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1. 4 gt Hard Disk Free Space Please 3 m dX My Computer Data Destruction Method Logic a Local Disk C s Drive Free Space C3 lex New Volume D gt gt Recently Used Documents List D lex New Volume E Windows Run List EA gt 9 Opened Saved Files History D P 1 User Credentials I Windows Prefetch Directory Cancel ada Remove es eK emen Computers The Computers setting is used for cleaning up the registry search strings you have used for finding computers in the local network These strings keep information on what has interested you in the network These items should also be deleted to maintain confidentiality The Computers setting is similar to the Files setting It is a string that can contain any number of full or partial computer names separated by semicolons The deletion of computer search strings is based on a comparison with the Computers setting value according to Windows rules If you simply need to delete all local network computer search strings suitable in most cases just leave the default value of this setting To restore the default settings Select the Find Computer List component Make sure the Enable check box is selected Select the Computers setting make sure its text box is clear As a result all computer search strings will be deleted from the registry After entering the Computers setting value you can browse the
2. ccssssccccccessessssececececessesseaeseceeecessesssaeeeeeesseeees 112 Testing bootable rescue media esee 116 Testing that your backups can be used for recovery 119 Scheduling otto eee ette rc teen te er t eR D edet 120 Searching backups and their content esee 122 Choosing columns for viewing in wizards seeeeeseee 132 Back p information oet rec E br RES HU 132 6 1 Protecting your system and data To protect your system and data please take the necessary precautionary measures 1 To protect your system from a disaster you need to make a full backup of your system To make this task easier Acronis has provided the One Click Backup feature It allows you to back up the system partition when you first start the newly installed program If you decide not to use the One Click Backup make a system backup as soon as possible 2 Whenever possible you should store your system 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 arrangement speeds up the creation of your system and data disk or partition images It also reduces the amount of inform
3. 2 Click OK to start plug in installation One more confirmation window may appear In this case click OK to finish the installation Third Party Plug in Installation Google has not tested or verified the features or security of this third party Plug in Please confirm that you want to install Acronis plug in hy Google Desktop Search Description Plug in for search in backup contents Note This Plug in is requesting to use Google Desktop s Advanced APIs which allow access to information stored on the local hard drive Learn more http desktop google com dev advancedapi html 3 Verify that the plug in is installed Right click on the Google Desktop icon in your system tray and select Options in the shortcut menu Google Desktop opens the Preferences window in your browser Make sure that Acronis Indexer Acronis Backups is selected in the Indexing Plug ins area a Google Desktop Preferences Microsoft Internet Explorer DER Fie Edit View Favorites Tools Help AN T Address http J127 0 0 1 4664 options amp s WAs4jWOR MeATS1O3cEjf8DJSYI Links Email v Word v Calendar Chats v Excel v Tasks Web history v PowerPoint v Notes Media files v PDF v Journal Text and other files v Contacts v Archives ZIP S S S E11 KS C Password protected Office documents Word Excel O Secure pages HTTPS in web history Indexing Plug
4. 5 3 2 Computer selection If this is the first time that you are logging on to the online storage you will be prompted to register your computer on the online storage To register a computer on the online storage Type a name for the computer for example My home PC in the appropriate field and then select an icon for the computer You can type any name not necessarily the computer s network name If you prefer storing your data on the online storage in encrypted form click the Use encryption for enhanced protection link and then type an encryption key in the appropriate field Click the Register button After the computer connects to the Online Backup Server set up an online backup task for this computer For more information see Setting up online backup for a new computer p 87 Computer Selection a fos Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup viadimir volkhonsky acronis com Help My account Log out Step 1 Computer selection I gt Select your current computer or register a new one If you only want to recover data you can select any computer Work Desktop Admin H Add E Admin Home What is an encryption key To protect your data on the online storage from unauthorized access you can use encryption In this case your files will be encrypted before transmission over the Internet and your data will be stored on the online storage in encrypted form To encrypt and decrypt your da
5. Clone backup settings Move backup Remove from the list Clicking Operations in the box of a selected backup opens an Operations menu containing the following items Open backup location opens the folder containing the backup files Edit backup settings allows editing of the current backup settings Recreate backup settings available only for backups manually added to the backup list allows configuring the settings for image file and e mail backups created by a previous Acronis True Image Home Netbook Edition version This item may also appear for backups created on another computer and added to the backup list without importing their settings Validate backup starts backup validation Delete backup deletes all backup versions of the current backup at their location Be careful as the deletion cannot be undone More opens the following additional items Create shortcut creates a shortcut on the Desktop The shortcut allows you to run a backup without starting Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Consolidate versions allows you to delete the backup versions you no longer need while maintaining the consistency of the backup Clone backup settings clones the current backup settings when you need to create several similar backups Clone the backup settings and then introduce the required changes Move backup allows moving all the backup files to another location The subse
6. Z540 Intel 2530 Z520 Z510 Z500 N270 N280 N450 N470 D625 300 Series 200 Series C7 M VIA Nano V105 AMD Athlon Il Neo K125 1 1 5 Technical Support Maintenance and Support Program If you need assistance with your Acronis product please go to http www acronis com support Product Updates You can download the latest updates for all your registered Acronis software products from our website at any time after logging into your Account https www acronis com my and registering the product See Registering Acronis Products at the Website http kb acronis com content 4834 and Acronis Website User Guide http kb acronis com content 8128 1 1 6 Trial version information The trial version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition is fully operational However it will work only during the trial period To purchase the full version please visit http www acronis com buy atihne Click Go to main screen to start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition trial version Click Buy now to go to the official Acronis online store Click Activate if you have already purchased the full version and have a valid product serial number 1 2 Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition installation and startup In this section Installing Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 14 Extracting Acr
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8. If you don t need the original archive you may delete it by selecting the Delete the original archive check box Click Next to continue 3 12 4 Consolidation summary The summary window contains a list of briefly described operations that Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will perform after clicking Proceed If some parameters need to be changed choose the necessary step in the left part of the window and correct the parameter Click the Proceed button to start the listed operations Click the Options button to perform the optional steps Click the Cancel button to exit the wizard without performing any operations 3 13 Cloning backup settings When you already have a backup and you need to create a new backup of the same type disk file or e mail backup there is no need to configure the backup process from scratch The program allows you to copy all settings from an existing backup After that you only have to slightly correct the copied settings for your new backup and click Back up now To create a new backup based on an existing backup 1 Onthe main screen find the corresponding backup box click Operations point to More and then click Clone backup settings A new backup box named Copy of the initial backup name will be created It will contain the same settings as the parental backup On the cloned backup box click Operations and then click Edit backup settings Change selection of items to back up
9. 5 4 Acronis 2B Tools amp Utilities Help v Add backups v More features Disk and partition backup Protect your computer from a disaster F File backup E4 E mail back Online Backup m Use online storage to keep your data safe Browse for backup No backups Your data cannot be recovered Use backup assistant to choose the best way of backup Or back up your computer with one click 2 This opens the Disk Backup window with your system partition usually C selected by default If you use Windows 7 the program will also select the System Reserved partition Do not clear its check box because you may need to recover that partition if your system crashes z Configure disk backup process What to back up System Reserved JA LLL Local Disk C m New Volume D New Volume F Exclusions Destinaticec Schedule Backup scheme Backup neme FAMy backups 2431 GB of 25 GB free z Off Tum on Version chen The program deletes backup versions older th Partition bade System Reserved C amp Disk backup optices 3 Select a destination for backup you can leave the default destination or browse for a destination after clicking the down arrow to the right of the current destination and selecting Browse 111 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 4 Click Back up now Additional recommendations 1 Many IT profe
10. 5 6 2010 9 52 57 AM Name Size Type Version 1E Admin Home i BackupScripts File Folder 5 6 2010 9 46 0 Erw C E BitDefender File Folder 5 6 2010 9 46 0 Documents and Settings CDP ts File Folder 5 6 2010 9 46 2 4 Program Files CDRecord File Folder 5 6 2010 9 45 14 E p Common Files MediaBuilderHome File Folder 5 6 2010 9 46 1 213 Aene _ 4 OnlineBackupStandalone File Folder 5 6 2010 9 46 0 4 m Schedule2 File Folder 5 6 2010 9 46 1 Legend Y 4 SnapAPI File Folder 5 6 2010 9 46 1 TruelmageHome File Folder 5 6 2010 9 46 0 P ltem has been modified locally UniversalRestore File Folder 5 6 2010 9 454 3 Item has been deleted locally Item has not been backed up completely APRIL 10 K To remove the selected computer from the registered computers list and delete all its online backups from the Online Storage click Options gt Remove from Online Storage and then click Yes in the confirmation window Online data management You can back up data only from the current computer You can specify what data to back up what data to exclude from the backup schedule the online backup task and recover data from the Online Storage In addition you can delete from the Online Storage files and folders you do not need anymore Every time you back up the same file Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup creates versions of the file on the Online Storage When recovering t
11. Credentials Administrator Frequency Daly C3 Stat at 10 30PM 5 Upon event at uses logon zj amp Advanced Settings Run the task only when the computer is idle Missed tasks Run at system startup 4 Run when the connection is established C Do Not Schedue Choose one of the following backup frequencies Daily p 95 the task will be executed once a day or more frequently Weekly p 95 the task will be executed once a week or several times a week on the selected days Monthly p 96 the task will be executed once a month or several times a month on the selected dates Next choose when to start online backup Ata specified time Specify the time in the corresponding field Upon event Choose the event you need At user logon At user logoff At system startup or At system shutdown To run a backup only at the first occurrence of the event select the Once a day only box Every hours Choose backup periodicity from the dropdown list for example every 2 hours This setting is available only for daily backups Clicking the Do Not Schedule button turns off the scheduler and online backup will be performed only when you click Back Up Now in the main window Advanced settings Clicking Advanced Settings allows you to specify the following additional settings for online backup scheduling To postpone a scheduled task until the next time the computer is not i
12. S2 Reset the curent to defaut Connection attempts A Customer Experience Program Storage connecton speed Jon the Customer Experience Program and help morove the quality rekablty and performance of Acronis software and services Storage deanup If you choose to participate Acronis wil collect anonymous information about your software and hardware configu ators collect anonymous information on how you use our software and services to identty trends and usage patterns Proxy settings Backup priority Acronis wil not colect your name address or any other personally idenbfable information The information collected amp anonymous E mail nobfication Yes I want to participate in the program Pre Post commands Q No I do not accept Layn more about the Customer Experience Program Customer Experience Program amp ox Cancel Note that you will be able to leave the program any time Click the Learn more link to read the terms of participation To make a decision Choose Yes want to participate in the program if you want to join the program Choose No do not accept if you do not want to join the program 5 4 Recovery from Online Storage In this section Recovering data from Online Storage sess 105 Selecting a version to recover sssssssseseeee eene 106 Recovery operation progress eene nnne nnne nenne 107 5 4 1 Recovering data from Online Storage Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online B
13. You may modify backup name destination and other settings if needed Click the Save button 5 Tocreate the first backup version click Back up now on the backup box 4 Recovering data The purpose of data backup is to recover backed up data when the original is lost due to hardware failure fire theft or accidental deletion of files We hope that you backed up your system and data using the backup features provided by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition If so nothing will have been lost The following sections describe how to recover disks partitions files and folders In most cases you will use Acronis Backup Explorer to recover files and folders For more information see Acronis Backup Explorer p 24 In this section Recovering your system after a crash essere 63 Recovering partitions and disks ccccsccccccecsssessaeceeeeeseesesseaeeeeeesseesees 68 Recovering more than one partition at once esseeeseenenneee 70 Recovering a disk backup to a different disk under rescue media 71 Recovering data from file level DaCKUPS ccccccsscccessseceeessteceeeesteeeeeees 74 Recovering file versions eeeesessseeeseeee ennemi 76 How to use Acronis Startup Recovery Manager eene 76 Backup protection dialog box ccccccssssecececeeessesneaeeeeeeesessesseaeeeeeeseessees 77 Arranging boot order in BIOS cc sscccccccssssssssecec
14. cccccccccsscceesssseceesseseceesessececsesaececeesaeceesssaeeeeeeaaes 80 Performance of recovery operation c cccccccccssssssssececeeeseesessaeeeeeesseeses 81 Notifications for recovery operation cccccsccccesssceceessscecessseeeeessseeeeeees 81 4 10 1 Pre Post commands for recovery You can specify commands or even batch files that will be automatically executed before and after the recovery procedure For example you may want to start stop certain Windows processes or check your data for viruses before recovery To specify commands batch files Select a command to be executed before the recovery process starts in the Before recovery process field To create a new command or select a new batch file click the Edit button Select a command to be executed after the recovery process ends in the After recovery process field To create a new command or select a new batch file click the Edit button Please do not try to execute interactive commands i e commands that require user input for example pause These are not supported 4 10 1 1 Edit user command for recovery You can specify user commands to be executed before or after recovery nthe Command field type in a command or select it from the list Click to select a batch file Inthe Working directory field type in a path for command execution or select it from the list of previously entered paths Inthe Arguments field enter or select command ex
15. 4 3 Supported file systems FAT16 32 NTFS exFAT Ext2 Ext3 Ext4 ReiserFS Linux SWAP If a file system is not supported or is corrupted Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition can copy data using a sector by sector approach The Ext2 Ext3 Ext4 ReiserFS and Linux SWAP file systems are supported only for disk or partition backup recovery operations You cannot use Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition for file level operations with these file systems file backup recovery search as well as image mounting and file recovering from images You also cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with these file systems 1 1 4 4 Supported storage media Hard disk drives Networked storage devices FTP servers CD R RW DVD R RW DVD R including double layer DVD R DVD RW DVD RAM BD R BD RE USB 1 1 2 0 3 0 FireWire IEEE 1394 and PC card storage devices REV and other removable media An FTP server must allow passive mode file transfers For data to be recovered directly from an FTP server the backup must consist of files no greater than 2GB each The firewall settings of the source computer should have Ports 20 and 21 opened for the TPC and UDP protocols to function The Routing and Remote Access Windows service should be disabled Burned rewritable discs cannot be read in Linux without a kernel patch 1 1 4 5 Compatible CPUs MANUFACTURER CPU MODELS and SERIES
16. 5 Virtual device dri gt ELE Documents and Setting E CGLPTNT SYS 1 1 2007 65 System file gt EIU Perttogs V DEFAULT BAR 1 1 2007 0 0 BAR File mm V default bri 3 11 2010 1 BRI File F b E Program Files V _ description 1 1 2007 6 5 ION File aly ProgramData I Ww IV 3 FRERES32 DLL 1 1 2007 6 5 Application exter D E ProgramDataTechSmit gt a R V _ HISTORY 1 1 2007 6 5 Text Document per i d 7 KEYBOARD 1 1 2007 6 5 Text Document l EJ System Volume Inform p o gag 1 1 2007 0 0 BAR File gt Ii totaled V E REGISTER 1 1 2007 6 5 Rich Text Docum PE Users V SFXHEAD SFX 1 1 2007 6 5 SFX File gt EL Windows V amp SHARE NT 1 1 2007 6 5 Application gt Lic New Volume D vi Bi rcuNiNsT 1 1 2007 6 5 Application gt Jes New Volume E V TCUNINST WUL 1 1 2007 6 5 WUL File v TCUNZLIB DLL 1 1 2007 6 5 Application exter ry ATATA chan 354 00n amp amp LE 4 m rile m D Net Cancel 7 3 1 2 Data destruction method selection File Shredder utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction methods Here you need to select the desired data destruction method The data destruction methods are described in detail in Hard Disk Wiping Methods p 147 of this guide Clicking Proceed after you select the desired method will start the operation execution if the Proceed button is unselectable click Finish on the sid
17. Backup settings nennen nnne nnne 97 5 3 1 Login to the online storage To use the Acronis Online Storage you must first subscribe to the Online Backup service To do this Click Subscribe to Online Backup service When the Web page opens follow the instructions on the page For more details see Subscription information p 83 Connecting to the online storage To access the online storage Enter the E mail address and password of your Acronis account and then click the Log In button If you want the program to remember your password select the Remember my password check box In this case you will not have to enter your password every time you log in to the online storage have forgotten your password click Forgot password and follow the instructions on the opened Web page A new password will be sent to you by e mail have forgotten which e mail address you used for opening your Acronis account click Forgot Registration E mail and follow the instructions on the opened Web page connect to the Internet via a proxy server click Proxy settings and then provide the settings for your proxy server For more information see Proxy settings p 100 4 Online Storage Login ka a fsa Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup You are not logged in Help Enter e mail and password k Subscribe to Online Backup service Forgot Registration E mail Remember my password Forgot Password Proxy settings
18. CD DVD In addition it can be directed to an SMB share 4 Click Proceed in the Summary window When a tib image selected for conversion contains partitions for example from two physical hard disk drives the program will create two vhd files corresponding to those physical drives 7 6 1 2 Converting Windows backup Windows Vista and Windows 7 users can convert vhd files created by Windows Backup into Acronis backups This may be needed if you want to keep the earlier Windows Backup files but decide to convert them into tib files to save storage space The converted tib files are smaller than the corresponding vhd files due to compression Do not move vhd files from the folder to where they were saved by Windows Backup by default the folder has the name WindowslmageBackup Otherwise the operating system may be unbootable after recovery of the system partition from the converted tib file The virtual to physical conversion is done as follows 1 Click Convert Windows backup to Acronis backup on the Tools amp Utilities screen p Convert to Acronis Backup gt Convert to Acronis Backup Required steps Select a Windows backup Archive selection Name Created Com Rating Method Path Windows Backups ms Disk p Disk_D 5 28 2010 7 33 21 AM Akk kk Fullbackup E Disk_D 4 m D Path EADisk D vhd Browse Net gt Cancel Select the vhd file to convert
19. Daily execution parameters You can set up the following parameters for daily operation execution Start time or periodicity If you select At set the operation s start time Enter hours and minutes manually or set the desired start time using the up and down buttons You can specify several start times by clicking Add If you select Every choose daily operation periodicity from the dropdown list for example every 2 hours Description of the Advanced settings see in Scheduling p 120 6 5 2 Weekly execution parameters You can set up the following parameters for weekly operation execution Week days Select the days on which to execute the operation by clicking on their names Start time Set the operation s start time Enter hours and minutes manually or set the desired start time using the up and down buttons Description of the Advanced settings see in Scheduling p 120 6 5 3 Monthly execution parameters You can set up the following parameters for monthly operation execution Periodicity or dates If you select Every choose a numeral and the day of the week from the dropdown lists example First Monday the operation will be performed on the first Monday of every month If you select On choose the date s for operation execution example you may want the operation to be run on the 10th 20th and last day of the month Start time Set the operation s start time Enter hours and minutes manual
20. Enter the user name in the User name field Enter the password in the Password field If you want the client e mail program to handle messages according to the set policy for example to put messages into the specified folder specify the subject in the Subject field If your Internet service provider requires authorization on the incoming mail server before sending e mails select the Log on to incoming mail server check box then enter the name of the POP3 server and set the port of the incoming mail server To check whether your settings are correct click the Send test message button Additional notification settings To send a notification concerning process completion select the Send notification upon operation s successful completion check box Tosend a notification concerning process failure select the Send notification upon operation failure check box To send a notification with operation messages select the Send notification when user interaction is required check box To send a notification with full log of operations select the Add full log to the notification check box 5 Using Acronis Online Backup In this section What is Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup 83 Subscription information eese eene eene nennen nnns 83 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage seeeeeeeeneenerene 84 Recovery from Online Storage ccccssssccccec
21. File Backup Options and E mail Backup Options windows you can configure options for a disk partition file and e mail backup processes respectively After you have installed the application all options are set to the initial values You can change them for your current backup operation only or for all backups that will be created in future Select the Save the settings as default check box to apply the modified settings to all further backup operations by default Disk Backup Options te Fea Backup scheme Advanced Performance Notifications o Image creation mode e Back up sector by sector 7 E ted space 7 Bl Pre Post commands Y ii Backup splitting v f Validation v Backup reserve copy v E Removable media settings v Screenshot settings v d Error handling v Computer shutdown v Save the settings as default 7 we Reset to initial settings Cancel Note that disk backup options file backup options and e mail backup options are fully independent and you should configure them separately If you want to reset all the modified options to their initial values that were set after the product installation click the Reset to initial settings button In this section Backu p schierres enceinte cen totae erus ces todo e ada a 48 Image creation mode ssssessssseeeeseeee eene nsns enean 52 Backup protection coco enda ces toto er sad etate ct eri ada ces etie dt edad ve dede 52 Pre Post commands
22. Internet service provider requires authorization on the incoming mail server before sending e mails select the Log on to incoming mail server check box then enter the name of the POP3 server and set the port of the incoming mail server Tocheck whether your settings are correct click the Send test message button Additional notification settings Tosend a notification concerning process completion select the Send notification upon operation s successful completion check box Tosend a notification concerning process failure select the Send notification upon operation failure check box To send a notification with operation messages select the Send notification when user interaction is required check box To send a notification with full log of operations select the Add full log to the notification check box 3 11 Validating backups The validation procedure checks whether you will be able to recover data from a particular backup version so when you select for validation on the time line a full backup version the program validates the full backup version only a differential backup version the program validates the initial full backup version and the selected differential backup version an incremental backup version the program validates the initial full backup the selected incremental backup version and the whole chain if any of backup versions to the selected incremental backup version If the chain c
23. Manager One Click Backu i p 4 fa Backup conversion Ly Convert Acronis backup to Windows backup Security and privacy Convert Windows backup to Acronis backup A File Shredder System Clean up Backup settings transfer Import backup settings Export backup settings To return to the main screen click the Back to button in the navigation field at the top of the screen or Home in the same field 1 3 4 Wizards and notification area icons When you use the available Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition tools and utilities the program will in many cases employ wizards to guide you through the operations Wizards have a sidebar listing all the steps both required and optional needed for completing the operation For example see the Mount Wizard screen shot below Mount Wizard gt telea G Mount Wizard Required steps Summary Archive selection Partitions to mount 1 Finish Mode Read Partition 1 Drive letter G File system NTFS Label New Volume Size 16 GB Cluster size 4KB 7 l Options Proceed Cancel 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 Check the summary of the operation to be performed and then click Proceed to start the operation Taskbar notification area icons During most
24. Specify the path to the tib file to be created By default the converted file will be created in the same location as the file to be converted However you can select another location by clicking Browse The file can be directed to any storage supported by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 4 The next step allows you to set options for the tib backup to be created You can protect the backup with a password and encryption select a desired compression level and split the backup for example for later burning to DVDs Add comments to the backup if you wish Click Proceed in the Summary window 7 6 2 Recovery using vhd files created by Windows Backup You may have vhd files if you used the Windows Backup utility included into Windows Vista and Windows 7 for backing up the system hard drive If you purchased Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition after using Windows Vista or Windows 7 backup utility you can recover your system hard drive from those vhd files using Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition When you need to recover your system using a vhd backup file proceed as follows 1 Arrange the boot order in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot order in BIOS p 78 2 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Full version 3 After Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition starts click
25. With Rescue Media Builder you can create bootable rescue disks see details in Creating bootable rescue media p 134 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition creates a new device in the Device Manager list Control Panel System Hardware Device Manager Acronis Devices Acronis True Image Backup Archive Explorer Do not disable or uninstall this device as it is necessary for connecting image backups as virtual disks see Mounting an image p 149 1 2 2 Extracting Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition When installing Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition you can save the setup msi file on a local or network drive This will help when modifying or recovering the existing component installation To save the setup file Run the Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition setup file In the Install Menu right click on the program name and select Extract Select a location for the setup file and click Save Recovering or updating the existing Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition installation with using the msi file must be done from the command line as follows 1 Choose Start Run 2 Type cmd 3 When the command line interpreter window opens type the following comm
26. a new backup chain and then deleting the old one will be a better choice Disaster recovery Recovering from a disaster usually requires a rescue media Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition provides for recovery from a disaster caused by system data corruption viruses or malware If the operating system fails to boot Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will recover the system partition Legal owners of the program can create a rescue media by using the Media Builder tool Scheduling For your backups to be really helpful they must be as up to date as possible This means that you should run backups on a regular basis say once a day Although creating an Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition backup is quite easy on occasion you may forget to do a backup With the scheduler you do not have to remember You can schedule automatic backups ahead of time Your data will be backed up as long as there is sufficient disk space Understanding these terms and concepts will be helpful when using the program s features 1 1 3 New in Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition New user interface Redesigned user interface and usability enhancements based on the results of usability testing make Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition easier to use than ever before Predefined backup schemes Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition offers you predefined backup schemes designed for specific user
27. are described in detail in Hard Disk Wiping methods p 147 of this guide In this section xil 139 System Clean up ccecsessececececessesssaececeescesseeaaeeeeeeecesseeaaeseeeeseessesenaeess 141 Hard Disk Wiping methods cccecsesscecceecessessaeceeeeesessesseaeeeeeesseseees 147 7 3 1 File shredder The File shredder enables quick permanent destruction of selected files and folders To permanently destroy files and folders Click Tools amp Utilities in the main menu and then click File shredder on the Tools amp Utilities screen Follow the File shredder wizard steps 7 3 1 1 Select files folders Select the files and or folders you wish to shred To select files and or folders Expand the drives tree and select the files and or folders you need to shred You can select a random set of files folders and even disks Be careful when selecting the contents for shredding to avoid the loss of necessary data Having selected the contents for shredding click Next to continue File Shredder Wizard Select files and folders to shred File selection Tc teate new folder My Computer Name Date Type gt Ele Floppy Disk Drive A V Ji LANGUAGE 3 11 2010 1 Filefolder 4 os Local Disk C V CABRK DLL 1 1 2007 6 5 Application exter b Be SRecycle Bin v CGLPT9X VXD 1 1 2007 6
28. backups when you cannot control the backup process In this mode no notifications will be displayed to you if errors occur during backup Instead you can view the detailed log of all operations after the backup process finishes Ignore bad sectors the preset is disabled This option is present only for disk and partition backups It 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 high time to back up the drive as soon as possible There may be a problem though the failing hard drive might already have bad sectors If the Ignore bad sectors check box is left unselected a backup 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 3 10 11 Computer shutdown If you know that the backup process you are configuring may take a long time you may select the Shut down the computer after the backup is complete check box In this case you
29. button will save the online backup task you have set and take you to the main program window The backup will run according to the set schedule To start backup immediately click Back Up Now You can also delay online backup start for up to 6 hours by clicking the down arrow to the right of this button and selecting a delay interval from the dropdown list Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup Step 2 What and when to back up Z Data to back up Documents Schedule Never ej 88 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 5 3 4 Main window This window shows the current state of your space on the Acronis Online Storage The online storage space is presented as a stripe All your registered computers are displayed as tabs that share the stripe You can see the amount of storage space that every computer has used as well as the amount of free space left on the Online Storage in accordance with your quota If you want to increase the Online Storage space quota click the icon to the right of free space stripe You will be taken to your Acronis account Web page where you can purchase additional Online Storage space Ren THEE emeacre Flore 2021 Onkne Back Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup viadimir volkhonsky acronis com Help My account Log out B9 Admin Home Free space 499 MB c 148 GB 5 Next backup amp Back Up Now amp Recover e Options 8 gin Not scheduled fe
30. bytes elected to recover E m Internet Shortcut View versions 4 files 3 7 KB Today 14 51 f 14 55 l re HS Now By default Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition performs the search in all the sources where it can search information That is it searches files in all backups and their versions on all local storage devices Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition cannot perform search on network shares Acronis Online Storage and devices that are recognized by Windows as Devices with removable storage The Files and folders tab shows results of searches for files and folders in tib backups 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 When searching files in backups you can type all or part of the filename and use the common Windows wildcard characters For example to find all batch files in the backups 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 When a file is included in several backups and it has been modified the search results will show the number of file versions in the appropriate column Clicking on the n
