User`s guide

network share. If you have saved backups belonging to the same backup "chain" to various places,

Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup may prompt you for the locations of previous backups during

data recovery, in the case when the selected backup archive does not contain the files you want to

recover (or contains only a part of them).

8.2 Backup Wizard – detailed information

The current version of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup allows you to choose only Disk backup

type:

Disk backup:

 Choose the Disk and Partition Backup parameter if you need to create an image of the

entire disk or its partitions. Backing up the entire system disk (creating a disk image) takes up

significant disk space, but enables you to recover the system in minutes in case of severe data

damages or hardware failure.

We do not recommend backing up any data from drives protected by the BitLocker Drive Encryption feature,

because in most cases recovering data from such backups will be impossible.

8.2.1 Selecting what data to back up

When the Backup Wizard screen appears, select what data to back up.

Disk and Partition Backup - select the disks or partitions to back up. You can select a random set of

disks and partitions. The wizard's right pane shows the hard drives of your computer. Selecting a

hard drive results in selecting all partitions on that drive. If a hard drive has more than one partition,

you may want to select individual partitions for backing up. To do so, click on the Down arrow at the

right of the drive's line. Select the desired partition(s) in the displayed partition list. By default the

program copies only the hard disk sectors that contain data. However, sometimes it might be useful

to make a full sector-by-sector backup. For example, perhaps you deleted some files by mistake and

want to make a disk image before trying to undelete them because sometimes un-deleting may

create havoc in the file system. To make a sector-by-sector backup, select the Back up sector-by-

sector (requires more storage space) box. Please note that this mode increases processing time and

usually results in a larger image file because it copies both used and unused hard disk sectors. In

addition, when configuring a sector-by-sector backup of a complete hard disk you can include in the

backup unallocated space on the hard disk by selecting Back up unallocated space. Thus you will

include in the backup all physical sectors on the hard drive.

8.2.2 Selecting archive location

Select the location for the backup archive and specify the archive name.

If you are going to create a new archive (i.e. perform a full backup), select Create new backup

archive and enter the path to the archive location and new archive file name in the Backup Location:

field below or click Browse, select the archive location on the directory tree and enter the new file

name in the File name line, or use the file name generator (a button to the right of the line).

If you want to append an incremental backup file to an existing archive, select Add to existing

backup archive and click the Select button to select the existing archive you are going to update. If