its creation, though it can be done later.

7. If you wish, provide comments to the backup. You will also be able to add comments later.

8. Click Proceed when you are satisfied with the backup task settings.