User`s guide

1 Introduction

1.1 What is Acronis® True Image OEM Quick Backup?

Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup is an integrated software suite that ensures security of all

information on your PC. It can backup the operating system, applications, settings and all of your

data, while also securely destroying any confidential data you no longer need. With this software,

you can back up the entire disk drive or selected partitions. Acronis Online Backup will allow you to

store your most important files on a remote storage, so they will be protected even if your computer

gets stolen or your house burns down.

Should your disk drive become damaged or your system attacked by a virus or malware, you can

restore the back-up data quickly and easily, eliminating hours or days of work trying to rebuild your

disk drive's data and applications from scratch.

Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup provides you with all the essential tools you need to recover

your computer system should a disaster occur, such as losing data, accidentally deleting critical files

or folders, or a complete hard disk crash. If failures occur that block access to information or affect

system operation, you will be able to restore the system and the lost data easily.

The unique technology developed by Acronis and implemented in Acronis True Image OEM Quick

Backup allows you to perform exact, sector-by-sector disk backups, including all operating systems,

applications and configuration files, software updates, personal settings, and data.

You can store backups on almost any PC storage device: internal or external hard drives, network

drives or a variety of IDE, SCSI, FireWire (IEEE-1394), USB (1.0, 1.1 and 2.0) and PC Card (formerly

called PCMCIA) removable media drives, as well as CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, magneto-

optical, Iomega Zip and Jaz drives.

Wizards and a Windows Vista-style interface will make your work easier. Just perform a few simple

steps and let Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup take care of everything else! When a system

problem occurs, the software will get you up and running in no time.

1.2 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup basic

concepts

This section provides general information about basic concepts which could be useful for

understanding how the program works.

Backup

According to Wikipedia, "backup refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may

be used to restore the original after a data loss event. Backups are useful primarily for two purposes.

The first is to restore a state following a disaster (called disaster recovery). The second is to restore

small numbers of files after they have been accidentally deleted or corrupted."

Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup provides creating disk (or partition) images. By default,

Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup stores in an image only those hard disk parts that contain

data (for supported file systems). However, you may use an option that lets you include in an image

all of the sectors of a hard disk (so called sector-by-sector backup).