31. can disable file security settings during recovery even if they are available in the backup The result will be the same In backups store encrypted files in a decrypted state the preset is disabled check the option if there are encrypted files in the backup and you want them to be accessed by any user after recovery Otherwise only the user who encrypted the files folders will be able to read them Decryption may also be useful if you are going to recover encrypted files on another computer If you do not use the encryption feature available in Windows XP and later operating systems simply ignore this option Files folders encryption is set in Properties General Advanced Attributes Encrypt contents to secure data These options relate only to file folder backups In addition they are unavailable for zip backups 3 10 13 Performance of backup operation On the Performance tab you can configure the following settings Compression level You can choose the compression level for a backup None the data will be copied without any compression which may significantly increase the backup file size Normal the recommended data compression level set by default High higher backup file compression level takes more time to create a backup Maximum maximum backup compression but takes a long time to create a backup The optimal data compression level depends on the type of files stored in the backup For ex
32. copies of your DaCKUPS csessssceceeeeessesseaeeeeeeeseesees 44 Backup to various PIACES cccccccecsssessssececeeecessesssaeeeceessssseseaeeeeeseseesees 45 Adding an existing backup to the list cccssssccccecessesssseceeeeseesssssnaeens 46 Excluding items from backup eese 46 Backup optiOris cette etre ennt e errore note e rna ice rasan antena ann 47 Validating backups 2 erinnere rsen rhe ei inae e roa do snae 60 Consolidating backup versions seen 60 Cloning backup settings essen enne nnne 62 3 1 The difference between file backups and disk partition images A backup is a copy of selected files folders or information stored on disks When you back up files and folders only the data and folder tree are compressed and stored Disk partition backups are different from file and folder backups Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition stores a sector by sector snapshot of the disk This includes the operating system registry drivers software applications data files and system areas hidden from the user This procedure is called creating a disk image and the resulting backup is often called a disk partition image By default Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition stores only the hard disk parts that contain data for supported file systems Furthermore Acronis True Image Home does not back up swap file informa
33. create bootable media The list contains all available devices that can be used to create bootable media You can create CD DVD USB flash drive or other bootable media or build an ISO image of a bootable disc Name Type Floppy Disk Drive A Floppy Disk Drive ISO image ISO image file Help lt Back Net Cancel 7 2 5 Destination file selection If you chose to create a bootable disk ISO image specify the ISO file name and the folder where to place it Select the destination folder from the folder tree Enter a name for the iso file in the File name field Click Next to continue 7 2 6 Bootable media creation summary This page displays operations to be performed 1422 Can 1l F Arranic 2n nnn n 1 138 Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Click Proceed to start the bootable media creation process Use the sidebar on the left to navigate through the wizard s steps for revision To cancel operation and quit Acronis Media Builder click Cancel After you create a boot disc 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition upgrade One more thing you should remember when booting from the rescue media and using a standalone version of Acronis True Image Home
34. data After the initial full backup file backups usually take little time to run making it easy to back up your data once or even several times a day This ensures that your most recent backup is never more than a day old But file and folder backups alone are not sufficient for two main reasons 1 If your startup hard drive completely fails you will not be able to do any work until you ve replaced it and 2 Reinstalling an operating system and applications from their original CDs or DVDs is a lengthy and tedious procedure You could avoid it with an image of your hard disk Summing up the above the optimal backup strategy for most users will consist in backing up both the system disk or at least the system partition and personal data To facilitate implementation of this strategy Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition provides the Acronis One Click Backup feature By default Acronis One Click Backup backs up both your system partition and your personal data 6 2 3 Deciding how often to back up Disk and partition backups Let s first discuss backing up your system disk Since it is impossible to know when it may crash you must create the first system disk backup as soon as possible Then you can decide how often to refresh that backup You may also want to add new backups without deleting the old one if you have available space on the storage device used for backups Having several backups increases the chances of recovering yo
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36. 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 c upnrdicncpm E 7 LL IMtPOGUCHION vecszesccccectecsncacened sedeaaadaantaehs R os vadedeastctadaes danadedticeecdessadaadanyeds 7 1 1 1 What is Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition ccccccessesessesessssesessesesseseseeseseeecseseesesees 7 1 1 2 Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition basic concepts ccccecesesesesssesssseeseseseeessesaesseseesees 8 1 1 3 New in Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition sess eerte tnnt 10 1 1 4 System requirements and supported media cccesceseesesccsscsecsesssssesscecseceessecsecseseeseeseesesauesesaesaeseserens 11 115 Techhical SUDDOFC correre eed an Gee Ert eet bete sete CREE Pe iR ee ADT N 13 1 1 6 Trial version information esses entente tne tenni nn tn trennt stein teint tn ire enana ianuas nE 13 1 2 Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition installation and startup 14 1 2 1 Installing Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition c cccccecceesecssessesssscssseseseseeesessesssessesees 14 1 2 2 Extracting Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition essent 15 1 2 3 Running Acronis True Image
37. must be done before booting from Acronis rescue media 1 Arrange the boot order in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot order in BIOS p 78 2 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Full version 3 Select Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition cannot detect volume N of Name archive Here Name is the name of the required image backup The volume number N may be different depending on the number of backup versions in the backup Click Browse and show the path to the backup 4 Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step 10 11 At the What to recover step select the boxes which indicate 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 In such an event the new disk space will be proportionally distributed between the recovered partitions If necessary you can recover the MBR later Select the partitions and click Next Selecting partitions leads
38. of all hidden files and folders Select clear the System files and folders check box to enable disable overwriting of all system files and folders Select clear the More recent files and folders check box to enable disable overwriting of new files and folders Click Add specific files and folders to manage the list of custom files and folders that you do not want to overwrite To disable overwriting of specific files click the Add button to create an exclusion criterion While specifying the criteria you can use the common Windows wildcard characters For example to preserve all files with extension exe you can add exe Adding My exe will preserve all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my To delete a criterion for example added by mistake click the Delete icon to the right of the criterion 4 10 6 Performance of recovery operation On the Performance tab you can configure the following settings Operation priority Changing the priority of a backup or recovery process can make it run faster or slower depending on whether you raise or lower the priority but it can also adversely affect the performance of other running programs The priority of any process running in a system determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process Decreasing the operation priority will free more resources for other CPU tasks Increasing backup or recovery prior
39. of the backup disk partition fie or folder Right clicking on a backup version opens the shortcut menu with other available operations Recover select to recover the current backup version 25 Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Validate select to check the integrity of the backup version data Convert to Windows backup for image backups select to convert the backup version s TIB file to VHD file Mount for image backups select to mount the backup version as a disk Delete version select to delete the backup version the backup chain will not be corrupted View select to set up the time line to show some additional information To find a file or folder you need to recover type the file or folder name in the search field Both tabs also show backup comments and allow for adding editing and deleting comments to the selected backup version If a backup version does not have comments click the Add comment icon then type your comments in the comments area and click the Save icon If there is already a comment you can edit it after clicking the Edit icon Having finished editing click the Save icon to save the changed comment or the Cancel icon to cancel the changes To remove the comment click the Delete icon 1 3 5 2 Files and folders tab The Files and folders tab shows the backed up files and folders contained in the selected backup version The left hand area of the tab shows a directory tree a
40. 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 the operation s status or cancel the operation if necessary This icon doesn t depend on the main program window being open It is present for background execution of scheduled backups as well 1 3 5 Acronis Backup Explorer The Acronis Backup Explorer provides you with a wealth of information on your backups backup types backup versions number dates contents backup results etc In addition the Backup Explorer allows you to explore and recover backed up data both partitions and individual files and even file versions It also allows for operations with backups you can validate them convert to Windows backup only disk backups mount images as disks and delete backup versions you no longer need Let s have a closer look on the Acronis Backup Explorer It has two tabs for viewing backups and their content Disks and partitions available for disk backups only and Files and folders 1 3 5 1 Disks and partitions tab The Disks and partitions tab shows the backed up disks and partitions that the selected backup version contains The tab shows the disks and partitions state of when the current backup version was created You
41. of your oldest disk or partition backup You can recover the backed up data and refresh the backups directly from the Control Panel If you want to resume using Windows Backup click Turn on Windows Backup on the left pane This will remove Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition from the Control Panel and replace it with Windows Backup If later you decide to integrate Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition into Windows 7 again click Help on the toolbar and select Integrate True Image into Windows Furthermore the Start menu acquires the following Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition items e Windows Media Center G Windows Media Player 2 Windows Update A XPS Viewer p Accessories WEE adm Documents Pictures Music Computer Control Panel Devices and Printers System Clean up Default Programs BitDefender Business Client JI Games Help and Support 4 Back These menu items allow you to use the main program features tools and utilities without starting Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 31 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 32 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 2 Howto Due to the size of this User s Guide it is sometimes not so easy to find how to perform a particular task This section lists some frequently used tasks and provides links to the appropriate parts of the User s Guide Click the corresponding page number or the link if y
42. only when the computer is idle check box If the computer is switched off when the scheduled time comes the backup won t be performed but you can force the missed task to run at the next system start up To do so select the If missed run the task at startup check box If there is no Internet connection when the scheduled time comes you can force the missed backup to run when an Internet connection is established To do so select the Run when the connection is established check box Weekly execution parameters You can set up the following parameters for weekly task execution Frequency Weekly Select the days on which to execute the task by clicking on their names Start either at a certain time or upon a certain event If you select At set the task s start time Enter hours and minutes manually or set the desired start time by using the up and down buttons If you select Upon event choose the event you need At user logon At user logoff At system startup or At system shutdown To run a backup only at the first occurrence of the event select the Once a day only box Advanced settings To postpone a scheduled task until the next time the computer is not in use screen saver is displayed or computer is locked select the Run the task only when the computer is idle check box If the computer is switched off when the scheduled time comes the backup won t be performed but you can force the missed task to run at the ne
43. recommend to copy all DVDs to a folder on a hard disk and then to recover from that folder Acronis Online Backup Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition allows you to use Acronis Online Backup service for safeguarding your most important files by saving them to a secure remote location Because files are stored on a remote storage they are protected even if your computer gets stolen So the risk of data loss as a result of fire theft or other natural disasters is practically eliminated If something happens to your backup image PC or external storage device you can get your most important files back 562 1 FTP connection Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition allows you to store your backups on FTP servers To create a new FTP connection when selecting a backup storage click New FTP connection and in the opened window provide Path to the backup file folder for example my server com myfolder Port User name Password To check your settings click the Test connection button The computer will try to connect to the specified FTP server If the test connection has been established click the Connect button to add the FTP connection Please be aware that the mere opening of an FTP server s root folder does not bring you to your home directory An FTP server must allow passive mode file transfers For data to be recovered directly from an FTP server the backup must consist of files no greater than 2
44. recover the entire disk at once by clicking Switch to disk mode To be able to select partitions again click Switch to partition mode b In the recovery destination field below the partition name select the destination partition Those partitions where the partition to be recovered can fit are marked by black lettering Unsuitable partitions are marked by red lettering Note that all data on the destination partition will be lost because it is replaced by the recovered data and file system c After you finish with your selections click Recover now to start recovery Sometimes you need to recover the MBR Master Boot Record For instance it may be necessary when Windows does not boot after recovery To recover the MBR either together with the partition or individually select the MBR check box If you recover the entire disk the Recover disk signature check box appears Disk signature is a part of a hard disk MBR It is used for uniquely identifying the disk media We recommend that you select the Recover disk signature check box due to the following reasons Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition creates scheduled backups 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 backups created previously Some installed applications use a disk signature for licensing and other purposes We recommend that you clear the Recover disk signature check box wh
45. recovery This will open the File Recovery window File Recovery gt toje L Where to recover your files The system state files will be recovered to the original location Recovery options d Recover now Cancel 2 Such data can only be recovered to the original location Therefore you can only change the recovery options To change the recovery options click the Recovery options link The options you set here will be applied only to the current recovery operation To start the recovery process click the Recover now button The recovery progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the recovery by clicking Cancel Please keep in mind that the aborted recovery may still cause changes in the original location 4 6 Recovering file versions If you need to recover a specific version of a file select the file in the Backup Explorer When you select the file the View versions link appears below the file size information Clicking the link opens the View Versions window with a list of all versions of the file in the backup You can also select the file in Windows Explorer Right click and choose View versions in the shortcut menu Until you select a file version in the View Versions window the Open and Recover buttons remain disabled Selecting a file version enables the buttons V View Versions e loes d Studio bmp ui Version Backup 3 38 16 PM I 3 42 06 PM File backup 3 42 18 PM Thursday Aug
46. remember that CD DVDs are not supported as locations for reserve copies 3 7 Backup to various places Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition offers you flexibility in choosing destinations for your backups You can save full incremental and differential backup versions to different places including a network share CD DVD USB stick as well as any local internal or external hard drive You can save backup versions to different destinations by changing the backup destination when editing the settings of a selected backup For example after you save the initial full backup to an external USB hard drive you can change the backup destination to a USB stick by editing the backup settings The subsequent incremental or differential backups will be written to the USB stick You cannot use FTP servers as one of the places for storing a part of backup versions belonging to the same backup chain One more useful aspect of this feature is the 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 Confirmation Ex The disk is full You must free additional disk space to continue You can either empty the Recycle Bin or delete old da
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48. search strings found by the System Clean up Wizard in the registry To do so click Show Computers You will see the window with full and partial computer names searched for in the network These items will be deleted Commands setting Here you can select the commands to remove during Windows Run List clean up This template can contain any command names or their parts separated by semicolons e g help cmd reg This will result in removing commands with names corresponding to or containing any of the names or parts of names you entered IE System Clean up Sa You can view and change the current settings for the selected item 42 Show Commands ES a2 System Clean up 4 P System Components T You can see a list of the commands to be removed from 8 Recycle Bin the list according to your mask 57 Temporary file Hard Disk Free Space gt 13 Recently Used Docum Search is completed 1 items found Show Commands 4 CJ Windows Run List gt item Windows Run is tz Commands t cs Opened Saved Files Hi Windows remembers the programs that you have executed amp User Credentials and run Here you can clean up Windows Prefetch Dir this list 10 1 176 72 Network places filter Here you can enter separated by semicolons any hostnames or IP addresses of network places servers FTP servers network shares etc to which you have made connection by supplying network credential
49. select the common data destruction method which will be used by default for all other components The data destruction methods are described in detail in Hard Disk Wiping Methods p 147 of this guide 7 3 2 3 Specific clean up options You can customize the following clean up options Data destruction method Default options Files Drive free space Computers Commands Network places filter Data destruction method System Clean up utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction methods Here you need to select the desired data destruction method Use common method if you leave this parameter selected the program will use the default method the initial setting is Fast method If you need another destruction method to be set as a default click on the corresponding link Use custom method for this component selecting this parameter allows you to choose one of the preset data destruction methods from the drop down list The data destruction methods are described in detail in Hard Disk Wiping Methods p 147 of this guide Files The Files setting defines the names of files to clean with System Clean up wizard and can be used with a search string amp System Clean up Sa You can view and change the current settings for the selected item 12 items mryo 4 a System Clean up 4 4M System Compon T You can see a list of the files and folders to be cleaned g Recy
50. store your backups are shown in the Included Locations list If the list does not contain those disks the backups will not be indexed To include the disks click Modify and select them in the window that appears Indexed Locations Change selected locations amp v w Local Disk C gt Local Disk E 9 Local Disk F Ma 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 fe 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 2n Can yrinht F Nornn Ta 3U Copyrignt Acronis LNC ZVUVU ZULU Give Windows Search some time for indexing Acronis backups on your computer s hard disks and adding the indexing information to its index database The required time depends on the number of backups and the number of files they contain After completing the indexing the Windows Search will be able to search files in tib backups data Windows Desktop Search File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Q Back o B yo Search E Folders Address 4 Windows Desktop Search Results Windows P AllLocations Everything TE E
51. the Parameters field Having specified the startup parameters click Next to continue 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 Disables 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 dir
52. the Password field If you enter the wrong password the consolidate archive procedure will not be able to continue Click OK to continue 3 12 2 Backup selection The Backup selection window displays a list of backups belonging to the selected archive with the backup creation date and time like in the Recovery wizard The top backup is the full backup the rest are incremental backups To select the backups you want to keep Select the backups you want to keep The other backups will not be included into the consolidated archive Information on the selected backup its name date of creation type and comments is displayed on the right pane of the window Click Next to continue 3 12 3 Result location Specify the place where you want to save the archive copy and its name By default the program suggests the same location and the source archive name Your original archive will be overwritten To specify another location for the consolidated archive Select the New location item and click the Browse button Specify the location where you want the consolidated archive to be stored to from the drives tree If required you can create a new folder in the selected location by clicking the Ji Create new folder button or delete the unnecessary folder by clicking the X Delete button Inthe File name field enter a name for the consolidated archive or click the Y Generate name button to generate the name automatically
53. 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 section are supported only for the FAT and NTFS file systems Please keep in mind that though both file backups and disk partition images have a default tib extension only images can be mounted If you want to view file backup contents use the Explore operation How to mount an image 1 Start the Mount wizard by clicking Mount image on the Tools amp Utilities screen 2 Select the backup for mounting Mount Wizard e Mount Wizard Mount backup Archive selection Name Created Com Rating Method Path Images a Disk 9Disk D 5 27 2010 10 57 25 AM WW Full backup EADisk D a B Diskc Disk C 5 27 2010 11 09 43 AM Akk KK Fullbackup E Disk_q m D Path EADisk C tib Browse Next gt I Proceed Cancel 3 150 If you selected a backup containing incremental images you can select one of the successive incremental images also called backup versions 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 backup versions and the initial full backup If any of the successive backups are missing mounting is not possible To mount a differential image you must have the initial ful
54. unallocated space is not included into the backup file Enabling this option will include all unallocated disk space into the backup 3 10 3 Backup protection A backup file can be password protected By default there is no password protection for backups To protect the backup Enter the password for the backup into the Password field A password should consist of at least eight symbols and contain both letters in upper and lower cases preferably and numbers to make it more difficult to guess Retype the previously entered password into the Confirm field To increase the security of your confidential data you can encrypt the backup with strong industry standard AES Advanced Encryption Standard cryptographic algorithm AES is available with three key lengths 128 192 and 256 bits to balance performance and protection as desired The 128 bit encryption key is sufficient for most applications The longer the key the more secure your data However the 192 and 256 bit long keys significantly slow down the backup process If you want to use AES encryption choose one of the following keys AES 128 to use 128 bit encryption key AES 192 to use 192 bit encryption key AES256 to use 256 bit encryption key If you do not want to encrypt the backup and only want to protect a backup with a password select None Having specified the backup protection settings click OK If you try to recover data from a password protect
55. with just two options View and Recover A Cannot find server Microsoft Internet Explorer EG gt x a Pp Search Sip Favorites meda amp a X B A Address amp http 127 0 0 1 4664 search s AoFySjgTpU3Y G6mu2rg7WbakNHQ amp q coffee v Go Links e l Web Images Groups News Shopping Maps Scholar Desktop more 029 e coffe Acronis True Image Google Desktop Integration x Jh ma Sep a Desktop e Choose whatto do with the file Desktop All 0 emails r 12 of 2 0 015 Index Sort by relevance Sorted by date a View Note partial results only dexing is done when your computer is idle amp Recover accessor inf inside E Cancel 3 bmp Blumon16 Blue Moni mm Coffee Bean 16 bmp Coffeebn Coffee Beat arr camer F ealner Te xTUre DID a ddle Preview tib acronis content E MyBac accessor inf 1 cached 12 35pm amp Coffee Bean bmp inside E MyBackup tib tib acronis content E MyBackup tib 386 Coffee Bean bmp 12 30pm coffee amp Internet Ki Choosing View starts the application associated with this file type and opens the file Choosing Recover starts Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition and you can then recover the file to a desired location Google Desktop also provides for searching files in zip backups created by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition though you cannot open or recover file
56. you run the task the selected items will be backed up by default You can change your selection any time Including items Specify items to include by selecting the corresponding check boxes You can include both file categories and individual files and folders When selecting the file category ies to back up you can include the following default categories Documents Finance Images Video and Music Each category represents all files of associated types found on the computer s hard drives Furthermore you can add any number of custom categories containing files and folders The new categories will be saved and displayed along with the above You can change the contents of any custom or default file category edit the category or delete it The default file categories cannot be deleted T Iers to Back Up Seecton 22 Specify files to back up Folders LJ OnlineBackupStandalone Bui Name Es Tx M LO Documents and Se 3 Ni C Program Fies 4 CO Common Fle Folder gt g Acces Vi hop 110 KB Complled HTM zes 4 kove 120 KB Rich Text Docu E Wi Orinda V Q ob chent standard 12960 KB Application gt Common fles J S obehel di 474 KB Application Ext gt ComPlus Appica 9 18 pr niet enum di 80 KB Application Ext J 7 pt report 4853 KB Application Categories Dy f on stat 2032 KB Applicaton Y S QtCore di 2033 KB Application Ext 94 S Qaa 7201 KB Application Ext V ig TrueimageMontor 2476 kB App
57. you to search for the file you want to recover To perform search select on the folder tree the partition from which the file was backed up and then enter the file s name or a partial name in the search field with the magnifying glass icon to the right of the field The search is performed only among the files backed up from the currently selected partition The found files if any will be shown in the right pane under the Search results item at the bottom of the folder tree Legend Clicking the up arrow at the right side of the Legend line shows the icons the program uses for indicating the states of items files and folders backed up on the Online Storage Brief descriptions explain the meaning of those icons These icons will let you see which items have been modified or deleted locally since the last online backup They will also let you know which folders have been backed up only partially If the Legend area interferes with the viewing of the directory tree of the current computer you can collapse it by clicking the down arrow at the right side end of the Legend line Time scale At the bottom of the window there is a special time scale To view any prior data state just find the date you need using the arrows on the time scale click the date and select a time To go to the oldest backup date for a selected file or folder click the Left arrow button below the left end of the time scale To return to the most recent backup date c
58. you want to recover selected files folders You can recover data to its original location or choose a new one if necessary To choose a new location click the Browse button 3 When you choose a new location the selected items will be recovered by default without recovering the original absolute path You may also wish to recover the items with their entire folder hierarchy In this case select the Recover absolute path check box 4 When needed set the options for the recovery process recovery process priority file level security settings etc To set the options click the File recovery options link The options you set here will be applied only to the current recovery operation To start the recovery process click the Recover now button The recovery progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the recovery by clicking Cancel Please keep in mind that the aborted recovery may still cause changes in the destination folder How to recover mail application settings and system state This refers to recovering data from your E mail backups Application settings and system state can be recovered only from old backups created by an earlier Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition version for instance Acronis True Image Home 2010 Let s see how you can recover data from e mail application settings and system state backups 1 Select a required backup version in the Acronis Backup Explorer and click Recover to start
59. 1 Netbook Edition provides closer integration with Windows 7 Such merging allows you to get the most out of your computer The new user friendly interface makes starting backup and recovery much faster Integration adds Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition items to the Windows Start menu changes the properties of the Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition button on the taskbar and adds the ability to configure and perform Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition operations using Windows 7 Control Panel The most significant changes occur in the System and Security category of Windows 7 Control Panel Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition replaces Windows Backup in the Backup and Restore item If you first installed Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition without performing backups the Backup and Restore window allows you to create a backup using Acronis One Click Backup tool GU Control Panel System and Security Backup and Restore Search Backup and Restore Control Panel Home Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Tum on Windows Backup Run True Image Home Cmm y My system l Ah Explore and recover l 4 Back up now Il Backup size 3 32 GB Last backup August 18 2010 12 17 52 Edit backup settings Location Ga EAMy bac m 1 5 tib Disk backup See also Action Center When you have created backups the Backup and Restore window will show the box
60. 1055 Space required 105 1 MB Help Back I Next gt l Cancel To select a component Select the check box of the program you want to include into the bootable media The bottom field displays the space required for the selected components If you have other Acronis products installed on your computer you can also include standalone versions of these programs into the same bootable media If automatic start of the program is necessary select the Starts automatically after check box 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition will launch 10 seconds after the menu is displayed Click Next to continue 7 2 3 Bootable media startup parameters Here 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 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 To add a startup parameter Enter a command into
61. 2011 Netbook Edition you cannot recover files and folders encrypted with use of the encryption feature available in Windows XP and later operating systems For more information see File level security settings for backup p 57 On the other hand backups encrypted using the Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition encryption feature can be recovered When booting from the rescue media you cannot recover image backups to GPT disks using a standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 7 3 Security and Privacy Tools Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition contains utilities for erasing individual files and eliminating traces of user system activity Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition provides for the destruction of confidential information with the help of techniques that meet or exceed most national and state standards You can select an appropriate data destruction method depending on the importance of your confidential information The System Clean up wizard ensures elimination of all of the traces of your computer activities When working on a PC you leave thousands of bytes of evidence showing your actions You may not even be aware of these traces This could include user names and passwords as well as other personal information that could be used to steal your identity if it fell into the wrong hands This utility wipes them all completely away from the disk drive The data destruction methods
62. 35 49 To view the logs for a specific period select the period from the drop down list You can select Today Week and Month To view all logs select All To delete a log entry select it right click and select Delete in the shortcut menu To delete all log entries select Delete all You can also save a log entry to file by selecting Save To save all logs to file select Save all The three buttons to the right control event filters the white cross in the red circle filters error events the exclamation mark in a yellow triangle filters warnings and the i in the blue circle filters information message events 8 6 Acronis Customer Experience Program Acronis Customer Experience Program CEP is a new way to allow Acronis customers to contribute to the features design and development of Acronis products This program enables our customers to provide us with various information including information about the hardware configuration of your host computer and or virtual machines the features you use most and least and the nature of the problems you face Based on this information we will be able to improve the Acronis products and the features you use most often If you choose to participate the technical information will be automatically collected every 90 days We will not collect any personal data like your name address phone number or keyboard input Participation in the CEP is voluntary however but the end results int
