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1. If you decide to use an external hard drive NAS etc you will need to check whether Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup detects the selected backup storage Some external hard drives are sold preformatted FAT32 If so it is better to convert the external hard drive for backups from FAT32 into NTFS because of the 4GB file size limit of the FAT32 system Due to this limitation large backup files will automatically split into 4GB chunks thus increasing the chance that something will go wrong during data recovery If you plan to use an external USB hard drive with your desktop PC connecting the drive to a rear connector using a short cable will usually provide the most reliable operation reducing the chance of data transfer errors during backup recovery 6 2 Deciding what data to back up As operating systems and application software become ever larger for example Windows Vista x64 requires 15GB of free space on a hard disk usually it will take you several hours to reinstall your operating system and application software from original CDs or DVDs on a new hard disk Furthermore the practice of buying application software by downloading from the Internet is becoming more and more popular If you lose your registration information for example the activation key and or registration number which are usually sent by software vendors by e mail you may have problems with restoring your right to use the application So making a backup of yo
2. Add to existing backup archive Select an existing archive to update No archive is selected Backup location Z Documents and Settings Administrator My Documents MyBackups System_C_ date Browse Optional steps Virus scan Scheduling Backup method What to exclude Backup options Automatic consolidation Initial execution of this task will use the full backup method By default subsequent runs will use the incremental method unless you change it on the backup method step Comments The farther you store the archive from the original folders the safer it will be in case of disaster For example saving the archive to another hard disk will protect your data if the primary disk is damaged Data saved to a network disk or removable media will survive even if all your local hard disks are damaged After selecting the archive location and naming the backup archive to be created you have completed all the required steps for a backup task and this is confirmed by the fact that you come to the Finish step with the Summary of the backup task being displayed on the right pane All the remaining steps are optional and in many cases you may omit them and just click Proceed Now let s see what optional steps you can set up while configuring a backup task Click the Options button 8 2 3 Backup method Select whether you want to create a full or incremental backup If you have not backed up the selected data yet or t
3. Path G Disk1_backup2 tib If you selected an archive containing incremental images you can select one of the successive incremental images also called slices by its creation date time Thus you can explore the data state at a certain moment To mount an incremental image you must have all previous images and the initial full image If any of the successive images are missing mounting is not possible By default the program will mount the latest incremental image 3 Select a partition to mount as a virtual disk Note that you cannot mount an image of the entire disk except in the case when the disk consists of one partition If the image contains several partitions by default all of them will be selected for mounting with automatically assigned drive letters If you would like to assign different drive letters to the partitions to be mounted click Options Required steps Optional steps Drive letter 70 Summary Partitions to mount 3 Mode Read Partition 1 Drive letter H File system NTFS Label Size 164 7 MB Cluster size 0 5 KB Partition 2 Drive letter I File system NTFS Label Size 4 658 GB Cluster size 4KB Partition 3 Drive letter J File system NTFS Label Size 180 4 MB Cluster size 0 5 KB Proceed J Cancel Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 You can also select a letter to be assigned to the virtual disk from the Mount
4. 7 Online backup Acronis Online Backup might be unavailable in your region To find more information click here https www acronis com my online backup The main reason for using Acronis Online Backup is that you will be able to keep your data secure by storing off site Because your files are stored elsewhere they are protected even if your computer gets stolen or your house burns down So the risk of data loss as a result of theft fire or other natural disasters is practically eliminated Online backup is basically a method of off site data storage whereby files and folders are regularly backed up on a remote storage As a result you can safely recover any corrupted lost or deleted files on your computer Of course online backup is not without its shortcomings If there is a problem with your Internet connection you could be left without access to your data for some time And you won t be able to boot up your computer from an online backup so it is advisable to supplement online backup with image backups to local hard disks The biggest drawback of online backup is speed Even through a fast broadband connection backing up your data online will be much slower than backing up to a local hard drive Depending on the amount of data you want to store off site your first full online backup could last several hours though subsequent backups will take much less time as you ll be backing up only new or changed files If you decide
5. Installing the Bootable Rescue Media Builder will allow you to create bootable media or its ISO image at any time from the main program window or by running Bootable Rescue Media Builder on its own When installed Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup creates a new device in the Device Manager list Control Panel gt System Hardware Device Manager gt Acronis Devices Acronis True Image Backup Archive Explorer Do not disable or uninstall this device as it is necessary for connecting image archives as virtual disks see Exploring archives and mounting images 2 2 Running Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup You can run Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup in Windows by selecting Start Programs gt Acronis Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup or by clicking on the appropriate shortcut on the desktop Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 10 2 3 Activating Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup On the first launch of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup you will have to enter an Activation Key to be able to run the product Click Get Key button to get to the Acronis website where you can register and enter your Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup serial number Enter the received activation key in the respective field in the Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup product activation window and click Activate Note this button will be unavailable until you enter the correct acti
6. F Pri 180 4MB 2 518 MB NTFS L MBR and Track 0 MBR and Track 0 Optional steps l Next gt l Cancel Disk and partition images contain a copy of track 0 along with the MBR master boot record It appears in this window in a separate line You can choose whether to recover the MBR and track 0 by selecting the corresponding box Recover the MBR if it is critical to your system booting When MBR recovery is chosen the Recover disk signature box will appear in the bottom left corner at the next step Recovering disk signature may be desirable due to the following reasons 1 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup creates scheduled tasks using the signature of the source hard disk If you recover the same disk signature you don t need to re create or edit the tasks created previously Some installed applications use disk signature for licensing and other purposes If you use Windows Restore Points they will be lost when the disk signature is not recovered In addition recovering disk signature allows to recover VSS snapshots used by Windows Vista and Windows 7 s Previous Versions feature If the box is unselected Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup generates a new disk signature for the recovered drive This may be needed when you use an image backup not for disaster recovery but for cloning your Windows Vista hard drive to another one Trying to boot Windows after cloning with both drives conne
7. Attach one end of the SATA interface cable to a SATA port on the motherboard or interface card and the other to the drive Then plug the power supply lead or use a Molex to SATA adapter Prepare your drive If you re installing a SATA 300 hard drive check your PC s or SATA host adapter s documentation to make sure it supports SATA 300 drives If it doesn t you might need to change a jumper setting on the drive see the drive s manual for instructions If you have a SATA 150 hard drive you don t need to change any settings 4 Turn onthe PC and look for the new drive in the boot up messages If you don t see it enter the PC s CMOS setup program and search the BIOS configuration menu for an option that will let you enable SATA for the ports you are using or maybe you will just need to enable SATA See your motherboard documentation for instructions specific to your BIOS 5 If the operating system does not recognize the SATA drive you need the appropriate drivers for your SATA controller If the drive is recognized go to step 8 Usually it is best to obtain the latest driver version from the motherboard or SATA controller manufacturer s Web site If you download a copy of the SATA controller drivers place the driver files to a known location on your hard drive 1 Boot from the old hard drive The operating system should detect the SATA controller and install the appropriate software You might need to provide the path to
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10. 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 runnin
11. recovering to the new disk click New location Select the destination disk by either its assigned name or capacity If you have not assigned names to the disks and have any doubts when selecting the destination disk you may abort the recovery by clicking Cancel and try to identify the target disk by its model number interface etc Clicking Accept will return you to the Settings of partition screen Check the partition type and change it if necessary Proceed to specifying the partition size by clicking Change default in the Partition size area By default the partition will occupy the entire new disk You need to keep the hidden partition size unchanged as well as place it to the same location on the disk at the start or the end of disk space To do this resize and relocate the partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse on the horizontal bar on the screen or by entering corresponding values into the appropriate fields Partition size Free space before Free space after Click Accept when the partition has the required size and location and then click Next Specify the settings for the second partition which in this case is your system partition Click New location then select unallocated space on the destination disk that will receive the partition Click Accept check the partition type change if necessary You should remember that the system partition must be primary and marked as active Specify the partition size w
12. 107 9 MB 7 Help lt Back Next gt Cancel Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup offers the following components Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup full version Includes support of USB PC Card formerly PCMCIA and SCSI interfaces along with the storage devices connected via them and therefore is strongly recommended Acronis System Report This component allows you to generate a system report after booting from the rescue media when both Windows and Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup full version cannot start In the next window you can set Bootable media startup parameters in order to configure rescue media boot options for better compatibility with different hardware Several options are available nousb nomouse noapic etc For all the available startup parameters see Startup Parameters p 97 These parameters are provided for advanced users If you encounter any hardware compatibility problems while testing boot from the rescue media it may be best to contact Acronis Technical Support The Start automatically after parameter specifies the timeout interval for the boot menu If this parameter is not specified the program will display the boot menu and wait for you to select whether to boot the OS or the Acronis component If you set for example 10 sec for Acronis rescue media the standalone Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will launch 10 seconds after the menu is displayed To fi
13. After you create a bootable media mark it and keep it in a safe place Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions Due to this reason we strongly recommend that you create a new bootable media after each Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup upgrade One more thing you should remember when booting from the rescue media and using a standalone version of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup you cannot recover files and folders encrypted with use of the encryption feature available in Windows XP and later operating systems On the other hand backup archives encrypted using the Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup encryption feature can be recovered 12 Exploring archives and mounting images Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup offers two kinds of archive contents management mounting and exploring Exploring images lets you view their contents and copy the selected files to a hard disk To explore a backup archive double click on the corresponding tib file You can also right click on the file and choose Explore in the shortcut menu When you copy files from a backup being explored the copied files lose the Compressed and Encrypted attribute If you need to keep these attributes it is recommended to recover the backup Mounting images as virtual drives lets you access them as though they were physical drives Such ability means that anew disk
14. B Documents and Settings QQ Program Files GQ Common Files cro gg CDP B CDRecord baga Tre lteyie elie F PER MN i cg File or Folder has not been backed up completely a i 2 This window also allows choosing the computer from which you backed up the files and folders you need to recover Select the computer by its name on the directory tree under Online Storage in the left pane 3 By default the state of the Online Storage after the latest backup is displayed so the latest versions of the files and folders will be recovered If you need to recover earlier versions select the date and time on which you want to recover the state of the files and folders 4 Select the folder containing the files you want to recover in the left pane The right pane lists the files in that folder Select the files to recover When selecting multiple files you can use the Ctrl and Shift keys like in Windows Explorer Having finished selection click the Recover icon on the toolbar 5 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup opens the Browse for folder dialog By default the original location from which the files were backed up will be selected If necessary you can select another folder or create a new folder for the files to be recovered to by clicking the Make New Folder button After selecting the folder click OK If you recover the files to the original folder and Acronis True Image OEM Quick Ba
15. Co Rating Images B DiskCafterCloning B DiskCafterCloning 11 24 20 ow Full backup SP DiskCBeforeUpgrading 11 24 20 zS Incremental backup EP DiskCwindowsvista 11 24 20 Incremental backup AP DiskCBeforePartitioning 11 24 20 Ww Ww Y Incremental backup D SystemBackup_11_24_2009 i m r Path E My Backups SystemBackup_11_24_2009 tib Browse Sea As was already mentioned you can save full and incremental backups to different locations For example you can save the initial full backup to an external USB hard drive and then burn the subsequent incremental backups to CDs or DVDs It is also possible to save such backups to a Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 43 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 recove
16. Details Name Created Comments Rating Method Path a MyBackup 8 24 2009 1 58 37 PM UW e Full backup E My Backups MyBackup tib If you click Delete the program will remove the backup archive from its metadata information database as well as from the hard disk 14 5 Moving backup archives Now Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup allows you to move backup archives to another location This may come in handy if you want to free space for a new backup but want to keep an earlier backup archive at another location for example a network share Another possible scenario you want to recover a disk used for keeping your archives As the program cannot recover if the backup archive is on the same disk you are going to recover you need to move the archive to another hard disk 1 Select the archive for moving after clicking Recovery on the sidebar 2 To move the archive select it on the Data recovery and backup management screen If the archive consists of several backups you can select any of them because Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup always moves the entire archive 3 After making your selection right click and choose Move in the shortcut menu When moving is complete the path to the archive will change in the Path column of the Data recovery and backup management screen 15 Troubleshooting 15 1 General The below sections may help you in troubleshooting issues encountered during installation and use of Ac
17. Documents 314 Inch Floppy Disk CD Drive Local Disk Local Disk File Folder File Folder 10 474 348 KB 8 387 580 KB n File name System_C_4_27_2010 tib Files of type Backup Archives tib The left pane shows the storage locations available on your computer After you select a disk in the left pane the program shows the free space on that disk in the right pane If the free space is enough for completing the backup assign a name for the file that will contain the remaining data being backed up You can either enter the name manually for example Tail_end tib or use the file name generator a button to the right of the line Then click OK and Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will complete the backup Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup permits to assign any backup archive whatever name you wish Suppose you bought a new hard disk drive and transferred to it the contents of the old one by cloning You decided to perform a full backup of the new system disk and named it DiskCafterCloning 42 Required steps Target backup archive What to back up Target selection Archive location Add to existing backup archive Create new backup archive No archive is selected Backup location E My Backups DiskCafterCloning tib Optional steps Scheduling Backup method What to exclude Backup options the incremental method unless you change it on th
18. Documents and Settings BQ Program Files GQ Common Files BD Actor Name ka 3ds_max xml 3ds_max_9 xml access_2000 xml access_2003 xml access_2007 xml access_xp xml acdsee_2009 xml Type XML Document XML Document XML Document XML Document XML Document XML Document XML Document XML Document 7 21 2009 10 08 7 21 2009 10 07 7 21 2009 10 02 7 21 2009 10 02 7 21 2009 10 0 7 21 2009 10 02 7 21 2009 10 02 7 21 2009 10 02 a i ge acdsee_8 xml acdsee_photo_editor xml acdsee_photo_editor_2009 xml J active_desktop_calendar xml adobe_photoshop_cs_8 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 05 XML Document 7 21 2009 10 05 XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 XML Document 7 21 2009 10 07 XML Document 7 21 2009 10 07 XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 XML Document 7 21 2009 10 05 _ Psy CDRecord H 3 MediaBuilderHome BQ Schedule2 5 SnapAPl adobe_photoshop_cs_9 xml 3 TrueImageHome adobe_photoshop_cs3 xml PD UniversalRestore after_effects_7 xml Microsoft Shared aim_pro xml 2 alcohol_120 xml X altova_xmlspy_2006 xml amiglobe_2006 xml antihacker xml antispyware xml Legend File or Folder has been changed 3 Local file or folder has been deleted File or Folder has not been backed up co
19. If the Ignore bad sectors box is left unselected a backup task is aborted in case of read and or write errors that could occur on the bad sectors Selecting this box lets you run a backup even if there are bad sectors on the hard disk ensuring that you save as much information from the hard drive as possible Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode The preset is disabled You can enable this setting to ignore errors during backup operations This feature was mainly designed for unattended backups when you cannot control the backup process In this mode no notifications will be displayed if errors occur during backup Instead you can view the detailed log of all operations after the task finishes by selecting Tasks and Log on the sidebar and then clicking the Log tab You may use this option when configuring a backup task to be run during the night 8 3 1 4 Removable media settings When backing up to removable media you can make this media bootable by writing additional components to it Thus you will not need a separate bootable disk Here the following settings are available Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Full version includes support of USB PC Card formerly PCMCIA and SCSI interfaces along with the storage devices connected via them and therefore is strongly recommended Acronis System Report the component allows you to generate system report that is used for collecting information about your
20. 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 amp Utilities gt Options Backup options Incidentally you can always restore the default backup
21. Online Storage 1 Click Browse on the Online storage screen Acronis Time Explorer will be opened with the Online Storage tab selected s Online Storage 7m D Nonstop Backup Online Storage Folders Name 3ds_max xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 05 3ds_max_9 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 07 access_2000 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 access_2003 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 access_2007 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 access_xp xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 acdsee_2009 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 acdsee_8 xml XML Document 7121 2009 10 02 acdsee_photo_editor xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 05 acdsee_photo_editor_2009 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 05 GQ MediaBuilderHome active_desktop_calendar xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 BQ Schedule2 J adobe_photoshop_cs_8 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 D SnapaPl v adobe_photoshop_cs_9 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 GD TrueImageHome g adobe_photoshop_cs3 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 08 GD UniversalRestore V after_effects_ xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 07 Microsoft Shared V aim_pro xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 07 4 ers v alcohol_120 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 altova_xmlspy_2006 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 gt File or folder has been changed 4 antihacker xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 3 _ Local file or Folder has been deleted antispyware xml XML Document 7f21 2009 10 08 _ Online Storage a encrypt_data Se C
22. When setting up a backup of critical data or a disk partition backup we strongly recommend you to enable the option to ensure that the backup can be used to recover lost data 9 Data recovery with Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup The ultimate purpose of data backup is recovery of the backed up data when the original is lost due to hardware failure fire theft or just erroneous deletion of some important files There may be various reasons for recovering your system from unstable operation after installing a new application driver or Windows update to complete failure of the system hard drive or replacement of the old hard drive by a new larger one In addition it may be necessary to recover either only the system partition or the entire system disk comprising several partitions including hidden ones Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup provides for all these cases though details of recovery may differ In any case it is better to perform system recovery when booting from the rescue media On the other hand recovery of a data disk partition or files and folders is usually performed in Windows 9 1 Recovering your system partition Let s first consider the simplest case recovery of the system partition to the original location on the original hard disk drive As recovery of the system partition is one of the most important operations it requires careful preparation even when you just want to recover a previous known good Window
23. a full backup after disk defragmentation 3 3 Backup file naming conventions Let s remember that Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup may split a full or incremental archive into volumes either when a user sets the splitting option or when a large backup having a size bigger than 4GB is saved to a FAT32 disk See Backup archive components in Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup basic concepts Though users may assign any name to backups many would still prefer using automatic naming and the below information may come in handy when viewing the contents of a backup archive storage in Windows Explorer and trying to figure out e g which are full and which are incremental 1 When saved to a FAT32 disk such backup may be split into volumes with the names SystemBackup_mm_dd_yyyy1 tib SystemBackup_mm_dd_yyyy2 tib SystemBackup_mm_dd_yyyy3 tib etc where mm_dd_yyyy is the date of backup creation in the following format month one or two digits day one or two digits year four digits As in this case the subsequent automatically scheduled backups will replace the previous one once every seven days by default only after the next backup finishes to keep the old backup in the event of the current backup s failure the backup filename s will be alternately named SystemBackup_mm_dd_yyyy tib and SystemBackup_mm_dd_yyyy 1 tib 2 In some cases when you create a new full backup task at a new destination the backup gets the name MyBackup_mm
