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the tib file into a VHD used for actual booting. So if you can boot from the converted vhd file, you will

be able to boot after recovering this backup to your disk.

Disaster recovery

Recovering from a disaster usually requires a rescue media, because such disaster often means that

your operating system does not boot either due to system data corruption (e.g. caused by a virus or

malware) or a hard disk failure. When the operating system fails to boot, you need some other

means of booting and using Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup to recover the system partition.

So to be better prepared for a disaster, you absolutely must have a rescue media. Legal owners of

the program can create a rescue media using the tool called Media Builder.

To enable booting to the recovery environment, it is necessary to ensure that the BIOS boot

sequence includes the rescue media. See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS (p. 91).

1.3 New in Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup

 Online backup – you can make your critically important data much more secure by storing it off-

site. Because files are stored on a remote storage, they are protected even if your computer gets

stolen or your house burns down. So the risk of data loss as a result of fire, theft, or other natural

disasters is practically eliminated. And you can safely recover any corrupted, lost or deleted files

on your computer. Integrating Online backup into Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup

provides a single solution for all your data backup needs.

Acronis Online Backup might be unavailable in your region. To find more information, click here:

https://www.acronis.com/my/online-backup/

 Selective validation – Earlier versions of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup could validate

only a whole backup archive. Sometimes this may be inconvenient. Suppose, you have a full

backup archive with a size of 20GB and a longish chain of incremental backups having sizes of

several gigabytes each and amounting to 100GB. In this case Acronis True Image OEM Quick

Backup validated the whole 120GB archive and this could take quite a long time. Now the

program will validate just a single selected incremental backup and the full one.

 Booting from tib images containing Windows 7 – Users of the Windows 7 Enterprise and

Windows 7 Ultimate can boot from a tib image containing a backup of their system partition. This

will allow testing the bootability of the backed up system without actual recovery. If the

operating system boots from the tib file, then it will definitely boot after recovery from that tib

file.

1.4 System requirements and supported media

1.4.1 Minimum system requirements

The hardware requirements of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup correspond to the minimum

requirements for the operating system installed on the computer to be used for running Acronis True

Image OEM Quick Backup. In addition Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup requires the following

hardware:

 CD-RW/DVD-RW drive for bootable media creation

 Mouse or other pointing device (recommended).

Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup rescue media has the following hardware requirements:

 256 MB RAM