63. 4 Acronis COMPUTE WITH CONFIDENCE WWW ACRONIS COM Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition User s Guide Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 All rights reserved Acronis Acronis Compute with Confidence Acronis Recovery Manager Acronis Secure Zone Acronis True Image Acronis Try amp Decide 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 license terms for such third parties are detailed
64. E winterjpg E MyBackup 1 1ib tib acronis content 41 Winterjpg MyBackup tib tib acronis content 28 Winter jpg 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 Cannot find server Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Q x a P Search Sip Favorites Meda e B 2 2 Address http 127 0 0 1 4664 search s AoFySjgT pU3YG mu2rg7 WbakNHQ amp q coffee Web Images Groups News Shopping Maps Scholar Desktop more Google coffee Desktop Preferences Des ktop J Advanced Search Desktop All 0 emails 0 files 2 web history 0 chats 0 other 1 2 of 2 0 015 Remove from Index Sort by relevance Sorted by date Note partial results only 0 complete Index update in progress Indexing is done when your computer is idle amp accessor inf inside E MyBackup tib bmp Blumon16 Blue Monday 16 bmp Bubbles Soap Bubbles brnp Coffee16 Coffee Bean 16 bmp Coffeebn Coffee Bean bmp Feather FeatherTexture bmp Fidlhead Fiddle Coffee Bean bmp inside E MyBackup tib tib acronis content E MyBackup tib 386 Coffee Bean bmp 12 30pm S 126 Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Clicking in the browser window on a line related to the desired file version opens a small dialog
65. E mail Other v 1054resuls Hy up tib Acronis True Image Home Data Sources ODBC acronis htm 3ds max xml access 2000 xml access 2003 xml access 2007 xml nuu Unable to display preview adobe photoshop cs3 xml adobe photoshop cs 9 xml ig WS 0S US 6 1S Us 99 after effects 7 xml I bittorrent xml diskeeper administrator 10 xml lis easy screensaver 4 1 xml 8 I f secure is 2007 xml The search engines in Windows Search and Windows Vista or Windows 7 have similar functionalities though search results are presented somewhat differently 7 47 my namemyback Document Picture Music Other Advanced Search Jj Indexed Locations Name myback z 2 5 2008 Tags Addatag Z Authors Add an author W Save Search n Search Tools v Burn Name Date modified Type Folder 3 MyBackup 3 5 2008 1 25 PM Acronis True Imag Desktop C Users Favorite Links E Documents E Pictures Did you find what you were searching for Ig Music E Advanced Search 4j Recently Changed IB Searches dg Public 131 Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 6 7 Choosing columns for viewing in wizards You can change the way the columns are represented in various wizards To sort items by a particular column click the header another click will switch the items to the opposite order To select columns to view
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67. GB each The firewall settings of the source computer should have Ports 20 and 21 opened for the TPC and UDP protocols to function The Routing and Remote Access Windows service should be disabled 6 2 1 2 Authentication settings If you are connecting to a networked computer in most cases you will need to provide the necessary credentials for accessing the network share If you need to specify the user name and password Select the Use NT authentication check box and enter the logon credentials Username enter a user name Password enter the user s password When you click the Test connection button the computer will try to connect to the selected network share If you receive an error message check if the credentials are correct and provide the correct user name and password for the selected network share To repeat the connection attempt click the Test again button If you clear the Use NT authentication check box the computer will try to log on automatically with the credentials used for logging on to Windows Having provided the required information click Connect 6 2 2 Deciding what data to back up Operating systems and application software become ever larger for example Windows Vista x64 requires 15GB of free space on a hard disk 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
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69. Home 2011 Online Backup shows the approximate recovery time and data transfer speed The progress bar indicates the level of recovery completion If you want to see the recovered files and or folders select the Show the folder content after the recovery is complete check box When the recovery finishes Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup will open the folder with the recovered items You can stop the recovery operation by clicking Cancel The recovery operation will be canceled but if you have started recovery of several files the already recovered files will remain in the destination folder You can also close the progress window by clicking Hide The recovery will continue but you will be able to close the main program window The program will continue working in the background and will automatically close once the recovery is finished 5 5 Removing data from Online Storage Because the available space on Acronis Online Storage is limited you need to manage your Online Storage space by cleaning up the obsolete data or the data you do not need anymore Cleanup can be done in a variety of ways The most drastic one is removing a computer registered on the Online Storage Removing a computer results in deleting all data that was backed up from that computer Therefore such an operation must be carried out with caution To remove a computer right click on its tab on the main screen and select Remove from Online Storage then click Y
70. IOS version Among other things the BIOS menu allows you to adjust the boot order Boot order 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 order 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 change the boot order so that an operating system is booted from for example disk E In this case you have to set the boot order 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 that 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 order 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
71. If you would like to assign a specific name to the backup type the name in the Backup name field instead of the default one You can also add useful information to the backup name To do so click the down arrow to the right of the destination and click Browse Select the items you want to add in the right field of the File name line add date the backup creation date will be added add time the backup creation time will be added add user name the current user name will be added add machine name the computer name will be added add task name the name of the task that includes the backup will be added add task run number the sequence number of the task run will be added Click Disk backup options to set the options for the backup being configured For example when your data disk contains sensitive information you may want to protect the information by encryption You can also choose to validate the backup immediately after its creation though it can be done later For more information see Backup options p 47 When you set up the backup as needed you can run it immediately by clicking the Back up now button If you want to run the backup later or on a schedule click the down arrow to the right of the Back up now button and select Later in the drop down list to save the settings you have made 3 4 Backing up files and folders To back up files and or folders click File backup on the main screen This will open t
72. K to return to the previous window To check whether your settings are correct click the Send Test E mail Message button 5 3 6 7 Pre Post commands You can specify commands or batch files to be executed automatically before and or after the backup procedure For example you may want to configure a third party antivirus product to be used each time for scanning the files to be backed up before the backup starts Click Edit to open the Edit Command window where you can easily input the command its arguments and working directory or browse folders to find a batch file Gone Online backup options Af Reset al to datat SP Reset the curent to deta Dra Dat com n Connection attempts E Pre Post commands Storage connection speed Specify commands that wil be executed before and after the backup process Note tt orly programs and bateh fles can be run Storage deainup Before backup process pre bat P Edt After backup process Proxy settings t Backup prorty A E mal notification Pre Post commands Customer Experience Program nthe Command field type in a command or select it from the list Click to select a batch file Inthe Working directory field type in a path for command execution or select it from the list of previously entered paths Inthe Arguments field enter or select command execution arguments from the list Please do not try to execute interactive commands i e commands that require us
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74. Recover my data now After the Acronis Online Storage page opens select the computer from which you backed up the files you need to recover and then download the files to your current computer You can save documents photos music and more from up to five PCs on one account If a computer crashes no problem Just log in from another computer and retrieve your files 5 2 Subscription information Performing backups in Acronis Online Storage requires subscription to the Online Backup service To subscribe start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup and click the Subscribe to Online Backup service link on the 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 have performed all actions necessary for account re
75. True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition helps you protect your identity as well Simply deleting old data will not remove it permanently from your computer Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition includes File Shredder that permanently destroys files as well as the System Clean up tool that cleans up your Windows system of all traces of user activity You can store backups on almost any PC storage device When performing scheduled backups Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition automatically selects a backup mode full incremental differential in accordance with the backup scheme set by the user Windows style interface and wizards will make your work easier Just perform a few simple steps and let Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition take care of everything else When a system problem occurs the software will get you up and running in no time 1 1 2 Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition basic concepts This section provides general information about basic concepts which could be useful for understanding how the program works Backup and recovery Backup refers to the making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to recover 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 recover small numbers of files after they have been accidentally deleted or corrupted A
76. User Settings Address Book For Microsoft Outlook Express m Mail Folders Address Book select Windows Address Book Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition provides backup of IMAP Internet Messages Access Protocol mail folders for Microsoft Outlook This means that you can back up folders stored on a mail server For Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail only backup of local e mail folders is available Take note that Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition does not support Unicode characters in the items backed up using the E mail backup type To back up your E mail 1 Click E mail backup on the main screen This will open the E mail Backup window 2 Select the mail items you want to back up in the What to back up area The right side will show the item contents with all subitems selected There you can unselect the subitems you do not need to back up if any 3 Select a destination for backup you can leave the default destination or browse for a destination after clicking the down arrow to the right of the current destination and selecting Browse 4 The program will assign a default name to the backup but if you would like to assign another name type the name in the Backup name field 5 Click the Back up now button if you want to run backup immediately You can also delay the start of backup for up to 6 hours by clicking the down arrow to the right of this button and selecting a delay interval from
77. You can specify the network backup data transfer speed by choosing one of the following Transferring speed stated as a percent of the highest possible speed drag the slider to set the desired limit for transferring backup data Transferring speed stated in kilobytes per second enter the bandwidth limit for transferring backup data in kilobytes per second 3 10 14 Notifications for backup operation Sometimes a backup or recovery procedure can last an hour or longer Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition can notify you when it is finished via e mail The program can also duplicate messages issued during the operation or send you the full operation log after operation completion By default all notifications are disabled Free disk space threshold You may want to be notified when the free space on the backup storage becomes less than the specified threshold value If after starting a backup Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition finds out that the free space in the selected backup location is already less than the specified value the program will not begin the actual backup process and will 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 for the backup or to cancel the backup If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup is being run the program will display the same mess
78. ackup Add backups iP Fite beckuy Use to create new and add existing Online Backup vens Sochup backups d storage to kee ta safe lt Browse for backup My backups link My backups Click to explore all your backups gt My system amp Recover Back up now 375 GB Today at 1159 Off Tum on EAMy backogi Explore and recover Operebens Dek baci I adm documents amp Explore and recover d Beck up now Backup boxes 2058 MB Today at 1415 Dai at 12 00 Full management of E My backug all your backups Ihe backup Padlock icon Recovery buttons Backup buttons Indicates that the backup is The most frequently Click to create a new password protected used recovery operation backup version Add backups area To create a new or add an existing backup to the backup list you can use the Add backups area It contains the following items Disk and partition backup Online Backup File backup E mail backup Browse for backup Click this item to browse for backups on your computer and add them to the backup list This may be useful when you have backups created by a previous Acronis True Image Home Netbook Edition version which are not shown in the backup list If the added backup was created by a previous Acronis True Image Home Netbook Edition version or copied from another computer you will be unable to perform some operations In particular you cannot refresh the backup by clicking Back up now Also you cannot edit and clone
79. ackup allows you to browse and recover data that was backed up on Online Storage If you have backed up data from several computers select the computer from which you backed up the data you want to recover If the data from the selected computer is stored on the Online Storage in encrypted form you will be asked to enter the encryption key which has been used for encryption You will not be able to access the data until you enter the correct encryption key VJ Acronis TOE mace Home 2021 Onime Backup kolba Acronis True Image Home 2011 mM Online Backup viadimir volkhonsky acronis com Help My account Log out ke Admin Home Free space 499 MB 148 GB pem i Gg Next backup dy Back Up Now amp Recover 23 Options TADEON ve 2 7 7 2010 10 43 59 AM Name Size Type Date Version E Documents and Settings tih s 1169454 KB Application 7 1 2010 5 37 5 ver2 Program Files I Total Shortcut 3 11 2010 4 06 veri E Users E z a adm AppData d Contacts Desktop DoctorWeb Documents Favorites Links Searches JULY 10 Using time scale Having selected the computer you can search the data you need to recover All your backups have creation dates These dates determine the states that data had during the backup operation Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup provides for viewing the data states using a special time scale at the bottom of the window To view any prior data state just find the da
80. ackup versions have colored stripes at the bottom The color of the stripes depends on the backup types violet for disk backups turquoise for file backups and brown for other backups for example created by a previous Acronis True Image Home Netbook Edition version The picture below shows various states of a time line Its states vary depending on the number of backups and the time interval through which you are navigating Event in the system Now block Indicates a software This w eek b lock Today block collapsed and installations and Contains versions for Ihe Contains versions for the ded i current week till today expanded software updates current day til the last hour Contains versions for the last hour ES ae ee Older Older Tox xay Spr TT STET T 8I IE Version pack This month block The selected Collapsed block Contains several versions Contains versions forthe backup version Click to view all the versions for the day click to view current month till the next that the block contains block The Now interval shows backup versions created during the last hour The Today interval shows backup versions created from the beginning of the current day to the last hour The week interval can be named either Week ago or This week When today is Monday Tuesday or Wednesday the week interval is named Week ago In such cases the time line shows backu
81. after every 5 incremental versions Old version cleanup rules 9 Delete version chains olderthan 7 days Store no morethan 10 recent version chains Keep size of the backup no morethan 1 E Do not delete the first version of the backup Turn off automatic cleanup 7 Save the settings as default 7 e Reset to initial settings Cancel Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition allows you to choose the following backup schemes Single version p 49 select this scheme if you want to use the smallest backup storage or if you back up data that changes insignificantly Version chain p 50 this is the most recommended and optimal scheme Custom p 50 select this item if you want to set up a backup scheme manually Backup schemes and scheduler Scheduler settings for the default backup schemes single version and version chain are predefined You should not change the default backup periodicity settings in the scheduler For disk backups the setting is Monthly and for file backups Daily If you have selected one of the backup schemes and then change the periodicity settings for instance from Monthly to Weekly the backup scheme will automatically reset to a custom backup scheme with the incremental method selected In this case the version chain will consist of a full backup version and a sequence of incremental backup versions 3 10 1 1 Single version scheme This backup scheme is the same for bot
82. age with the required key combination is displayed during the startup test Pressing this combination takes you to the setup menu Go to the hard disk autodetection utility which usually comes under Standard CMOS Setup or Advanced CMOS setup If the utility does not detect the system drive it has failed and you need to replace the drive If the utility correctly detects your system hard disk drive then the cause of the crash is probably a virus malware or corruption of a system file required for booting If the system drive is healthy try to recover the system using a backup of your system disk or system partition Because Windows does not boot you will have to use Acronis bootable rescue media You will also need to use a system disk backup when recovering the system after replacing the damaged hard disk drive 4 1 2 Preparing for recovery a scan the computer for viruses if you suspect that the crash occurred due to a virus or malware attack b test Acronis bootable rescue media if you have not done this yet For more information see Testing bootable rescue media p 116 c boot from the rescue media and validate the backup you want to use for recovery This is necessary because there have been user reports that a backup 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition uses differ
83. age and you will have to make the same decisions To set the free disk space threshold Select the Show notification message on insufficient free disk space check box In the Size box type or select a threshold value and select a unit of measure Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition can monitor free space on the following storage devices Local hard drives USB cards and drives Network shares SMB NFS The message will not be displayed if the Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode check box is selected in the Error handling settings This option cannot be enabled for FTP servers and CD DVD drives E mail notification You can specify an e mail account that will be used for notifying you of the backup process To specify the e mail settings Select the Send e mail notifications about the operation state check box Enter the e mail address in the E mail address field You can enter several e mail addresses in a semicolon delimited format Enter the outgoing mail server SMTP in the Outgoing mail server SMTP field Set the port of the outgoing mail server By default the port is set to 25 Enter the user name in the User name field Enter the password in the Password field If you want the client e mail program to handle messages according to the set policy for example to put messages into the specified folder specify the subject in the Subject field If your
84. ample even maximum compression will not significantly reduce the backup size if the backup contains essentially compressed files like jpg pdf or mp3 Operation priority Changing the priority of a backup or recovery process can make it run faster or slower depending on whether you raise or lower the priority but it can also adversely affect the performance of other running programs The priority of any process running in a system determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process Decreasing the operation priority will free more resources for other CPU tasks Increasing backup or recovery priority may speed up the process by taking resources from the other currently running processes The effect will depend on total CPU usage and other factors You can set up the operation priority Low enabled by default the backup or recovery process will run slower but the performance of other programs will be increased Normal the backup or recovery process will have the equal priority with other processes High the backup or recovery process will run faster but the performance of other programs will be reduced Be aware that selecting this option may result in 100 CPU usage by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Network connection speed If you frequently back up data to network drives or FTP think of limiting the network bandwidth used by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition
85. and msiexec i path to msi fileNmsi file name msi REINSTALL ALL REINSTALLMODE vomus After the install wizard window opens choose Typical Custom or Complete installation for repairing or changing the program s components 1 2 3 Running Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition You can run Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition in Windows by selecting Start gt Programs Acronis Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition or by clicking on the appropriate shortcut on the desktop If your operating system does not load for some reason you can run Acronis Startup Recovery Manager However it must be activated prior to use see Acronis Startup Recovery Manager p 134 to learn more about this procedure To run the program press F11 during bootup when you see a corresponding message that tells you to press that key Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will be run in standalone mode allowing you to recover the damaged partitions If your disk data is totally corrupted and the operating system cannot boot or if you have not activated Acronis Startup Recovery Manager load the standalone Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition version from the bootable media supplied with the retail box or created by you using Rescue Media Builder This boot disk will allow you to recover your disk from a previously created image When running Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbo
86. application software by downloading from the Internet is becoming more and more popular If you lose your registration information which is usually sent by e mail you may have problems with restoring your right to use the application So making a backup of your entire system disk making a disk image will save you a lot of valuable time in case of a disaster It will also 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 Because images can save you a lot of time when you need to recover the operating system or data we recommend that you make them part of your backup strategy If you have multiple partitions on a drive it is advisable to include all of them in the image 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 it should only be a part of a reliable backup strategy Do you have bank records family photos videos etc you accumulated on your computer for several years Hardware and software can be replaced your personal data cannot because it is unique So you should also safeguard your personal data using file and folder backups This is true even if your image backup contains that
87. ar the component select an option from the list and specify the settings After you set the desired components properties click OK to save your settings These settings will be used as default next time you launch the Clean up wizard If you have already changed the clean up settings before you can always return to the program defaults by clicking the Restore Defaults button System components Recycle Bin Temporary files Hard disk free space Find Computer list Find File list Recently Used Documents list Windows Run List Opened saved files history User Credentials Windows Prefetch Directory 7 3 2 2 Default clean up options The default clean up options are available by clicking the Click to change this setting link on the Data Destruction Method option page To change the default clean up options Choose on the tree the component clean up settings which you need to change After you change the options click OK to save your settings If you have already changed the clean up settings before you can always return to the program defaults by clicking the Restore Defaults button General By default the summary dialog window is displayed after each clean up procedure ends the Show summary check box is selected If you do not need this window to be displayed uncheck the box Clean up options System Clean up utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction methods Here you can
88. ary screen but not click the Proceed button This will allow you to simulate the recovery process You will also make sure that Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 can now test whether they will be able to boot from the recovered system partition Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition temporarily converts it to a vhd file Your hard disk must have enough free space for storing it The program will then add 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 ensuring that the tib file will boot you can remove the file from the boot loader list and delete the temporary vhd file 6 5 Scheduling The Scheduler window allows you to specify the backup and validation schedule settings O Schedule your operation hr acm SS Daily Monthly e
89. as occurred and the error message from the module You can view more detailed information about the error by clicking the More details link in the message box The detailed information may look like as is shown on the following screen shot Error 9 Error while opening script file More information about this error and solutions may be available online in the Acronis Knowledge Base To access the online resource manually enter the event code at http kb acronis com errorcode Event code Less details Knowledge Base Qut To view the Acronis Knowledge Base article suggesting a solution s for correcting the error click the Knowledge Base button This will open a confirmation window that lists the information to be sent via Internet to the Acronis Knowledge Base Click OK to permit sending the information Feedback Confirmation B The folowing information wil be sent via the Internet Click OK to confirm Parameter name Value Always send without confirmation If in future you would like to send such information without confirmation select the Always send without confirmation check box If you do not have Internet access when such an error message is shown this may happen for example when booted from the rescue media please write down the event code When you establish Internet connection or if you can use another computer where Internet connection is available use the following URL to go t
90. at warning s or error s have been written into the Log during version creation If more than one backup version has been created during a day within week month year or older time interval such a date is shown on the time line using a special version pack icon If you hover over a folded block for more than half a second a balloon will show the information about the time interval start its end and the number of backup versions it contains If you hover over a backup version within an expanded time interval a balloon will show more detailed information about the backup version Clicking on a folded block or its name above or below the time line expands the corresponding time interval If the number of backup versions within the time interval is too big to fit onto the time line the horizontal scroll line allows you to navigate through the backup versions within the time interval If you select another folded block and there is no room for displaying all backup versions of the newly expanded block then the current expanded block will collapse By clicking on a backup version you select it in the Backup Explorer Shortcut menus Right clicking on the time line opens the shortcut menu The menu contents will change depending on the selected item Today 35 16 42 16 56 16 57 Recover Validate Convert to Windows backup Mount Delete version View gt Disk backup version Recover Va
91. ation you will need to recover This makes the backup file of your system partition much smaller and recovery easier The smaller the backup file the less chance it will be corrupted and the less time required to recover your system 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 folders containing your data or create a data disk image Remember that the imaging procedure is much faster than copying files It could speed up the backup process significantly when backing up large volumes of data If the image file becomes corrupted for some reason it is sometimes possible to mount the image You may be able to save most files and folders by copying them from the mounted image using Windows Explorer 4 Because recovery of your system after a crash in most cases will be done after booting from the rescue media you must create the rescue media see Creating bootable rescue media p 134 and then test it as described in Testing bootable rescue media p 116 Backing up your system partition If you want to use your external drive for storing the backup attach and power it on before starting Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 1 Start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition and then click Disk and partition backup in the main window es Home Search pr
92. before you start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition from the bootable media The generated system report can be saved to a USB flash drive Place Acronis One Click Restore on media Acronis One Click Restore is a minimal addition to your bootable media allowing one click data recovery from an image backup stored on this media This means that when booting from the media and after clicking Recover all data will be silently recovered to its original place No options or selections such as resizing partitions will be possible Acronis One Click Restore can be added to the media only when creating a full backup of an entire hard disk It cannot be added when creating an incremental or differential backup as well as backup of a partition In such case the Place Acronis One Click Restore on media check box will not be present on the General tab of the current backup options even if the box is selected in the default Removable media settings Ask for first media while creating backups 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 Therefore you should disable the prompt when scheduling a backup to removable media Then if the removable media is available for example CD R RW inserted the backu
93. 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 USB flash drive Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition installation you will not be able to use this feature When booting from the Rescue Media you cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with Ext2 Ext3 Ext4 ReiserFS and Linux SWAP file systems To create bootable media Run the Acronis Media Builder wizard To do so Click Tools amp Utilities in the main menu and then click Rescue Media Builder on the Tools amp Utilities screen or Select Programs gt Acronis gt Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition gt Tools amp Utilities gt Bootable Rescue Media Builder from the Start menu Click Next and follow the wizard s steps 7 2 2 Re
94. can switch between the backup versions by using the time line at the bottom of the screen For more information see Time line p 27 To recover disks and or partitions 1 Onthe time line select the backup version from which you want to recover your disks partitions The version s exact date and time will be displayed near the backup name Your data will be recovered to the state it was at that point in time 2 Select the corresponding check boxes of the disks or partitions you want to recover 3 Click the Recover button To recover specific files and folders from the disk partition backups 1 Click the Files and folders tab 2 Select files and folders you want to recover 3 Click the Recover button For more information on recovering files and folders see Files and folders tab p 26 Backup version Backup name date and time Backup version contents Name of the backup Date and time when the selected Disks and partitions that the being explored backup version was created backup version contains D Ac rot Image H 3 amp oTo bee Grim epee aa pw A J Acronis WS iocis amp Utilities Help Osis and parti ons Fies and foiders x My system gt iesday September 14 2010 14 54 0 Available for recovery B o System Reserved B a wel Disk C 2 items 82 GB amp facer Today S GG GK Current item The selected Time line information area backup version Contains all versions Information on the current
95. cle Bin according to your mask 4 Qu Temporary fil UJ Data Dest Search is completed 41 items found Gd Files Items Hard Disk Fre wy Temporary file 921 C Users adm AppData Local Temp 88C37 A06 901E 440 gt i53 Recently Used pe 571 C Users adm AppData Local Temp BODDDB3D9ACE421 Windows Ru ee ae fora Q C Users adm AppData Local Temp Low E 9 Opened Save specific purpose and retain them s adm AppData Local Temp msdt bl User Credenti in a folder d for adm AppData Local Temp VMwareDnD I Windows Pre Vows de adm AppData Local Temp VMwareDnD 0c187 confidential data that might have c Users adm AppData Local Temp WPDNSE been stored is completely gone a C Users adm AppData Local Temp 4649C409 8F03 424 521 C Users adm AppData Local Temp 4649C409 8F03 424 adm AppData Local Temp C287289C 11FD 47 53 C Users adm AppData Local Temp C287289C 11FD 47 lt w a C Users adm AppData Local Temp EECD4842 D370 47 _ lt r Under the Windows operating system a search string can represent a full or partial filename A search string can contain any alphanumeric symbols including commas and Windows wildcard symbols and can have values similar to the following _ to clean all files with any file names and extensions doc to clean all files with a specific extension Microsoft document files in this case read to clean all files with any extensions and names beginning with r