24. all you should decide where to store your backups Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup supports quite a lot of storage devices For more information see Supported storage media Since hard disk drives are now quite inexpensive in most cases purchasing an external hard drive for storing your backups will be an optimal solution In addition to enhancing the security of your data you can keep it off site for example at home if you back up your office computer and vice versa many models are hot pluggable so you can attach and detach the drive as required You can choose various interfaces USB FireWire eSATA depending on the configuration of your computer ports and the required data transfer rate In many cases the best choice will be an external USB hard drive If you have a Gigabit Ethernet home network and a dedicated file server or NAS for example Buffalo TeraStation 1 0 TB NAS Gigabit Ethernet Home Server you can store backups on the file server or NAS practically like onto an internal drive Blank optical discs such as DVD R DVD R are very cheap so they will be the lowest cost solution for backing up your data though the slowest one especially when backing up directly to DVDs Furthermore if your backup consists of several DVDs data recovery from such backup will require a lot of disc swapping Due to the necessity of swapping discs it is strongly recommended to avoid backing up to DVDs if the number of discs is more than three
25. also check that you can access the network in the recovery environment When booted from the rescue media Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup might not detect the network If no computers are visible on the network but the Computers near me icon is found under My Computer ensure that a DHCP server is running on your network If you don t use a DHCP server specify network settings manually in the window available at Tools amp Utilities Options Network adapters If the Computers near me icon is not available under My Computer there may be problems either with your network card or with the card driver shipped with Acronis True Image Selecting video mode when booting from the rescue media When booting from the rescue media the optimal video mode is selected automatically depending on the specifications of your video card and monitor However sometimes the program can select the wrong video mode which is unsuitable for your hardware In such case you can select a suitable video mode as follows 1 Start booting from the rescue media When the boot menu appears hover the mouse over Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Full version item and press the F11 key 2 When the command line appears type vga ask without quotes and click OK WWW ACRONIS COM quiet Acronis iue iiidgEe OEM Quick Backup You can turn on MouseKeys to control the mouse pointer using the numeric keypad Press left ALT left SHIFT NUM LOCK and con
26. archive to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before booting from Acronis rescue media 1 Arrange the boot sequence in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 91 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Full version Select Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu and then choose the image backup of your system partition or entire system disk that you want to use for recovery Right click on the backup and choose Recover in the shortcut menu If the disks have different disk letters in Windows and the recovery environment the program will display the following error message Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup cannot detect volume N of Name archive where Name is the name of the required image backup archive and volume number N may be different depending on the number of backups in the archive Click Browse and show the path to the archive Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step Select the system partition usually C on the What to recover screen If the system partition has a different letter select the partition using the Flags column It must have the Pri Act flags As you are recovering the system partition to the original hard drive there is no need to select the MBR and track 0 box 6 Atthe Setti
27. do so click Settings on the Storage state screen 7 5 1 Connection attempts This page allows you to optimize the settings Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup uses when establishing connection to the Online Storage Reset the current to derant A Connection attempts Specify the number of and time interval between connection attempts Number of attempts 10 Time interval between attempts 30 Here you can specify how many connection attempts will be made if the first attempt fails the default number is 10 In addition you can specify a time interval between connection attempts 30 seconds by default 7 5 2 Storage connection speed One more option gives you the ability to throttle the bandwidth allocated for data transfer to the Online Storage Set the connection speed that will allow you to send e mail or surf the Web without annoying slowdowns while online backup is running To do this select the Limit transfer rate to check box and set the connection speed 8 Mbps by default 38 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 To back up your data to the Online storage at the maximum speed your Internet connection can provide unselect the Limit transfer rate to check box Options oo eee s az Storage connection speed You can set transfer rate for the data being backed up to the online storage Limit transfer rate to 2 Mbps 7 5 3 Storage cleanup The Storage cleanup page is intended
28. filter E tgz Null filter E theme File Properties filter tib tib IFilter ie tif Null filter tiff Plain Text Filter E tis File Properties filter ERS Ruill filtar How should this file be indexed Index Properties Only JARRA RAR KANNO Index Properties and File Contents ew extension Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 4 Click OK and while the Indexing Options window is open check that the disks where you store your tib backup archives are shown in the Included Locations list If the list does not contain those disks the tib files will not be indexed To include the disks click Modify and select them in the window that appears Indexed Locations Change selected locations S Local Disk C Local Disk E Local Disk F le Microsoft Outlook Express Main Identity Q4 XP K Administr Summary of selected locations Included Locations Exclude Se Local Disk C Application Data Default User Local Disk E Es Microsoft Outlook Express M tib s 1 5 21 1645522239 If you store backups on a network share Windows Search can index them too You just have to add the share to the Indexed Locations list by typing the appropriate UNC path after selecting the Add UNC Location tab of Advanced Options Give Windows Search some time for indexing all tib files on your computer s hard disks and adding the indexi
29. image mounting and file recovering from images as well as for backups to disks or partitions with these file systems k 4 4 Supported storage media Hard disk drives Networked storage devices CD R RW DVD R RW DVD R including double layer DVD R DVD RW DVD RAM BD R BD RE USB 1 0 2 0 3 0 FireWire IEEE 1394 and PC card storage devices REV Jaz and other removable media Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup does not support dynamic and GPT disks Burned rewritable discs cannot be read in Linux without a kernel patch 2 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup installation and startup 2 1 Installing Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup To install Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Run the Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup setup file Inthe Install Menu select the program to install Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Follow the install wizard instructions on the screen WWW ACRONIS COM ge OEM Quick Backup to back up and recover amp Install Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup nage ob Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup User s Guide k g ad the latest of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup user s Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Typical Custom and Complete installation is available Having pressed Custom you can choose not to install Rescue Media Builder With Rescue Media Builder you can create bootable rescue disks see details in Creating bootable media p 66
30. media the product creates disk drive letters that might differ from the way Windows identifies drives For example the D drive identified in the standalone Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup might correspond to the E drive in Windows To be on the safe side it is advisable to assign unique names to all partitions on your hard drives This will make finding the disk containing your backups easier 2 It may also be useful to complete all the steps in the Recovery Wizard right up to the Summary screen but not click the Proceed button This will allow you to simulate the recovery process and to make sure that Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup recognizes both the drive containing your backups and the target drive After completing all the Recovery Wizard s steps click Cancel on the Summary screen You may repeat this until you feel sure of your settings and choices 3 Users of the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 now have a way of testing whether they will be able to boot from the recovered system partition Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup allows booting from a tib file containing a system partition image though it is converted into a VHD which is used for actual booting So if you are able to boot from such backup you almost certainly will be able to boot after an actual recovery from that backup 4 1 2 Additional recommendations 1 Many IT professionals recommend that you have at least two copies of your system backup
31. selecting Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main program menu 2 Select the archive Data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the archive to consist of files of no more than 2GB If you suspect that some of the files are larger first copy the entire archive along with the initial full backup to a local hard disk or a network share disk 3 If you are going to recover files from an archive containing incremental backups Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will enable selecting one of the successive incremental backups by its creation date time Thus you can roll back the file folder state to a certain date To recover data from an incremental backup you must have all the previous backup files and the initial full backup If any of the successive backups are missing recovery is not possible At the Recovery method step select Recover chosen files and folders 5 Select where you want to recover the chosen files folders You can recover data to its original location or choose a new one if necessary When recovering files folders under bootable rescue media the Original location option is disabled because drive letters in standalone Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup might differ from the way Windows identifies drives Choosing a new location results in appearance of one more required step namely Destination When you choose a new location by default the selected items will be recovered wi
32. system in case of any program problem Report generation will be available before you start Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup from the bootable media The generated system report can be saved to a USB flash drive Ask for first media while creating backup archives on removable media You can choose whether to display the Insert First Media prompt when backing up to removable media With the default setting backing up to removable media may not be possible if the user is away because the program will wait for someone to press OK in the prompt box 8 3 2 Local storage settings These settings also affect the backup process for example they may have a more or less noticeable effect on the backup process speed Their values also depend on the physical characteristics of the local storage devices 8 3 2 1 Free space threshold The preset is disabled You may want to be notified when the free space on the backup storage becomes less than the specified value To enable such notification select the On insufficient free disk space box then specify the free space threshold value in the below fields When this option is enabled Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will monitor free space on your backup storage If after starting a backup task Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup finds out that the free space on the selected backup archive location is already less than the specified value the program will not begin the actual backup process but w
33. to use encryption the files will be encrypted before transmission over the Internet and data will be stored on the Acronis Online Storage in encrypted form so you can rest assured that your private information is secure 7 1 Creating an Online backup account Performing backups to Acronis Online Storage requires subscription to the Online Backup service Select Back Up Online Backup in the main program menu and then click the Subscribe to Online Backup service link on the Online Backup Login window This will open your web browser and take you to the main Acronis Web site to continue registration If you already have an Acronis account type the e mail address and password for that account under Log in to Your Account to the right You will be taken to your account page where you will be able to subscribe to the Online Backup Service If you do not have an Acronis account fill in the appropriate fields and the account will be created for you Provide your first and last names and e mail address You will be offered a country selected on the basis of the IP address of your computer though you can select another country if you wish Then provide a password for your new account and confirm the password by retyping it once more in the appropriate field When you perform all actions necessary for account registration please wait for an e mail message that will confirm opening of the account To keep your personal data secure choose a
34. wildcard characters For example to preserve all files with extension exe add exe My exe will preserve all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my Unselecting the Overwrite existing files check box will give the files on the hard disk unconditional priority over the archived files 10 2 3 Recovery priority The preset is Low The priority of any process running in a system determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process Decreasing the recovery priority will free more resources for other CPU tasks Raising recovery priority may speed up the recovery process as it takes resources from other currently running processes The effect will depend on total CPU usage and other factors 11 Creating bootable media 11 1 Creating Linux based rescue media You can run Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup from an emergency boot disk on a bare metal system or a crashed computer that cannot boot You can even back up disks on a non Windows computer copying all its data into the backup archive by imaging the disk one sector at a time To do so you will need bootable media that has a copy of the standalone Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup version installed on it You can create bootable media using the Bootable Media Builder For this you will need a blank CD R RW a blank DVD R RW or any other media from which your computer can boot such as a Zip drive Acronis True Image O
35. with its own letter will appear in the drives list using Windows Explorer and other file managers you can view the image contents as if they were located on a physical disk or partition you will be able to use the virtual disk in the same way as the real one open save copy move create delete files or folders If necessary the image can be mounted in read only mode The operations described in this chapter are supported only for the FAT and NTFS file systems Please keep in mind that though both file archives and disk partition images have a default tib extension only images can be mounted If you want to view file archive contents use the Explore operation The following is a brief summary of the Explore vs Mount operation Explore Mount Archive type Disk or partition image Partition image Assigning a letter Yes Archive modification No File extraction Yes Yes 12 1 Mounting an image 1 Start the Mount Wizard by selecting Tools amp Utilities Mount Image in the main program menu or by right clicking on an image archive on the Data recovery and backup management screen and selecting Mount Image in the shortcut menu 2 Select the archive for mounting Optional steps Drive letter Mount backup Name Created Images a Disk1_backup 3 Disk1_backup2 11 24 2009 4 01 09 PM 11 24 2009 4 41 57 PM a WB system_e_c_F_11_24 2009 B System_E_C_F_11_24_2009 11 24 2009 5 29 35 PM
36. you will select Active 62 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup automatically corrects boot information during recovery of the system partition to make it bootable even if it was not recovered to the original partition or disk If you recover a system partition to another hard disk with its own partitions and OS most likely you will need only the data In this case you can recover the partition as Logical to access the data only By default the original partition type is selected Selecting Active for a partition without an installed operating system could prevent your computer from booting 10 1 7 Changing the recovered partition size and location You can resize and relocate a partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse on the horizontal bar on the screen or by entering corresponding values into the appropriate fields Using this feature you can redistribute the disk space among partitions being recovered In this case you will have to recover the partition to be reduced first E lelo a J A A Required steps Specify recover settings of Partition C Partition location required NTFS New VYolume G New location What to recover Settings of Partition C Partition type Einish Primary Mark the partition as active Change default Partition size Partition Size Free space befor Partition si
37. 23_2009 a D system_c_11_24_2009 B System_C_11_24_2009 11 24 2009 1 01 27 PM Nonstop Backup Storages E3 Nonstop Backup storage m Optional steps Path G System_E_C_F_11_23_20092 tib If the archive is located on removable media e g CD first insert the last CD and then insert disks in reverse order when the Recovery Wizard prompts you k Data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the archive to consist of files of no more than 2GB each If you suspect that some of the files are larger first copy the entire archive along with the initial full backup to a local hard disk or network share disk Kk k Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 59 When recovering a backup of Windows Vista or Windows 7 system disk containing restore points some of your restore points or all of them may be missing if you boot from the recovered system disk and open the System Restore tool 2 If you are going to recover data from an archive containing incremental backups Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will enable selecting one of the successive incremental backups by its creation date time Thus you can roll back the disk partition state to a certain date To recover data from an incremental backup you must have all previous backup files and the initial full backup If any of the successive backups are missing recovery is not possible 10 1 3 Recovery method s
38. 2x1344x32 1856x1392x32 1926x1448x32 VESA r 646x468x8 i 640x488x8 868x688x8 VESA 5 1824x768x8 1288x1824x8 320x2080x16 VESA r 646x486x16 ES 314 86 x600x16 VESA 1624x768x16 VES 1286x1624x16 Enter a video mode or scan to scan for additional modes _ x Incidentally when there is a digit or letter before a three digit number you can also select such video mode by typing the corresponding single digit or letter v in our instance 5 Wait until Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Full version starts and make sure that the quality of the Welcome screen display on your monitor suits you To test another video mode close Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup and repeat the above procedure After you find the optimal video mode for your hardware you can create a new bootable rescue media that will automatically select that video mode To do this start Acronis Media Builder select the required media components and type the mode number with the Ox prefix 0x338 in our instance in the command line at the Bootable media startup parameters step then create the media as usual 4 3 Creating a custom rescue CD If the recovery environment cannot detect some of the hard disk drives or the network adapter usually there is a problem with the drivers Acronis rescue CD cannot contain drivers for all hardware on the market So when the standard rescue CD lacks some of your hardware drivers you need to create a custom
39. 4 Acronis COMPUTE WITH CONFIDENCE WWW ACRONIS COM Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup User s Guide Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 All rights reserved Acronis and Acronis Secure Zone are registered trademarks of Acronis Inc Acronis Compute with Confidence Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Acronis Active Restore and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis Inc Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds VMware and VMware Ready are trademarks and or registered trademarks of VMware Inc in the United States and or other jurisdictions Windows and MS DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder Distribution of this work or derivative work in any standard paper book form for commercial purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED AS IS AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH DISCLAIMERS ARE HELD TO BE LEGALLY INVALID Third party code may be provided with the Software and or Service The licen
40. 53 1 MB Backup SS ee Backup center D Online Backup encrypt_data X Remove encrypt_data E ebak active ile backup Nonstop Backup It What to Back Up Run the task at 5 08 00 AM every day Edit schedule I Browse Recovery 4 Options Update Backup Now Store no more than 10 versions of each file Delete versions older than 90 days Change cleanup options Tasks amp Log Try amp Decide Tools amp Utilities If you have performed backup on this computer before you will see how much Online storage space is occupied by the backed up files and folders The screen also shows the space occupied by the data backed up from other computers if any and the remaining free space on the Online storage in accordance with your quota When you are going to back up from the current computer for the first time or need to change the files and folders selected for online backup click What to Back Up This will open the What to Back Up window with two tabs Include and Exclude The Include tab displays your computer s file and folder tree The area to the right of the tree shows the contents of a selected folder This tab allows you to select individual files and folders for backing up as well as data categories For more information on categories see Selecting what data to back up Furthermore you can create a custom category by clicking Add new category For more information see Creating a custom data c
41. 6 01 21 AM Akk k Fulbackup E My Backupsisystem_C_4_27_2010 The Data recovery and backup management screen gives detailed information on your backup archives and provides for quickly performing operations on these archives Recover Validate Move Remove Explore backup archives as well as Mount image backups by right clicking on an archive and choosing the required operation This starts the appropriate wizard or performs the appropriate action In addition this screen provides for recovery of your data from Online Backup storages by clicking the appropriate link Here you can also edit comments for backups see detailed information on the backups and assign ratings to your backups For instance you may want to assign a high rating to an important backup A backup rating is indicated by the number of stars in the Rating column more stars means a higher rating The default rating is three stars but you can raise or lower it by clicking on the stars in the column Ratings might save you a lot of time you will otherwise spend on exploring multiple files in your backup archives trying to guess which of the outdated backups can be deleted without losing important data Furthermore this screen shows the results of searches for backup archives and their content To perform a search enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup window and then click the magnifying glass i
42. 7 2010 5 57 15 AM 4 27 2010 5 57 15 AM 4 27 2010 5 57 15 AM 4 27 2010 5 57 15 AM Operation System_C2 started Priority changed to Low Analyzing partition 0 0 Analyzing partition C Analyzing partition 0 0 Analyzing partition E Create Incremental Backup Archive From Disk 1 To file E My Backups System_C_ date Pending operation 143 started Creating partition image Successful b We will not bore you with a description of other screens because many of them are self explanatory and some are described in the appropriate chapters of this guide In addition you can always open contextual help by clicking the corresponding button Incidentally you can also select most of the features through the main program menu which is always at your disposal on the toolbar 24 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 5 3 Options screen Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup has options related to its appearance and various program functions To view or edit the default options choose Tools amp Utilities Options in the main program menu Options a Reset all Coder sult Reset the current to detault E g What to exclude Specify files you do not want to include in the backup archives E Exclude hidden files and Folders Error handling F Exclude system files and Folders Recovery options F Exclude files matching the Following criteria Local storage set
43. AM C Dc QyMyBackups OKB File Folder 9 24 2009 11 02 56 AM C Dc Backups OKB File Folder 9 24 2009 11 02 56 AM C De Backups OKB File Folder 10 13 2009 7 20 39 AM C Dc Backups OKB File Folder 10 13 2009 7 20 39 AM C Dc BackupScripts OKB File Folder 8 28 2009 7 16 06 AM C Dc E backupsupp config 1 451 KB CONFIG File 4 13 2010 2 45 53 AM C Dc QyBackupst OKB File Folder 10 25 2009 1 03 13PM C Dc Backups OKB File Folder 10 13 2009 7 20 39 AM E Ms Backups OKB File Folder 10 13 2009 7 20 39 AM C Dc S backup options PNG 80 74KB PNG Image 9 24 2009 10 46 31 AM C Dc My _Backups OKB File Folder 9 24 2009 11 05 03 AM C Dc E RegistryBackups xml 0 228 KB XML Document 9 24 2009 11 11 54 AM C De Canach inScrinks KR File Folder AIPRIZING TANA AM EAM Tools amp Utilities To view the logs for a specific period select the period by clicking the right arrow buttons in the From and To fields of the Show for the period area Clicking the arrow in the From field opens a pop up calendar where you can set the start day of the period by double clicking the appropriate day Then set the end day using the same procedure for the To field You can change months and years in the pop up calendars using the left and right arrows in the month name area In addition you can enter the desired period start and end dates directly in the fields If you would like to see all the logs click the Show all button To delete a log entr
