User`s guide

8.2.5 Providing a comment

Providing a comment for the archive can help identify the backup and prevent you from recovering

the wrong data. However, you can choose not to make any notes. The backup file size and creation

date are automatically appended, so you do not need to enter this information.

In addition, you can provide or edit a comment after the backup has been executed. To edit or add a

comment, go to the Data recovery and backup management screen by clicking Recovery on the

sidebar, choose the appropriate backup, right-click and select Edit comments in the shortcut menu.

8.2.6 The backup process

Clicking Proceed after completing all the optional steps you need for configuring the current backup

task will start the task execution.

The task progress will be shown in a special window. You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel.

You can also close the progress window by clicking Hide. The backup creation will continue, but you

will be able to start another operation or close the main program window. In the latter case, the

program will continue working in the background and will automatically close once the backup

archive is ready. If you prepare some more backup operations, they will be queued after the current

one.

8.3 Fine-tuning your backups

You can fine-tune your backups to specific tasks. Such fine-tuning is made by configuring backup

options before starting a backup task.

You can set temporary backup options by changing the default backup options while creating a

backup task. If you would like to use the changed options for future tasks, make appropriate changes

in the default backup options after selecting Tools & Utilities → Options → Backup options.

Incidentally, you can always restore the default backup options to the values preset during

installation of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup. To do this, click Reset all to default on the

toolbar of the Options window. To reset just a single backup option, select it on the left pane and

click Reset the current to default.

Clicking Reset all to default will reset all the default options (for backup, recovery, etc.) to their preset values, so

this button should be used with caution.

8.3.1 Backup options

8.3.1.1 Compression level

The preset is Normal.

Let's consider such an example - you need to backup to a USB stick some files with a total size

comparable to or exceeding the USB stick's capacity and want to make sure that the stick

accommodates all the files. In this case use the Maximum compression for the files to be backed up.

However, you should take into account that the data compression ratio depends on the type of files

stored in the archive, for example, even the Maximum compression will not significantly reduce the

backup size if it contains files with already compressed data like .jpg, .pdf or .mp3. It does not make

any sense to select the Maximum compression for such files because in this case the backup

operation will take significantly longer and you will not get an appreciable reduction of backup size. If