96. click the File backup options link expand the Backup reserve copy item and then select the Create a reserve copy of my backups box if it is not selected in the default backup options G File Backup Options e 5 sm Backup scheme Advanced Performance Notifications a Backup protection v Bl Pre Post commands v Backup splitting v amp Validation v Backup reserve copy V Create a reserve copy of my backups Set location Removable media settings v dh Error handling v e File level security settings v 7 Save the settings as default 7 2 Choose how to duplicate the project file s on the USB stick If you need to save space choose duplicating as a zip file Click on the Set location link select the drive letter of the USB stick and create a folder for a reserve copy by clicking on the Make New Folder button Browse For Folder EJ File Backup Options v Libraries B adm 4 Computer e Floppy Disk Drive A amp Local Disk C x New Volume D m ca New Volume E eli DVD Drive F MTiX Workstation _ gt Gia Network Make New Folder Cancel 3 Finish configuring your backup as usual 4 Click Back up now and do not forget to take the USB stick home Please be aware that built in support of zip files in Windows does not cover operations with multivolume zip archives and zip archives exceeding 4GB in size or which contain files of more than 4 GB each Also
97. computer s hard drives You can use the following default categories Video Music Images Finance and Documents Furthermore you can add any number of custom categories containing files and folders The new categories will be saved and displayed along with the above You can change the contents of any custom or default file category edit the category or delete it The default file categories cannot be deleted To add a custom data category click Add category To change the default name of a custom category double click the name and enter a new one Select the data source e g a folder for the new category by clicking the Browse button By default the new category will contain All data from the source but you can apply filters to select the specific types of files that you wish or do not wish to back up File Backup Sra Jj e Configure file backup process Vhat to back uf i jE Computer li Images G ze ia MAE Category source C Users adm E Categories D Video Include Only the following fie types Music v Images Enter file extensior GAdd 7 Finance PEZ c 7 Documents jpg m gif Bs png Add category amp bmp LJ mpng LI psd pdd Sr de dib i tif L erw Lj nef L raf L orf LJ mrw dcr mos um tiff LI cin L sdix LI dpx LJ fido 5 gif L eps Es psi Exclusions Add Destination LY ep Ann ITF Y Schedule Off Turn on Backup schem
98. copy a set of documents for example to a USB stick for working on them at home So now you can perform a normal backup and copy the same files to a USB stick or any local hard drive You have the choice of making a reserve copy in the form of regular files in their native format a zip compressed file or a tib file optionally with password protection and encryption A password protected reserve copy can be encrypted only if you choose to encrypt the main backup and an encryption key of the same length will be used for encrypting the reserve copy A reserve copy always contains all the files selected for backup that is when creating a reserve copy the program always makes a full backup of the source data You cannot make a reserve copy in the form of an incremental or differential backup even in tib format Also remember that you will pay for the enhanced convenience and increased security of your data by the time required for performing the operation because normal backup and reserve copying are performed one after another and not simultaneously And now let us consider a case when you may need to make a reserve copy of your backup Suppose you have worked hard on an urgent project all day and the deadline is tomorrow morning You decide to back up the results of the day s work on a network share and make a reserve copy of the project on a USB stick to finish the project at home To make a reserve copy 1 While configuring a backup
99. created file To save the report to file and send it to Acronis support team by e mail click Save and send To exit to the main program window without saving the report click Cancel You can place the tool on your bootable rescue media as a separate component to be able to generate a system report when your computer cannot boot After you boot from the media you will be able to generate the report even without running Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition In this case you should plug in a USB flash drive before clicking the Acronis System Report icon The generated report will be saved on the USB flash drive To place the Acronis System Report tool on a bootable rescue media Select the Acronis System Report check box on the Rescue Media Content Selection page of the Acronis Media Builder wizard Click Next to continue 8 3 Acronis Smart Error Reporting To help users with troubleshooting the new releases of Acronis products employ the so called Acronis Smart Error Reporting When an issue is caused by an error in the program s operation Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition displays an appropriate error message The error message contains an event code and a short description of the error sometimes with a possible solution for instance Check the disk and file system for errors and try to repeat the operation Event Code 0x000101 F6 The error message may also include the program module where the error h
100. critical data Acronis True Image Home 2011 Use backup assistant E Go to main screen 9 V Show at startup amp What s new Welcome screen offers you to choose the following items Back up my critical data Select this item to use the Acronis One Click Backup tool that allows you to begin protecting your computer as soon as you install Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition The default settings provide regularly updated backup of your system partition The tool will also analyze your storage devices and choose the optimum place for the backups Use backup assistant Select this item if you want the program to assist you in choosing what data to back up how and where to back up Goto main screen Select this item if you want to go to the main program window 1 3 1 1 Acronis One Click Backup The Acronis One Click Backup tool allows you to begin protecting your critical data as soon as you install Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Once One Click Backup is set up this takes just a few moments one click provides full time protection When you choose to protect your critical data the program will offer to back up the system partition to a destination it considers the optimum place for backups see the destination selection algorithm later You can choose another destination for backups by clicking the down arrow to the right of the destination and browsing for a destination you prefer f Acronis O
101. cronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition does both by creating disk or partition images and file level backups respectively By default Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition stores an image of those hard disk sections that contain data for supported file systems However you can select an option that lets you include an image of all of the sectors of a hard disk a sector by sector backup When you back up files and folders only the data and folder tree are compressed and stored If the need arises you will be able to recover both your system disk state and individual files Backup versions Backup versions are the file or files created during each backup operation If you do not use consolidation feature the amount of versions created is always equal to the amount of times the backup is executed So a version represents a point in time to which the system or data can be recovered To put it another way backup versions represent full incremental and differential backups see Full incremental and differential backups p 35 There is one more type of incremental backup version If you mount a partition in the read write mode the program assumes that the mounted image will be modified and creates an incremental version to capture the changes This type of incremental version has somewhat different properties For example it cannot be consolidated The backup versions are similar to file versions The file versions conce
102. cronis True Image will be run Cancel When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated it overwrites the master boot record MBR with its own boot code If you have any third party boot managers installed you will need to reactivate them after the Startup Recovery Manager has been activated For Linux loaders e g LiLo and GRUB you might consider installing them to a Linux root or boot partition boot record instead of MBR before activating Acronis Startup Recovery Manager If a failure occurs turn on the computer and press F11 when you see the Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager message This will start a standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition that differs only slightly from the complete version 7 2 Creating bootable rescue media In this section Acronis Media Builder eee 135 Rescue media contents selection eese 135 Bootable media startup parameters sese 136 Bootable media selection sseseseseseeee nennen nnne 138 Destination file selection sess 138 Bootable media creation summary esses 138 7 2 1 Acronis Media Builder You can run Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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
103. cycle Bin v Temporary File W Hard Disk Free Space iv D Find Computers List Y E Find Files List v B Recently Used Documents List JE Windows Run List wv 9 Opened Saved Files History lv g User Credentials v Windows Prefetch Directory Cleans all your Windows activity traces and securely wipes hard disk free space Please press the Clean up button to continue Click here if you want to change the clean up settings before proceeding You can view the search results and manually select the items you wish to remove If you want to change the default system clean up settings click the corresponding link in the first window of the System Clean up wizard Click Clean up to launch removing the found items 7 3 2 1 Clean up settings In the clean up settings window you can change the clean up settings for every system component Some of these settings apply to all components To change the clean up settings for a component Expand the System Components item in the tree and select the component clean up settings which you need to change You can enable or disable scanning of the component by the Clean up wizard To do this select or clear the Enable check box If required you can also expand a component and customize the desired data destruction method files to clean clean up registry search strings you have used for finding computers in the local network etc To do this click the triangle ne
104. d as a standalone backup 2 Incremental Only those files will be included which have been changed since the LAST backup 3 Differential Only those files will be included which have been changed since the last FULL backup We suggest you to choose one of the following three approaches of using the backup methods Full 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 These 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 or differential images Such a backup scenario may consist of a weekly full system backup with intermediate daily backups that cover data that was changed since the LAST backup This scenario while requiring less storage space and time for the daily backups will require more work on your part to provide recovery after a system crash In the event of a Thursday crash you would have to recover the last FULL backup followed by the Monday Tuesday and Wednesday incremental backups Differential is an intermediate between the first two approaches It is also good when the conditions are intermediate Each differential backup
105. d disks from vhd files while working in Windows This is preferable for recovering data partitions and disks 7 6 3 Booting from a tib image of your Windows 7 system partition As already mentioned users of the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 can boot from tib images of Windows 7 system partition This allows you to test bootability of the backed up system without actual recovery Booting can be done only when running Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition in Windows If you have Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate and want to test whether your Windows 7 system partition backup will recover to a bootable operating system proceed as follows 1 Open Acronis Boot Sequence Manager by clicking Boot Sequence Manager on the Tools amp Utilities screen Click Add on the toolbar of Acronis Boot Sequence Manager and browse for the required tib file then click OK Because actual booting is performed from VHD the program needs to convert the selected tib file so the appropriate dialog will appear Click OK if you want to save the converted file to the default location with the same name or browse for another location Saving to another location allows you to change the name of the vhd file Booting is possible only when the vhd file is located on an NTFS formatted local hard disk If there is not enough space for the converted file in the selected location the program will notify you You can delete unnecessary fil
106. d from the automatic cleanup and will be stored until you delete it manually If you select incremental or differential method the first backup chain will start from the second full backup version And only the third version of the backup will be incremental or differential one Note that when the check box is selected the Store no more than n recent versions check box will change to Store no more than 1 n recent versions 3 10 2 Image creation mode You can use these parameters to create an exact copy of your whole partitions or hard disks and not only the sectors that contain data Note that the Back up unallocated space check box is available only when the Back up sector by sector check box is selected To make a sector by sector backup check the Back up sector by sector parameter 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 you have deleted some files by mistake and want to make a disk image before trying to undelete them because sometimes undeleting may create problems in the file system Please note that this mode increases processing time and usually results in a larger image file because it copies used and unused hard disk sectors The Back up unallocated space option becomes available if you have selected the previous parameter Back up sector by sector By default while performing sector by sector backup
107. data partition They occupy quite a lot of space and it doesn t make sense to back them up because you have the DVDs To exclude the folder click the Add link to the right of Exclusions and add the folder to the excluded items list Select a destination for backup you can leave the default destination when it suits you or browse for a destination after clicking the down arrow to the right of the current destination and selecting Browse When the backup destination is any removable media USB stick BD DVD the Make this media bootable check box appears Selecting the check box will result in creating a bootable recovery environment on the removable media and adding a standalone Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition version You will be able to run Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition from the removable media on a bare metal system or the crashed computer that cannot boot If possible avoid storing your system partition backups on dynamic disks as the system partition is recovered in the Linux environment Linux and Windows work with dynamic disks differently This may result in problems during recovery If you need the backup to run on a schedule click the link to the right of Schedule turn on scheduling and set the required schedule For more information see Scheduling p 120 You can also change the default backup scheme by clicking on the appropriate link For more information see Backup schemes p 48
108. deleted as well To delete a specific backup version 1 Onthe main screen find the corresponding backup box click Explore and recover or Explore all versions 2 In Backup explorer right click the version you want to delete and then click Delete version When you delete a backup version please remember that this version may have dependent versions In this case the dependent versions will be deleted as well because data recovery from such versions becomes impossible If you delete a full backup version the program will also delete all subsequent incremental and differential versions till the next full version If you delete an incremental backup version or a differential backup version the program will also delete all subsequent incremental versions till the next full or differential version 3 3 Backing up partitions and disks The image backup is made as easy as ABC a Select a partition to back up by selecting its check box If the disk has several partitions and you want to back up the whole disk click Switch to disk mode and then select the disk s check box To return to the partition selection click Switch to partition mode b Select a destination for backup you can leave the default destination or browse for a destination after clicking the down arrow to the right of the current destination and selecting Browse c Click Back up now Of course you can also schedule the backup change the default backup
109. destination for backup you can leave the default destination or browse for a destination after clicking the down arrow to the right of the current destination and selecting Browse When the backup destination is any removable media USB BD DVD the Make this media bootable check box appears Leaving the check box selected will result in creating a bootable recovery environment on the removable media and adding a standalone Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition version You will be able to run Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition from the removable media and recover the backed up data even on a crashed computer that cannot boot 3 By default the program will assign the name of the folder to be backed up to the backup but if you would like to assign another name type the name in the Backup name field You can also add useful information to the backup name To do so click the down arrow to the right of the destination and click Browse Select the items you want to add in the right field of the File name line add date the backup creation date will be added add time the backup creation time will be added add user name the current user name will be added add machine name the computer name will be added add task name the name of the task that includes the backup will be added add task run number the sequence number of the task run will be added 4 Click the Back up now button if you want to
110. dge 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 7 3 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 description of built in information wiping methods United States Department of Defense 5220 22 M United States NAVSO P 5239 26 RLL I pass randomly selected symbols to each byte of each sector 2 complementary to written during the D pass 3 random symbols again 4 writing verification 1 pass 0x01 to all sectors 2 Ox27FFFFFF 3 random symbol sequences 4 verification 1 6 alternate sequences of 0x00 and OxFF 7 OxAA i e 0x00 OxFF 0x00 OxFF 0x00 OxFF OxAA Russian GOST P50739 95 1 Logical zeros 0x00 numbers to each byte of each sector for 6 to 4 security level systems Randomly selected symbols numbers to each byte of each sector for 3 to 1 security level systems United States NAVSO 1 pass 0x01 to all sectors 2 Ox7FFFFFFF 3 P 5239 26 MFM random symbol sequences 4 verification ME ag Bruce Schneier s method Bruce Sch
111. dition Full version 3 Select Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition cannot detect volume N of Name archive Here Name is the name of the required image backup The volume number N may be different depending on the number of backup versions in the backup Before continuing with the recovery you need to know the sizes and physical order of all existing partitions To see this information click Details on the wizard s toolbar Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will display information about the backed up disk This includes a graphical view of all partitions the disk contains and their physical order on the disk If a partition display is too small to accommodate the relevant information hover the mouse pointer over the partition to see the information 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 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 be able to recover the MBR later Select the partitions and c
112. dows folders Clean up hard disk free space of any traces of information previously stored on it Remove traces of file and computer searches on connected disks and computers in the local area network Clean the recently used documents list Clean the Windows Run list Clean the opened saved files history Clean the list of network places to which the user has connected using network credentials Clean the Windows prefetch directory where Windows stores information about programs you have executed and run recently Windows Vista and Windows 7 do not store information on file and computer searches Furthermore information on opened saved files is stored differently in the registry so the wizard shows this information in a different way KK Please be aware that Windows stores passwords until the session ends so cleaning the list of network user credentials will not take effect until you end the current Windows session by logging out or by rebooting the computer After you run the wizard by selecting Tools amp Utilities System Clean up in the main program menu it will search for any traces of user actions stored by Windows When the search is finished its results will be available at the top of the wizard window System Clean up ESk E Scan is completed 356 items found Below is the detailed list of found y items siv r System Clean up 4 V System Components ay System Clean up V Re
113. e select the Shut down the computer after the backup is complete check box When the backup finishes Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup will turn the computer off You can also close the progress window by clicking Hide The backup will continue but you will be able to close the main program window The program will continue working in the background and will automatically close once the backup is finished If you need to suspend the backup for any reason click the Suspend button You will be able to resume the suspended operation by clicking Back Up Now in the main program window 5 3 6 Online Backup settings The following settings are available for online backup Connection attempts p 98 Storage connection speed p 98 Storage cleanup p 99 Proxy settings p 100 Backup priority p 101 E mail notification p 101 Pre Post commands p 103 Acronis Customer Experience Program p 104 You can always revert the changed settings to their default values To reset all the customized options to the default values click Reset all to default Toresetthe current option settings to the default values click Reset the current to default 5 3 6 1 Connection attempts On this page you can specify the number of connection attempts and the time interval between the attempts In case of any network problems if the first connection attempt fails the program will repeat the attempts till a connectio
114. e Version chain The a nir Backup name MyBackup g File backup options Back up now z Cancel To set a filter select its type Only the following file types or All data except the following file types You can add file types for the selected filter by entering their extensions in the appropriate field one at a time and then clicking Add The added file types appear in the window below 3 4 2 Support for Zip format Now you will be able to retrieve files from backups anywhere without using Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition if you use the zip format instead of the tib format For example you can back up files to a USB stick and retrieve these backed up files on your notebook at home without installing Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition This is true because the most widely used operating systems Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X have built in support of the zip file format Please note that built in support of zip files in Windows does not cover operations with multivolume zip archives and zip backups exceeding 4GB in size or which contain files of more than 4GB each The Zip format is available when backing up files folders or when making reserve copies of your backups Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition gives the zip format most of the functionality available for the tib format You can schedule backups validate zip backups recover files and folders from zip backups make i
115. e for exploring not only Acronis Online Backup contents but contents of all other backups as well Clicking My backups in the main window will show all your backups on the time line In addition you can start recovery of disks and partitions right from the time line Enhanced scheduler the completely redesigned scheduler makes scheduling much easier In addition it now allows you to wake up the sleeping hibernating computer to perform a backup The At system shutdown and At user logoff options are now available to users of Windows Vista and Windows 7 Drag amp Drop functionality you can recover backed up files by dragging them from Acronis Backup Explorer to your Desktop or a folder of your choice In addition you can create shortcuts for backups by dragging their boxes from the My backups area on the main screen to your Desktop This will allow you to run a backup by simply double clicking on its shortcut You can also create shortcuts for frequently used Acronis tools by dragging their icons from the Start menu to the Desktop Integration with Windows 7 Control Panel Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition replaces Windows Backup in the Backup and Restore item The Backup and Restore window will show your oldest disk or partition backup You will be able to recover the backed up data and refresh the backups directly from the Control Panel Reserve copies of image backups Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Editio
116. ead read to clean all files having five letter names and any extensions names beginning with read the fifth letter is random The last search string for example will result in the removal of read1 txt ready doc files but readyness txt will remain with its longer name excluding the extension You can enter several different search strings separated by semicolons for example bak tmp without spaces between the search strings All files with names corresponding to at least one of the search strings will be cleaned Upon entering the Files setting value you can browse the files matching the search strings To do this click Show Files You will see a window with the names of the found files These files will be cleaned Drive free space Here you can manually specify physical and or logical drives to clean up free space on By default System Clean up cleans up free space on all available drives If you want to change the settings of this parameter you can use the Remove button to delete from the list the drives you don t need to clean free space on If you wish to add these drives to the list again use the Add button I System Clean up x You can view and change the current settings for the selected item 12 Add Logical Dri 44H System Clean up qm ogical Drive a3 System Components Se b ug Recycle Bin I ai Temporary file aq SS Select the logical drive n L You ca
117. ebar and select the Destroy the selected files and folders irreversibly box to enable the Proceed button 7 3 1 3 X Shredding summary The final window displays a brief summary the list of selected files and or folders to be destroyed and data destruction method used 140 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Note that after you click the Proceed button the selected files and folders will be destroyed permanently So the button is disabled until you select the Destroy the selected files and folders irreversibly check box Click the Proceed button to destroy the selected files and or folders permanently Click the Options button to perform the optional steps Click the Cancel button to exit the wizard without performing any operations Shredding operation progress The operation status window reports about the state of the current operation The progress bar indicates the level of completion of the selected operation In some cases the operation may take a long time to be completed If this is the case select the Shutdown the computer after completion check box When the operation finishes Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will turn the computer off 7 3 2 System Clean up The System Clean up wizard enables you to securely remove all traces of your PC actions stored by Windows It can carry out the following operations Securely destroy data in the Windows Recycle Bin Remove temporary files from appropriate Win
118. ect 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 the 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 7 2 4 Bootable media selection Select a destination for bootable media creation CD R RW if you are creating CD insert a blank disc so that the program can determine its capacity ISO image having created an ISO disk image you will be able to burn it onto any kind of recordable DVD using DVD recording software Creating a bootable DVD directly from Bootable Media Builder is impossible any other media your PC can boot from such as USB flash drives etc If you use non optical media the media must have a FAT file system This limitation is not applicable for an ISO image a Acronis Media Builder boj a Bootable media type selection Select a drive to be used to
119. ected partition The found files if any will be shown in the right pane under the Search results item at the bottom of the folder tree 5 4 2 Selecting a version to recover By default Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup selects the latest versions with respect to the date you specified However for any file you can select a specific version of the file to recover To recover a specific file version Inthe folder contents pane select the file whose version you want to recover then right click and choose View Versions in the shortcut menu In the File Versions dialog window that appears select a version and then click Recover or simply drag the version to a destination in Windows Explorer D File Versions Jal A eF ath_saob_s_e msi f 7 versions f latest 12 23 2009 11 24 59 AM df ver 12 22 2009 10 50 24 AM 2 18 2009 4 14 28 PM 2 15 2009 10 24 02 AM df ver 2 12 14 2009 5 12 59 PM df veri 12 9 2009 2 17 33 PM Destination CA ents and Settings Administrator Desktop 7 Recover cancel To remove a file version from the storage select the version and click the Remove icon cross to the right of the version number To exit the window without recovering click Cancel 5 4 3 Recovery operation progress Once you start recovery of the selected files the recovery progress window appears In this window Acronis True Image
120. ecution arguments from the list Disabling the Do not perform operations until the command execution is complete parameter enabled by default will permit the recovery process to run concurrently with your command execution The Abort the operation if the user command fails enabled by default parameter will abort the operation if any errors occur in command execution You can test the command you entered by clicking the Test command button m 10 2 Validation option Validate backup before recovery The preset is disabled Before data is recovered from the backup Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition can check its integrity If you suspect that the backup might have been corrupted enable this option Check the file system after recovery The preset is disabled Having recovered a partition from an image Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition can check the integrity of the file system To do so enable this option Limitations on use of this option Check of the file system is available only when recovering partitions using FAT16 32 and NTFS file systems 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 4 10 3 Computer restart The preset is Disabled If you want the computer to reboot automatically when it is required for recovery select the Restart the computer automatically if needed for the recovery c
121. ed backup or append an incremental backup to such a backup the program will ask for the password in a special window allowing access only to authorized users 3 10 4 Pre Post commands for backup You can specify commands or even batch files that will be automatically executed before and after the backup procedure For example you may want to start stop certain Windows processes or check your data before starting backup To specify commands batch files Select a command to be executed before the backup process starts in the Before backup process field To create a new command or select a new batch file click the Edit button Select a command to be executed after the backup process ends in the After backup process field To create a new command or select a new batch file click the Edit button Please do not try to execute interactive commands i e commands that require user input for example pause These are not supported 3 10 4 1 Edit user command for backup You can specify user commands to be executed before or after the backup procedure nthe Command field type in a command or select it from the list Click to select a batch file In the Working directory field type in a path for command execution or select it from the list of previously entered paths nthe Arguments field enter or select command execution arguments from the list Disabling the Do not perform operations until the command executi
122. ed square this state is available for folders only and indicates that some items in the folder are selected and the others are not Note that you cannot set the state by clicking the check box but you can change it to a cleared or selected state Selecting a disk partition file or folder to make it the current item in a list does not mean selecting it for recovery Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition eJ c jv Home gt Mysystem Sear 2 E Cove c PAETOS QB Tools amp Utilities Help Disks and partitions Files and folders s My system Tuesday September 14 2010 14 54 02 v E My computer Name Size Type Date 7 S D E B TCUNINST EXE 35 KB EXE file 1 1 2007 6 56 00 E C 7 TCUNINST WUL 1KB WUL file 1 1 2007 6 56 00 Ji Windo E amp j TCUNZLIB DLL 100 KB DLL file 1 1 2007 6 56 00 V J Users vi EY ToTALCMD EXE 832KB EXE file 1 1 2007 6 56 00 v i Pu F TOTALCMD EXE MANIFEST 1 KB MANIFEST file 1 1 2007 6 56 00 om J adm 7 TOTALCMD HLP 490 KB HLP file 1 1 2007 6 56 00 m 4 amp tetalemd 7 TOTALCMDINC 15KB INC file 1 1 2007 6 56 00 a e Progra V jj UNACEV2 DLL 76 KB DLL file 1 1 2007 6 56 00 J Jb Progra 7 S UNRAR DLL 160 KB DLL file 1 1 2007 6 56 00 J PerfLogs 7 E WC32TOI6 EXE 3KB EXE file 1 1 2007 6 56 00 71 i WCMICONS DLL 48KB DLL file 1 1 2007 6 56 00 H TOTALCMD EXE ze 832 2 KB elected to recover ee EXE file View versions 528 fil
123. ed to the virtual disk from the Mount letter drop down list If you do not want to mount a partition select Do not mount in the list or clear the partition s check box z Mount Wizard Required steps Finish Drive letter G Mount Wizard Archive selection Drive letter Select partitions to mount and assign drive letter te Eu L7 Properties Partition Mount letter F Disk 2 V y NTFS New Volume D Pri Capa Free Sane Tae 16 00GB 15 64 GB NTFS Mount the partitions in the read write mode 4 Ifyou select the Mount the partitions in the read write mode box the program assumes that the mounted image will be modified and creates an incremental backup file to capture the changes It is strongly recommended that you list the forthcoming changes in the Comments section to this file For you to be able to make comments the optional Comments step appears in the wizard 5 Having finished the settings click Proceed to connect the selected partition images as virtual disks 6 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 7 5 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 dis
124. ee Scheduling p 120 Search To search for a backed up file you need to recover type the filename or part of its name in the search field on the main menu bar If the search is successful the program will open Acronis Backup Explorer and show the found file and backup s containing the file Menu bar The menu bar on the main screen allows you to choose several major program features The menu bar includes the following items Tools amp Utilities Choose this menu item to open the Tools amp Utilities screen with a list of all Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition tools and utilities to choose from Help Choose this item to open the program s Help go to the Welcome screen generate a system report view the log get customer support check for updates etc 1 3 3 Tools amp Utilities screen This screen allows you to select the tools and utilities provided by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition To go to the screen click Tools amp Utilities in the main menu Launch the required tool or utility by clicking the appropriate link For more information see Tools amp Utilities p E Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition ex J 2 Home gt Tools and Utilities o aan al I Acronis 7 Help Tools amp Utilities im Protection tools E d Image mounting ke i Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Mount image P Rescue Media Builder Unmount image Boot Sequence