44. EM Quick Backup also provides the ability to create an ISO image of a bootable disc on the hard disk If you have other Acronis products such as Acronis Disk Director Suite installed on your computer you can include standalone versions of these programs on the same bootable disk as well If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup installation you will not be able to use this feature KKK When booting from the Rescue Media you cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with Ext2 Ext3 ReiserFS and Linux SWAP file systems 1 Choose Create Bootable Rescue Media in the Tools amp Utilities menu You can also run the Bootable Rescue Media Builder without loading Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup by choosing Programs Acronis Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Bootable Rescue Media Builder from the Start menu 2 Select which components of the Acronis programs you want to place on the bootable media Acronis Media Builder ae Rescue media contents selection onents of the 4 ve able to boo 4 Acronis True Image 98 acronis True Image Full version V Acronis True Image Full ve VIIB Acronis System Report Version 13 0 12032 Language English This version includes drivers for USB PC Card SCSI hard disks il E Start automatically after 10 sec Space required
45. EM Quick Backup with the ability to perform full text indexing of many files in tib archives so you will be able to use this feature and perform searches of the files content Full text indexing of files in backup archives is provided only for the file types recognizable by Google Desktop and Windows Search They recognize text files Microsoft Office files all Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express items and more 13 2 1 Using Google Desktop with Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup If you do not have Google Desktop it can be downloaded for free from Google s Web site Click Google Desktop and follow the instructions for download and installation To enable using Google Desktop for searching files in tib archives 1 To install the plug in choose Tools amp Utilities on the sidebar Then click Search settings on the right pane and select the appropriate check box in the Desktop Search Options window The following window appears Third Party Plug in Installation A Google has not tested or verified the features or security of this third party Plug in Please confirm that you want to install Acronis Indexer Description Acronis Backups 2 Verify that the plug in is installed Right click on the Google Desktop icon in your system tray and select Options in the context menu Google Desktop opens the Preferences window in your browser Make sure that Acronis Indexer Acronis Backups is selected in the Inde
46. Image OEM Quick Backup and Windows BitLocker To back up and recover the system encrypted with BitLocker you need to create a sector by sector image after booting from Acronis rescue media For more detailed information see the Compatibility of Acronis True Image with Windows Vista BitLocker article at http kb acronis com content 1734 http kb acronis com content 1734 The standalone version of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup does not detect your hard drive s or NIC card This is because the recovery environment does not have the appropriate drivers The issue can be solved as follows Create Acronis System Report and request Acronis Customer Central http www acronis com support to provide you with an iso file of the rescue media that contains the required drivers Create a Windows based recovery environment that includes the required drivers See Working with Acronis True Image Plug In for BartPE at http kb acronis com content 1506 http kb acronis com content 1506 Partition analysis is accompanied by multiple Failed to read from sector error messages To resolve the issue try running chkdsk and updating Acronis drivers For more details see the following Acronis Support KB article Multiple Failed to read from sector Error Messages During Partition Analysis at http kb acronis com content 1514 http kb acronis com content 1514 The Access denied message appears when exploring a mounted image ar
47. Partition Recovery in the main menu and then choose the image backup of your system disk that you want to use for recovery If the disks have different disk letters in Windows and the recovery environment the program will display the following error message Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup cannot detect volume N of Name archive where Name is the name of the required image backup archive and volume number N may be different depending on the number of backups in the archive Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step At the What to recover step select the boxes of the partitions to be recovered Do not select the MBR and Track 0 box as this will result in selecting the entire disk for recovery Recovering the entire disk does not allow you to resize partitions manually You will recover the MBR later Select the partitions and click Next Selecting partitions leads to appearance of the relevant steps Settings of partition Take note that these steps start with partitions without an assigned disk letter as usually is the case with hidden partitions then go in ascending order of partition disk letters and this order cannot be changed The order may differ from the physical order of the partitions on the hard disk You can specify the following partition settings location type and size You will first specify the settings of the hidden partition as it usually does not have a disk letter Because you are
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49. States NAVSO P 5239 4 1 pass 0x01 to all sectors 2 Ox7FFFFFFF 3 26 MFM random symbol sequences 4 verification German VSITR 1 6 alternate sequences of 0x00 and OxFF TAi OxAA i e 0x00 OxFF 0x00 OxFF 0x00 OxFF OxAA 3 1 Russian GOST P50739 95 Logical zeros 0x00 numbers to each byte of each sector for 6 to 4 secu rity level systems Randomly selected symbols numbers to each byte of each sector for 3 to 1 security level systems Peter Gutmann s method is very sophisticated It s based on his theory of hard disk information wiping see Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid State Memory Bruce Schneier offers a seven pass overwriting method in his Applied Cryptography book 1 pass OxFF 2 pass 0x00 and then five times with a cryptographically secure pseudo random sequence Logical zeros 0x00 numbers to all sectors to wipe 17 Startup Parameters Additional parameters that can be applied prior to booting Linux kernel 17 1 Description Additional parameters that can be applied prior to booting Linux kernel Description The following parameters can be used to load Linux kernel in a special mode acpi off Disables ACPI and may help with a particular hardware configuration noapic Disables APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller and may help with a particular hardware configuration nousb Disables loading of USB modules nousb2 D
50. _dd_yyyy tib If a backup is split either automatically e g due to the 4GB file size limit on FAT32 disks or when configuring a backup task the constituent backup files volumes are named as follows MyBackup_mm_dd_yyyy1 tib MyBackup_mm_dd_yyyyN tib where N is the number of volumes Subsequent incremental backups to this full backup will get the names as follows MyBackup_mm_dd_yyyy2 tib MyBackup_mm_dd_yyyy3 tib etc if the full backup is not split or MyBackup_mm_dd_yyyyN 1 tib MyBackup_mm_dd_yyyyN 2 tib etc For instance if N 8 incremental backups will get the names MyBackup_mm_dd_yyyy9 tib MyBackup_mm_dd_yyyy10 tib etc 3 When you back up for example partitions C and D the backup gets the name System_C_D_mm_dd_yyyy tib 4 If you right click on a folder in Windows Explorer and choose Back Up in the shortcut menu the backup file gets the name of the folder with appended date e g My Documents_mm_dd_yyyy tib If you right click on a file in Windows Explorer and choose Back Up in the shortcut menu the backup file gets the name of the file with appended date i e filename _mm_dd_yyyy tib If you select in Windows Explorer several files in the same folder and then choose Back Up in the shortcut menu the backup file gets the name of the folder with appended date e g My Documents_mm_dd_yyyy tib If you select in Windows Explorer two or more folders and then choose Back Up in the shortcut menu the backup fil
51. ail and how to prevent this can be found in the Acronis Support KB article Saving an Image to a Mapped Drive from an Acronis True Image Task Fails Sporadically through the following link http kb acronis com content 1545 Insert next volume message when backing up to a USB flash drive Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup treats your USB flash drive as removable media If it is formatted in FAT32 the size of one file is limited to 4GB so when your backup exceeds this size the program automatically splits it into 4GB volumes and waits for insertion of the next media for the next volume Just click OK and the backup process will continue Repeat this if the message is displayed again until your backup finishes For more detailed information see the Acronis Support KB article Acronis True Image Asks to Insert Next Volume When Backing Up to USB Flash Drive at http kb acronis com content 1805 Issue with backing up an NTFS compressed partition Acronis True Image may fail to back up an NTFS compressed partition due to some limitations on working with such partitions If it is possible decompress the partition before backing it up For more detailed information see the Acronis Support KB article Acronis True Image Fails to Back Up a Compressed Partition available at http kb acronis com content 1811 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup states that a backup is corrupted Instructions on how to troubleshoot and resolve issues with corrupt bac
52. am prompts whether you want to recover the MBR along with the system partition Opt for not recovering only if you do not want the system to be bootable Solution Recover the partition once again along with the MBR of the corresponding disk Windows fails to boot with NTLDR is missing error message Solution Instructions on how to make Windows XP bootable if it reports NTLDR is missing after being recovered with Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup can by found in the Acronis Support KB article Windows Fails to Boot With NTLDR is missing at http kb acronis com content 1759 15 6 Other issues Installation of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup makes shared folders inaccessible To learn why local shared folders on the machine cannot be accessed after installation of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup on this computer see the Acronis Support KB article Shared Folders Cannot be Accessed after Installation of Acronis True Image at http kb acronis com content 1554 http kb acronis com content 1554 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup does not find any hard disks in Windows If the Acronis product reports that it has not found any hard disks in Windows the issue is probably in a third party software blocking access to the hard disks For more details see the Acronis Support KB article Acronis Product Does Not Detect Hard Disks in Windows at http kb acronis com content 1515 http kb acronis com content 1515 Acronis True
53. and Prompt Start gt Run gt cmd Enter the following command chkdsk DISK r where DISK is the partition letter you need to check e g D Please note that checking the C drive may require you to reboot the PC 3 The reason for errors may be defective RAM modules To test the memory modules of your PC please download one of the archives depending on what media type you are going to use memtest archive for diskette memtest archive for USB Flash drive memtest archive for CD Unpack the archive and create bootable media with the memory test Instructions on how to do it can be found in README txt in the archive 4 Check whether this section contains a solution to your problem The RPC server is unavailable When a backup task is supposed to run after starting a task manually you get an error message Error 1722 The RPC server is unavailable In such case try the solution provided in Acronis Support KB article RPC Server is Unavailable Error Code 1722 by clicking the following link http kb acronis com content 1521 Network backup issues Instructions on how to troubleshoot issues with backing up to a network share in Windows can by found in the Acronis Support KB article Troubleshooting Network Backup Issues in Windows through the following link http kb acronis com content 1684 Backups to a mapped drive fail from time to time Explanation of why saving an image to a mapped drive may sometimes f
54. andalone archive A full backup has the shortest recovery time compared to incremental one An incremental backup file only contains data changed since the last backup of any type full or incremental Therefore it is smaller and takes less time to create but as it doesn t contain all the data all the previous backups and the initial full backup are required for recovery A standalone full backup might be an optimal solution if you often roll back the system to its initial state or if you do not like to manage multiple files Incremental backups are most useful when you need frequent backups and the ability to roll back to a specific point in time Having created a full backup once if you then create an incremental backup each day of a month you will get the same result as if you created full backups every day Incremental images are considerably smaller than full images Why incremental In an incremental backup only the files changed or added since the last time the backup ran are added to the archive When recovering from an incremental backup the program must copy the entire initial backup and then step through each of the previous backups to retrieve all the updated files An incremental backup created after a disk is defragmented might be considerably larger than usual This is because the defragmentation program changes file locations on the disk and the backups reflect these changes Therefore it is recommended that you re create
55. ategory for backups Select the files and folders that need to be backed up The Exclude tab enables hidden and system files and folders to be excluded from online backup as well as files meeting the criteria you specify Excluding unnecessary files may be useful for backups to the Online storage as the data transfer rate and available space are limited You can also exclude include files and folders by selecting them in Windows Explorer and choosing Storages gt Exclude from Online Backup or Include in Online Backup in the shortcut menu that opens by right clicking on the selected file or folder This shortcut is only available when you are logged on to the Online Backup service Having finished selecting files and folders for backing up to the Online storage and for excluding from backup click OK If you do not unselect the Run the updated online backup task now check box that is selected by default the online backup task will start immediately Otherwise it will run according to the schedule you set To schedule online backups click the Edit schedule link For instance you may want the backups to be performed at night in order to not interfere with your web surfing For more information see Scheduling tasks When you finish scheduling and click OK the schedule information will be shown above the Edit schedule link By default Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup schedules daily backups to the Online Storage with randoml
56. author Include non indexed hidden and system files might be slow By Organize v ws E Save Search lp Search Tools vg Burn 2 E E A Name Date modified Type Folder Authors Tags Sa MyBackup 3 5 2008 1 25 PM Acronis True Imag Desktop C Users IF Documents E Pictures Did you find what you were searching for R Music Advanced Search 4 Recently Changed BB Searches J Public Folders 18 i eS _ r 1 item 80 Windows Vista Search results Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 14 Other operations 14 1 Validating backup archives The validation procedure checks whether you will be able to recover data from a particular backup so when you select for validation a full backup the program validates the full backup only an incremental backup the program validates the initial full backup the selected incremental backup and the whole chain if any of backups to the selected incremental backup This information can be helpful for example when you find out that a backup archive comprising a full backup and a chain of incremental ones is corrupted To troubleshoot the archive do as follows First of all validate the full backup If it is damaged all the archive will be useless When it is not damaged proceed to validating incremental backups starting from the oldest until you find the culprit All incremental backups made after the corrupted one will be unusable but you will be able to recover the data at l
57. 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 Backup archive components Archive Known as archive chain or archive group it is the whole set of backup files managed by a single backup task The archive can consist of one or several slices Slice It is a set of files created during each cycle of the task execution The amount of slices created is always equal to the amount of times the task is executed A slice represents a point in time to which the system or data can be recovered Volume It is a tib file associated with the slice Usually there is only one volume per slice however each slice may consist of several volumes If you have set archive splitting in the task options the resulting slice will be split into several files In addition Acronis True Image OEM Quick Back
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60. cessful match The Backup names area shows the archive files whose comments satisfy the search criterion Double clicking on an archive opens it for exploring 13 2 Windows Search and Google Desktop integration Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup has plug ins for Google Desktop and Windows Search WDS If you use any of these search engines on your computer Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will detect the search engine you use and install an appropriate plug in for indexing your tib backup archives Indexing of backups will speed up searches in the backup archives After such indexing you will be able to search archive content by entering a filename into the Google Desktop or Windows Search deskbar query field without opening Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup The search results will be shown in a browser window Using the search results you can Select any file and open it for viewing and or save that file back to anywhere in the file system not in the archive or where it was before See in which archive a given file is stored and recover that archive Google Desktop has a Quick Find window This window is filled with the most relevant results from your computer The results change as you type so you can quickly get to what you want on your computer Windows Search provides similar functionality In addition to indexing the files in backup archives by their names the Google Desktop and Windows Search provide Acronis True Image O
61. chive Why you may get this message while trying to explore some folders in a mounted image and solutions to this issue can be found through the following link to the Acronis Support KB article When Trying to Explore Certain Folders of a Mounted Image Archive Access Denied Message Appears at http kb acronis com content 1549 http kb acronis com content 1549 You fail to mount an image spanned over several CD DVDs For an explanation of the issue with mounting a spanned image see Mounting an Image Spanned over Several CD or DVD Discs Fails at http kb acronis com content 1546 http kb acronis com content 1546 It takes a long time to start Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Try the following solutions to resolve this issue make sure that you have the latest build of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup install the latest Acronis drivers If you do not have them request them from Acronis Customer Central http www acronis com support disable the Distributed Link Tracking Client service add Acronis executable files to trusted applications in your antivirus software delete Vista restore points if you do not need them 16 Hard Disks and Boot Sequence 16 1 Arranging boot sequence in BIOS BIOS has a built in setup utility for initial computer configuration To enter it you have to press a certain key combination Del F1 Ctrl Alt Esc Ctrl Esc or some other depending on your BIOS during the POST power
62. ck Backup takes you to the Welcome screen This screen provides quick access to backup and recovery features as well as highlights any issues with your system s protection Your system is considered fully protected when it is backed up and a bootable rescue media is created If some of the aforementioned have not been done Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup shows the following links allowing to solve the protection issues Back Up My System Create Bootable Rescue Media After an issue is solved the corresponding link disappears Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup gt x Ss My Backup e tilities Get the full version P Welcome to Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 5 Your system is not fully protected Perform the following operations Backup Back Up My System Recovery What would you like to do Back Up J Recover Tasks amp Log E amp My Disks Files amp Folders My Disks Files amp Folders Tools amp Utilities Recent backups My favorites No tasks Create What s new Options 4B Online Backup Clicking the items in the right pane takes you to the corresponding screen where you can either start the backup or recovery task immediately or make further selections The My favorites area in the right pane lists the features you have used most often and provides shortcuts to them in case you would like to use the features again The Recent backups area lists the backups you have recently
63. ckup finds a file with the same name there it will open a dialog window where you can choose what to do with the file Recover and replace the file on the disk Do not recover to keep the file on the disk and Recover but keep both files the recovered file will be renamed If you want to use the choice for all files with identical names select the Apply to all files check box It is impossible to Recover and replace files on the disk which are being used or locked by the operating system at the moment of recovery If you need to recover a specific version of a file select the file right click and choose View Versions in the shortcut menu This opens the File Versions window Select the required version by its backup time and click Recover on the toolbar You can also recover the version by dragging it into a selected folder To choose the correct version you can open the version in the associated application and view the file contents Select the file in the right pane and the bottom line of Time Explorer will show the times of backing up all its versions kept on the Online Storage Choose a version by its backup time then right click on the file in the right pane and choose Open in the shortcut menu Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will recover the file version to a temporary folder and then will open the file using the associated application 7 4 Managing Online Storage As the available space on Acronis Online Storage is limi
64. ckup of your PC on an external hard disk but want to make one more backup copy of the system to keep it in a different location from the first one for added security However you do not have one more external hard disk and a USB stick would not accommodate such a large backup Using Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup you can make a reserve backup copy on blank DVD R DVD R discs which are very cheap nowadays The program can split large backups into several files that together form the original backup If you have enough space on your PC s hard disk you can first create a backup archive consisting of multiple files with a specified size on the hard disk and burn the archive to DVD R discs later on To specify the split file size select Fixed size mode for Archive splitting and enter the desired file size or select it from the drop down list If you do not have enough space to store the backup on your hard disk select Automatic and create the backup directly on DVD R discs Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will split the backup archive automatically and will ask you to insert a new disc when the previous one is full Creating backups directly on CD R RW or DVD R RW might take considerably more time than it would on a hard disk 8 3 2 3 Archive validation Validate backup archive when it is created The preset is disabled When enabled the program will check the integrity of the just created or supplemented archive immediately after backup
65. con For more information see Searching Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 23 Another useful screen shows the log of program operations A calendar provides quick access to the logs for past dates You just click on a desired date For more information see Viewing Tasks and Logs r Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup p Backup Recover Home Backup Recovery Tasks amp Log Tools amp Utilities Tasks management Calendar today 4 27 2010 4 March 2010 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 212345 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 April 2010 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 123 456 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 y 28 29 30 gt Get the full version May 2010 LA Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2345 67 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 a 7 30 31 Scheduled tasks Unscheduled tasks 04 27 2010 To 04727 2010 show all Event log Show for the period from Event Date Message Tuesday April 27 2010 5 49 02 AM System_C Tuesday April 27 2010 5 51 00 AM i a 9DNonanean 5 System_C2 Tuesday April 27 2010 5 57 12 AM Q Information Information Q Information Q Information Q Information Q Information Information Information 4 27 2010 5 57 12 AM 4 27 2010 5 57 12 AM 4 27 2010 5 57 14 AM 4 27 2010 5 57 14 AM 4 2
66. cronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Select Start Settings Control panel Add or remove programs lt Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup gt Remove Then follow the instructions on the screen You may have to reboot your computer afterwards to complete the task If you use Windows Vista select Start Control panel gt Programs and Features lt Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup gt Remove Then follow the instructions on the screen You may have to reboot your computer afterwards to complete the task If you have Acronis Secure Zone on your computer remove it before removing the program itself because removing Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will not remove the zone 3 General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 3 1 Disk partition images A backup archive is a file or a group of files also called backups in this guide that contains a copy of all information stored on selected disks partitions Backing up disks and partitions is performed in the following way Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup stores a sector by sector snapshot of the disk which includes the operating system registry drivers software applications and data files as well as system areas hidden from the user This procedure is called creating a disk image and the resulting backup archive is often called a disk partition image By default Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup stores only those hard disk parts t
67. cted will result in a problem During Windows booting its loader checks the disk signatures of all the connected drives and if it finds two identical disk signatures the loader changes the signature of the second disk which would be the clone disk Once this happens the clone disk would not be able to boot up independently of the original disk because the MountedDevices fields in the clone s registry reference the disk signature of the original disk which will not be available if the original disk is disconnected 10 1 5 Selecting a target disk partition 1 Select a target disk or partition where you want to recover the selected image You can recover data to its initial location to another disk partition or to an unallocated space The target partition should be at least the same size as the uncompressed image data All the data stored on the target partition will be replaced by the image data so be careful and watch for non backed up data that you might need 2 When recovering an entire disk the program will analyze the target disk structure to see whether the disk is free Required steps Select destination of Disk 1 d election T q Sa a Disk a method Drive Capacity Model Interface What to recover LJ Disk 1 5 000 GB VMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE O Primary Master Destination of Disk 1 k Disk 2 8 GB VMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Primary Slave Finish Error the same hard disk that you are g
68. d by date Note partial results only 0 complete Index update in progress Indexing is done when your computer is idle accessor inf inside E MyBackup tib bmp Blumon16 Blue Monday 16 bmp Bubbles Soap Bubbles bmp Coffee16 Coffee Bean 16 bmp Coffeebn Coffee Bean bmp Feather FeatherTexture bmp Fidlhead Fiddle Preview tib acronis content E MyBac accessor inf 1 cached 12 35pm Coffee Bean bmp inside E MyBackup tib tib acronis content E MyBackup tib 386 Coffee Bean bmp 12 30pm Internet 76 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Clicking in the browser window on a line related to the desired file version opens a small dialog with just two options View and Recover A winter Google Desktop Microsoft Internet Explorer BE x i gt x a pe Search she Fevorites Media 2 A Address http 127 0 0 1 4664 search q winter amp flags 688num 108s OssikOr_V65CQIFLIQKtOl 4GtE x Go Links Web Images Wideo News Maps Desktop more Goagle winter Desktop Preferences Desktop Advanced Search Desktop All 0 emails 1 file 2 web history 0 chats 0 other 1 3 of 3 0 01s Remove from Index Sort by relevance Sorted by date shi_imainf inside E My Disc Backups MyBackup 1 tib SUNSET_JPG_NAME sunset jpg VWWATER_LILY winter jpg DefaultMyMusic CopyFiles BEETHC Acronis True Image Google Desktop Integration ES Preview tib acron
69. dditional tips generally you can use the Normal compression level because in most cases it provides an optimal balance between backup file size and backup duration If you select None the data will be copied without any compression which may significantly increase the backup file size while making the fastest backup 8 3 1 2 Backup priority The preset is Low The priority of any process running in a system determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process Decreasing the backup priority will free more resources for other CPU tasks Increasing the backup priority might speed up the backup process by taking resources from the other currently running processes The effect will depend on total CPU usage and other factors 8 3 1 3 Error handling Ignore bad sectors The preset is disabled This option lets you run a backup even if there are bad sectors on the hard disk Although most disks do not have bad sectors the possibility that they might occur increases during the course of the hard disk s lifetime If your hard drive has started making strange noises for example it starts making quite loud clicking or grinding noises during operation such noises may mean that the hard drive is failing When the hard drive completely fails you can lose important data so it is necessary to back up the drive as soon as possible There may be a problem though the failing hard drive might already have bad sectors
70. disk Your personal data MS Office documents financial documents pictures music videos etc require protection in no less degree than your operating system Such data is better kept separately from your operating system and applications on a dedicated partition or disk This speeds up data partition or disk image backup as well as recovery It is recommended to perform data disk backup in Windows because in most cases Windows drivers for storage devices operate better and faster than the respective Linux drivers used in the recovery environment In addition recovery of data disks and partitions usually occurs in Windows Let s create a data disk backup task in Windows Attach the external drive if it is to be used as the backup destination and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before starting Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Click the My Disks link under Back Up on the Welcome screen Select the box of your data partition or disk on the What to back up screen 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 Choose the backup location and assign a name to the backup to be created It is better to use meaningful names e g Data_disk tib When you store different backup archives in the same location e g on an external drive you may want to create a new folder when creating a new backup archive To do this click Creat
71. e 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 If you wish provide comments to the backup You will also be able to add comments later Click Proceed when you are satisfied with the backup task settings
72. e backup method step Automatic consolidation Initial execution of this task will use the Full backup method By default subsequent runs will use Comments Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 After a while you chose to upgrade to Windows Vista To be on the safe side you made an incremental backup before the upgrade and named it DiskCBeforeUpgrading Upon upgrading you made sure that the new system and all your applications operate normally and made one more incremental backup naming it DiskCWindowsVista Required steps Target backup archive Target selection Create new backup archive Add to existing backup archive Select an existing archive to update DiskCafterCloning Backup location E My Backups DiskCWindows ista tib Optional steps Backup method What to exclude Backup options Automatic consolidation When run the task will create incremental backups unless you select another backup method Comments Next gt Cancel After working under Windows Vista for some time you decided that you would like to try Linux as well Before creating a partition for Linux you perform an incremental backup of the system disk and name it DiskCBeforePartitioning and so on As a result if the need to recover arises you will be able to find at a glance a backup archive corresponding to the system disk state you want to recover Select a backup from which to recover Name Created
73. e gets the name of the parent folder or disk letter when you selected folders in the root directory with appended date e g My Documents_mm_dd_yyyy tib or C_mm_dd_yyyy tib 6 When you rename backups on the Data recovery and backup management screen a backup is renamed only in the program s metadata database however backup file names on the disk remain unchanged 3 4 Viewing disk and partition information You can change the way data is represented in all schemes you see in various wizards The header may have up to three icons Columns Arrange Icons by and Disk properties the latter duplicated in the context menu opened by right clicking objects To sort messages by a particular column click the header another click will switch the messages to the opposite order or the Arrange Icons by button and select the column To select which columns to view right click the headers line or left click the Columns button Then flag the columns you want to display When left clicking the Columns button you can also change the display order of columns using the Move Up and Move Down buttons If you click the Disk properties button you will see the selected partition or disk properties window This window contains two panels The left panel contains the properties tree and the right describes the selected property in detail The disk information includes its physical parameters connection type device type size etc partition information inc
74. e jumpers are either located on the electronic board of the hard disk or a special socket that provides for the connection of the hard disk and the motherboard There is usually a sticker on the drive that explains the markings Typical markings are DS SP CS and PK Each jumper position corresponds to one hard disk s installation mode DS master factory default SP slave or no jumper required CS cable select for master slave the purpose of the hard disk is determined by its physical position with respect to the motherboard PK jumper parking position the position where one can put the jumper if it is not necessary in the existing configuration The hard disk with the jumper in master position is treated by the basic input output system BIOS as bootable The jumpers on hard disks that are connected to the same cable can be in the cable select for master slave position In this case BIOS will deem as master the disk that is connected to the IDE cable which is closer to the motherboard than the other one Unfortunately hard disk markings were never standardized You might well find that markings on your hard disk differ from the ones described above Moreover for old types of hard disks their purpose could be defined by two jumpers instead of one You should study the markings carefully before installing your hard disk in the computer It is not enough to physically connect the hard disk to the motherboa
75. e new folder in the toolbar then assign a meaningful name to the folder 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 For example you can choose to validate the backup right immediately after its creation though it can be done later 7 Ifyou 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 If you have not included validation into the backup task settings it is strongly recommended to validate the backup later by performing the validation task manually You should get into the habit of validating your backups 6 3 4 Backing up to a network share With Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup you can back up your data to a network share This may be desirable for example when you have a file server and want to use it for backing up data from PCs in your home network Depending on your backup strategy you may want to back up just files and folders or entire disks One more consideration is the data transfer rate
76. e system disk does not contain a recovery partition which may not be hidden If the disk contains for example three partitions the procedure will be similar We will describe recovery using the rescue media as this approach usually gives the best recovery results Attach the external drive if it contains the backup archive to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before booting from Acronis rescue media 1 Arrange the boot sequence in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 91 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Full version 3 Select Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu then choose the image backup of your system disk that you want to use for recovery If the disks have different disk letters in Windows and the recovery environment the program will display the following error message Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup cannot detect volume N of Name archive where Name is the name of the required image backup archive and volume number N may be different depending on the number of backups in the archive Click Browse and show the path to the archive Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step 5 At the What to recover step select the boxes of the partitions to be recovered Do not select the MBR and T
77. east from the previous backups You can perform such validations using the Validate Wizard 1 To validate an archive click Recovery on the sidebar 2 Select the archive to validate and click Validate on the toolbar 3 Clicking Proceed will start the validation procedure After the validation is complete you will see the results window You can cancel validation by clicking Cancel 14 2 Viewing Tasks and Logs Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup has a Tasks and Log screen that allows you to view its working logs The logs can provide information for instance about creating backup or validation results including reasons for any failures Most Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup operations write their own entries in the logs though logs are not provided for image mounting unmounting and bootable media creation The logs contain only partial information on operation of Acronis Online Backup The remaining information on operation of those features is written to their own log That log is not available to users as it is intended for Acronis Support personnel to help in troubleshooting the issues users have with those features It is included in Acronis System Report To open the Tasks amp Log screen click Tasks amp Log on the sidebar By default the screen opens with the Logs tab selected The tab shows logs for the selected date If there are no logs for that date an appropriate message appears The color marks in the calendar s
78. ed specialist with the help of all known tools and recovery methods This problem can be explained in the following way Data is stored on a hard disk as a binary sequence of 1 and 0 ones and zeros represented by differently magnetized parts of a disk Generally speaking a 1 written to a hard disk is read as 1 by its controller and 0 is read as 0 However if you write 1 over 0 the result is conditionally 0 95 and vice versa if 1 is written over 1 the result is 1 05 These differences are irrelevant for the controller However using special equipment one can easily read the underlying sequence of 1 s and O s It only requires specialized software and inexpensive hardware to read data deleted this way by analyzing magnetization of hard disk sectors residual magnetization of track sides and or by using current magnetic microscopes Writing to magnetic media leads to subtle effects summarized as follows every track of a disk stores an image of every record ever written to it but the effect of such records magnetic layer becomes more subtle as time passes 16 3 1 Functioning principles of Information wiping methods Physically the complete wiping of information from a hard disk involves the switching of every elementary magnetic area of the recording material as many times as possible by writing specially selected sequences of logical 1 s and 0 s also known as samples Using logical data encoding methods in current hard dis
79. ed to start the task Otherwise click Options to go to the optional steps where you can change the default settings for the current task Taskbar notification area icons During most of the operations special indicator icons appear in the Windows taskbar notification area the right portion of the status bar with the clock If you mouse over the icon you will see a tool tip indicating the operation s progress or state Right clicking on the icon opens a shortcut menu where you can change operation s status or cancel the operation if necessary This icon doesn t depend on the main program window being open 5 2 Main screens And now let s get acquainted with some of the other screens you will use while working with Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup To go to one more screen of interest click Recovery on the sidebar G Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup e IAN 9 A Backup A Re j ry SE Utilities Gl Manage Actonis Secure zone Get the full version P Home Data recovery and backup management E Disk Recov ery Q Recover data from online backup Backup J Recover your computer from a backup Di Browse for backup Recovery File backups Name ps Method Path Tasks amp Log Images a B system_c_4_26_2010 Tools amp Utilities Bsystem_c_4_2_2010 a B system_c_4_2_20102 B System_C_4_2_20102 4 2 2010 7 21 52 AM Full backup C Documents and Settings admin mMy a B system_c_4_27_2010 7_2010 4 27 2010
80. election Select what you want to recover Required steps Choose recovery method Archive selection pe Recover whole disks and partitions Recovery method Recover chosen files and folders What to recover Select files and Folders to recover from the original disk backup ima Recover whole disks and partitions Having chosen a disk and partition recovery type you may need to select the following option Recover chosen files and folders If you are not going to recover the system but only want to repair damaged files select Recover chosen files and folders You can recover files from disk partition images only if they have the FAT or NTFS file systems 10 1 4 Selecting a disk partition to recover The selected archive file can contain images of several partitions or even disks Select which disk partition to recover 60 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 During a single session you can recover several partitions or disks one by one by selecting one disk and setting its parameters first and then repeating these actions for every partition or disk to be recovered Required steps Select the items to recover Archive selection Partition Flags Capacity UsedS Type What to recover Tosk 1 r Settings of Partition C 7 LANTFS Unlabeled C Pri Act 4 658GB 2 293 GB NTFS E NTFS Unlabeled E Pri 164 7MB 39 15 MB NTFS E ANTS Unlabeled
81. em Network share with a backup not found by standalone Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup There can be several reasons why you are not able to locate the desired network share when using a standalone version of Acronis True Image See the Acronis Support KB article Standalone Version of Acronis True Image Cannot Find Network Share with an Image Archive http kb acronis com content 1550 You cannot log on to a network share after booting to rescue media How to solve the problem when a standalone version of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup cannot log you on to the network where the image archive is and keeps asking for the user name and password again and again See the Acronis Support KB article Standalone Version of Acronis True Image Recovery Wizard Keeps Asking for User Name and Password When Trying to Restore an Image from a Network Share http kb acronis com content 1551 New user profile created after recovering My mail backup of Microsoft Outlook You can find the solution in the Acronis Support KB article Restoring E Mail Backup of Microsoft Outlook Creates a New Profile http kb acronis com content 1804 You cannot get access to recovered files or folders After recovering files folders with Acronis True Image you get Access denied message when trying to access them To solve the issue see the Acronis Support KB article Access Denied to Files or Folders Restored with Acronis True Image http kb acronis com con
82. empting to perform a recovery so this section does not cover such case Make the preparations described at the beginning of the previous section Recovering your system partition p 51 In case of upgrading the healthy system disk to a larger capacity new one if you have not assigned unique names to the partitions on the system disk before making a system disk backup it might make sense to assign such names and create a new backup of the entire disk This will allow identifying the partitions by their names and not by the letters which may differ when booting from the rescue media If you are recovering from a system disk drive failure assign names now anyway The names will help you find the drive containing your backups as well as the target new drive The information on partition sizes drive capacities their manufacturers and model numbers can also help in correctly identifying the drives One more recommendation it is highly recommended to install the new hard drive to the same position in the computer and use the same cable and the same connector as for the original drive though this is not always possible e g the old drive may be an IDE and the new drive may be a SATA In any case install the new drive to where it will be used 9 2 1 Recovering a disk without a hidden partition At first let s consider recovery of a system disk containing two partitions none of them hidden using a disk backup In addition we assume that th
83. ery on the sidebar All backup archives are located in Disk backups tab Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup o 5 a a A Backup L y Ps Utilities O Manage Acronis secure zone gt Get the full Version i Home Data recovery and backup management i Disk Recov ery Q Recover data from online backup Backup dy Recover your computer from a backup Browse for backup Recovery Waa File backups Name yss Method Path Tasks amp Log Images a B system_c_4_26_2010 Tools amp Utilities Bsystem_c_4_2_2010 a B system_c_4_2_20102 B System C42 20102 4 2 2010 7 21 52 AM Full backup C Documents and Settings admin mMy a B system_c_4_27_2010 System_C_4_27_2010 4 27 2010 6 01 21 AM Akk k Fulbackup E My Backups System_C_4_27_2010 The shortcut menu opened by right clicking on a desired backup archive provides the following operations with backups Explore see Exploring archives and mounting images Recover see Recovery Wizard detailed information p 59 Validate Archive see Validating backup archives Mount Image only for images see Mounting an image p 71 Edit Comments editing comments made during backup creation or adding comments for a scheduled backup that ran unattended Rename renaming backup archives or individual backups a backup is renamed only in the program s metadata database however the backup filename remains unchanged Move see M
84. essful registration of the plug in Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will display the Plug in registration succeeded information window 2 You can verify that the tib support is enabled Right click on the Windows Search icon in your system tray and select Windows Desktop Search Options in the context menu The following window appears Make sure that the tib item is present in the Included Locations list oe To open the Indexing Options window in Windows Vista open the Control Panel and then double click the Indexing Options icon The Windows Vista indexing options have some differences in content and appearance though most of the following information is applicable to Windows Vista as well Indexing Options 31 986 items indexed D Indexing complete Index these locations Included Locations Exclude lt Local Disk cy Application Data Default User a Microsoft Outlook Express M tibs 4s 1 5 21 1645522239 Modify Advanced Close Click Advanced select the File Types tab and then make sure that the tib extension is selected and tib IFilter is shown in the Filter Description field Select Index Properties and File Contents Advanced Options Index Settings File Types Add UNC Location Extension Filter Description E s _ Null filter E sym Null filter e sys Null filter Etab Plain Text Filter tar Null filter tal Plain Text Filter E text File Properties
85. ettings If you click Cancel no changes will be made to the disk s Clicking Proceed will launch the task execution The task progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel However it is critical to note that the target partition will be deleted and its space unallocated the same result you will get if the recovery is unsuccessful To recover the lost partition you will have to recover it from the image again 10 2 Setting default recovery options To set the recovery options to be used by default during any data recovery select Tools amp Utilities gt Options Recovery options You can always restore the default recovery options to the values preset during installation of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup To do this click Reset the current to default on the toolbar of the Options window To reset just a single recovery 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 10 2 1 File recovery options You can select the following file recovery options Recover files with their security settings if the file security settings were preserved during backup see Backup security settings you can choose whether to recover them or let the files inherit the security settings of the folder where they w
86. f a single partition though in this case partition backup is equivalent to system disk backup It is also makes sense to back up the system partition if it contains all your applications and important data or if you do not have enough free space for backing up the entire system disk A system partition backup would be most helpful when you need to recover the operating system corrupted by a virus malware or for example after Windows update installation Recovery on a new hard disk drive is possible too though it may be a bit complicated in case you want to create more than one partition on the new hard disk Otherwise it is better to back up the entire system disk especially if it has hidden recovery or diagnostic partitions created by your computer s manufacturer Furthermore a system disk backup is more convenient when recovering on a new disk Backing up the system partition may also be advisable when you like testing a lot of applications or games Most applications cannot be uninstalled without a trace including Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup itself You can make a basic system partition backup containing your operating system and main applications like MS Office and Outlook Thereafter you will always be able to recover that basic system state after trying new programs if you don t like them or if something goes wrong 6 3 2 Backing up an entire system disk When your backup storage device has enough free space it is advisable to bac