125. eeecessessneeeeeeseessessaeens 78 Recovery options ette ie epe cie tote de nee ede kes 78 4 1 Recovering your system after a crash When your computer fails to boot it is advisable to at first try to find the cause using the suggestions given in Trying to determine the crash cause p 63 If the crash is caused by corruption of the operating system use a backup to recover your system Make the preparations described in Preparing for recovery p 64 and then proceed with recovering your system p 64 4 1 1 Trying to determine the crash cause A system crash can be due to two basic factors One reason is that your computer will not boot due to a hardware failure The second reason is that the operating system is corrupted and Windows will not start up In the first scenario it is better to let your service center handle the repairs However you may want to perform some routine tests Check the cables connectors power of external devices etc Then restart the computer The POST power on self test that starts immediately after you turn on your computer checks your system hardware If the POST has found a failure you will need to send the PC for repairs If the POST does not reveal a hardware failure enter BIOS and check whether it recognizes your system hard disk drive To enter BIOS press the required key combination Del F1 Ctrl Alt Esc Ctrl Esc or some other depending on your BIOS during the POST sequence Usually the mess
126. eek in order to do a complete recovery while the differential backup only requires a maximum of two backups at any given time An incremental or differential 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 a full backup after disk defragmentation If you lose an incremental backup version or it becomes corrupted all later incremental backup versions will be unusable Deleting backups and backup versions You may want to delete backups and backup versions you no longer need Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition stores information on the backups in a metadata information database Therefore deleting unneeded backup files by using Windows Explorer will not delete information about these backups from the database and Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 versions by using the tools provided by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition To delete an entire backup On the main screen find the corresponding backup box click Operations and then click Delete backup When you delete an entire backup all its versions will be
127. en You use an image backup not for disaster recovery but for cloning your Windows hard drive to another one In this case Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition generates a new disk signature for the recovered hard drive even if you recover to the same drive Disk recovery options click to set up additional parameters for the disk recovery process 4 3 Recovering more than one partition at once To recover an image of a hard disk containing two or more partitions to another hard disk drive use the following procedure 1 Click the Recover button on the backup box of a disk containing several partitions 2 Select a partition to recover in the Disk Recovery window This will open the recovery destination field below the partition label 3 Click the down arrow to the right of the field and select the destination hard disk The partition to be recovered will then be placed on the selected hard disk It occupies all the available disk space To change the partition properties click the Partition properties link below the recovery destination field 4 Toreduce the partition size so as to leave enough disk space for the remaining partitions click the Reduce size link 5 You can resize the partition by dragging its right border with a mouse on the horizontal bar on the screen To assign the partition a specific size enter the appropriate number into the Total size field Remember that you need to leave as much unallocated f
128. en the computer is idle If you want to wake up the sleeping hibernating computer to perform the scheduled operation select the Wake up the sleeping hibernating computer check box If the computer is switched off when the scheduled time comes the operation won t be performed You can force the missed operation to run at the next system startup To do so select the Run at system startup check box If you schedule a backup to a USB flash drive or validation of a backup that is located on a USB flash drive one more check box appears Run when the current device is attached Selecting the check box will let you perform a missed operation when the USB flash drive is attached if it was disconnected at the scheduled time Run the backup upon HDD alarm available when Acronis Drive Monitor is installed if enabled the backup will run as soon as there is an alarm on Acronis Drive Monitor about a potential problem with one of the hard disks in the backup source Acronis Drive Monitor is a hard drive health monitoring utility based on information received from hard drive S M A R T reports Windows logs and its own scripts Having finished scheduling click OK In this section Daily execution parameters esses eene eene nnn 121 Weekly execution parameters esses esee eene ene 121 Monthly execution parameters eese enne 121 Upon event execution parameters sess 122 6 5 1
129. ended to provide software improvements and enhanced functionality to better meet the needs of our customers Note that you will be able to leave the program any time Click the Learn more link to read the participation terms To make a decision Choose Yes want to participate in the program if you want to join the program Choose No do not accept if you do not want to join the program 9 Glossary of Terms A Acronis Startup Recovery Manager A protection tool that allows to start standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition at boot time when F11 is pressed Acronis Startup Recovery Manager eliminates the need for rescue media Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is especially useful for mobile users If a failure occurs the user reboots the machine hits F11 on prompt Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and performs data recovery in the same way as with ordinary bootable media Limitations cannot be organized on a dynamic disk requires manual configuration of boot loaders such as LILO and GRUB requires re activation of third party loaders B Backup 1 The same as Backup operation p 164 2 A set of backup versions created and managed by using backup settings A backup can contain multiple backup versions created using full p 165 and incremental p 165 backup methods Backup versions belonging to the same backup are usually stored in the same location Backup o
130. ent device drivers in Windows and in the recovery environment If Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition considers the backup corrupted it will not proceed with recovery 4 1 3 Recovering your system Once you have performed the steps described in Preparing for recovery p 64 begin the system recovery procedure Here we will explain how to recover a corrupted system to the same hard disk System recovery to a replaced hard disk drive will be similar with some minor differences You do not need to format the new disk as this will be done in the process of recovery Attach the external drive if it contains the backup 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 order in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot order in BIOS p 78 2 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Full version 3 Select My disks below Recover on the Welcome screen 65 Acronis Tege Image Home 2011 Metnoor Elion ca iter i gs udi Search o Welcome to Acronis True Image Home 2011 What would you like to do Backup 4 Back Up Recovery S My Disks Files amp Folders 1 4 Recover Log M y Disks Files amp Folders Tools amp Utilities Select the system disk or partition backup image to be used for rec
131. er capacity new one disconnect the old drive before the first boot 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 the hard drive has been found and that Windows needs to reboot After making sure that the system operates normally restore the original boot order 4 4 2 Recovering a disk with a hidden partition A hidden partition may be created by the PC manufacturer for diagnostics or system recovery Recovering a backup of a system disk with a hidden partition requires that you to take into account some additional factors First of all it is necessary for the new drive to keep the physical order of the partitions that existed on the old drive In addition you should place the hidden partition in the same location usually at the start or the end of the disk space To minimize the risk of possible problems it is better to recover the hidden partition without resizing Attach the external drive if it contains the backup 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 order in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot order in BIOS p 78 2 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook E
132. er input for example pause These are not supported Unselecting the Do not perform operations until the command s execution is complete box selected by default will permit the backup process to run concurrently with your command execution If you want the backup to be performed even if your command fails unselect the Abort the operation if the user command fails box selected by default You can test execution of the command you created by clicking Test command 5 3 6 8 Acronis Customer Experience Program Acronis Customer Experience Program CEP is a new way to allow Acronis customers to contribute to the features design and development of Acronis products This program enables our customers to provide us with various information including information about the hardware configuration of your host computer the features you use most and least and the nature of the problems you face Based on this information we will be able to improve the Acronis products and the features you use most often If you choose to participate the technical information will be automatically collected every 90 days We will not collect any personal data like your name address phone number or keyboard input Participation in the CEP is voluntary however the end results are intended to provide software improvements and enhanced functionality to better meet the needs of our customers oo a Online backup options A Reset al to defaut
133. erating system by pressing F11 at boot time before the operating system starts Rescue Media Builder Allows you to create a bootable rescue media with Acronis products or their specified components installed on your computer Boot Sequence Manager Allows you to add Windows 7 system partition images to the booting list and then manage the list One Click Backup Allows you to protect your computer by immediately backing up your system partition and Master Boot Record MBR System clean up utilities File Shredder With the File Shredder you can quickly select unnecessary files and folders and destroy them permanently System Clean up With the System Clean up utility you can clean up components folders files registry sections etc related to general system tasks These Windows components retain evidence of user PC activity so they too should be thoroughly wiped to maintain confidentiality Mounting tools Mount image With this tool you can explore a previously created image You will be able to assign temporary drive letters to the partition images and easily access these images as ordinary logical drives Unmount image With this tool you can unmount the temporary logical drives you have created to explore an image Conversion tools Convert Acronis backup to Windows backup Use the feature to convert a backup file format from tib to vhd The vhd files can be used for example in Windows Vista and Window
134. ers Delete deletes the selected file or folder from the Online Storage Recovery When you choose Recover either in the shortcut menu or on the toolbar Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online 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 Home 2011 Online Backup finds a file with the same name 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 Search You can search for a file you want to recover To perform search select on the folder tree the partition from which the file was backed up and then enter the file s name or a partial name in the search field with the magnifying glass icon to the right of the field The search is performed only among the files backed up from the currently sel
135. es and 258 folders 120 MB Today 11 59 14 27 14 44 14 51 jasal 14 55 JM Now The majority of user interface elements located on this tab are described in the Disks and partitions tab p 24 section Here we describe the items specific for the tab When you click an item short information on this item is displayed under the browser area The set of displayed parameters depends on the item s type Clicking the View versions link opens the View Versions window with a list of all versions of the file in the backup You can recover a desired version by its backup time By double clicking on a file in the right hand area you will recover the file to a temporary folder Then Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will open the file using the associated application 1 3 5 3 Timeline Usually the time line at the bottom of Acronis Backup Explorer screen shows information on the backup versions stored in the selected backup The time line provides easy navigation through backup versions and allows you to recover your data to the state it was in at a certain date and time If you click the My backups link in the main window the time line will show all of the backups you have You can also display all of your backups by choosing the My backups item from the drop down list in the Navigation field To open the list click the arrow icon to the right of Home in the Navigation field The squares that represent b
136. es and click Retry or cancel the conversion and repeat the operation choosing another location for the converted file After the conversion process finishes a new line with the vhd filename will be added to the Acronis Boot Sequence Manager To use the VHD for booting the partition with the converted vhd file must have sufficient free space Tib files are converted into dynamic VHDs with the maximum size that equals the size of a partition backed up into a tib file When you boot from a dynamic vhd file the VHD is automatically expanded to the maximum size If the physical host partition of the vhd file does not have enough free disk space for the maximum size of the dynamic VHD the boot process will fail Furthermore you need to have additional space for the paging file Pagefile sys as the paging file is created on the host partition outside the virtual one Microsoft states that you should estimate approximately 5 GB of available space in addition to the maximum size of the vhd file So the estimated free space is the size of your system partition plus 5 GB From the above it follows that you cannot boot from the vhd file if it is located on your system partition 6 Reboot the computer and select the new entry in the Acronis Boot Sequence Manager list for booting then click OK If Windows boots normally you can be quite sure that the backup will recover to a bootable Windows 7 operating system 7 After making sure that the tib ima
137. es in the confirmation window 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 or set the values you need To change the above options click Options Settings on the toolbar and then select the Storage cleanup item For more information see Storage cleanup p 99 You can also manage Acronis Online Storage by deleting individual files or even some of their versions Such deletions can be done only for the current computer 1 Select the folder containing the files you want to manage on the directory tree in the left pane The right pane lists the files in that folder 2 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 then click Yes in the confirmation window 3 If you want to delete some versions of a specific file right click on the file and select View Versions in the shortcut menu This opens the File Versions window Select the version you want to delete click the Delete icon x to the right of the version number then click Yes i
138. escue media and boot from the recovered system partition After making sure that you have recovered Windows to the state you need restore the original boot order 4 2 Recovering partitions and disks You can start recovering a partition or disk from an image backup both on the main screen and in Acronis Backup Explorer To start recovery from the main screen select the box of a backup containing the partition image you need to recover Click Recover or Recover last version if the backup has more than one version This will open the Disk Recovery window 68 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 If you want to recover the partition to the state it was at an earlier date click Explore and recover under the Recover last version button This will open Backup Explorer which allows you to select the image backup version created on that date Clicking Recover after selecting the required version will open the Disk Recovery window Disk Recovery o e P Recovering Partition D v Switch to disk mode wg MBR VMware System Reserved NTF 19 pn System Reserved 31 3 MB Mware VMware Virtual S 1 z Partition properties Disk 2 VMware VMware Virtual S 1 0 y SON Yo D NTF New Volume D F 16GB e Virtual S1 bi Partition properties Hide MBR gP Disk recovery options Recover now Cancel a Select the corresponding check boxes of the partition s to recover If you backed up an entire disk you can choose to
139. eserved partition and the System partition Select the tems to recover Partition Fla Capa UsedS Type W Disk 1 DILA NTFS Unlabeled C PriAct 4658GB 2629GB NTFS EILA NTFS Unlabeled E Pn 1647MB 3914MB NTFS EIDA NTFS Unlebeled F Pra 1804MB 2514MB NTFS E Lj MBR and Track D MBR and Track 0 7 At the Settings 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 as required before clicking Next Changing the settings will be needed when recovering to the new hard disk of a different capacity 67 Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 8 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 Having checked the summary click Proceed r Fisnoysyy yen FoR x gt Recovery Wizard Required steps Summary Operations Number of operations 2 1 Deleting partition Hard disk 1 Drive letter C File system NTFS Volume lobel Sire 4653 G8 2 Recovering partition Hard disk 1 Drive letter C File system NTFS Volume lobel Size 4 658 G8 Optional steps Options Qptions Eroceed Cancel 9 When the operation finishes exit the standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition remove the r
140. essage The message offers you three choices to ignore it and proceed with the backup to browse for another location for the backup or to cancel the backup If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup is being run the program will display the same message and you will have to make the same decisions To set the free disk space threshold Select the Show notification message on insufficient free disk space check box In the Size box type or select a threshold value and select a unit of measure Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition can monitor free space on the following storage devices Local hard drives USB cards and drives Network shares SMB NFS The message will not be displayed if the Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode check box is selected in the Error handling settings This option cannot be enabled for FTP servers and CD DVD drives E mail notification You can specify an e mail account that will be used for notifying you of the recovery process To specify the e mail settings Select the Send e mail notifications about the operation state check box Enter the e mail address in the E mail address field You can enter several e mail addresses in a semicolon delimited format Enter the outgoing mail server SMTP in the Outgoing mail server SMTP field Set the port of the outgoing mail server By default the port is set to 25
141. essssssseceeeeeseesessaeeeseessessees 105 Removing data from Online Storage eessseeeeee 108 Viewing oo 109 5 1 What is Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup is an application that allows you to use Acronis Online Backup service for safeguarding your most important files Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup allows you to save important files to a secure remote location and recover them when the need arises 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 If something happens to your backup image PC or external storage device you can get your most important files back If your computer crashes you can recover your files back to your PC or another system that has Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup or Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition installed on it In addition you can recover your data from Acronis Online Storage on any computer with a Web browser without the necessity of installing True Image Home 2011 Online Backup or Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Simply go to the Acronis Online Backup Web site using this link https www acronis com my online backup and log in to your account When your subscription information page opens click
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143. formation in a different way 7 3 2 5 Clean up progress The operation status window reports about the state of the current operation The progress bar indicates the level of completion of the selected operation In some cases the operation may take a long time to be completed If this is the case select the Shutdown the computer after completion check box When the operation finishes Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will turn the computer off 7 3 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 qualified 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 O is read as O However if you write 1 over O 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 cont
144. ge is bootable you can remove its entry from the Acronis Boot Sequence Manager list To do so select the entry and click Remove on the toolbar Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will ask to confirm removal You may also want to delete the vhd file used for booting If so open Windows Explorer and delete the file 7 6 4 Acronis Boot Sequence Manager Acronis Boot Sequence Manager allows you to add Windows 7 system partition images to the booting list and then manage the list You can add to the list images backed up both in the vhd and tib formats Adding a tib image requires converting it into the vhd format More detailed information on booting from tib images is provided in the previous section Actual booting is carried out using Windows boot loader Acronis Boot Sequence Manager just adds virtual disks vhd files to the Windows boot loader list of disks available for booting to Windows 7 If you do not select from where to boot then by default the computer boots from the first entry in the booting list after waiting for a time interval specified in the Boot Timeout field To change the default boot disk either physical or virtual you can move entries up and down in the list using the corresponding buttons on the toolbar Clicking the Rename button allows you to assign a desired name to a list entry When you no longer need an entry in the list you can remove it by clicking Remove on the toolbar The Remove all button all
145. gistration please wait for an e mail message that will confirm opening of the account To keep your personal data secure choose a 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 Trial subscription If you would like first to try the Acronis Online Backup service Acronis offers a 1 month free trial subscription to Acronis Online Backup service You will have 2 GB of storage space for the trial period Be aware that after the trial period is over you won t be able to use the Online Backup service and all your data on the Online Storage will be deleted If you like Acronis Online Backup service you can go to https www acronis com my online backup and select a suitable subscription plan To change your tariff renew the subscription or unsubscribe go to the same subscription Web page 5 3 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage In this section Log in to the online storage eseseeeeeeeennenernnnnnennnnnn nnne 84 Computer selection cesses nnne ennemi nn nnns nnn 85 Setting up online backup for a new computer sese 87 Man Ie EE 89 Online backup task creation eese 90 Online
146. gured by the program according to the choices you made If you want you can change them and set other options After you have made sure that all settings are correct click the Back up now button to start the backup operation After that a new backup box will appear in the My backups list and will show the backup progress When the process is complete the backup is created Now your data is protected and can be recovered in case of disaster The Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Online Backup application will start if you select a backup to online storage After the application starts login to your Online Backup account or register a new account To register the account click the Subscribe to Online Backup service link 1 3 2 Main screen Starting Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition takes you to the main screen This screen provides quick access to practically all of the program s functionality If you have not created any backups yet the program will offer to create a new backup with Acronis One Click Backup tool or manually If you have at least one backup the screen will display the list of your backups Navigation field Search Use to switch between the Use to search for backups Help button program screens and backups and backup contents Opens Help menu 5 eas Yee ba Nome Name A EXE 4 S ume gt Pj EO i al JJ Acronis A lock amp Uuices W Help Add backups d partit More features Dusk and partition b
147. h disk backup and file backup types except scheduler settings The program creates a full backup version and overwrites it every time according to the specified schedule or when you run backup manually Backup scheduler setting for disk backup monthly Backup scheduler setting for file backup daily Result you have a single up to date full backup version Required storage space minimal 3 10 1 2 Version chain scheme This backup scheme differs for disk backup and file backup types Disk backup version chain At first the program creates the 1st full backup version The version will be kept until you delete it manually After that according to the specified schedule or when you run backup manually the program creates 1 full and 5 differential backup versions then again 1 full and 5 differential backup versions and so on The versions will be stored for 6 months After the period the program analyzes if the oldest backup versions except the 1st full version may be deleted It depends on the minimum number of versions eight and version chains consistency The program deletes the oldest versions one by one after creating new versions with the same backup method for example the oldest differential version will be deleted after creation of the newest differential version First of all the oldest differential versions will be deleted then the oldest full version Backup scheduler setting monthly Result you have monthly backu
148. he File Backup window File Backup I Configure file backup process lil Computer Name BE Desktop D en us i Li adm Shared vi E My Documents eld Floppy Disk Drive A ilii amp Local Disk C E J PerfLogs E r Program Files J Acronis J Common Files J DrWeb 1 DVD Maker n Internet Explorer J MSBuild 7 Ji Reference Assemb J TechSmith v v S Exclusions Add Size _ audiodepthconverter ax 36 KB a bod_r _ directshowtap ax DvDMaker a Eurosti fieldswitch ax _ offset ax 3 OmdBase dll OmdProject dll Pipeline dll amp PipeTran dll _ rtstreamsink ax 76 KB 46 KB 1925 KB 55 KB 30 KB _ 32 KB 8951 KB 4178 KB 1559 KB 1466 KB 56 KB Destination z Lio dri 1 B of 16 GB free Schedule Off Turn on Backup scheme Version chain he program deletes backup versions older thar Backup name MyBackup g File backup options fo Loe Type File Folder File Folder file AX file TTF file AX file EXE file TTF file AX file AX file DLL file DLL file DLL file DLL file AX Back up now l Cancel Let s consider how to use this backup type for backing up a folder 1 Select the folder on the directory tree in the What to back up area The right side will show the folder contents with all the files and subfolders selected There you can unselect the files you do not need to back up if any 2 Select a
149. he file you will be able to select the version that you need For all other computers you can only browse and recover the backed up data that is stored on the Online Storage Toolbar The toolbar contains the following buttons Back Up Now click to run the online backup task now present only for the current computer Recover click to recover desired files and folders from the Online Storage LODVrIIGhnt Options click to open the Options menu where you can specify all Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup options and settings as well as remove a computer from the Online Storage The Options menu includes the following items What to Back Up select to open the dialog box where you can specify the data to back up and the data you want to exclude from the backup Your selection will be stored in the online backup task So every time you run the task the selected items will be backed up by default You can change your selection any time Schedule select to set online backup task scheduling Settings select to change Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup settings Remove from Online Storage select to remove the computer from the Online Storage and delete all data backed up from that computer The toolbar also shows when the next online backup will run Clicking the corresponding link opens the Scheduler where you can change the online backup schedule The toolbar has a Search field that allows
150. he older versions All other versions will be automatically deleted except the most recent versions Select the Store no more than recent versions check box and enter a value that limits the maximum number of all versions in the storage N L VT A Reset al to data lt Reset the curent to defaut J Storage cleanup Specify parameters for automatic Online storage cleanup W Oeete versons that are older than 6 2 Months Store no more thane 10 99 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 5 3 6 4 Proxy settings If your computer is connected to the Internet using a proxy server you can adjust the proxy server settings To use the proxy server select the Use proxy check box Acronis Online Backup supports only http and https proxy servers To set up proxy server settings 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 your credentials to connect to the proxy server To test the proxy server settings click the Test Connection button F o Optons f Online backup options Af Resat al to datat lt 7 Reset the curent to defaut Connection attermpts wd Proxy settings Storage connection speed If you connect to the Internet via proxy server specify its settings J Use proxy Storage deanup Host name proxy example com P
151. heck box This may be used when a partition locked by the operating system has to be recovered Enabling the option allows rebooting the computer without user interaction during recovery 4 10 4 File recovery options You can select the following file recovery options Recover files with their original security settings if the file security settings were preserved during backup see File level security settings for backup p 57 you can choose whether to recover them or let the files inherit the security settings of the folder where they will be recovered to This option is effective only when recovering files from file folder backups Set current date and time for recovered files you can choose whether to recover the file date and time from the backup or assign the files the current date and time By default the file date and time from the backup will be assigned 4 10 5 Overwrite file options Choose what to do if the program finds a file in the target folder with the same name as in the backup Selecting the Overwrite existing files check box will give the files from the backup unconditional priority over the files on the hard disk though by default the more recent files and folders are protected against overwriting If you want to overwrite those files and folders too clear the appropriate check box If you do not need to overwrite some files Select clear the Hidden files and folders check box to enable disable overwriting
152. hes 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 The contents of password protected backups or backups protected by a password and encryption will not be indexed though Google Desktop and Windows Search provide search for the tib files of such backups Furthermore Google Desktop and Windows Search have no access to Acronis Secure Zone so these search engines will be unable to search and index backups in the zone 6 6 2 1 Using Google Desktop with Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition If you do not have Google Desktop it can be downloaded for free from Google s Web site Click http desktop google com and follow the instructions for download and installation To enable using Google Desktop for searching files in Acronis backups 1 Toinstall the plug in click the down arrow to the right of the Search field at the upper right corner of the main program window Then choose Search options in the drop down menu and select the Google Desktop check box The following window appears Third Party Plug in Installation 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
153. hich enables imaging of unsupported file systems F Full backup 1 A backup method that is used to save all the data selected to back up 2 A backup process that creates a full backup version p 165 Full backup version A self sufficient backup version p 164 containing all data chosen for backup You do not need access to any other backup version to recover the data from a full backup version I Image The same as Disk backup p 165 Incremental backup 1 A backup method used for saving data changes that occurred since the last backup version p 164 of any type within a backup 2 A backup process that creates an incremental backup version p 165 Incremental backup version A backup version p 164 that stores changes to the data against the latest backup version You need access to other backup versions from the same backup p 164 to restore data from an incremental backup version O Online backup Online backup a backup that is created using Acronis Online Backup Online backups are stored in a special storage named the Online storage accsessible over the Internet The main advantage of an online backup is that all backups are stored on the remote location It gives a garantee that all backed up data will be safe independently of a user local storages To begin to use the Online storage a user should subscribe to the service R Recovery Recovery is a process of returning of a c
154. in the recovery environment This is necessary because when booted from the rescue media Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition might not detect the network If no computers are visible on the network but the Computers Near Me icon is found under My Computer see the screen shot 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 gt 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 provided with Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 6 3 1 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition Full version item and press the F11 key 2 When the command line appears type vga ask without quotes and click OK R vgazask Cancel Cancel 3 Select Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Full version in the boot menu t
155. includes all the files changed since the last full backup It takes less time and space than Full but more than Incremental The good thing is that recovering is simpler than for 2 you ll have to recover the last full backup and the last differential backup Examples and recommendations To choose a desired backup method you need to configure a custom backup scheme For more information see Custom scheme p 50 You can choose any approach for each of your backup projects according to their size and frequency of file modifications For example if almost all the included files appear changed before an incremental backup starts the incremental backup will be almost of the same size as a full backup would be If so let it be Full to simplify the recovery A differential backup scenario uses the same weekly full system backup with the backup of files that have changed since the last full backup on a daily basis While this scheme takes up progressively more storage space as each new day of the week passes a recovery would only involve two backups the last FULL backup followed by the previous day s differential backup Many users prefer this method as it simplifies recovery and most backups are done overnight In these examples the only differences in the two backup scenarios are Incremental backups require less storage space while differential backups require more Incremental backups require all of the backups used for that w
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157. ins Index these additional items 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 4 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 Acronis backups on your computer s hard disks and adding the indexing information to its index database The required time depends on the number of Acronis backups and the number of files they contain NJ N MJ 2 After for example an hour check whether Google Desktop has indexed the Acronis backups 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 backups where it has found the file Search Web winter Search Desktop winter Hit Ctr twice to search using the Quick Search Box E Winterjpg Shared Pictures Sample Pictures Fej MyBackup 1 tib til NAME winterjpg MyBackup tib tib acronis content DiscC_Backup tib tib acronis content NAM