87. files they contain After for example an hour check whether Google Desktop has indexed the tib archives by entering in its query field the name of a file which you know for sure that you backed up If Google Desktop has completed indexing it will show you the tib archives where it has found the file Search Web winter Search Desktop winter Hit Ctr twice to search using the Quick Search Box E Winterjog Shared Pictures Sample Pictures MyBackup 1 tib tib acronis content NAME wi MyBackup tib tib acronis content DiscC_Backup tib tib acronis content NAME winter jpg E MyBackup 1 tib tib acronis content 41 Winterjpg MyBackup tib tib acronis content 28 Winterjpg See these desktop results in a browser Google fe Acronis True Image H If you want to see all the search results click the See all N results in a browser and you will see something like the screen shot below A Cannot find server Microsoft Internet Explorer DER Fie Edit View Favorites Tools Help Ry Bact Q x a A ye Search Se Favorites Meda B S E Address 8 http 127 0 0 1 4664 search s AoFySjgTpU3SYG mu2rg7 WbakNHQ amp q coffee v 8 Go Goo oagle Web Images Groups News Shopping G Scholar Desktop more Desktop Preferences ea Search Advanced Search Desktop Desktop All 0 emails 0 files 2 web history 0 chats 0 other 1 2 of 2 0 01s Remove from Index Sort by relevance Sorte
88. for setting the options that enable automatic cleanup of obsolete file versions from the online storage to keep the storage from overfilling Options EEE z Reset all toderaule Reset the current to derauit Online backup options i ies g Storage cleanup Specify parameters for automatic online storage cleanup V Delete versions that are older than 3 Months aa Store no more than 10 recent versions You can Delete versions that are older than the specified time period 6 months by default Specify how many versions of your files must be kept on the Online Storage This will allow you to return to a previous file version if your changes in a file turn out to be erroneous By default Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will keep 10 versions of your files though you can specify any other number 7 5 4 Proxy settings If your computer is connected to the Internet using a proxy server enable use of the proxy server and enter its settings Acronis Online Backup supports only http and https proxy servers In the Host name box type the name or IP address of the proxy server such as proxy example com or 192 168 0 1 In the Port box type the proxy server s port such as 8080 In the User name and Password boxes type the credentials you use for connecting to the proxy server if necessary To test the proxy server connection click t
89. g 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 Processor Pentium 1 GHz or faster The recommended minimum screen resolution is 1152 x 864 1 4 2 Supported operating systems Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup has been tested on the following operating systems Windows XP SP3 Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2 Windows Vista SP2 all editions Windows 7 all editions Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup also enables creation of a bootable CD R DVD R that can back up and recover a disk partition on a computer running any Intel or AMD based PC operating system including Linux The only exception is the Intel based Apple Macintosh which is currently not supported in native mode l 4 3 Supported file systems FAT16 32 NTFS Ext2 Ext3 ReiserFS If a file system is not supported or is corrupted Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup can copy data using a sector by sector approach The Ext2 Ext3 and ReiserFS file systems are supported only for disk or partition backup recovery operations You cannot use Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup for file level operations with these file systems file backup recovery search as well as
90. ge OEM Quick Backup will automatically start after reboot 9 Use Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup to configure hard disks by answering the wizard s questions 10 After finishing the installation turn off the computer set the jumper on the disk to the master position if you want to make the disk bootable or leave it in slave position if the disk is installed as additional data storage 16 2 2 Motherboard sockets IDE cable power cable There are two slots on the motherboard to which the hard disks can be connected primary IDE and secondary IDE Hard disks with an IDE Integrated Drive Electronics interface are connected to the motherboard via a 40 or 80 thread flat marked cable one of the threads of the cable is red Two IDE hard disks can be connected to each of the sockets i e there can be up to four hard disks of this type installed in the PC there are three plugs on each IDE cable two for hard disks and one for the motherboard socket As noted IDE cable plugs are usually designed so that there is only one way to connect them to the sockets Usually one of the pinholes is filled on the cable plug and one of the pins facing the filled hole is removed from the motherboard socket so it becomes impossible to plug the cable in the wrong way In other cases there is a jut on the plug on the cable and an indentation in the sockets of the hard disk and the motherboard This also ensures that there is only one way to connec
91. gs otherwise click Options on the Summary screen to change the settings Select a backup method For a more detailed explanation of the methods see Full and incremental backups p 13 When performing backups in the recovery environment many users prefer full backups though you may choose another method depending on your needs Set the backup options When backing up in the recovery environment you must set the options manually for each backup task You can encrypt the backup for data protection and select a compression level the program shows estimated backup sizes for each level You can also choose to validate the backup immediately after its creation though it can be done later In any Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 29 case validation of a system disk backup is best performed in the recovery environment as you will use the recovery environment when recovering the system partition or disk 9 If you wish provide comments to the backup You will also be able to add comments later 10 Click Proceed to start the backup It is extremely important to validate the system disk backup before trying to recover because Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup deletes the original partition s on the disk before starting recovery and if it finds a problem with the backup file during recovery you are left with nothing It is even better to try system disk recovery to a spare hard drive if you have one 6 3 3 Backing up a data partition or
92. h 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 lomega 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
93. hat contain data for supported file systems Furthermore it does not back up swap file information pagefile sys under Windows XP and later and hiberfil sys a file that keeps RAM contents when the computer goes into hibernation This reduces image size and speeds up image creation and recovery However you might use the Create an image using the sector by sector approach option that lets you include all of the sectors of a hard disk in an image A partition image includes all files and folders This includes all attributes including hidden and system files boot record and FAT file allocation table as well as files in the root directory and the zero track of the hard disk with the master boot record MBR A disk image includes images of all disk partitions as well as the zero track with the master boot record MBR By default files in all Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup archives have a tib extension Do not change this file extension It is important to note that you can recover files and folders from disk partition images To do so mount the image as a virtual disk see Exploring archives and mounting images or start the image recovery and select Recover chosen files and folders 3 2 Full and incremental backups Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup can create full and incremental backups A full backup contains all data at the moment of backup creation It forms a base for further incremental backup or is used as a st
94. he program allows booting from a tib file containing the system partition image though it first converts 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
95. he Test button If you do not know your proxy server settings contact your network administrator or Internet service provider for assistance Alternatively you can take these settings from your browser s configuration Options Reset all to deraule Reset the current to derault Online backup c W Proxy settings IF you connect to the Internet via a proxy server specify its settings Host name proxy example com Port Use proxy User name Password 7 6 Recommendations on selecting data for storing online Because online backups are relatively slow you should think over what data to back up First of all consider backing up your personal data that cannot be recovered if lost as a result of fire computer theft etc Before proceeding with a backup estimate how long it will take to back up your data For instance if your folders take up 10GB and your upload speed is 1000 Kbps somewhat less than half a gigabyte per hour it should take more than 20 hours to perform your first full backup So depending on the speed of your Internet connection you may want to back up just the most critical files 40 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 8 Additional backup features 8 1 Archive to various places Now Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup offers much greater flexibility You can save full and incremental backups to different places including a network share CD DVD USB stick as well as any loca
96. he full archive is old and you want to create a new master backup file choose full backup Otherwise it is recommended that you create an incremental backup see Full and incremental backups p 13 If you are adding a backup to the existing backup archive the Full method will be unselectable Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 45 If you choose 1 by selecting the Full method you can also choose what to do with the previous full backup when creating a new one By default Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup overwrites the previous full backup but you can choose to keep it by unselecting the A new full backup overwrites the previous one box Required steps Backup method ful Overwrites the existing backup archive F A new full backup overwrites the previous one Incremental recommended Backs up only the changes that have occurred since the last backup of any type The first task run creates a full backup all subsequent task runs create incremental backups Differential Backs up only the changes that have occurred since the last Full backup The first task run creates a full backup all subsequent task runs create differential backups v Create a new full backup after Optional steps 4 incremental or differential backups Virus scan Kus sca Delete previous backup archive What to exclude Backup options 8 2 4 Selecting the backup option
97. he list of the video modes available for your video card and allows selecting a video mode most suitable for the video card and monitor Try this option if the automatically selected video mode is unsuitable for your hardware 18 Index A Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup basic concepts 6 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup installation and startup 10 Activating Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 11 Additional backup features 41 Additional recovery information 59 Archive selection 59 Archive splitting 49 Archive to various places 41 Archive validation 50 Arranging boot sequence in BIOS 8 17 29 51 53 54 92 Assigning a letter to the recovered partition 63 B Backing up a data partition or disk 30 Backing up a system partition 28 Backing up an entire system disk 28 Backing up to a network share 30 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage 33 Backup and validation issues 87 Backup file naming conventions 14 Backup method 45 Backup options 47 Backup priority 48 Backup Wizard detailed information 44 Bootability after recovery issues 89 Booting from system image tib files 15 C Changing the recovered partition size and location 63 Changing the recovered partition type 62 Compression level 47 Configuring hard disk drives jumpers 94 Connection attempts 38 Creating a custom rescue CD 19 Creating an Online backup account 32 Crea
98. hich by default equals the original size Usually there is no free space after the partition so allocate all the unallocated space on the new disk to the second partition click Accept and then click Next Carefully read the summary of operations to be performed If you do not want to validate the backup click Proceed otherwise click Options and select the Validate backup archive before recovery box before clicking Proceed When the operation finishes proceed to MBR recovery In this case you need to recover the MBR as the PC manufacturer could change the generic Windows MBR or a sector on the track 0 to provide access to the hidden partition Select the same backup once more right click and select Recover in the shortcut menu choose Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step and then select the MBR and Track 0 box At the next step select the destination disk as the target for MBR recovery click Next and then Proceed After MBR recovery is complete exit the standalone version of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Windows should not see both the new and old drive during the first boot after recovery If you upgrade the old drive to a larger capacity new one disconnect the old drive before the first boot otherwise there may be problems booting Windows Switch off the computer if you need to disconnect the old drive otherwise just reboot the computer after removing the rescue media Boot the computer t
99. how information about the days with tasks completed with errors and successfully completed tasks The current day is highlighted in bold font Clicking a day marked with a scheduled task shows the task s scheduled for this date The buttons with left and right arrows at the sides of the calendar allow you to browse the months being shown in the calendar If you have gone several months back or forward clicking the Today button will quickly return you to the current month and date Clicking any day in the past takes you to the Log tab and shows logs for the selected date If there are no logs for that date an appropriate message appears When the Log tab is selected the upper pane shows the calendar while the lower one shows logs contents r Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup gt s M Backup IIR y gt notities Get the full version P Home Data recovery and backup management r Disk Recovery 4B Recover data from online backup dy Recover your computer from a backup Backup L Browse For backup Recovery Disk backups File backups Name Size Object type Last modified Tasks amp Log Backup names a MyBackup1 tib 1 126 KB File backup 9 24 2009 11 06 41 AM Backup contents Backupsi OKB File Folder 9 24 2009 11 06 10 AM C De S backup options PNG 84 KB PNG Image 9 24 2009 10 46 31 AM C Dc My_Backups OKB File Folder 9 24 2009 11 05 03 AM C De Backup personali OKB File Folder 8 30 2009 10 36 21
100. ill be recovered to This option is effective only when recovering files from file folder archives Validate backup archive before recovery if you suspect that the archive might have been corrupted check this option to verify the backup before recovery To check archive data integrity you must have all the incremental backups belonging to the archive and the initial full backup If any of the successive backups are missing validation is not possible Check the file system after recovery check this parameter to verify the integrity of the file system after recovery Verification of the file system is available only when recovering disks partitions under Windows and for FAT16 32 and NTFS file systems Note that the file system will not be checked if a reboot is required during recovery for example when recovering the system partition to its original place 10 2 2 Overwrite file options This option is not applicable to recovery of disks and partitions from images By default the program will overwrite existing files and folders though more recent files and folders are protected from overwriting You can set default filters for the specific types of files you wish to preserve during archive recovery For example you may want hidden and system files and folders newer files and folders as well as files matching selected criteria not to be overwritten by the archive files While specifying the criteria you can use the common Windows
101. ill immediately inform you by displaying an appropriate message The message offers you three choices to ignore it and proceed with the backup to browse for another location or to cancel the task In case of choosing to cancel the backup you can either free some space on the storage and restart the task or create a new task with another location for the backup archive If you choose Browse select another storage click OK and the backup file will be created on that storage If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup task is being run the program will display the same message and you will have to make the same decisions However if you choose to browse for another location you will need to assign a name for the file that will contain the remaining data being backed up or you may accept the default name assigned by the program Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup can monitor free space on the following storage devices Local hard drives USB cards and drives Networks shares SMB NFS This option cannot be enabled for FTP servers and CD DVD drives The message will not be displayed if the Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode box is selected in the Error handling settings 8 3 2 2 Archive splitting Sizeable backups can be split into several files that together form the original backup A backup file can be split for burning to removable media Suppose you have a full ba
102. ing compression This provides for reducing the storage space requirements as well as for backward compatibility with the previous Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup version While creating a tib file the program calculates checksum values for data blocks and adds these values to the data being backed up These checksum values allow verifying the backup data integrity However using the proprietary format means that the data from such backups can be recovered only with the help of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup itself either in Windows or in the recovery environment Backup archive validation How can you be sure that you ll be able to recover your system if the need arises The feature called backup validation provides a high degree of such assurance As was already said the program adds checksum values to the data blocks being backed up During backup validation Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup opens the backup file re calculates the checksum values and compares those values with the stored ones If all compared values match the backup file is not corrupted and there is a high probability that the backup can be successfully used for data recovery It is highly recommended to validate system partition backups after booting from the rescue media For users of Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup provides a unique way of ensuring that you will be able to boot from the recovered system partition T
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104. ion usually at the start or the end of the disk space In addition it is better to recover the hidden partition without resizing to minimize the risk of possible problems So before proceeding with recovery you need to know about all partitions existing on the system disk their sizes and physical order To see this information start Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup and choose Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu Select a backup of your system disk and click Details on the toolbar Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will display information about the backed up disk including a graphical view of all partitions the disk contains and their physical order on the disk If any partition display is too small for accommodating the relevant information hover the mouse pointer over the partition to see the information Assuming that you have got the information let s proceed with recovery of a system disk using the rescue media Attach the external drive if it contains the backup archive to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before booting from Acronis rescue media 1 Arrange the boot sequence in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 91 2 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Full version 10 11 12 Select Recovery Disk and
105. ion 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 the archive already has incremental backups you can select any of the target archive files It doesn t matter which one you select as the program recognizes them as a single archive If you want to change the location of added backup files browse for a new backup location after clicking the Browse button otherwise leave the location the same as that of the existing archive Required steps Target backup archive What to back up Target selection Archive location Create new backup archive
106. is content E My Disc shl_iy Choose whatto do with the file amp Acronis Backup E My Disc Backups 08 12 27 41 Water lilies jpg Backup Mon Sep View 08 12 27 41 Desktop ini Backup Mon Sep 08 Preview tib acronis content E My MyBa More results from tib acronis content l amp Restore Winter jpg Documents and Settings All Users Documents 4 winter Internet Choosing View starts the application associated with this file type and opens the file Choosing Recover starts Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup and you can then recover the file to a desired location 13 2 2 Using Windows Search with Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup WIf you use any edition of Windows Vista or Windows 7 that has built in Desktop Search functionality or Windows Desktop Search 3 0 or later you can enable Windows Search support for tib files If you do not have Windows Search installed but would like to use it you can download Windows Search 4 0 for free from Microsoft s Web site To download click Windows Search 4 0 Double click on the downloaded file and follow the instructions for installation Windows Search does not support indexing of zip files content To use Windows Search support 1 To register the plug in choose Tools amp Utilities on the sidebar Click Search settings on the right pane and select the appropriate check box in the Desktop Search Options window After succ
107. is opened a task is running or an error message is displayed Furthermore now you can add to your rescue media Acronis System Report tool that allows you to generate the system report after booting from the rescue media when both Windows and Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup full version cannot start In this case you will need a USB flash drive that will be used for saving the report Quite often the cause of an issue may be trivial for example a loose connection of an external hard drive Before trying other solutions described in this chapter it is advisable to check if the issue is caused by one of the following loose connections to the external drive poor quality connecting cable When using an external USB hard drive try the following additional suggestions if the drive is connected through a hub connect it directly to a rear connector of your PC to prevent conflict with other USB devices attached to your PC try disconnecting all the USB devices except the mouse and keyboard 15 2 Installation issues When you cannot install Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup try the following solutions 1 If you selected Install for the current user only during the installation try to select Install for all users that share this computer and vice versa 2 Launch the installation file in the following way right click on the file and select Run as administrator 3 Login to Vista s built in administrator accoun
108. isables USB 2 0 support USB 1 1 devices still work with this option This option allows using some USB drives in USB 1 1 mode if they do not work in USB 2 0 mode quiet This parameter is enabled by default and the startup messages are not displayed Deleting it will result in the startup messages being displayed as the Linux kernel is loaded and the command shell being offered prior to running the Acronis program nodma Disables DMA for all IDE disk drives Prevents kernel from freezing on some hardware nofw Disables FireWire IEEE1394 support nopcmcia Disables PCMCIA hardware detection nomouse Disables mouse support module name off Disables the module e g sata_sis off pci bios Forces to use PCI BIOS and not to access the hardware device directly For instance this parameter may be used if the machine has a non standard PCI host bridge pci nobios Disallows use of PCI BIOS only direct hardware access methods are allowed For instance this parameter may be used if you experience crashes upon boot up probably caused by the BIOS pci biosirq Uses PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt routing table These calls are known to be buggy on several machines and they hang the machine when used but on other computers it is the only way to get the interrupt routing table Try this option if the kernel is unable to allocate IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your motherboard vga ask Gets t
109. ize the chances of your computer s recovery if need arises you must test that your computer can boot from the rescue media In addition you must make sure that the recovery media contains all drivers required for operation of your mass storage devices and network adapter 1 If you purchased the program after downloading it you absolutely must create a bootable rescue CD or other rescue media for example a USB stick following the recommendations given in the User s Guide or program s Help and then make sure this rescue media is bootable on your computer You must configure your computer so as to enable booting from the rescue media and make your rescue media device CD ROM DVD ROM drive or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 91 In case you have a rescue CD press a key to start booting from the CD as soon as you see the prompt Press any key to boot from CD If you fail to press a key within five seconds you will need to restart the computer When using other rescue media the procedure will be similar 2 After the computer boots into the recovery environment check that it detects all the hard drives you have in your system including external ones if you use them for storing backups Incidentally you must attach the external drive s before booting from the rescue media otherwise the recovery environment might not detect the drive s 3 If you store your backups on the network you should
110. k up the entire system disk Such a backup is most suitable for recovering your system and applications both when you need to recover them on the original hard disk drive or a new one e g after your hard drive failed Incidentally if your system disk contains several partitions an entire disk backup also provides for recovery of any individual partition Because system disk backups are the most important for disaster recovery it is advisable to check both the system disk and the hard disk to be used as the backup storage for errors with the help of Microsoft s Chkdsk utility which is part of Windows The utility can repair errors and locate bad sectors You can back up the system disk both in Windows and in the recovery environment Before starting a system disk backup in Windows it is advisable to close such applications as MS Outlook and DBMS programs Though the program locks the system partition while making a so called snapshot see Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup basic concepts some users still prefer backing up the system disk when Windows is not running The subsequent description is made under the assumption that you boot from your bootable rescue media and the program sees all your hard drives and other storage devices in the recovery environment See Testing bootable rescue media Attach the external drive if it is to be used for backup storage and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before booti
111. ks you can select samples of symbol or elementary data bit sequences to be written to sectors in order to repeatedly and effectively wipe confidential information Methods offered by national standards provide single or triple recording of random symbols to disk sectors that are straightforward and arbitrary decisions in general but still acceptable in simple situations The most effective information wiping method is based on deep analysis of subtle features of recording data to all types of hard disks This knowledge speaks of the necessity of complex multipass methods to guarantee information wiping The detailed theory of guaranteed information wiping is described in an article by Peter Gutmann Please see Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid State Memory 16 3 2 Information wiping methods used by Acronis The table below briefly describes information wiping methods used by Acronis Each description features the number of hard disk sector passes along with the number s written to each sector byte The epcipten of built in information wiping methods United States Department of 1 pass randomly selected symbols to each byte of Defense 5220 22 M each sector 2 complementary to written during the 1 pass 3 random symbols again 4 writing verification 2 United States NAVSO P 5239 4 1 pass 0x01 to all sectors 2 0x27FFFFFF 3 26 RLL random symbol sequences 4 verification United
112. kups can be found in the Acronis Support KB article Troubleshooting Issues with Corrupt Backups available at http kb acronis com content 1517 Incremental backup files have large sizes You find out that incremental backup files have sizes comparable with that of the full backup file This can have several causes For more information and possible solutions see the Acronis Support KB article Acronis True Image Creates Large Incremental or Differential Backup Archives available at http kb acronis com content 2712 15 4 Recovery issues System and or data recovery after a disaster is the most important operation performed with Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Indeed what s the value of a backup program that cannot recover backed up data If you have problems with recovery try the following actions 1 First of all make sure that you have the latest build of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup You can download it through your Acronis account 2 If you recover the image from an external drive try to copy that image to another storage and retry recovery as the issue may be related to the hardware 3 If you have tried recovery in Windows boot to the rescue media and try the recovery procedure once more 4 If this is a data partition backup you can try mounting it to recover at least some files and folders 5 If the above suggestions have not helped to solve the problem check whether this section gives a solution to your probl
113. l internal or external hard drive One more useful aspect of this feature is its ability to split backups on the fly Suppose you perform a backup to a hard disk and in the middle of the backup process Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup finds out that the disk to which you are backing up does not have sufficient free space for completing the backup The program displays a message warning you that the disk is full Operation Progress a Operation status Information p Disk is full Free up additional disk space to continue You can either empty the Recycle Bin or delete old data files Click Browse to specify volume location Retry to try again or click Cancel Retry Cancel r Shutdown the computer after completion To complete the backup you may either try to free some space on the disk and click Retry or select another storage device To choose the latter option click Browse in the information window The Browse for Location window appears Browse for Location Delete Create new folder B Desktop D B My Documents 4 3 My Computer gt Gb 3 Floppy 4 gt amp Local Disk C z D 2 CD Drive D gt amp Local Disk E gt Shared Documents p a My Network Places pa gt amp 123 bO asdgdf gt amp atis gt Backupsi a gt Name 3 31 Floppy 4 3D Drive D Se Local Disk C Local Disk E My Documents Shared
114. ldcard characters For example to find all batch files in the archives type bat Typing my exe will allow you to find all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my It should be noted that search is case insensitive i e Backup and backup is the same search string Furthermore the search stops after the program finds 100 files corresponding to a search criterion you have typed If the search results do not contain the file you need you will have to refine the search criterion When a file is included in several backups and it has not been modified the search results will show it only once in the oldest backup file If such a file has been changed the search results will show all backup files containing differing versions of the file 2 Searchin the comments to backup archives is carried out differently First of all you cannot use and as Windows wildcard characters As in this case the program uses full text search it will just find all occurrences of these characters in the comments if any The full text search uses the following rules Search criteria consist of words separated by space character s or by a logical operator AND OR NOT please take note of the upper case Only one logical operator is allowed the first one that occurs in a search string otherwise they are ignored and interpreted as search words All space separated words must be in a topic for suc
115. lders containing your data or create a data disk image Remember that the imaging procedure is much faster than copying files and could speed up the backup process significantly when it comes to backing up large volumes of data Incidentally if the image file becomes corrupted for some reason it is sometimes possible to mount the image and save most files and folders by copying them from the mounted image using Windows Explorer 4 As recovery of your system from a disaster in most cases will be done after booting from the rescue media you must test the rescue media as described in the next section Testing bootable rescue media 4 1 1 Recommendations for testing that your backups can be used for recovery 1 Even if you start recovery of the active partition in Windows the program will reboot into the Linux environment after the recovery process starts because Windows cannot be left running while the recovery of its own partition is being carried out So you will recover your active partition under the recovery environment in all cases If you have a spare hard drive we strongly recommend you to try atest recovery to this hard drive booting from the rescue media which uses Linux If you do not have a spare drive please at least validate the image in the recovery environment A backup that can be read during validation in Windows may not always be readable under Linux environment When you use the Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup rescue
116. letter drop down list If you do not want to mount a partition select Do not mount in the list or unselect the partition s checkbox Required steps Drive letter 1 Archive selection Select partitions to mount and assign drive letter Finish Aa Partition Mount letter Flags Cap Disk 1 V NTFS Unlabeled E fH E Pri 164 7MB 125 5MB NTFS v nrs Unlabeled C Do not mount Pri Act 4 658GB 2 226 GB NTFS v ANTES Unlabeled F a Pri 180 4MB 177 9 MB NTFS Optional steps gt Drive letter _ Mount the partitions in the read write mode Proceed I Cancel 4 Having finished the settings click Proceed to connect the selected partition images as virtual disks 5 After the image is connected the program will run Windows Explorer showing its contents Now you can work with files or folders as if they were located on a real disk 12 2 Unmounting an image We recommend that you unmount the virtual disk after all necessary operations are finished as maintaining virtual disks takes considerable system resources If you do not unmount the disk it will disappear after your computer is turned off To disconnect the virtual disk choose Tools amp Utilities Unmount Image select the disk to unmount and click OK Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 71 If you have mounted several partitions by default all of them will be selected fo
117. ll eventually crash and maybe just at the worst possible moment We may interpret Murphy s Law the other way around it is vitally important to consider all the possible things that can go wrong and act so as to prevent them The best way to counteract a possible disaster is by taking the necessary precautionary measures 1 To be better prepared for a disaster you need to make a full backup of your system disk or at the very least the partition containing Windows and your applications 2 Whenever possible you should store your system drive image on a hard drive other than your primary hard disk C preferably on an external one This gives an additional guarantee that you will be able to recover your system if your primary hard disk drive fails Furthermore it is usually better to keep your personal data separate from your operating system and applications for example on disk D Such an arrangement speeds up the creation of your system and data disks or partitions images and reduces the amount of information you will need to recover This makes the backup file of your system disk much smaller and recovery can be easier In its turn the smaller the backup file size the less chance of its corruption and the less time required for your system recovery 3 If you store your data documents videos photos etc on a non system disk e g using the arrangement described in item 2 it needs to be backed up too You can either back up the fo
118. ludes both physical sectors location etc and logical file system free space assigned letter etc parameters You can change the width of a column by dragging its borders with the mouse 3 5 Booting from system image tib files Users of the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 can now test whether they will be able to boot from the recovered system partition Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup allows booting from a tib file containing a system partition image So if you are able to boot from such backup you almost certainly will be able to boot after an actual system recovery from that backup When you choose a tib file to boot from Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup creates a temporary vhd file by converting this tib file so your hard disk must have enough free space for storing it Then the program adds a new item to the Windows boot loader list When you select the tib file in the boot loader list your computer will actually boot from that temporary vhd file After testing the bootability of the tib file you can remove the file from the boot loader list and delete the temporary vhd file though you can keep it 4 Preparing for disaster recovery 4 1 How to best prepare for a disaster Let us remind you of Murphy s Law Whatever can go wrong will go wrong and at the worst possible time in the worst possible way And some people say that Murphy was an incurable optimist So be warned your computer may crash and wi
119. mpletely i r 2 Select the computer from which you backed up the files you need to manage by its name on the directory tree under Online Storage in the left pane 3 Select the folder containing the files you want to manage in the left pane The right pane lists the files in that folder 4 Ifyou want to delete some versions of a specific file select the file and click View Versions on the toolbar This opens the File Versions window Select the version you want to delete and click Remove on the toolbar When you want to delete several versions use the Ctrl and Shift keys like in Windows Explorer to select the versions for deletion and then click Remove on the toolbar Having finished removing the versions click OK To delete all versions of the file click Remove All on the toolbar 5 If you want to delete a file select it in the right pane When selecting multiple files for deletion you can use the Ctrl and Shift keys like in Windows Explorer Having finished selection right click on the selection and choose Delete in the shortcut menu After you finish managing the Online Storage close the Acronis Time Explorer window 7 To see how much space you have freed up click Refresh on the toolbar of the Storage state screen and check the new value of free space 7 5 Setting online backup options You can set these options after logging on Acronis Online Backup and selecting a computer for use with Online backup service To
120. n disk you may abort the recovery by clicking Cancel and try to identify the target disk by its model number interface etc 7 Clicking Accept will return you to the Settings of partition screen Check the partition type and change it if necessary You should remember that the system partition must be primary and marked as active 8 Proceed to specifying the partition size by clicking Change default in the Partition size area By default the partition will occupy the entire new disk You can resize and relocate the partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse on the horizontal bar on the screen or by entering corresponding values into the appropriate fields Partition size Free space before Free space after While specifying the partition size remember that you need to leave as much unallocated free space after the newly resized partition as will be needed for the second partition Usually the free space before partitions is equal to zero Click Accept when the partition has the size you have planned for it then click Next 9 Begin specifying the settings for the second partition Click New location then select unallocated space on the destination disk that will receive the second partition Click Accept check the partition type change if necessary and then proceed to specifying the partition size which by default is equal to the original size Usually there is no free space after the last partition so allocate all the u
121. n the drive that shows the correct jumper settings 2 Open your computer and insert the new hard disk into a 3 5 or 5 25 slot with special holders Fasten down the disk with screws 3 Plug the power cable into the hard disk four threaded two black yellow and red there is only one way you can plug in this cable 4 Plug the 40 or 80 thread flat data cable into the sockets on the hard disk and on the motherboard plugging rules are described below The disk drive will have a designation on the connector or next to it that identifies Pin 1 The cable will have one red wire on the end that is designated for Pin 1 Make sure that you place the cable in the connector correctly Many cables are also keyed so that they can only go in one way 5 Turn your computer on and enter BIOS setup by pressing the keys that are displayed on the screen while the computer is booting 6 Configure the installed hard disk by setting the parameters type cylinder heads sectors and mode or translation mode these parameters are written on the hard disk case or by using the IDE autodetection BIOS utility to configure the disk automatically 7 Set the boot sequence to A C CD ROM or some other depending on where your copy of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup is located If you have a boot diskette set the diskette to be the first if it is on a CD make the boot sequence start with the CD ROM 8 Quit BIOS setup and save changes Acronis True Ima
122. nallocated space to the second partition click Accept and then click Next 10 Carefully read the summary of operations to be performed If you do not want to validate the backup click Proceed otherwise click Options and select the Validate backup archive before recovery box before clicking Proceed 11 When the operation finishes exit the standalone version of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Windows should not see both the new and old drive during the first boot after recovery If you upgrade the old drive to a larger capacity new one disconnect the old drive before the first boot otherwise there may be problems booting Windows Switch off the computer if you need to disconnect the old drive otherwise just reboot the computer after removing the rescue media Boot the computer to Windows It may report that new hardware hard drive is found and Windows needs to reboot After making sure that the system operates normally restore the original boot sequence 9 2 2 Recovering a disk with a hidden partition Recovering a backup of the system disk with a hidden partition e g created by the PC manufacturer for diagnostics or system recovery to a different capacity hard drive requires to take into account some additional factors First of all for the best chance of success it is necessary to keep on the new drive the physical order of the partitions that exist on the old drive and place the hidden partition to the same locat
123. nd out more about components of other Acronis products see their respective user guides 3 Select the type of bootable media CD R RW DVD R RW or 3 5 diskettes to create If your BIOS has this feature you can create other bootable media such as removable USB flash drives You can also choose to create a bootable disk ISO image When using 3 5 diskettes you will only be able to write one component at a time for example the full version of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup on a set of diskettes To write another component start Bootable Media Builder again Acronis Media Builder Bootable media type selection Select a drive to be used to create bootable media The list contains all available devices that can be used to create bootable media You can create CD DYD USB flash drive or other bootable media or build an ISO image of a bootable disc Name Type J 314 Floppy A 3 4 Inch Floppy Disk gt 150 image 150 image file l lt Back I Next gt l Cancel 4 Ifyou are creating a CD DVD or any removable media insert a blank disc so the program can determine its capacity If you choose to create a bootable disc ISO image specify the ISO file name and the folder in which to place it 5 Next the program will estimate how many blank diskettes are required in case you have not chosen ISO or CD DVD and give you time to prepare them When you are finished click Proceed
124. ng archives and information to its index database The required time depends on the number of tib the number of files they contain After completing the indexing the Desktop Search will be able to search files in tib backup archives The search engines in WDS and Windows Vista have similar funct ionalities though search results are presented somewhat differently data Windows Desktop Search File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Q Back 5 2 Search ie Folders Address g Windows Desktop Search Results Windows P AllLocations v Everything ELS E E mail Other 1 054 results mE kup tib Acronis True Image Data Sources ODBC acronis htm iS y 3ds_max xml lt 9 access_2000 xml access_2003 xml Al lt 9 access_2007 xml Unable to display preview is 2 access_xp xml Ig adobe_photoshop_cs3 xml lt 9 adobe_photoshop_cs_9 xml is lt 9 after_effects_7 xml 2 bittorrent xml lt 9 diskeeper_administrator_10 xml 2 easy_screensaver_4_1 xml l f secure_is_2007 xml Windows Search results 7s a De Sl 5 4 Search Results in Indexed Locations 4 I my name myback Show only fall E mail Document Picture Music Other Advanced Search a Location B Indexed Locations v Name myback Date gt any 3 5 2008 Tags Add atag Size KB any 5j Authors Add an
125. ng from Acronis rescue media 1 Arrange the boot sequence in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 91 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Full version Click the My Disks link under Back Up on the Welcome screen Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup l lok Ss im Backup gt gt Be lous amp Utilities Get the full version Welcome to Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Ip Your system is not fully protected Perform the following operations Backup Back Up My System Recovery What would you like to do Back Up J Recover Tasks amp Log i My Disks Files amp Folders My Disks Files amp Folders Tools amp Utilities Recent backups My favorites No tasks O Create What s new Options D Online Backup Select the system disk as the source for backup by checking the appropriate disk box this will select all partitions on the disk including the hidden ones Choose a target archive for the backup being configured you can either add a new backup to an existing archive or create a new one Choose the backup location and assign a name to the backup to be created It is better to use meaningful names e g Disk1_full tib Carefully read the Summary of actions to be performed during backup and click Proceed if you are satisfied with the backup task settin
126. ngs of partition C or the letter of the system partition if it is different step check the default settings and click Next if they are correct Otherwise change the settings so as to suit you before clicking Next 7 Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step If you have not resized the partition the sizes in the Deleting partition and Recovering partition items must match If you do not want to validate the backup click Proceed otherwise click Options and select the Validate backup archive before recovery box before clicking Proceed 8 When the operation finishes exit the standalone version of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup remove the rescue media and boot from the recovered system partition After making sure that you recovered Windows to the state you need restore the original boot sequence 9 2 Recovering a disk backup to a different capacity hard disk Recovery of a disk backup containing several partitions to a hard disk that has a different capacity using manual resizing of the partitions can be considered as one of the most complicated operations in Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup This is especially true when you have backed up the original hard disk containing a hidden diagnostic or recovery partition Recovering a dual multiboot system disk e g with Windows and some flavor of LINUX may be even more fraught with difficulties Quite often it requires some research on the appropriate forums before att
127. o Windows It may report that new hardware hard drive is found and Windows needs to reboot After making sure that the system operates normally restore the original boot sequence 9 3 Recovering a data partition or disk As we already said data partitions and disks are usually recovered in Windows because this allows you to avoid such issues as the program not detecting your hard drives changing disk letters etc To reduce the risk of problems during recovery even more validate the backup archive to be recovered and check the destination disk for errors using chkdsk Attach the external drive if it contains the backup archive to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before starting Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Start Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 2 Select Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu then choose the image backup containing the data partition you want to recover 3 Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step As you are going to recover a data partition there is no need to select the Recover MBR and track 0 box at the What to recover step Select just the data partition you want to recover 5 The next step allows you to select settings for the partition to be recovered When recovering the partition to the original location you only need to check the settings If you want to recover the partition to another loca
128. oing to recover You can copy the backup file to another hard drive and try again Cannot recover the partition because the backup file is on m Recover disk signature on New Volume G Optional steps 7 997 GB NTFS Options oO Primary j Logical Dynamic acronis Secure Zone Unallocated Unsupported Next gt Cancel If there are partitions on the target disk you will be prompted by the confirmation window stating that the destination disk contains partitions perhaps with useful data You will have to select between OK all existing partitions will be deleted and all their data will be lost Cancel no existing partition will be deleted discontinuing the recovery operation You will then have to cancel the operation or select another disk Note that no real changes or data destruction will be performed at this time For now the program will just map out the procedure All changes will be implemented only when you click Proceed in the wizard s Summary window 10 1 6 Changing the recovered partition type When recovering a partition you can change its type though it is not required in most cases To illustrate why you might need to do this let s imagine that both the operating system and data were stored on the same primary partition on a damaged disk If you are recovering a system partition to the new or the same disk and want to load the operating system from it
129. on self test sequence that starts immediately after you turn your computer on Usually the message with the required key combination is displayed during the startup test Pressing this combination takes you to the menu of the setup utility that is included in your BIOS The menu can differ in appearance sets of items and their names depending on the BIOS manufacturer The most widely known BIOS makers for PC motherboards are Award Phoenix and AMI Moreover while items in the standard setup menu are mostly the same for various BlOSes items of the extended or advanced setup heavily depend on the computer and BIOS version Among other things the BIOS menu allows you to adjust the boot sequence Boot sequence management differs for various BIOS versions e g for AMI BIOS AWARDBIOS and brand name hardware manufacturers Computer BIOS allows booting operating systems not only from hard disks but also from CD ROMs DVD ROMs and other devices Changing the boot sequence may be required for example to make your rescue media CD DVD or USB stick device the first booting device If there are several hard disks installed in your computer labeled as C D E and F you can reorder the boot sequence so that an operating system is booted from for example disk E In this case you have to set the boot sequence to look like E CD ROM A C D This does not mean that booting is done from the first device in this list it only means tha