158. is Startup Recovery Manager Acronis Startup Recovery Manager allows you to recover your computer at boot time before the operating system starts gt Activate If F11 is pressed at boot time Acronis True Image will be run 7 Cancel amp Attention When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated it overwrites the master boot record MBR with its own boot code If you have any third party boot managers installed you will have to reactivate them after activating the Startup Recovery Manager For Linux loaders e g LiLo and GRUB you might consider installing them to a Linux root or boot partition boot record instead of an MBR before activating Acronis Startup Recovery Manager If a failure occurs turn on the computer and press F11 when you see the Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager message This will start a standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition that differs only slightly from the complete version Browse for a backup containing an image of your system partition and recover your system Disk letters in standalone Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition might sometimes differ from the way Windows identifies drives For example the D disk identified in the standalone Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition might correspond to the E disk in Windows The disk labels and information on partition sizes file systems drive capacities their manufacturers and model numbe
159. ity may speed up the process by taking resources from the other currently running processes The effect will depend on total CPU usage and other factors You can set up the operation priority Low enabled by default the backup or recovery process will run slower but the performance of other programs will be increased Normal the backup or recovery process will have the equal priority with other processes High the backup or recovery process will run faster but the performance of other programs will be reduced Be aware that selecting this option may result in 10096 CPU usage by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 4 10 7 Notifications for recovery operation Sometimes a backup or recovery procedure can last an hour or longer Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition can notify you when it is finished via e mail The program can also duplicate messages issued during the operation or send you the full operation log after operation completion By default all notifications are disabled Free disk space threshold You may want to be notified when the free space on the backup storage becomes less than the specified threshold value If after starting a backup Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition finds out that the free space in the selected backup location is already less than the specified value the program will not begin the actual backup process and will immediately inform you by displaying an appropriate m
160. k it will disappear after your computer is turned off To disconnect the virtual disk click Unmount image on the Tools amp Utilities screen select the disk to unmount and click OK Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 If you have mounted several partitions by default all of them will be selected for unmounting You can disconnect all mounted drives together or disconnect only those you do not need mounted anymore Unmount Le JEe esu Unmount drive Select the drives you want to unmount Drive Letter Volume Label Disk Size File System v G New Volume 16 GB NTFS e You can also do this in Windows Explorer by right clicking on the disk icon and choosing Unmount 7 6 Working with vhd files In this section Converting tib images into vhd virtual disks and vice versa 152 Recovery using vhd files created by Windows Backup 154 Booting from a tib image of your Windows 7 system partition 155 Acronis Boot Sequence Manager esses eese enne 156 7 6 1 X Converting tib images into vhd virtual disks and vice versa The standalone versions of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition that start when booting from the rescue media do not support conversion operations 7 6 1 1 Converting Acronis backup Users of the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 can convert a tib image of the system partition into the vhd format if they wa
161. l image as well If the backup was password protected Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will ask for the password in a dialog box Neither the partitions layout will be shown nor will the Next button be enabled until you enter the correct password t Mount Wizard Required steps Mount backup Archive selection Succi Finish Password Required Please specify the password to access the archive Password p E Disk_D p EADisk C m J r Optional steps Drive letter Path EADisk C tib Next gt Proceed Cancel 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 Mount Wizard ESSERE Go Mount Wizard Required steps Summary Archive selection Partitions to mount 1 Mode Read Partition 1 Drive letter G File system NTFS Label New Volume Size 16 GB Cluster size 4 KB Optional steps Drive letter Options Proceed Cancel Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 You can also select a letter to be assign
162. lect the desired file size from the drop down list The backup will then be split into multiple files of the specified size That comes in handy when backing up to a hard disk with the view to burning the backup to CD R RW DVD R RW DVD R RW or BD R RE later on Creating images directly on CD R RW DVD R RW DVD R RW BD R RE might take considerably more time than it would on a hard disk 3 10 6 Backup validation option You can specify the additional validation setting Validate backup when it is created When this option is enabled the program will check the integrity of the recently created or supplemented backup version immediately after backup When setting up a backup of critical data or a disk partition backup we strongly recommend that you enable this option in order to ensure that the backup can be used to recover the lost data Regular validation You can also schedule validation of your backups to ensure that they remain healthy By default regular validation is turned on with the following settings Frequency once a month Day the date when the backup was started Time the moment of backup start plus 15 minutes Advanced settings the Run the validation only when the computer is idle check box is selected Example You start a backup operation on July 15 at 12 00 The backup version is created at 12 05 Its validation will run at 12 15 if your computer is in the screen saver state at the moment If not then
163. lication Exdude system fles the x pd austor k Save and Cose Cancel For more information on custom categories see Creating a custom data category p 92 If you do not want to keep the custom contents of the current backup by creating a data category simply select the files folders from the tree in the Folders pane To include an entire folder select the folder s check box in the folders pane To include particular items in a folder click the folder s name in the folders pane and then select the items check boxes in the folder contents pane Excluding items File filtering can be applied to manually added folders by specifying which files to exclude from backup For more information see Excluding items from online backup p 93 Having finished selection of items to include and exclude click the Back Up Now button to start online backup immediately otherwise click the Save and Close button to save the selection for backing up later or on schedule You can also cancel the selection by clicking Cancel Creating a custom data category To add a custom data category click the Add category icon in the Categories pane and provide a name for the category Select the data source e g a folder for the new category by clicking the link to the right of Category source in the right pane and then clicking the Browse button By default the new category will contain All data from the source in the data source but you ca
164. lick Next Selecting partitions leads to appearance of the relevant steps Settings of partition Note that these steps start with partitions which do not have an assigned disk letter as usually is the case with hidden partitions The partitions will then take an ascending order of partition disk letters This order cannot be changed The order may differ from the physical order of the partitions on the hard disk 6 Youcan specify the following partition settings location type and size You will first need to specify the settings of the hidden partition as it usually does not have a disk letter Because you are recovering to the new disk click New location Select the destination disk by either its assigned name or capacity 7 Clicking Accept will return you to the Settings of partition screen Check the partition type and change it if necessary 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 need to keep the hidden partition size unchanged and place it in 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 you can enter corresponding values into the appropriate fields Partition size Free space before Free space after Click Accept when the partition has the required si
165. lick the Right arrow button below the right end of the time scale To speed up the searching process you can switch the time scale to days mode or to months mode and scroll days or months respectively To switch to the months mode click on a month s name on the time scale Selecting the required month on the month scale automatically returns you to the days mode 5 3 5 Online backup task creation The online backup task allows you to schedule the backup to the online storage You can create one online backup task only The task will be run even after you log off the online storage To create the Online backup task Click Options gt What to back up in the main window and specify the data categories and or files and folders to back up and items to exclude from the online backup Click Options Schedule in the main window and set up scheduling for the online backup task For more information see Scheduling p 94 Click the Back Up Now button if you want to start the first online backup immediately The first online backup may take a considerable amount of time to complete Further backup processes will likely be much faster because only changes to files will be transferred over the Internet 5 3 5 1 Selecting items to back up In the Items to Back Up Selection window you can select the data you want to include in the online backup task and files to exclude from the task Your selection will be stored so every subsequent time
166. lidate Convert to Windows backup Mount Delete version File backup version Validate Delete version Online backup version Explore and recover Delete version Backup version packs and time blocks Right clicking on a folded version pack or time interval s block opens the shortcut menu with a single item Expand Viewing additional information on the time line You can also set up the time line to show additional information The appropriate commands are available in the View submenu The View submenu is opened by right clicking on a backup version or by right clicking on time line s free space 3 57 Show software installations Show software updates Show warnings LEl Show errors Show software installations if this item is selected the time line shows icons that indicate moments when new programs have been installed on your computer Show software updates if this item is selected the time line shows icons that indicate updates of Windows and programs installed on your computer Show warnings if this item is selected the time line shows all the backup versions that have been suspended or completed with warning messages selected by default Show errors if this item is selected the time line shows failed backup versions and backup versions that have completed with errors 1 3 6 Integration with Windows 7 During installation Acronis True Image Home 201
167. lidation Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition opens the backup file recalculates 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 We recommend that validation of system partition backups take place when booting from a rescue media Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition lets users of Windows 7 Enterprise and Window 7 Ultimate ensure that they will be able to boot after recovery of the system partition The program allows you to boot from a tib file containing the system partition image It converts the tib file into a VHD file which is then used for actual booting If you can boot from the converted vhd file you will be able to boot after recovering this backup to your disk Consolidation Consolidation allows you to delete backups which are no longer needed from a backup chain A chain to be consolidated can consist of a full backup and one or more incremental backups If necessary you can delete the base full backup from the chain The program will create a new full backup in place of the oldest remaining backup Consolidation keeps whichever backups you choose and deletes any backups that are not selected Since consolidation may require significant time and system resources including disk space we recommend using it sparingly In many cases starting
168. ll version in the boot menu 3 When the program starts make sure that it detects all the hard drives you have in your system Also check external drives if you use them for storing backups You must attach the external drive s before booting from the rescue media Otherwise the recovery environment might not detect the drive s To check the drives start Backup Wizard by clicking My Disks below Back Up on the Welcome screen Select a disk to back up at the What to back up step and click Next Click the Browse button to the right of the Backup location field When the Browse for location window opens check that all your drives are shown under My Computer Having checked the drives click Cancel to close Backup Wizard E Bruise iur sangs Delete Creote new folder 1 Create flr connection n Mount WAS device d My Computer Name Dete Type j Local Disk C Computers Near Me J Local Disk D yFTP Connections You con connect to FTP server jj Local Disk E k Local Disk C Fixed Disk Drive Local Disk D Fixed Disk Drive a New Volume F ap ble Drive H w Local Disk E Fixed Disk Drive ACCEPERUNT L New Volume F Fixed Disk Drive Computers Near Me J Removable Drive H Removoble Disk Drive gj FTP Connections File name e Generate name Files of type Backup Archives 1ib Y 4 If you store your backups on the network you should also check that you can access the network
169. ly or set the desired start time using the up and down buttons Description of the Advanced settings see in Scheduling p 120 6 5 4 Upon event execution parameters You can set up the following parameters for the Upon event operation execution Event User logon the operation will be executed each time the current user logs on to the OS User logoff the operation will be executed each time the current user logs off the OS System startup the operation will be executed at every OS startup System shutdown the operation will be executed at every computer shutdown or reboot Additional condition If you want to run an operation only at the first occurrence of the event on the current day select the Once a day only check box Description of the Advanced settings see in Scheduling p 120 6 6 Searching backups and their content In this section Irem TEE 122 Windows Search and Google Desktop integration 124 6 6 1 Searching In addition to the ability to explore backups Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition provides search for files in your backups Enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition window You will be taken to the Acronis Backup Explorer screen The program shows search results on the Files and folders tab Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition fos yer Q Home
170. m There you can enter the event code displayed in the error box to search for a solution in the entire KB For more information see Acronis Smart Error Reporting p 159 System report Acronis Support personnel may request you to provide the system report To create the report select Generate system report in the Help menu then save the report and send it to Acronis Customer Central For more information see Acronis System Report p 159 8 2 Acronis System Report When you contact the Acronis support team they will usually need information about your system in order to resolve your problem Sometimes getting the information is an inconvenient process and may take a long time The Generate system report tool simplifies the procedure It generates a system report containing all the necessary technical information and allows you to save the information to file When it s necessary you can attach the created file to your problem description and send it to Acronis support team This will simplify and speed up the search for a solution To generate a system report Onthe main program window click the Help arrow and select Generate system report or Press CTRL F7 Note that you can use the key combination even when Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition is performing any other operation After the report is generated To save the generated system report to file click Save and in the opened window specify a location for the
171. me data files both in tib format and in native format to two different backup locations You can schedule such backups as needed for instance on weekly basis if you regularly download new music files Backup schemes The current Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition version has predefined backups schemes for both disk and file backup types To manage your backups in many cases you can just select a desired backup scheme and the program will do all the rest For more information see Backup schemes p 48 6 3 Testing bootable rescue media To maximize 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 To test the rescue media 1 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 order in BIOS p 78 If 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 choose Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition fu
172. n allows you to set up creation of reserve copies for disk and partition backups to make your backups more secure So now you can back up your disks to two destinations in a single operation Support of Microsoft Outlook 2010 This product is added to the list of e mail clients supported by e mail backup In addition Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition allows you to back up Windows Live Mail accounts and contacts 1 1 4 System requirements and supported media 1 1 4 1 Minimum system requirements Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition has minimum hardware requirements corresponding to those of the operating system installed on the computer to be used for running Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition In addition Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition requires the following hardware CD RW DVD RW drive for bootable media creation Mouse or other pointing device recommended Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition rescue media has the following hardware requirements 512 MB RAM Processor Pentium 1 GHz or faster The recommended screen resolution is 1024 x 600 The minimum screen resolution is 800 x 600 1 1 4 2 Supported operating systems Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition has been tested on the following operating systems Windows XP SP3 Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 32 Bit Windows Vista SP2 x86 32 Bit Windows 7 Starter Windows 7 x86 32 Bit 1 1
173. n apply filters to select the specific types of files that you wish or do not wish to back up P a D Items to Beck Up Selection zl X9 specify files to back up Folders My_docs M X adm T Desktop Category source C Users adem Documents W UM Compute Include All data from the source Only the following file types All data except the following file types aan doc x txt x rtf x i dom ei imm pdf x Categories 5 J 8A My docs x Documents Finance E Images d Music D Video Exclude systern files the specified custom tems amp 9 Q Back Up Now Saveand Close Cancel To set a filter select its type Only the following file types or All data except the following file types You can add file types for the selected filter by entering their extensions in the appropriate field one at a time and then clicking Add The added file types appear in the window below 5 3 5 2 Excluding items from online backup Excluding unnecessary files from online backup may be useful as the data transfer rate and available storage space are limited To exclude files click the corresponding link at the bottom of the What to back up window You can exclude hidden and system files from online backup by selecting the corresponding check boxes 4p Fe Excuson i2 Specify files to exclude Hidden files System files 4 Files matching the following criteria File extension ma
174. n is successfully established You can set the number of connection attempts and the time interval between the attempts in seconds To do so type or select the values in the appropriate boxes E n Optons j Online backup options A Reset al to defaut lt P Reset the curent to defadt Connection atterrots wd Connection attempts Storage connection speed Specty the number of and tine riterva between connection attempts Number of attempts 10 Storage deanup Time interval between attempt 30 Proxy settings Backup priority Emal notification Pre Post commands Customer Experience Program 5 3 6 2 Storage connection speed You can reduce the influence of the online storage connection on other network connections of your computer 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 so Select the Limit transfer rate to check box and specify an optimal value and an appropriate measure kilobits or megabits per second You can set transfer rate for the data being backed up to the Onine storage V Unit transfer rate to 4 Mes gt 5 3 6 3 Storage cleanup You can configure the cleanup settings for the Online storage to optimize usage of its space To set the limits for the amount of versions in the Online storage Select the Delete versions that are older than check box and enter a value that limits the maximum age of t
175. n see Creating bootable rescue media p 134 If the recovery environment cannot detect some of the hard disk drives or the network adapter usually there is a problem with the drivers So when the standard rescue CD lacks some of your hardware drivers you need to create a custom 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 y
176. n the confirmation window Repeat this for all file versions you want to delete Having finished deleting the versions click Cancel to close the window 5 6 Viewing Log If you want to view the log of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup operations click Help gt Event Log in the upper right corner of the main window D Event Log Event log Show for the period Today Cw Message gt Online Backup 2 2 2010 11 28 14 AM Operation Online Backup started 9 Analyzing partition 0 0 9 Analyzing partition E wy Analyzing partition C 9 Analyzing partition F 9 Analyzing partition 0 0 w Analyzing partition G Locking partition C fun m mh mom ina To view the logs for a specific period select the period from the drop down list You can select Today Week and Month To view all logs select Show all To delete a log entry select it right click and select Delete in the shortcut menu To delete all log entries select Delete all You can also save a log entry to file by selecting Save To save all logs to file select Save all The three buttons to the right control event filters the white cross in the red circle filters error events the exclamation mark in a yellow triangle filters warnings and the i in the blue circle filters information message events 6 Useful information In this section Protecting your system and data 110 Preparing for DaCKUDPS
177. n use screen saver is displayed or computer is locked select the Run the task only when the computer is idle check box The backup won t be performed if the computer is switched off or there is no Internet connection when the scheduled time comes but you can force the missed backup to run at the next system startup or when an Internet connection is established To do so select the Run at startup or Run when the connection is established check box or both Some of these options might be disabled depending on the operating system Having finished scheduling of online backups click OK to return to the main window Daily execution parameters You can set up the following parameters for daily task execution Frequency Daily Start at a certain time upon a certain event or every certain number of hours If you select At set the task s start time Enter hours and minutes manually or set the desired start time using the up and down buttons If you select Upon event choose the event you need At user logon At user logoff At system startup or At system shutdown To run a backup only at the first occurrence of the event select the Once a day only box If you select Every choose daily backup periodicity from the dropdown list for example every 2 hours Advanced settings To postpone a scheduled task until the next time the computer is not in use screen saver is displayed or computer is locked select the Run the task
178. namic volumes on bare metal backup sector by sector a disk that has an unsupported file system C Consolidation Combining two or more subsequent backup versions p 164 belonging to the same backup p 164 into a single backup version The consolidation procedure allows you to delete the backup versions you no longer need from any backup chain while maintaining the consistency of chain s backups A chain to be consolidated consists of a full backup and one or more incremental backups Consolidation keeps whichever backups you choose and deletes any backups that are not selected Note that consolidation may take a lot of time and system resources including disk space D Differential backup 1 A backup method used for saving data changes that occurred since the last full backup version p 165 within a backup 2 A backup process that creates a differential backup version p 165 Differential backup version A differential backup version stores changes to the data against the latest full backup version p 165 You need access to the corresponding full backup version to recover the data from a differential backup version Disk backup Image A backup p 164 that contains a sector based copy of a disk or a partition in packaged form Normally only sectors that contain data are copied Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition provides an option to take a raw image that is copy all the disk sectors w
179. ncremental and differential backups etc However it does not provide password protection and encryption Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition can recover and validate only its own zip backups If a zip archive was created by a file archiver program it cannot be recovered and validated by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 3 5 Backing up e mail Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition allows you to back up messages accounts and settings for Microsoft Outlook 2000 2002 2003 2007 2010 Microsoft Outlook Express Windows Mail and Windows Live E mail backup is a subset of file level backups that backs up predefined folders and requires minimum user selections However if need be you can select Microsoft Outlook components and folders individually E mail Backup es aos 5 e 4 Configure e mail backup process Vhat to back up 7 J Windows Contacts Name Size Type Da v Windows Contacts File Folder Destination VY eig u NTFS Y Schedule Off Turn on Backup scheme Version chain The program deletes backup versions older than 1 month Backup name Windows Contacts E mail backup options Back up now l Cancel You can select the following items Messages contained in PST DBX Database Files E mail accounts For Microsoft Office Outlook 2000 2002 2003 2007 2010 Mail Folders Calendar Contacts Tasks Notes Signatures News Folders
180. nd the right hand area the contents of a selected directory tree item The tab shows the files and folders states of when the current backup version was created You can switch between the backup versions by using the time line at the bottom of the screen For more information on using the time line see Time line p 27 To recover files and or folders 1 Onthe time line select the backup version from which you want to recover your files folders The version s exact date and time will be displayed near the backup name Your data will be recovered to the state it was at this point in time 2 Select the corresponding check boxes of the files and folders you want to recover see selection rules below Short information about the selected items their number and total size will be displayed near the Recover button 3 Click the Recover button You can also recover files and folders by dragging them to your Desktop or into a selected folder in Windows Explorer You cannot recover files by dragging them to an FTP recordable CD DVD or other optical media as well as mounted ISO files Selection rules Check boxes that correspond to the items may be in the following states Selected check mark in square this state indicates that the item is selected for recovery A selected folder means that all items in the folder are selected Cleared clear square this state indicates that the item is not selected Mixed fill
181. nds Customer Experience Program You can set up the backup process priority Low enabled by default the backup process will run slower but the performance of other programs will be increased Normal the backup process will have equal priority with other processes High the backup process will run faster but the performance of other programs will be reduced Be aware that selecting this option may result in 10096 CPU usage by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup 5 3 6 6 E mail notification You can specify an e mail account that will be used for notification of the backup process To specify the e mail settings Enter the e mail address in the E mail Address field You can enter several e mail addresses in a semicolon delimited format Enter the outgoing mail server SMTP in the Outgoing mail server SMTP field Set the port of the outgoing mail server By default the port is set to 25 Enter the user name in the User Name field Enter the password in the Password field Specify the default e mal account that wil be used by backup and recovery witards for E nal address tmyhomegmai com Server settings Sone ATP smtp mal com Set port s 8 User names mname Password sss Additional emal parameters Send Test E Mal Message To specify additional notification settings click the Additional e mail parameters link E mail notifications You can set additional parameters for e mal n
182. ne Click Backup fae ae amt Back up your critical data Select what to back up and change the destination if necessary PH My computer iy System partition with Windows Destination cance By default Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will schedule subsequent full backups of the system partition once a month After completing a new full backup the program will delete the old one to save disk space If you choose a removable media as the backup destination for instance an USB hard drive it will be made bootable by default In other words a bootable recovery environment a standalone Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition version and the backed up data will be written to the removable media You will be able to run Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition from the removable media on a bare metal system or a crashed computer that cannot boot Just make the removable media device the first boot device in BIOS boot to Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition and recover your system To start One Click Backup click the Back up now button Clicking Cancel will cancel One Click Backup If you decide to use this feature later click Tools amp Utilities in the main program menu and then choose Acronis One Click Backup Destination selection algorithm For those interested in how One Click Backup tool selects a destination for backup here is the algorithm the program uses 1 First of all the
183. needs from a disk space efficient scheme suitable for users with limited backup storage capabilities to a scheme for those users who need higher security for their data and system The program offers different backup schemes for disk and file type backups You just select a scheme and the program automatically manages your backups In addition you can create a custom backup scheme which will exactly suit your needs Check points The Acronis Backup Explorer timeline shows Windows and software installation and update dates Moving your mouse over a check point opens a balloon with information about the update or software With check points you can check the changes to your system and recover the system to a specific backed up state USB 3 0 support Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition supports the new USB 3 0 standard If your motherboard can work with USB 3 0 hard disk drives you can use the high data transfer speed offered by the new standard to make your backups run much faster Automatic update notification By default Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will automatically inquire about the availability of a program update at every program start When an update is available Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will offer to download and install it You can also check for availability of updates manually through the Help menu New Backup Explorer Now you can use the Acronis Backup Explorer s time lin
184. neier offers a seven pass overwriting method in his Applied Cryptography book r pass OxFF ja pass 0x00 and then five times with a Peter Gutmann s method 35 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 BEEN cryptographically secure pseudo random sequence e Logical zeros 0x00 numbers to all sectors to wipe 7 4 Mounting an image Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition offers mounting for images and exploring for both images and file level backups Exploring images and file level backups lets you view their contents and copy the selected files to a hard disk To explore a backup in Windows Explorer 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 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
185. nis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition In this section Welcome SCL GM iia ote E ve er x PEE Peor e Eve eis 16 Main Soressi iN 19 Tools amp Utilities SCrGGIT eror ee et v erc o eee Pe DERE E TRER 23 Wizards and notification area icons 23 Acronis Backup Explorer eee t RE Rs 24 Integration with Windows 7 cesses enne nnne 30 1 3 1 Welcome screen When you start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition for the first time after installation it will search for Acronis backups on your computer If any backups are found created by the current or an earlier version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition the Welcome screen will be skipped All found backups will be added to the backup list in the program The Welcome screen appears if No backups have been found during search Some backups have been found but no information about the backups is available for Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition backup source backup destination backup schedule etc For example this may occur if a backup was created on another computer Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will add them to the backup list If you have a large number of preexisting backups or if the overall performance of your system is low the search for backups may take a long time In this case the Welcome screen may also appear k Welcome B es il yo 9 Acronis COMPUTE WITH CONFIDENCE ud Back up my
186. nt to use the converted vhd file for booting the operating system Or they may want to get the ability to mount images without using Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition To convert an Acronis disk image tib file to a vhd virtual disk 1 Click Convert Acronis backup to Windows backup on the Tools amp Utilities screen EI Winders DEDE exem Q Convert to Windows Backup Required steps Select an Acronis backup Archive selection Archive location I Desi Name Created Com Rating Method Path Images s Disko gDisk D 5 27 2010 10 57 25 AM WWW Full backup EADisk D z Disk c Disk_C 5 27 2010 11 09 43 AM wee KK Fullbackup E Disk_d lt m J D Path E Disk_C tib Browse Next gt Cancel 2 Select the disk image to convert If the backup is password protected Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will ask for it Note that the resulting vhd file will lose password protection Converting an incremental backup requires all the previous incremental backups and the original full backup Converting a differential backup requires the original full backup The result of conversion will always be a full backup 3 Specify the path to the file to be created The converted file will be saved to the default location but you can select another one by clicking Browse The file can be directed to any local storage supported by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition except
187. o continue booting from the rescue media To see the available video modes press the Enter key when the appropriate message appears 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 lt ENTER gt to see video modes available lt SPACE gt to continue or wait 38 sec Resolution Type Mode lution ype Mode solution Type 88x2 UGA 1 F81 P 2 FB2 x UGA UGA FB85 UGA 5 FB86 UGA 328 cE l 32 32 x UE 1152x 1448 347 1792 1856 368 gt gt 648 J 385 U 311 VES 31A 1 x1 a video mode or scan to scan for Modes 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 Bo
188. o the Acronis Web site error reporting form http kb acronis com errorcode Select the Acronis product version you use and manually enter the event code into the appropriate field Then click the Search button to search for an article that may contain the solution to your issue Sometimes an error may occur in a low level program module and then propagate to higher level modules resulting in errors in those modules as well This is a so called composite error where every higher level module generates its own error event code The following error message is an example Failed to start Try amp Decide More information about this error and an applicable solution may be available online in the Acronis Knowledge base To access the online resource manually enter the event code at http kb acronis com errorcode Event code 0x00970007 0x00970016 0x00970002 The event codes from different modules are combined with symbols When manually entering such event codes into the appropriate field to search in the Knowledge Base enter the event code components without spaces around the symbols If the event code s is not recognized in the Knowledge Base the base does not yet contain an article to resolve the issue In such cases please open a trouble ticket with Acronis Customer Central 8 4 Creating a custom rescue CD In most cases you can use a standard rescue CD created with a help of Acronis Media Builder For more informatio
189. ok Edition users of Windows Vista and Windows 7 with enabled User Account Control UAC may be prompted by UAC for permission to perform certain operations To continue with the operation click Yes in the prompt pop up window 1 2 4 Upgrading Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition If you already have Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition installed the new version will simply update it there is no need to remove the old version and reinstall the software The backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions If you roll back Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition to an older version you likely will have to re create the backups using the older version We strongly recommend that you create new bootable media after each Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition upgrade 1 2 5 Removing Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Select Start Settings Control panel Add or remove programs Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 or Windows 7 select Start Control panel Programs and Features Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Remove Then follow the instructions on the screen You may have to reboot your computer afterwards to complete the task 1 3 Getting to know Acro
190. ok Edition on another computer and click Tools amp Utilities on the menu bar Then click Import backup settings and show the path to the script files with the settings After importing the settings you may need to change some of them to suit the new environment For example it may be necessary to change the list of items for backup backup destination etc If you want to copy some of your backups to another computer it is recommended to export the settings of those backups too Thus you will not lose some of the copied backup s functionality 8 Troubleshooting In this section General recommendations eese eee 158 Acronis System Report eeeeeeeeeeeeseeeee eene nnn inaia nnn nna aaraa 159 Acronis Smart Error Reporting eeeeeeeseeeeeee nennen 159 Creating a custom rescue CD cccccccccecccececececececececececesececeesseseseeeseseess 161 Viewing logs neret eee ed te ae ae IN oe 161 Acronis Customer Experience Program eeeeeeeeeeeee eene 162 8 1 General recommendations The below information may help you in troubleshooting issues encountered during installation and use of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 lo
191. ome network and a dedicated file server or NAS you can store backups on the file server or NAS practically like on an internal drive If you decide to use an external hard drive NAS NDAS etc you will need to check whether Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition detects the selected backup storage You need to check this both in Windows and when booted from the rescue media To gain access to an NDAS enabled storage device in many cases you will need to specify the NDAS device ID 20 characters and the write key 5 characters The write key allows you to use an NDAS enabled device in write mode e g for saving your backups Usually the device ID and write key are printed on a sticker attached to the bottom of the NDAS device or on the inside of its enclosure If there is no sticker you need to contact your NDAS device vendor to obtain that information Optical discs 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 This is especially true when backing up directly to DVDs Furthermore if your backup consists of several DVDs data recovery from DVDs will require a lot of disc swapping On the other hand using Blu ray discs may be a viable option 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 When there is no alternative to backing up to DVDs we
192. on is complete parameter enabled for Pre commands by default will permit the backup process to run concurrently with your command execution The Abort the operation if the user command fails enabled by default parameter will abort the operation if any errors occur in command execution You can test a command you entered by clicking the Test command button 3 10 5 Backup splitting Sizeable backups can be split into several files that together make up the original backup A single backup can also be split for burning to removable media The default setting Automatic With this setting Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will act as follows When backing up to a hard disk If the selected disk has enough space and its file system allows the estimated file size the program will create a single backup file f the storage disk has enough space but its file system does not allow the estimated file size the program will automatically split the image into several files If you do not have enough space to store the image on your hard disk the program will warn you and wait for your decision as to how you plan to fix the problem You can try to free some additional space and continue or click Back and select another disk When backing up to a CD R RW DVD R RW DVD R RW BD R RE Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will ask you to insert a new disk when the previous one is full Alternatively you may se
193. oned you can save full and incremental or differential backup versions to different destinations For example you can save the initial full backup to a local hard drive and then burn the subsequent incremental backup versions or differential backup versions that are an even better choice to DVDs It is also possible to save such backup versions to a network share If backup versions belonging to the same backup chain have been saved to various destinations Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition may prompt you for the locations of previous backup versions during data recovery This may occur when the selected backup version does not contain the files you want to recover or contains only a part of them 3 8 Adding an existing backup to the list If you have backups that are not shown in the My backups list for example backups created by a previous Acronis True Image Home version you can add them to the list Click Browse for backup on the main screen This will open a window where you can browse for backups on your computer To add an existing backup to the backup list on the main screen select the backup and click the Add to backup list button 3 9 Excluding items from backup If you want to exclude unnecessary files from a backup specify the appropriate file types in the File Exclusion window To exclude files click What to exclude in the Disk Backup or File Backup window You can exclude hidden and system files from a backu
194. onis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 15 Running Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 15 Upgrading Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 15 Removing Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 16 1 2 1 Installing Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition To install Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Run the Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition setup file Before installation you can check for a newer Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition build on the Acronis Web site If available the newer version will be offered for installation In the Install Menu select the program to install Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Follow the install wizard instructions on the screen WWW ACRONIS COM E Install Acronis True Image Home 2011 m d Netbook Edition Install Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition to back up and recover data on this computer Error occurred while connecting to the update server lick to check again Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition User s BE e Download the latest version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Technical Support Con onis technical sup tact Acro Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition w Typical Custom and Complete installation is available By pressing Custom you can choose not to install Rescue Media Builder
195. ontains one or more differential backup versions the program validates in addition to the initial full backup version and the selected incremental backup version only the most recent differential backup version in the chain and all subsequent incremental backup versions if any between the differential backup version and the selected incremental backup version This information can be helpful for example when you find out that a backup comprising a full backup version and a chain of incremental ones is corrupted To troubleshoot the backup do as follows First of all validate the full backup version by selecting it on the time line right clicking and choosing Validate in the shortcut menu If it is damaged all the backup chain will be useless When it is not damaged proceed to validating incremental backup versions starting from the oldest until you find the culprit All incremental backup versions made after the corrupted one will be unusable but you will be able to recover the data at least from the previous backup versions To validate an entire backup 1 Select the backup to validate click Operations and select Validate backup If the selected backup is password protected Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will ask for the password in a dialog box After you enter the correct password the program will start the validation procedure When the validation is complete you will see the result in the line below the backup s b
196. options exclude files and folders from backup To configure the backup click the appropriate links Partition disk mode switcher Allows you to select partitions or whole disks z Configure disk backup process v System Reserved 7 S What to back up n Local Disk C backup source Select the partitions or New Volume D whole disks you want to 6 back up New Volume What to exclude E aE Allows you fo exclude files Exchewont Add from the backup source Where to store The backup file will be stored In this location Destination EAMy backups Schedule Of Tum or Backup scheme Backup name Portoon badao Systers Reserved C Disk backup options Click to configure additional settings Backup name box Schedule and Back up now Type a name for the backup scheme button Allows you to keep your Click when all settings backup up to date and are configured optimize backup strategy The below steps describe how to configure a backup using most of the available image backup settings 1 Select a partition s to back up by selecting its check box If the disk has several partitions and you want to back up the whole disk click Switch to disk mode and then select the disk s check box To return to the partition selection click Switch to partition mode You may exclude certain files and folders from backup For example you transferred some movies from your DVDs to a folder on the
197. or Windows 7 open the Control Panel and then double click the Indexing Options icon The Windows Vista and Windows 7 indexing options have some differences in content and appearance though most of the following information is applicable to those operating systems as well Indexing Options 31 986 items indexed 78 a Indexing complete Index these locations Included Locations Exclude Se Local Disk C Application Data Default User es Microsoft Outlook Express M amp tib Hs 1 5 21 1645522239 Modify Advanced Close 3 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 129 Contents Advanced Options Index Settings File Types Add UNC Location Extension fez sy sym E sys E tab E tar 71 et es Filter Description Null Filter Null Filter Null Filter Plain Text Filter Null Filter Plain Text Filter File Properties Filter Null Filter File Properties Filter tib Filter Null Filter Plain Text Filter File Properties filter Kl ill Filtar How should this File be indexed Index Properties Only Index Properties and File Contents Add new extension Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 4 Click OK and while the Indexing Options window is open check that the disks where you
198. ormed but you can force the missed task to run at the next system start up To do so select the If missed run the task at startup check box If there is no Internet connection when the scheduled time comes you can force the missed backup to run when an Internet connection is established To do so select the Run when the connection is established check box 5 3 5 4 Credentials In some cases when you plan an operation to be performed in the future you have to specify the credentials Windows account name and password of the user For example this is required when you schedule a backup or specify Pre Post commands for backup operation If you do not enter the credentials scheduled execution will be impossible To specify the credentials Enter the user name in the appropriate field By default this field displays the current user name Enter the password in the appropriate field If you do not enter the password or enter an incorrect password the program will notify you that the credentials are not valid 5 3 5 5 Backup operation progress Once an online backup is started either manually or on schedule the backup progress window appears In this window Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup shows the approximate backup time and data transfer speed The progress bar indicates the level of completion of the online backup In some cases the online backup operation may take a long time to be completed If this is the cas
199. orrupted data to a previous normal state from a backup p 164 V Validation An operation that checks whether you will be able to recover data from a particular backup version p 164 When you select for validation a full backup version p 165 the program validates the full backup version only a differential backup version p 165 the program validates the initial full backup version and the selected differential backup version anincremental backup version p 165 the program validates the initial full backup version the selected incremental backup version and the whole chain if any of backup versions to the selected incremental backup version If the chain contains one or more differential backup versions the program validates in addition to the initial full backup version and the selected incremental backup version only the most recent differential backup version in the chain and all subsequent incremental backup versions if any between the differential backup version and the selected incremental backup version
200. ort 80 Proxy settings Username admnstrator Password eeeeeeeee Backup priority Test Connection E mail notification Pre Post command Customer Experience Program If you do not know your proxy server settings contact your network administrator or Internet service provider for assistance Alternatively you can try to take these settings from your browser s configuration 5 3 6 5 Backup priority Changing the priority of a backup process can make it run faster or slower depending on whether you raise or lower the priority but it can also adversely affect the performance of other running programs 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 up more resources for other CPU tasks Increasing backup priority may 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 r D ones f Online backup options l Rasat dto dalat P fant Po omens to dafa Connection attempts Backup priority Storage connection speed You Can set up the priority of the backup process malang it run faster of shower Storage deanup Low The backup process wil run dower Proxy settings O Normal The backup process wil run with average rate Backup priorty High E mail notification The backup process wil run faster Pre Post comma
201. ose 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 You can try to find the solution to your problem in the Acronis Support Knowledge Base KB To access the Support KB click on the following link http kb acronis com Then use the Search function Enter the key words related to your problem into the appropriate field and click Search The KB may have recommendations on solving your specific problem Acronis Support team continuously adds new articles to the KB If you are not able to find the solution to your problem in the KB or the suggested solution s does not help feel free to contact Acronis Customer Central at http www acronis com support When your issue is an error encountered during Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition operation the error message box will contain the Knowledge Base button Clicking the button will take you to a Support KB article offering solution s for the issue that caused the error The error message box will also have a link to the Acronis Support KB This link may be useful when the KB does not have the appropriate article yet Clicking the link will take you to a Web for
202. otable media startup parameters step then create the media as usual 6 4 Testing that your backups can be used for recovery Here are some recommendations 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 This is because Windows cannot be left running during the recovery of its own partition 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 a test recovery to this hard drive It should be done after 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition rescue media the product creates disk drive letters that might differ from the way Windows identifies drives For example the D disk identified in the standalone Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition might correspond to the E disk in Windows It is advisable to assign unique names labels to all partitions on your hard drives This will make finding the disk containing your backups easier 2 When booted from the rescue media it may also be useful to complete all the steps in the Recovery Wizard right up to the Summ
203. otifications F Log on to incoming mal server Incoming mal server POP V Send notification upon operation s successful completion V Send notification upon operation fallure Send notification when user interaction is required 7 Add full log to the notification If your Internet service provider requires authorization on the incoming mail server before sending e mails check the Log on to incoming mail server box If you would like to use encryption select the required encryption protocol from the dropdown list in the Encryption field If you want the client e mail program to handle messages according to the set policy for example put messages into a specified folder specify the name of the sender in the From field 102 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 and or the subject in the Subject field If you leave the From field empty the e mail will be composed using the name from the outgoing account To send notification concerning process completion select the Send notification upon operation s successful completion check box To send notification concerning process failure select the Send notification upon operation failure check box To send notification with operation messages select the Send notification when user interaction is required check box To send notification with full log of operations select the Add full log to the notification check box After making the additional settings click O
204. ou are viewing the Help if you need information on how to protect your entire system from a disaster p 110 recover your system when your computer refuses to boot p 63 back up your photos finance documents music home video p 39 back up your e mail p 42 create a bootable rescue media p 134 select a suitable video mode when booting from your rescue media p 117 make sure that your rescue media can be used when needed p 116 be sure that your data is not accessible to anyone else p 52 automatically refresh your backups Backup schemes p 48 or Scheduling p 120 find a backup that contains the file you need to recover p 122 3 Backing up data Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition includes a wealth of sophisticated backup capabilities that would please even an IT professional They allow you to back up your disks partitions files and e mail You can choose a backup feature that suits you most or use them all The below sections describe the backup features in more detail In this section The difference between file backups and disk partition images 34 Full incremental and differential backups c cccccsssceeeesseceeeesseeeeeees 35 Backing up partitions and disks essere 37 Backing up files and folders ceccccecsscceeeessececeeeececeesseeeeeeseeeeeesseeeeeees 39 Backing up e mail essen ennemis nennen nan 42 Making reserve
205. ou will always be able to recover this clean system with the clean registry after you finish experimenting with new software Scheduling the system disk backups does not prevent you from adding unscheduled backups when needed The new user interface allows you to accomplish this task very easily You just need to select the system disk backup box in the main program window and then click Back up now This may be useful for instance before installing a major Windows update or Service Pack Data backups You can run your file backups manually or on a schedule In this case the frequency of backups will depend on how often you make changes in the files being backed up or add new files For instance when you are working on a project day after day you will likely need to schedule a backup of your daily work results at the end of every day For additional safety you can back up your most important files on a remote storage using Acronis Online Backup Such backups can run on a schedule too for instance every night when you do not use the computer Music files mp3 ogg etc and photos jpg jpeg etc are already compressed so backing them up as tib files will not result in a significant saving of disk space You may want to back up such files in their native format by copying them using Windows Explorer If those files are important to you Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition has the Reserve backup copy feature It can back up the sa
206. ou 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 8 5 Viewing log The log can provide information for instance about scheduled backup results including reasons for any failures Most Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition operations write their own entries in the logs though logs are not provided for image mounting unmounting Acronis Startup Recovery Manager activation deactivation and bootable media creation If you want to view the log of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition operations click Help gt View log in the upper right corner of the main window The program event list o Show for the period Today Show events o 9 August 18 2010 16 20 07 Backup validation August 18 2010 15 59 57 August 18 2010 15 59 56 An error has occurred while obtaining the location information 18 Aug 10 16 00 35 o The given URI is empty 18 Aug 10 16 00 35 Partition C August 18 2010 14 35 47 Operation Partition C started 18 Aug 10 14 35 46 9 Analyzing partition 0 0 18 Aug 10 14 35 46 J Analyzing partition 1 1 18 Aug 10 14 35 47 wJ Analyzing partition C 18 Aug 10 14 35 47 W Analyzing partition 0 0 18 Aug 10 14 35 48 9 Analyzing partition D 18 Aug 10 14 35 48 g Analyzing partition 0 0 18 Aug 10 14 35 49 wJ Analyzing partition E 18 Aug 10 14
207. overy Right click on the backup and choose Recover in the shortcut menu If Windows and the recovery environment assign different disk letters the program will display the following error message Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition cannot detect volume N of Name archive where Name is the name of the required image backup and volume number N may be different depending on the number of backups in the archive Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Click Browse and show the path to the backup Fiuzpysr reed gt Recovery Wizard Required steps Select a backup from which to recover Archive selection Recovery Qc Acronis True Image cannot detect volume 1 of N Disk image VMware Virtual IDE Hard Drive1 1 archive Click Browse to specify volume location Retry to try again or click Cancel Poth GADisk image VMwere Virtual IDE_Herd_Drivet 1 tib Choose recovery method Recover whole disks and partitions Recover chosen files and folders Select tiles and folders to recover from the original disk backup 66 Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 6 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 In case of Windows 7 the System Reserved partition will have the Pri Act flags You will need to select for recovery both the System R
208. ows does not start Files and folders select this item to back up your documents including photos videos music text files and any other files and folders Such a backup allows to recover your documents from a virus attack accidental deletion and corruption E mail select this item to back up your e mail messages address book settings and accounts Such a backup allows you to recover them in case of e mail data loss or corruption After you have decided what data to back up click Next and we ll help you to continue with the backup process How do you want to protect your computer or data Back up ona schedule this method allows you to back up your data on a regular basis by specifying your own schedule for backup operations The program will back up your data according to the schedule you specify Store in online storage available only when you have selected Files and folders in the previous step you can purchase safe storage for your data This safe storage is located on an Acronis remote server which is accessible via the Internet Keeping data in this online storage guarantees that you will be able to recover the data even if your home computer was physically destroyed or stolen After you choose what data to back up and the optimal protection method the program will display the window from which you will start the backup process This window contains all of the settings for your backup These settings were confi
209. ows you to remove all entries related to virtual disks and restore the original booting configuration The Acronis Boot Sequence Manager tool is only available for users of the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 7 7 Importing and exporting backup settings Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition allows you to import and export the settings of your backups This may be desirable if you need to transfer the settings to a new PC after installing Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition on that computer Saving the settings may also be useful if you later decide to upgrade to the next Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition version Such transfer will make configuring backups on the new PC much easier You only need to export the settings and then import them to the other PC The settings are exported in the form of script files In case of classic disk and file type backups the settings consist of the following items list of items for backup backup options backup location Schedule backup scheme automatic clean up rules backup version naming rules You cannot import Online Backup settings from one computer to another To export the settings of your existing backups click Tools amp Utilities on the menu bar Then click Export backup settings and browse for the destination to save the script files with the settings To import the settings start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbo
210. ox You can cancel validation by clicking Cancel 3 12 Consolidating backup versions Using consolidation of backup versions you can create a consistent copy of backup while deleting selected backup versions This allows you to delete the backup versions you no longer need from any backup without harming that backup Consolidation creates a consistent copy of the backup that does not contain deleted backup versions If you select a new location for the consolidated backup the source backup stays as is unless you delete it This requires more disk space but ensures security of the backup in case the consolidation fails because of power failure or a lack of disk space The current Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition version does not support consolidation of backups created in the zip format Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition cannot consolidate backup versions created when editing partition images mounted in the Read Write mode To consolidate backup versions in a backup Select a backup for consolidation on the main screen Click Operations on the selected backup s box and select More Consolidate versions Follow the wizard s steps 3 12 1 Archive to consolidate protection The archive you chose is password protected in order to prevent it from unauthorized access You need to specify the previously entered password to obtain access to the archive To specify the password Type in the password in
211. p by selecting the corresponding check boxes 4 File Exclusion Specify files to exclude eo Hidden files System files V Files matching the following criteria i Add a f tib tmp OK Cancel In addition you can exclude files meeting the criteria you specify To do this select the Files matching the following criteria check box enter the exclusion criterion and then click Add By default the program excludes from backups files with the following extensions tmp and tib You can enter explicit file names for exclusion from the backup file ext all such files will be excluded from the backup C file ext the file ext file on the C disk will be excluded You can also use wildcards ext all files with a ext extension will be excluded C ext files located in the root of partition C with a ext extension will be excluded f name files named f name with any extension will be excluded name ext all files with a ext extension having six letters in their names starting with any two symbols and ending with name will be excluded To delete a criterion for example added by mistake click the Delete icon to the right of the criterion To cancel changes in the items to be excluded click Cancel After you make changes in the items to be excluded click OK to confirm the changes and exit from the File Exclusion window 3 10 Backup options In the Disk Backup Options
212. p can run unattended If you have other Acronis products installed on your computer the bootable versions of these programs components will be offered as well 3 10 9 Screenshot settings Along with backup comments screenshots help you to recognize a previous data state you need to recover Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition allows you to take screenshots at the moment of starting a disk or partition backup To enable the option select the Take screenshot upon a disk backup start check box The screenshots will be shown in Backup Explorer on the Disks and partitions tab Every screenshot corresponds to its own disk backup version Thus switching between the backup versions on the time line you will see different screenshots and will be able to find the required backup version faster 3 10 10 Error handling When the program encountered an error while performing backup it stops the backup process and displays a message waiting for a response on how to handle the error If you set an error handling policy the program will not stop the backup process and warn you about an error with a message but will simply handle the error according to the set rules and continue working You can set the following error handling policy 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
213. p versions created during the previous week and from the beginning of the current week to the beginning of today When today is Thursday Friday Saturday or Sunday the week interval is named This week In such cases the time line shows backup versions created from the beginning of the current week to the beginning of today The month interval can be named either Month ago or This month When today is any date from the 1st to 15th day of the month the month interval is named Month ago In that case the time line shows backup versions created during the previous month and from the beginning of the current month to the week interval When today is any date from the 16th to 31st day of the month the month interval is named This month In that case the time line shows backup versions created from the beginning of the current month to the week interval The This year interval shows backup versions created from the beginning of the current year to the month interval 28 Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 The Older interval shows backup versions created from earlier than the beginning of the current year Working with time intervals and backup versions Time intervals may be expanded when the number of backup versions fits onto the time line or folded into a square block When a time interval is expanded the squares representing backup versions may contain a warning or error icon Such an icon indicates th
214. p versions for the last 6 months plus the initial full backup version that may be kept for a longer period Required storage space depends on the number of versions and their sizes File backup version chain According to the specified schedule or when you run backup manually the program creates 1 full and 6 incremental backup versions then again 1 full and 6 incremental versions and so on The versions will be stored for 1 month After the period the program analyzes if the oldest backup versions may be deleted It depends on the version chain consistency To keep the consistency the program deletes the oldest versions by chains 1 full 6 incremental backup versions after creating a new analogous version chain Backup scheduler setting daily Result you have backup versions for every day of the last month Required storage space depends on the number of versions and their sizes 3 10 1 3 Custom scheme Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition also allows you to create your own backup scheme The scheme can be based on creating full differential or incremental backup versions So first of all select one of the backup methods in the appropriate box Full p 35 Select this method if you want to create only full backup versions Differential p 35 Select this method if you want to create backup chains containing only full and differential backup versions You can configure the scheme by using one of the following option
215. peration An operation that creates a copy of the data that exists on a machine s hard disk for the purpose of recovering or reverting the data to a specified date and time Backup settings A set of rules configured by a user when creating a new backup The rules control the backup process Later you can edit the backup settings to change or optimize the backup process Backup version The result of a single backup operation p 164 Physically it is a file or a set of files that contains a copy of the backed up data as of a specific date and time Backup version files created by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition have a TIB extension The TIB files resulting from consolidation of backup versions are also called backup versions Backup version chain Sequence of minimum 2 backup versions p 164 that consist of the first full backup version and the subsequent one or more incremental or differential backup versions Backup version chain continues till the next full backup version if any Bootable media A physical media CD DVD USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine BIOS as a boot device that contains stanalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Bootable media is most often used to recover an operating system that cannot start access and back up the data that has survived in a corrupted system deploy an operating system on bare metal create basic or dy