130. one The Linux based recovery environment used by Acronis does not provide the ability for users to add new drivers Because of this you should request Acronis Customer Service Department to create a custom rescue CD that will have all the drivers you need Before making a request collect the information about your system Select Generate System Report in the Help menu Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will automatically collect the required information and display a list of what is collected in the report In the process of creating the report the program may install some components required for collecting the necessary information When the report is complete click Save As and select the desired folder or leave the default My Documents folder The program will archive the report into a zip file Send the file to the Acronis Customer Service Department They will build an iso image of a custom rescue media compatible with your computer hardware and send you an iso file Burn this file to a CD DVD using a program that can handle iso files such as Nero Incidentally this report may also be useful when you request the Acronis Customer Service Department to help you with a problem After burning your custom rescue CD test it to make sure that your hard disk drives and network adapter are now detected in the recovery environment 5 Getting to know Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 5 1 Program workspace Starting Acronis True Image OEM Qui
131. 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 you are not sure about the compression ratio of a file type try to back up a couple of files and compare the sizes of the original files and backup archive file A couple of a
132. overing to a larger capacity hard drive there are two cases 1 if the hard drive has the same geometry the backed up disk will be recovered as is thus leaving unallocated space and 2 if the hard drive has different geometry the partition s size will be proportionally enlarged 9 4 Recovering files and folders Depending on the backup types you have used there may be several methods of recovering files and folders In most cases you recover files and folders in Windows You can recover files and folders from a disk partition image To recover files folders from an image you can mount the image see Mounting an image and copy files folders to a desired location using Windows Explorer If you need to recover just a single file folder or a few files double click on the required image backup archive Then drill down to the folder containing the file s you need to recover select the file s right click and choose Copy in the shortcut menu open a folder for saving the files to be recovered right click in the folder and choose Paste in the shortcut menu You can also drag the files from the backup archive into the destination folder One more method of recovering files folders from an image is described below See Recovering files and folders from image archives 9 4 1 Recovering files and folders from image archives Image archives provide recovery of not only entire disks partitions but files folders too 1 Start the Recovery Wizard by
133. oving backup archives p 84 Remove see Removing backup archives Details viewing detailed information on the selected backup Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 83 14 4 Removing backup archives You may want to remove backups and backup archives you no longer need Because Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup stores information on the backup archives in a metadata information database deleting unneeded archive files using Windows Explorer will not delete information about these archives from the database and Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will consider that they still exist This will result in errors when the program tries to perform operations on the backups that no longer exist So you must only remove obsolete backups and backup archives using the tool provided by Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup To remove the entire backup archive select it and click Remove on the toolbar or right click on the full backup of the backup archive and choose Remove in the shortcut menu To remove an incremental backup select it and click Remove on the toolbar or right click on the selected backup and choose Remove in the shortcut menu In this case all other successive incremental backups created later than the selected incremental backup will also be deleted The following screen appears Backup Removal Are you sure you want to delete the selected backups a MyBackup 8 24 2009 1 58 37 PM The Following backups will be deleted B
134. p 32 Options screen 25 Other issues 90 Other operations 81 Overwrite file options 64 P Preparing for disaster recovery 16 Preparing for your first backup 27 Program workspace 21 Providing a comment 47 Proxy settings 40 R Recommendations on selecting data for storing online 40 Recovering a data partition or disk 56 Recovering a disk backup to a different capacity hard disk 52 Recovering a disk with a hidden partition 54 Recovering a disk without a hidden partition 53 Recovering data from Online Storage 35 Recovering files and folders 57 Recovering files and folders from image archives 57 Recovering your system partition 51 52 Recovery issues 88 Recovery method selection 60 Recovery priority 65 Recovery Wizard detailed information 59 83 Removable media settings 48 Removing Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 12 Removing backup archives 84 Running Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 10 S Searching 73 Searching backup archives and their content 73 Selecting a disk partition to recover 60 Selecting a target disk partition 62 Selecting archive location 44 Selecting the backup options 46 Selecting what data to back up 44 Setting default recovery options 64 Setting online backup options 37 Setting recovery options 64 Some typical backup scenarios 28 Starting the Recovery Wizard 59 Startup Pa
135. provide users with secure data destruction tools so deleted files can be restored easily by using simple applications Even a complete disk reformat cannot guarantee you permanent confidential data destruction Acronis DriveCleanser solves this problem with quaranteed and permanent data destruction on selected hard disks and or partitions It allows selecting from a number of data destruction methods depending on the importance of your confidential information m Disk cloning 2 3 DA 3 Creates an exact copy of the selected disk This operation will transfer the operating system applications and data from the old disk to the new one File backup Creates backups of files and folders While creating a file backup only the data along with the Folder tree is compressed and stored File level backups usually take comparatively little time to run making it easy to back up your data once or even several times a day Non stop backup 4 Acronis Nonstop Backup provides easy protection of your disks and files Once you start Acronis Nonstop Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions so if you roll back True Image OEM to an older version you likely will have to re create the archives using the older version We strongly recommend that you create new bootable media after each True Image OEM upgrade 2 5 Removing A
136. 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 Select the check box of your system partition on the Source selection screen 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 nam
137. r 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 addit
138. r unmounting You can disconnect all mounted drives together or disconnect only those you do not need mounted anymore P Unmount drive Selected drives to unmount Drive Letter Volume Label Disk Size File System Mw p 1 992 GB FAT32 You can also do this in Windows Explorer by right clicking on the disk icon and choosing Unmount 72 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 13 Searching backup archives and their content 13 1 Searching In addition to the ability to explore backup archives Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup provides a search facility for tib archives themselves for files in tib archives only as well as offering full text search in the comments to archives This facilitates searching for the information you need for using Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup and for recovering files from your backup archives Here s how you can search for the data you need 1 Enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup window and then click the magnifying glass icon You will be taken to the Data recovery and backup management screen The search results are output in the corresponding tab of the window r Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Ss 3 Backup Home Backup Recovery Tasks amp Log Tools amp Utilities Data recovery and backup management a Disk Recovery dy Recover your computer from a backup Di
139. rack 0 box as this will result in selecting the entire disk for recovery Recovering the entire disk does not allow you to resize partitions manually If necessary you can recover the MBR later Select the partitions and click Next Selecting partitions leads to appearance of the relevant steps Settings of partition Take note that these steps are in ascending partition drive letter order and that this order cannot be changed The order may differ from the physical order of the partitions on the hard disk In the case being considered no hidden or recovery partitions the physical order of the partitions on the new disk does not have special importance as Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup automatically fixes the appropriate Windows loader files Incidentally this step allows you to find out whether the disk you are going to recover contains a hidden partition Hidden partitions do not have disk letters and they go first in the Settings of partition steps If you find a hidden partition see Recovering a disk with a hidden partition 6 Youcan specify the following partition settings location type and size Most likely you will first specify the settings of the system partition as it usually has the letter C Because you are recovering to the new disk click New location Select the destination disk by either its assigned name or capacity If you have not assigned names to the disks and have any doubts when selecting the destinatio
140. rameters 67 98 Steps for installing a new internal SATA drive 95 Storage cleanup 39 Storage connection speed 38 Supported file systems 9 Supported operating systems 9 Supported storage media 9 System requirements and supported media 8 T Testing bootable rescue media 17 The backup process 47 Troubleshooting 86 U Unmounting an image 71 83 Upgrading Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 11 Using Google Desktop with Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 75 Using Windows Search with Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 77 V Validating backup archives 81 Viewing disk and partition information 15 Viewing Tasks and Logs 81 Ww What is Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 6 Windows Search and Google Desktop integration 74
141. rance options allow modifying the appearance of the program s user interface by selecting a font to be used on screens in dialogs etc You can also modify a font to be used in the menu items To view the appearance of a concrete font click the button select the font and have a look at the sample text If you are satisfied with the font s appearance click OK otherwise try another font or click Cancel In addition the Appearance options let you filter all tasks created on your computer By default you see only your own tasks but you have the option to view or manage tasks created by other users To do so choose Filter and unselect the Show only tasks created by a current user box The Feedback option allows you to quit the Acronis Customer Experience Program if you decided to join it during Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup installation or join the program by selecting the Yes want to participate in the program radio button If you want to know more about the Customer Experience Program click the Learn more link If modifying the default options does not provide the desired results or if you just want to restore the default options values set during Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup installation click Reset all to default on the toolbar When you need to set the default values only for a selected option click Reset the current to default on the toolbar 6 Creating backup archives 6 1 Preparing for your first backup First of
142. rd and set the jumpers properly for the hard disk to function hard disks have to be properly configured with the motherboard BIOS 16 2 4 Installing a SATA hard drive Most recently manufactured PCs use the SATA interface for hard drives In general installing a SATA hard drive is easier than an IDE drive as it is not necessary to configure master slave jumpers SATA drives use a thin interface cable with seven pin keyed connectors This improves airflow through the PC case Power is supplied to SATA drives through 15 pin connectors Some SATA drives also support legacy four pin power connectors Molex you can use a Molex or SATA connector but do not use both at the same time because this could damage the hard drive You ll also need a free power lead fitted with a SATA power connector Most systems that come with SATA ports have at least one SATA power connector If this is not the case you will need a Molex to SATA adapter In case your system has the SATA power connector but it is already occupied use a Y adapter that splits a lead in two 16 2 5 Steps for installing a new internal SATA drive 1 Find an unused SATA port using the documentation provided with your PC If you are going to connect your new SATA drive to a SATA controller card install the card If you are going to connect the SATA drive to the motherboard enable applicable motherboard jumpers if any Most hard drive kits include a SATA interface cable and mounting screws
143. ronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Among other information the Troubleshooting chapter includes links to Acronis Support Knowledge Base KB articles intended for helping to solve issues with Acronis products If the appropriate Troubleshooting section does not provide a solution to your issue you can click any link to go to the KB and then use the Search funstion just enter the key words related to your problem Since the Troubleshooting chapter covers just the most common issues maybe the KB has recommendations on solving your specific problem Furthermore Acronis Support team continuously adds new articles to the KB When you are not able to find the solution to your problem in the KB or the suggested solution does not help feel free to contact Acronis Customer Central http www acronis com support Acronis Support personnel may request you to provide the system report To create the report select Generate System Report in the Help menu if you are able to start the program in Windows then save the report and send it to Acronis Customer Central If the issue prevents booting to Windows try booting from Acronis rescue media and create the report in the standalone version of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup selecting the same item in the Help menu You can also start system report generation by simultaneously pressing the Ctrl F7 keys both in Windows and the standalone version of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup even when a wizard
144. run and allows you to update the backup archives with just one click You can easily access the Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup features through the so called sidebar occupying the left side of the screen Choosing an item on the sidebar takes you to a screen where you can access the corresponding features Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 21 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup uses wizards which guide you through many operations Like the main program window wizards also have the sidebar listing all the steps both required and optional needed for completing the operation For example see the Backup Wizard screen shot below Ge Required steps Partitions to back up What to back up Partition Flags Capacity Used Space Type a V Disk 1 a VY NTFS Unlabeled C Pri Act 9 989 GB 7 660 GB NTFS Disk 2 a E LANTFS Unlabeled E Pri Act 7 999 GB 1 823 GB NTFS Optional steps E Back up sector by sector requires more storage space Back up unallocated space Size to backup 8 561 GB aa The completed steps are marked with green checkmarks The green arrow shows the current step After you complete all the required steps and come to the Finish step the program displays the Summary screen If you wish to omit the optional steps read the summary of the operation to be performed to make sure that the default settings satisfy you and then click Proce
145. s Select the backup options that is backup file splitting compression level etc The settings of the options will be applied only to the current backup task Required steps a Archive Protection B Pre Post commands Backup priority Compression level a pressan ay You can set up the priority of the backup process making it run 4 ff Backup performance faster or slower b Backup priority k HDD writing speed Low I Free space threshold Select this item if you want the backup process to be run 4 Notifications with low priority T E mail E Messenger WinPo he af pup Select this item if you want the backup process to be run B Archive splitting with normal priority Error handling High W archive validation Select this item if you want the backup process to be run with high priority Optional steps Virus scan ra eduling Backup method Or you can edit the default backup options and local storage settings if you want to save the current settings for future tasks For more information see Fine tuning your backups 46 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 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
146. s state While preparing for recovery you need to a create and test Acronis bootable rescue media For more information on testing media see Testing bootable rescue media b boot from the rescue media and validate the backup you want to use for recovery Such validation is very important because Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup deletes the target partition the system partition in this case when starting partition recovery so you may find yourself without your system and applications if the backup file is corrupted In addition there were reports from users that a backup archive that has been successfully validated in Windows is declared corrupted when being validated in the recovery environment This may be due to the fact that Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup uses different device drivers in Windows and the recovery environment c assign unique names to the disks and partitions used on your computer This is strongly recommended because the drive lettering in Windows and in the recovery environment may differ If you have not done this before making the backup you can assign names now The names will help you in finding the drive containing your backups as well as the target system partition d optionally check the system hard drive for errors using Microsoft s Chkdsk utility which is part of Windows Assuming that you have carried out the above let s proceed with recovery Attach the external drive if it contains the backup
147. se terms for such third parties are detailed in the license txt file located in the root installation directory You can always find the latest up to date list of the third party code and the associated license terms used with the Software and or Service at http kb acronis com content 7696 Table of contents 1 IMEFODUCTION scsscsesssdacisssccesscantenssnsssescsssndennssnsdesecssedennesssbeseessacennses dee cssbaanancdasdscsdesacsansanssessessans 6 1 1 What is Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup ccccccccsssscceesssseeeesssceeecsesseceesseseeeesseaeees 6 1 2 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup basic CONCEPHS ccccccccccessssessseeeeceeseessesssaeeeeeeeseesees 6 1 3 New in Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup ccccccccesssssssecececeeessesseaeeeeeessessesneaeeeeeesseesees 8 1 4 System requirements and supported MECIA c cccccccecesssssssececececesseseeaeeeceeseessesteaeeeeeeeeeesees 8 1 4 1 MINIMUM SYStEM FEQUIFEMENTS ssisccsccscsesesesassscossesstascecoseseasasesesceasaesossesstesescotacessuccaesseisiedseaesicoorstetsaaainesszecsie 8 1 4 2 Supported operating systems 143 Supported Me Systemsin i R Ei ea aaa aae aaea eaaa E a Aa aE EEA EEEa LAA S pported storage MEM lees cssscscescsedecaedacass iaandenacnadsecslareveenveaieatessexdceucsdecvin dala doxvesvaceasonradivsisvevnadbaseanediveuets Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup installation and Startup ssccccssssssccsssseceesssseeees 10 2 1 Install
148. search information You can select an information source of interest by choosing the appropriate area among Backup names and Backup contents Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup cannot perform search on network shares Acronis Online Storage and devices that are recognized by Windows as Devices with removable storage The Backup names area shows the results of the search for tib archives by archive filename Double clicking on a filename opens the corresponding archive in Windows Explorer where you can explore the archive contents You can validate or recover the archive by right clicking on its filename and choosing the appropriate item in the shortcut menu The shortcut menu contains the following items Recover Mount for image backups Validate Move Remove Explore backup Edit Comments and Details buttons for tib archives Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 73 The Backup contents area shows results of searches for files and folders in tib archives Double clicking on a filename opens the file You can recover the file by right clicking on its filename and choosing Recover in a shortcut menu This shortcut menu also enables you to open the file or the parent folder that contains that file To help you better understand the search results here is some information on the algorithms used by the Search feature 1 When searching files in tib archives you can type all or part of the filename and use the common Windows wi
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153. strong password for your online backups guard it from getting into the wrong hands and change it from time to time After opening an Acronis Online Backup account log in to your account page subscribe to the Online Backup service and then wait for an e mail message describing the details of your subscription plan and expiration date Now you can perform your first online backup 7 2 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage To perform an online backup log on to your Online Backup service account by clicking Backup gt Online Backup on the sidebar and entering your e mail address used for opening the account and the password In order to not enter the password during subsequent logons you may want to select the Remember the password check box Make these settings and click Log In After the program connects to Acronis Online Backup Server select a computer for connection to the Online Storage When logged on to the online backup service for the first time register a computer for work with Online Backup To do this click New computer then type in the computer name If you want to use encryption for the data to be stored on the Online Storage enter an encryption key to be used for encrypting your data Entering the encryption key automatically enables encryption of all data stored on the Online Storage The encryption key is similar to a password but it is used for unlocking access to your encrypted data Acronis Online Backup uses the indus
154. t and try to install the program a Click Start All Programs then find and open the Accessories folder b Right click on the Command Prompt item and select Run as administrator c Type the following command line in to the opened window net user administrator active yes Take note that there is a space between Administrator and active yes d Log off the current account and log in to the Administrator account e Try to install the application again If these solutions do not help an AcronisSupport Knowledge base article may help you in troubleshooting and resolving the issue Just follow the steps in the appropriate scheme See Troubleshooting Installation Issues of Acronis Software 15 3 Backup and validation issues 1 When you get a problem with backup or validation first of all make sure that you have the latest build of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup You can download it through your Acronis account This is because Acronis are continuously working on improving our products The latest build may contain bug fixes and provide enhanced hardware compatibility 2 Errors encountered while backing up data or validating backup archives may be caused by hard disk errors and or bad sectors so check the source and destination disks if you encounter an issue when backing up or check the backup archive storage disk when validating a backup archive To do this use the Windows chkdsk utility as follows Go to the Comm
155. t the first attempt to boot an operating system will be from this device There may be no operating system on disk E or it may be inactive In this case BIOS queries the next device in the list The BIOS numbers disks according to the order in which they are connected to IDE controllers primary master primary slave secondary master secondary slave next go the SCSI hard disks This order is broken if you change the boot sequence in BIOS setup If for example you specify that booting has to be done from hard disk E numbering starts with the hard disk that would be the third in usual circumstances it is usually the secondary master for IDE hard drives After you have installed the hard disk in your computer and have configured it in BIOS one can say that the PC or the motherboard knows about its existence and its main parameters However it is still not sufficient for an operating system to work with the hard disk In addition you have to create partitions on the new disk and format the partitions using Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup See Adding a new hard disk 16 2 Installing hard disk drives in computers 16 2 1 Installing an IDE hard disk drive general scheme To install a new IDE hard disk you should do the following we will assume you have powered OFF your PC before you start 1 Configure the new hard disk as slave by properly installing jumpers on its controller board Disk drives generally have a picture o
156. t the hard disk and the motherboard In the past this design of plug did not exist so there was an empirical rule the IDE cable is connected to the hard disk socket so that the marked thread is the closest to the power cable i e the marked thread connected to pin 1 of the socket A similar rule was used for connecting cables with the motherboard Incorrect connection of the cable with either the hard disk or the motherboard does not necessarily damage the electronics of the disk or the motherboard The hard disk is simply not detected or initialized by BIOS There are some models of hard disks especially the older ones for which incorrect connection damaged the electronics of the drive KKK We will not describe all the types of hard disks Currently the most widely used are those with IDE or SCSI interfaces Unlike IDE hard disks there can be from six to 14 SCSI hard disks installed in your PC However you need a special SCSI controller called a host adapter to connect them SCSI hard disks are not usually used in personal computers workstations but are found mostly in servers Aside from an IDE cable a four thread power cable must be connected to the hard disks There is only one way to plug in this cable 16 2 3 Configuring hard disk drives jumpers A hard disk drive can be configured in a computer as master or as slave The configuring is done using special connectors called jumpers on the hard disk drive Th
157. ted depending on the chosen backup plan you need to manage your Online Storage space by cleaning up the obsolete data Cleanup can be done in a variety of ways The most drastic one is removing a computer registered on the Online Storage if you have registered more than one Removing a computer results in deleting all data that was backed up from that computer so such an operation must be carried out with caution To remove a computer select it on the Online storage screen by its name and click Remove lt Computer_name gt then click Yes in the confirmation window After the deletion finishes click Refresh on the toolbar to refresh the storage state shown The Online backup options provide for automatic cleanup of the Online Storage You can specify deletion of files that have been kept on the storage longer than the specified number of months or days In addition you can set the maximum number of file versions to be kept on the Online Storage You can accept the default settings for those options shown above the Change cleanup options link or set the values you need To change the above options click the link and set the desired values You can also manage Acronis Online Storage by deleting individual files or even some of their versions 1 Click Browse on the Online storage screen Acronis Time Explorer will be opened with the Online Storage tab selected Online Storage Fh Online Storage ff encrypt_data Se C B
158. tent 1520 15 5 Bootability after recovery issues If a system was bootable at the time of backup you expect that it will boot after recovery However the information the operating system stores and uses for booting up may have become outdated at the time of recovery especially if you change partition sizes locations or destination drives Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup automatically updates Windows loaders after recovery Other loaders might also be fixed but there are cases when you have to re activate the loaders Specifically when you recover Linux volume in a dual boot configuration it is sometimes necessary to apply fixes or make booting changes so that Linux can boot and load correctly Below is a summary of typical situations that require additional user actions when the recovered operating system becomes unbootable The machine BIOS is configured to boot from another hard disk drive HDD Solution Configure the BIOS to boot from the HDD where the operating system resides In some cases BIOS has two menus for setting the boot sequence one for setting the boot devices priority and the other for setting the HDD boot order Windows was recovered to a dynamic volume that cannot be set bootable Solution Recover Windows to a basic or simple dynamic volume A system partition was recovered to a disk that does not have an MBR When you configure recovery of a system partition to a disk that does not have an MBR the progr
159. the created task by choosing the step you want to change and editing its settings Clicking Proceed will launch the task execution The task progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel Please keep in mind that the aborted procedure may still cause changes in the destination folder s 10 Additional recovery information 10 1 Recovery Wizard detailed information The below description of the Recovery Wizard refers to recovering partitions disks from image backups If you need to recover files and folders see Recovering files and folders 10 1 1 Starting the Recovery Wizard Start the Recovery Wizard by selecting Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main program menu 10 1 2 Archive selection 1 Select the archive Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will show the list of backup archives whose locations it knows from the information stored in its database If the program has not found the backup you need for example when the backup was made in the recovery environment or by a previous Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup version you can find it manually by clicking Browse and then selecting the backup location on the directory tree and choosing the backup in the right pane Required steps Archive selection Recovery method Created we Rating Images system E_C_F_11_23_2009 3 System E_C_F_11_23_2009 11 23 2009 5 06 06 PM 3 53 PM E3 E DataDisk E_F_11_
160. the driver files 1 Ensure that the SATA controller and the connected SATA hard drive are correctly detected by the operating system To do this go to the Device Manager SATA controllers usually appear under the SCSI and RAID controllers section of Device Manager while hard drives are listed under the Disk drives section The SATA controller and SATA hard drive must not be displayed in the Device Manager with a yellow exclamation mark or any other error indication 1 After you have installed the hard disk in your computer and have configured it in BIOS one can say that the PC knows about its existence and its main parameters However it is still not enough for the operating system to work with the hard disk In addition you have to create partitions on the new disk and format the partitions using Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup See Adding a new hard disk Then configure your BIOS to boot from the SATA controller and boot from the SATA hard drive to ensure it works 16 3 Hard Disk Wiping methods Information removed from a hard disk drive by non secure means for example by simple Windows delete can easily be recovered Utilizing specialized equipment it is possible to recover even repeatedly overwritten information Therefore guaranteed data wiping is more important now than ever before The guaranteed wiping of information from magnetic media e g a hard disk drive means it is impossible to recover data by even a qualifi
161. thout recovering the original absolute path You may also wish to recover the items with their entire folder hierarchy If this is the case select Recover absolute path At the Destination step select a new location on the directory tree You can create a new folder for the files to be recovered by clicking Create new folder 6 Select the files and folders to recover Make sure that you unselect all unnecessary folders Otherwise you will recover a lot of excess files 7 The first optional step allows you to keep useful data changes made since the selected backup was created Choose what to do if the program finds a file in the destination folder with the same name as in the archive By default the program will overwrite existing files and folders though more recent files and folders are protected from being overwritten If necessary you can protect 10 the system hidden files and folders from being overwritten by selecting the appropriate check boxes In addition you can protect the files that meet the criteria you specify in this window from being overwritten Unselecting the Overwrite existing files checkbox will give the files on the hard disk unconditional priority over the archived files Select the options for the recovery process that is recovery process priority file level security settings etc The options you set on this page will be applied only to the current recovery task Up to this point you can make changes in
162. three are even better To be on the safe side it is further recommended to keep one copy of a backup ina different location from the other preferably on other premises for example at work or at a friend s home if you use the backed up computer at home One more argument in favor of several backups when starting recovery Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup deletes the target partition or disk so when you have just a single backup the moment the system partition is deleted on the computer being recovered you are at great risk the only thing you have is the image being recovered and if it is corrupted you are in big trouble 2 It is better to format the hard drive used for storing your backups to the NTFS file system rather than FAT32 This is due to the 4GB file size limit on FAT32 disks So if your backup has a size of about 100GB Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will split it into 25 files When there are several such full backups on the hard disk the number of files will multiply accordingly This may be inconvenient if for example you would like to move the backup to another location using Windows Explorer 3 If you have only one computer at home it is advisable to print some information that may be helpful in recovering from a disaster because you may not be able to use the Internet Keep the printed material in a safe place along with the rescue CD DVD or another rescue media 4 2 Testing bootable rescue media To maxim
163. ting backup archives 27 Creating bootable media 10 66 Creating Linux based rescue media 66 D Data recovery with Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 51 Deciding what data to back up 27 Description 98 Disk partition images 13 27 E Error handling 48 Executing recovery 64 Exploring archives and mounting images 69 F File recovery options 64 Fine tuning your backups 47 Free space threshold 49 Full and incremental backups 13 29 30 31 45 Functioning principles of Information wiping methods 96 G General 86 General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 13 Getting to know Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 21 H Hard Disk Wiping methods 96 Hard Disks and Boot Sequence 92 How to best prepare for a disaster 16 l Information wiping methods used by Acronis 97 Installation issues 86 Installing a SATA hard drive 95 Installing Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 10 Installing an IDE hard disk drive general scheme 92 Installing hard disk drives in computers 92 Introduction 6 L Local storage settings 49 M Main screens 22 Managing backup archives 83 Managing Online Storage 36 Minimum system requirements 8 Motherboard sockets IDE cable power cable 93 Mounting an image 69 Moving backup archives 83 84 N New in Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 8 O Online backu
164. tings B atidi a Remove All Search options Appearance Feedback Hw tmp tib au The Backup options item provides for making settings to be used by default in any backup task You can modify the settings depending on your backup needs For detailed information on the backup options and possible settings see Fine tuning your backups In addition you can change the backup options while configuring a specific backup task In such case the changed options will be used only for this task Similarly the Recovery options item provides for making settings to be used by default by any recovery task For detailed information on the recovery options and possible settings see Setting default recovery options As with the backup options you can change the recovery options for a specific recovery task The Local storage settings item provides for making other settings related to the backup process for example they may have a more or less noticeable effect on the backup process speed For more information see Fine tuning your backups The Search options allow you to enhance the Search function by integrating it with Windows Search or Google Desktop search engines If you have one of those search engines installed you can include tib files in their index files by selecting the appropriate box in the Desktop search options window For more information see Windows Search and Google Desktop integration The Appea
165. tion select the new location and set the partition type you need or leave the default setting When the new location is an existing partition usually you may leave its disk letter and size unchanged When the new location is unallocated space e g after installing a new hard drive you intend to use for your data specify the size of the new partition and assign a logical disk letter 6 Carefully read the Summary After making sure that you have made the correct settings click Proceed if you do not need to change the default recovery options otherwise click Options 7 The Options step allows setting the recovery options for example to check the file system after recovery For more information about the recovery options see Setting default recovery options After setting the recovery options click Proceed Recovering the entire data disk backup requires similar steps with few minor differences for example there is no Check file system after recovery option When recovering to the original hard drive the steps of the Recovery Wizard are straightforward just make sure that you select the disk with the same number as the backed up disk as the destination Recovering your data disk backup to a hard drive with a different capacity has some nuances depending on its capacity and geometry the number of heads and sectors per track When recovering to a smaller capacity hard drive the partition s size will be proportionally reduced When rec
166. trol the pointer using the numeric keypad keys Turn Off Computer To star click a task EN 3 Select Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup Full version in the boot menu to continue booting from the rescue media To see the available video modes press the Enter key when the appropriate message appears 18 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 4 Choose a video mode you think best suitable for your monitor and type its number in the command line For instance typing 338 selects video mode 1600x1200x16 see the below figure s lt ENTER gt to see video modes available lt SPACE gt to continue or wait 30 sec Resolution Type Mode Resolution Type Mode Resolution Type 88x25 UGA FA1 88x58 UGA 2 FA2 88x43 UGA 88x28 UGA F85 88x38 UGA 5 FB6 88x34 UGA 88x68 UGA 320 328x208x8 VESA 8 321 328x40 x8 VESA 646x460x8 VESA a 323 648x488x8 VESA b 324 868x608x8 VESA 1824x768x8 VESA 326 1152x864x8 e 128 x968x8 VESA 1288x1824x8 VESA 14808x1858x8 h 1688x1208x8 VESA 1792x1344x8 VESA j 32C 1856x1392x8 k 1928x1448x8 VESA 328x280x16 VESA 32F 328x480x116 SA n 338 646x400x16 640x488x16 VESA 800x6088x16 q 1824x768x16 1152x864x16 VESA 35 1288x968x16 ti 1288x1824x16 W z 3 6 9 c f i bd 0 r 1466x1656x16 VESA 338 1666x1266x16 1792x1344x16 1856x1392x16 VESA 33B 1926x1446x16 326x286x32 328x468x32 VESA 33E 646x488x32 32 6486x488x32 8 8x688x32 VESA 1624x768x32 1152x864x32 1286x968x32 VESA 1286x1824x32 VESA i 14080x1850x32 1608x1280x32 VESA 179
167. try standard AES 256 encryption algorithm The data will be encrypted before transferring through the Internet to the Online Storage and will be stored in encrypted form You need to enter the encryption key for the computer only once during its registration though it will be required if you try to recover files backed up from this computer when connected to the Online Storage from another computer Having made all the necessary settings click Continue Computer Selection Select your current computer or register a new one If you have registered this computer before select it From the list Otherwise select an empty tab and register a new computer encrypt_data testi EE twenew New computer bo Name your computer Home 4 Enter a key to use encryption Warning Remember the key kFG e3TU4 It cannot be restored 7 Remove Continue Cancel Until you log off subsequent connections to the Online Storage from this computer will occur automatically you just need to select Online Backup If you already registered the computer select it from the list of registered computers then click Continue By default your current computer is selected for registration When the computer connects to the online storage the Online storage screen with your storage space quota appears D e B Backup Recovery Be Tools amp Uniities Log Off EE Online storage 50 GB Home EE encrypt WE testi 86 15 MB 1
168. up automatically splits a slice into several files of 4GB each except the last file when you make a large backup to a FAT32 formatted hard disk These files are the slice s volumes Snapshots While creating disk images Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup uses snapshot technology that allows creating even system partition backups while running Windows with files open for reading and writing without the necessity to reboot the computer Once the program starts the partition backup process it temporarily freezes all the operations on the partition and creates its snapshot Snapshot creation usually takes just several seconds After that the operating system continues working as the imaging process is under way and you will not notice anything unusual in the operating system functionality In its turn the Acronis driver continues working to keep the point in time view of the partition Whenever the driver sees a write operation directed at the partition it checks whether these sectors are already backed up and if they are not the driver saves the data on the sectors to be overwritten to a special buffer then allows overwriting The program backs up the sectors from the buffer so that all the partition sectors of the point in time when the snapshot was taken will be backed up intact and an exact image of the partition will be created Backup file format Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup saves backup data in the proprietary tib format us
169. ur entire system disk making a disk image will save you a lot of valuable time in case of a disaster as well as safeguard you against other possible problems Backing up the entire system disk takes more disk space but enables you to recover the system in minutes in case of a system crash or hardware failure Moreover the imaging procedure is much faster than copying files and could speed up the backup process significantly when it comes to backing up large volumes of data for details see Disk partition images p 13 You might think it would take a while to make a copy of your entire hard disk but the proprietary technologies used in Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup ensure that image creation is quite fast You should create images of your primary disk and any other partition you normally use If you have multiple partitions on a drive it is advisable to include all of them in the image because failure of the hard drive in most cases will mean that all the partitions it contains also fail Although we strongly recommend you to create images of your hard disk on a regular basis that is just part of a reliable backup strategy 6 3 Some typical backup scenarios Below are several scenarios of classic backups describing frequently used backup tasks Depending on your backup strategy you may find some of them useful 6 3 1 Backing up a system partition It is recommended to back up the system partition when your C disk consists o
170. vation key Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup A Product activation J Please enter a valid product activation key and press Activate Enter Activation Key svat 2 4 Upgrading Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup You can upgrade Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup to Acronis True Image Home 2010 from the Acronis web site The following features will be available only after upgrading to Acronis True Image Home 2010 Acronis Try amp Decide System state backup Application backup Data backup selected files folders Scheduling Archive protection Cleanup utilities Disk utilities Consolidating backups Differential backups m Notifications Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 4 e o 4 Acronis Your current version has limited Functionality The Following Features will be available only after upgrade to the full version COMPUTE WITH CONFIDENCE Acronis Try amp Decide E g The feature allows creating a secure controlled temporary workspace on your computer without requiring r you to install special virtualization software You can perform various system operations not worrying that you might damage your operating system programs or data After making virtual changes you may apply them to your original system If you make changes that you want to keep you might want to commit those changes to the system Cleanup Utilities G7 Many operating systems do not
171. xing Plug ins area F Google Desktop Preferences Microsoft Internet Explorer DER Fie Edit View Favorites Tools Help E P a A Search Jy Favorites Media B amp Address http 127 0 0 1 4664 options amp s WAs4jWOR MeAT5103cEjf8DJSYI y Eco Links Ernail Word M Calendar 5 Chats Excel M Tasks Web history PowerPoint M Notes Media files PDF E Journal Text and other files Contacts E Archives ZIP C Password protected Office documents Word Excel L Secure pages HTTPS in web history Indexing Plug ins Index these additional iterns Acronis Indexer Acronis Backups To install plug ins to index other items visit the Plug ins Download page Search Locations Index additional drives and networked folders All fixed drives are indexed by default Add drive or folder to search Do not search the following files folders or web sites Add file or folder to exclude or http Add URL Internet 3 Right click on the Google Desktop icon in your system tray once more and select Indexing Re Index Click Yes in the confirmation window that appears Google Desktop will add all the new content to the existing index Give Google Desktop some time for indexing all tib files on your computer s hard disks and adding the indexing information to its index database The required time depends on the number of tib archives and the number of
172. y select it and click the Delete button on the toolbar To delete all log entries click the Delete all button You can also save a log entry to file by clicking the Save button To save all logs to file click Save all If any step shown in the logs was terminated by an error the corresponding log will be marked with a red circle with a white cross inside The three buttons to the right control message filters the white cross in the red circle filters error messages the exclamation mark in a yellow triangle filters warnings and the i in the blue circle filters information messages To better view the details of the current step you can hide the calendar by clicking the Up arrow at the top right of the calendar pane This will enlarge the logs area To view the calendar again click the Down arrow at the top right of the calendar pane 82 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 14 3 Managing backup archives After a while you may wish or be forced to manage your backup archives for example in order to free up some space for new backups by removing the oldest backups or those you no longer need As now Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup stores information about the backup archives in a metadata information database you must manage backup archives e g delete or move some of them by using the program s tools and not Windows Explorer To manage your backup archives go to the Data recovery and backup management screen by selecting Recov
173. y selected backup start time You can quickly start updating the files and folders backed up on the Online storage without creating a backup schedule To do so click Update Backup Now This may be useful when you want to back up immediately some important changes to the files backed up on the Online Storage Incidentally if the last scheduled online backup has failed this link changes to Update Backup Now Last backup failed allowing you to repeat the failed backup task right away If you have suspended the previous online backup for any reason the link text will be as follows Update Backup Now Last backup suspended 7 3 Recovering data from Online Storage Log on to your online backup account by clicking Backup Online Backup on the sidebar and entering your e mail address used for opening the account and the password After the program connects to Acronis Online Backup Server select a computer for registration on the Online Storage By default your current computer is selected for registration Click the Continue button The Online storage screen opens with this computer selected If you have data backed up from more than one computer you can select on this screen the computer from which to recover required files Naturally you can only browse and recover the data backed up from other computers If you encrypted data on another computer you will be asked to enter the encryption key for the computer to get access to its data on the
174. ze 7 Free space after ar You can change the size of the partition s S Logical drive lette G X C Used space Free space Unallocated space Optional steps Partition size F 997 GB Options Free space before 0 03 MB Free space after 2 615 MB 7 Accept These changes might be useful if you are going to copy your hard disk to a new high capacity one by creating its image and recovering it to a new disk with larger partitions 10 1 8 Assigning a letter to the recovered partition Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will assign an unused letter to a recovered partition You can select the desired letter from a drop down list or let the program assign a letter automatically by selecting the Auto setting You should not assign letters to partitions inaccessible to Windows such as to those other than FAT and NTFS Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 63 10 1 9 Setting recovery options Clicking Options at the Finish step allows selecting the options for the recovery process that is recovery process priority etc The settings will be applied only to the current recovery task Or you can edit the default options See Setting default recovery options for more information 10 1 10 Executing recovery Up to this point you can make changes in the created task by choosing the step you want to change and editing its s

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