216. program always makes a full backup of the source data You cannot make a reserve copy in the form of an incremental or differential backup even in tib format Also remember that you will pay for the enhanced convenience and increased security of your data by the time required for performing the backup because normal backup and reserve copying are performed one at a time and not simultaneously Please be aware that built in support of zip files in Windows does not cover operations with multivolume zip archives and with zip archives exceeding 4GB in size or which contain files of more than 4GB each Also remember that CD DVDs are not supported as locations for reserve copies 3 10 8 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 The following settings are available Place Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Full version on media Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 Place Acronis System Report on media Acronis System Report the component allows you to generate system report that is used for collecting information about your system in case of any program problem Report generation will be available
217. program estimates the space required for operation of the One Click Backup tool 2 If there is an external hard drive with enough free space the backups will be stored on that drive because such backup location will provide better protection for your computer 3 If the first option is unavailable but you have at least two internal hard drives the program will back up to a non system hard drive using a partition with the maximum free space 4 If your computer has only one hard drive with several partitions not counting hidden ones then the program will use the non system partition with maximum free space 1 3 1 2 Backup assistant If you want to protect your data but you are not sure what data to protect and how to do this the backup assistant will help you to make an optimum choice In a few simple steps you will create a backup of your data The backup will allow you to recover your data to a known good state in case of corruption Now let s go through the backup assistant steps together Click Use backup assistant on the Welcome screen Then decide for yourself What do you want to back up My computer select this item to back up your system partition Such a backup allows you to protect all data on your system partition and recover your system if needed To better protect your system from a crash you must create a bootable rescue media or activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager This will allow you to recover your system if Wind
218. pt is familiar to those who use a Windows Vista and Windows 7 feature called Previous versions of files This feature allows you to restore a file as it existed on a particular date and time A backup version allows you to recover your data in a similar way This could be useful when trying to find damaged or deleted files Simply browse through the backup versions in the Acronis Backup Explorer until you find the backup version containing the required files Additionally you can recover different saved versions of the found files Snapshots Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition uses snapshot technology which permits you to create system partition backups even while running Windows with files open for reading and writing Rebooting the computer is not necessary 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 The Acronis driver also continues 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 If they are not the driver saves the data on the sectors to be overwritten to a special buffer Overwriting will then proceed All of the partition sectors of the point in time will be backed
219. quent backup versions will be saved to the new location If you change the backup destination by editing the backup settings only new backup versions will be saved to the new location The earlier backup versions will remain in the old location Remove from the list removes the current backup from the backup list shown in the My backups area This operation also turns off the scheduling of the removed backup if a schedule was set but it does not delete the backup files The Operations menu of backups created on another computer and added to the backup list without importing the backup settings will have less items To collapse an expanded backup box into a narrow strip right click in the free area of the box and select Collapse in the shortcut menu You can also collapse an expanded backup box by double clicking on it To expand a collapsed box right click in the free area of the box and select Expand in the shortcut menu or double click on the box When a backup box is collapsed the Operations menu contains additional items related to backup and recovery operations available for the backup Back up now adds a new backup version to the existing backup or replaces the existing backup version depending on the backup scheme being used Explore and recover opens the Backup Explorer window To turn on or change the schedule for the selected backup click the link to the right of Schedule For more information s
220. r f Weekly Every First xij Tesda Zj mn oon M 5 NS 7 9 T Monthly s 9 Mu 2 3 1 s se Upon event 15 T ids AB ol 9D 2 22023 4124 26 27 28 29 30 4 3E Start at 12 00 PM Advanced settings Run the backup only when the computer is idle v Wake up the sleeping hibernating computer Missed backup V Run at system startup f 8B Do not schedule r Cancel You can choose and set up one of the following backup or validation frequencies Daily p 121 the operation will be executed once a day or more frequently Weekly p 121 the operation will be executed once a week or several times a week on the selected days Monthly p 121 the operation will be executed once a month or several times a month on the selected dates Upon event p 122 the operation will be executed upon an event Clicking the Do not schedule button turns off the scheduler for the current operation In this case the backup or validation will run only when you click Back up now or Validate backup respectively in the main window Advanced settings Clicking Advanced settings allows you to specify the following additional settings for backup and validation To postpone a scheduled operation until the next time the computer is not in use a screen saver is displayed or computer is locked select the Run the backup only when the computer is idle check box If you schedule validation the check box will change to Run the validation only wh
221. ree space after the newly resized partition as will be needed for the remaining partitions Select a disk letter and partition type When you finish the settings click OK to confirm them and return to the main Disk Recovery window You can also place the unallocated space before the partition by selecting the Before partition radio button Partition Properties o tas Specify the partition properties Letter D x Type Primary X D 10 3 GB a Partition Used space 7 6 GB Total size 10 3 Gh Unallocated space Size 5 7 GB Position Before partition After partition Do not reduce size OK l Cancel 6 Select the next partition s check box 7 Select the unallocated space on the destination hard disk The program will create a partition occupying the entire unallocated space 8 Make the settings for the second partition Leave enough unallocated space for other partitions to be recovered 9 Select the next partition etc 10 Repeat the above actions until you handle all partitions in the backup 11 Click Recover now to recover all partitions to the destination hard disk 4 4 Recovering a disk backup to a different disk under rescue media Recovery of a disk backup containing several partitions to a hard disk that has a different capacity is one of the most complicated operations This is especially true when the original hard disk you have backed up has a hidden diagnostic or recovery par
222. resize and relocate the partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse on the horizontal bar on the screen Or you can enter corresponding values into the appropriate fields Partition size Free space before Free space after Remember that when resizing a partition you need to leave enough unallocated free space for a second partition Usually the free space before partitions is equal to zero Click Accept when the partition is the size you want and then click Next Begin specifying the settings for the second partition Click New location and then select unallocated space on the destination disk that will receive the second partition Click Accept Check the partition type change if necessary Specify the partition size which by default is equal to the original size Usually there is no free space after the last partition Therefore allocate all of the unallocated space 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 exit the standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Windows should not see both the new and old drive during the first boot after recovery because this could result in problems booting Windows If you upgrade the old drive to a larg
223. right click in the right pane and select Choose Columns in the shortcut menu Then flag the columns you want to display You can also change the display order of columns using the Move Up and Move Down buttons You can change the width of a column by dragging its borders with the mouse 6 8 Backup information The backup information window provides detailed information about the selected backup Path the location where the backup is stored In case it is an incremental or differential backup the location may be different from the location where the full backup is stored Backup method may be full incremental or differential For more information about types of backup see What is a full incremental or differential backup Backup file type either Acronis tib or zip compressed type Zip extension belongs only to files and or folders backups while tib extension may belong either to disk partition or file folder backups Created the date and time when the backup was created Comments if you have entered comments in the Comments step of the Backup Wizard they will be shown here 7 Tools amp Utilities Acronis Tools amp Utilities include Protection tools Conversion tools Disk management utilities Security and privacy utilities Mounting tools and Backup settings transfer tools Protection tools Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Allows you to start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition without loading the op
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225. roller 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 7 3 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 O s also known as samples Using logical data encoding methods in current hard disks 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 knowle
226. rrying out any backup especially image backups It is advisable to scan the system for viruses and malware to ensure that the backup does not contain any surprises In addition you may want to perform disk defragmentation before backing up that disk 6 2 1 Deciding where to store your backups First of all you should decide where to store your backups Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition supports quite a few of storage devices For more information see Supported storage media p 12 Some of the supported storage locations are discussed below Hard disk drives 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 An external drive enhances the security of your data because you can keep it off site for example at home if you back up your office computer and vice versa 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 especially if your computer supports USB 3 0 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 This reduces the chance of data transfer errors during backup recovery Home file server NAS or NDAS If you have a Gigabit Ethernet h
227. rs can help in correctly identifying the disks and partitions 4 8 Backup protection dialog box A backup file can be protected with a password You can set password protection in backup options while creating a backup If you try to recover data from a password protected backup mount it or append an incremental backup to such a backup the program will ask for the password in a special window allowing access only to authorized users In this case you must specify the correct password for the selected backup file Only then will you be able to proceed with the selected operation 4 9 Arranging boot order 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 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 B
228. run backup immediately You can also delay the start of backup for up to 6 hours by clicking the down arrow to the right of this button and selecting a delay interval from the dropdown list When you need to change the default backup options click File backup options and set the options you require You can also change the default backup scheme by clicking on the appropriate link For more information see Backup schemes p 48 If you want to run the backup on a schedule click the Turn on link to set up a schedule for more information see Scheduling p 120 To run the backup on the schedule click the down arrow to the right of the Back up now button and select Later in the drop down list The backup with the settings you have made will run according to the schedule You can also start the backup manually later on the main screen The program allows you to back up files by categories For more information see Data categories p 40 You can exclude hidden or system files and folders from backup as well as files matching the criteria you specify To add exclusion criteria click the Add link to the right of Exclusions While adding criteria you can use the common Windows wildcard characters For more information see Excluding items from backup 3 4 1 Data categories The program allows you to back up files by categories When selecting the file category ies you automatically select for backup all files of associated types found on the
229. s Create only differential versions after the initial full version select this item to create only one backup version chain Automatic cleanup is not available for this option Create a full version after every n differential versions select this item to create several backup version chains This is a more reliable but more space consuming backup scheme Incremental p 35 Select this method if you want to create backup chains containing only full and incremental backup versions You can configure the scheme by using one of the following options Create only incremental versions after the initial full version select this item to create only one backup version chain Automatic cleanup is not available for this option Create a full version after every n incremental versions select this item to create several backup version chains This is a more reliable but more space consuming backup scheme Automatic cleanup rules To delete obsolete backup versions automatically you can set one of the following cleanup rules Delete versions older than defined period available for full method only Select this option to limit the age of backup versions All versions that are older than the specified period will be automatically deleted Delete version chains older than defined period available for incremental and differential methods only Select this option to limit the age of backup version chains The oldest
230. s a user name and password While entering hostnames and IP addresses you can use and wildcards Click Show network places to view the list of network places that you visited using the credentials you want to delete 7 3 2 4 Preview When the scanning is finished its results will be available in the upper part of the wizard window By default all system components are scanned for clean up If you want to customize which of the system components should be scanned and which should not change the default clean up settings You can view the search results and manually select unselect the items you wish to clean up keep In order to help you with making the right choice all the components are provided with brief descriptions Just click on the component s name and its description will be displayed in the right side of the window To select unselect a component Expand the System Components item in the System Clean up tree and make sure that the component you wish to clean up is selected If you do not want to clean up a component simply clear its check box f required you can dig deeper by expanding a component and selecting unselecting its contents Having specified the components for clean up click the Clean up button to continue Windows Vista and Windows 7 do not keep information on file and computer searches Furthermore information on opened saved files is stored in the registry differently so the wizard shows this in
231. s 7 operating systems for mounting disk images without using Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition Convert Windows backup to Acronis backup Use the feature to convert a backup file format from vhd to tib The latter is the native file format of Acronis backups Backup settings transfer tools Import backup settings Allows you to get backup settings from another computer Export backup settings Allows you to copy the settings of your backups and move them to another computer 7 1 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager 7 1 1 How it works The Acronis Startup Recovery Manager lets you start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition without loading the operating system With this feature you can use Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition by itself to recover damaged partitions even if the operating system won t boot Unlike booting from Acronis removable media you will not need a separate media or network connection to start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 7 1 2 How to use To be able to use Acronis Startup Recovery Manager at boot time prepare as follows 1 Install Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 2 Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Acronis Startup Recovery Manager mem E Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Acronis Startup Recovery Manager allows you to recover your computer at boot time before the operating system starts gt Activate If F11 is pressed at boot time A
232. s from zip backups by clicking on a line with a filename in the browser window To recover files found in zip backups by Google Desktop use Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition s Recovery feature 6 6 2 2 Using Windows Search with Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition If 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 indexing 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 http www microsoft com windows products winfamily desktopsearch choose windowssearch4 m spx tab Install 20It Double click on the downloaded file and follow the instructions for installation Windows Search does not support indexing of zip files content 1 Toregister the plug in click the down arrow to the right of the Search field at the upper right corner of the main program window Then choose Search options in the drop down menu and select the Windows Search check box You can verify that the tib files indexing 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 To open the Indexing Options window in Windows Vista
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234. scue media contents selection You can select which components of Acronis programs you want to place on the bootable media If you have other Acronis products installed on your computer such as Acronis Disk Director Suite the bootable versions of these programs components will be offered as well Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition offers the following components Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 a system report that is used for collecting information about your system in case of any program problem Report generation will be available before you start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition from the bootable media The generated system report can be saved to a USB flash drive Acronis Media Builder cj Ew Rescue media contents selection Select the bootable components of the Acronis products to be placed on the bootable media Once the media is created you will be able to boot a computer into the media and run the selected components 4 V Q9 Acronis True Image Home 201 n EB Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition V Q2 Acronis True Image Home VIA Acronis System Report Version 14 0 6005 Language English 4 m D tast automatically afte
235. secondary master for IDE hard drives Some motherboards have a so called boot menu opened by pressing a certain key or key combination for instance F12 The boot menu allows selecting the boot device from a list of bootable devices without changing the BIOS setup 4 10 Recovery options In the Disk Recovery Options File Recovery Options and E mail Recovery Options windows you can configure options for a disk partition file and e mail recovery processes respectively After you installed the application all options are set to the initial values You can change them for your current recovery operation only or for all further recovery operations as well Select the Save the settings as default check box to apply the modified settings to all further recovery operations by default Note that disk recovery options file recovery options and e mail recovery options are fully independent and you should configure them separately If you want to reset all the modified options to their initial values that were set after the product installation click the Reset to initial settings button In this section Pre Post commands for recovery cccscccesssecssssecsseceeseecseeeesaeeeeseecesees 79 Validation option eot tier cate ev ee eee date de Dad ea aa Ra ead 79 Computer restart cuite res cec ties ee idee ce Lala seed eerta rcd e as 80 File irecovery options terit reet narrat eant ean ce e e eei ende 80 Overwrite file options
236. sk or path e x E mo x j tb x d OK Cancel In addition you can exclude files meeting the criteria you specify To do this select the Files matching the following criteria check box enter the exclusion criterion and then click Add By default the program excludes from backups files with the following extensions tmp and tib You can enter explicit file names for exclusion from the backup file ext all such files will be excluded from the backup C file ext the file ext file on the C disk will be excluded You can also use wildcards ext all files with a ext extension will be excluded C ext files located in the root of partition C with a ext extension will be excluded f name files with any extension and named f name will be excluded name ext all files with a ext extension having six letters in their names starting with any two symbols and ending with name will be excluded To delete a criterion for example added by mistake click the Delete icon to the right of the criterion To cancel changes in the items to be excluded click Cancel After you make changes in the items to be excluded click OK to confirm the changes and exit from the What to exclude window 5 3 5 3 Scheduling The Scheduler window allows you to specify the online backup task execution settings i Online Backup Scheduler 9j Schedule your backup operation
237. ssionals recommend that you have at least two copies of your system backup three are even better It is further recommended to keep one copy of a backup in a 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition deletes the target partition or disk If you have just a single backup you are at great risk The moment the system partition is deleted on the computer being recovered the only thing you have is the image being recovered If the image is corrupted you will not be able to recover the system 2 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 We recommend to print the following sections Recovering your system after a crash and Recovering partitions and disks Keep the printed material in a safe place along with the rescue CD DVD or another rescue media 6 2 Preparing for backups If you would like to create your own backup strategy you will need to consider at least the following issues where to store your backups what data to back up and how often The below sections will discuss these issues in detail Incidentally it would be a good idea to make some additional preparations before ca
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239. ta the program needs the encryption key that you should specify when you register your computer An encryption key is a unique alphanumeric code like a password You can specify any set of characters you like Note that the key is case sensitive While attempting to access the encrypted data the program asks you to enter the encryption key Remember the encryption key The key is known only to you Acronis do not know the key and do not have the means for retrieving the forgotten key If the desired computer is already registered Select the registered computer icon Type the encryption key if necessary Click the Continue button Removing a computer This screen allows you to remove a computer from the registered computers list 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 by its name and click the Remove button then click Yes in the confirmation window 5 3 2 1 Data encryption in Online Backup To protect your data on the online storage from unauthorized access you can use encryption In this case your data will be stored on the online storage in encrypted form To encrypt and decrypt your data the program needs the encryption key that you should specify when you register your computer An encryption key is a unique alphanumeric code like a password You can specify any set of characters yo
240. ta files Click Browse to specify another location Retry to try again or click Cancel To complete the backup you may either try to free up some space on the disk and click Retry or select another storage device To choose the latter option click Browse in the confirmation window The Browse for Destination window appears Browse for Destination New folder e 2 Computer Name Size Type Date RE Desktop E My system 3420837KB TIBfile 18 Aug 10 11 43 40 Lib adm My systemQ 3421060 KB TIB file 18 Aug 10 11 51 16 IF My Documents My systemq2 10996 KB TIB file 18 Aug 10 12 12 38 e Floppy Disk Drive A My systemd 3 13779 KB TIB file 18 Aug 10 12 15 34 amp Local Disk C My systema4 13821 KB TIB file 18 Aug 10 12 16 34 cx New Volume D My system 5 16796 KB TIB file 18 Aug 10 12 18 52 4 cw New Volume E J My backups eli DVD Drive F MTiX W a Network File name My_system Add date date Save as type Acronis backup tib X Ok m Cancel a The left pane shows the storage locations available on your computer After you select a suitable location assign a name for the file that will contain the remaining data being backed up You can 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 Home 2011 Netbook Edition will complete the backup As was already menti
241. tbook Edition Windows should not see both the new and old drive during the first boot after recovery because this could result in problems booting Windows If you upgrade the old drive to a larger capacity new one disconnect the old drive before the first boot 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 order 4 5 Recovering data from file level backups You will usually start recovering files and folders from Acronis Backup Explorer When recovering a specific file version you will start recovery from the View Versions window In either case starting recovery opens the File Recovery window Let s consider recovery of files and folders from the Backup Explorer 1 Select in the Backup Explorer the files and folders you want to recover For more information on selection in the Backup Explorer see Files and folders tab p 26 Click Recover to start recovery This will open the File Recovery window File Recovery oes L Where to recover your files Choose recovery destination for the selected 48 files and 27 folders 9 Original location New location File recovery options Cancel 2 Select a destination on your computer to where
242. te you need using the arrows on the time scale click the date and select a time To go to the oldest backup date fora selected file or folder click the Left arrow button below the left end of the time scale To return to the most recent backup date click the Right arrow button below the right end of the time scale To speed up the searching process you can switch the time scale to days mode or to months mode and scroll days or months respectively To switch to the months mode click on a month name on the time scale Selecting the required month on the month scale automatically returns you to the days mode 105 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Selecting data The main area displays the data backed up on the Online Storage The area contains the folder tree on the left and the folder contents pane on the right You can select the items using both panes To select multiple files folders you can use the Ctrl and Shift keys like in Windows Explorer After you finish selection right click and select the required action in the shortcut menu Shortcut menu items Open opens a folder or recovers the file to a temporary folder and then opens the file using the associated application Recover recovers the selected file or folder View Versions opens the window that contains the list of the selected file s versions In the window you can select the version you want to recover or delete unneeded versions not available for fold
243. the My Disks link under Recover on the Welcome screen 4 Choose the vhd backup file to be used for recovery by its creation date When the required vhd backup is not shown click Browse choose Windows Backup Archives vhd in the Files of type field and locate the backup for recovery 8 Even if the required vhd backup is shown on the screen after you choose it Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition may display the following message Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition cannot detect volume 1 of Backup Name archive where Backup Name is the name of the chosen backup This is because disk letters in the standalone Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition may differ from those in Windows and the path to this backup stored in the metadata information will point to the wrong location In such case click Browse choose Windows Backup Archives vhd in the Files of type field and locate the backup for recovery At the next step select Recover whole disks and partitions if it is not selected and click Next Select the system partition at the What to recover step Usually you will not need to recover the MBR Then specify the settings of the selected system partition location type primary active and size When recovering the partition to the original location you do not need to make any setting changes Read the Summary of the recovery operations and then click Proceed You can also recover partitions an
244. the backup settings and schedule To be able to perform the unavailable operations you may recreate the settings of the added backup by selecting Operations Recreate backup settings for more information see Operations menu later in this section My backups area The area shows the backups you already have It provides access to all operations with the existing backups and allows you to start recovery of your data To start recovery of the latest backup select the backup containing the data you need to recover and then click Recover When an image backup contains more than one backup version click the Explore all versions link below the Recover button This will open the Acronis Backup Explorer You can also open the Acronis Backup Explorer by clicking on the backup name You can update an existing backup at any time by selecting it in the backup list and clicking Back up now If you want to explore all of the backups you have click the My backups link The program will open the Acronis Backup Explorer You will be able to explore the existing backups using the time line For more information on using the time line for navigating through backups see Time line p 27 Operations menu i Recover Back up now Updated 12 Aug 10 Schedule Off Turn on Explore and recover Operations Open backup location 4 Edit backup settings Validate backup 3 Delete backup Create shortcut More Consolidate versions
245. the dropdown list Note that you will have to specify your Windows account name and password This is done for confidentiality reasons The program will back up only the e mail messages and settings related to the specified account E mail data of all other accounts will not be backed up To specify the credentials Enter the user name in the appropriate field Enter the password in the appropriate field If you do not enter the password or enter an incorrect password the program will notify you that the credentials are not valid When you need to change the default backup options click E mail backup options and set the options as required You can also change the default backup scheme by clicking on the appropriate link For more information see Backup schemes p 48 If you want to run the backup on a schedule click the Turn on link to set up a schedule for more information see Scheduling p 120 To run the backup on the schedule click the down arrow to the right of the Back up now button and select Later in the drop down list The backup where you have made the settings will run according to the schedule You can also start the backup manually later on the main screen 3 6 Making reserve copies of your backups You can create reserve copies of your backups and save them on the file system a network drive or a USB flash drive In addition to enhancing the backed up data security with replication this feature allows you to
246. the validation will not run In a month August 15 at 12 15 the validation will start again As before your computer must be in the screen saver state The same will occur on September 15 and so on You can change the default settings and specify your own schedule This may be useful if you set a custom backup scheme with incremental backups For example you may want to schedule validation of all backup versions the initial full backup version and subsequent incremental backup versions once a week For more information see Scheduling p 120 3 10 7 Backup reserve copy You can create reserve copies of your backups and save them on the file system a network drive or a USB flash drive To make a reserve copy Select the Create a reserve copy of my backups check box Click Set location and specify a location for the backup copies Choose one of the reserving methods duplicate the backups as tib files make reserve copies as zip archives copy the files and or folders to a specified location as is If you choose reserve copies to be made in the tib format all backup options such as backup compression backup splitting etc will be inherited from the source backup You can also protect the tib backup reserve copy with a password To do so click Set password and specify a password for the reserve copy A reserve copy always contains all the files selected for backup that is when creating a reserve copy the
247. tion It will not back up pagefile sys under Windows XP and later and it will not back up 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 can still use the Back up sector by sector option that lets you include all of the sectors of a hard disk in an image A partition image includes all files and folders including hidden and system files boot record and FAT file allocation table It also includes 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 and the zero track with the master boot record MBR By default files in all Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition backups have a tib extension This extension should not be changed It is important to note that you can recover files and folders from both file backups and from disk partition images To do so mount the image as a virtual disk see Mounting an image p 149 or use Acronis Backup Explorer to select the files and or folders you need to recover from the disk partition backup 3 2 Full incremental and differential backups Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition offers you three backup methods 1 Full contains all of the data at the moment of the backup creation It forms a base for further incremental or differential backups It can also be use
248. tition Complete the preparations described in Preparing for recovery p 64 If you have not already done so assign unique names labels to the partitions of your computer s disks This will allow for identification of the partitions by their names and not by the disk letters Disk letters may differ when booting from the rescue media The names will help you find the drive containing your backups as well as the target new drive Information on partition sizes drive capacities their manufacturers and model numbers can also help to correctly identify the drives It is highly recommended to install the new hard drive to the same position in the computer and to use the same cable and connector that was used for the original drive 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 4 4 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 In addition we assume that the 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 This usually gives the best recovery results Attach the external drive if it contains the backup to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is powered on This
249. to appearance of the relevant steps Settings of partition Please 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 cases involving recovery of non hidden partitions the physical order of the partitions on the new disk is not significant Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition automatically fixes the appropriate Windows loader files 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 p 73 You can 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 Since you are recovering to the new disk click New location Select the destination disk by its assigned name or by its capacity 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 Proceed to specifying the partition size by clicking Change default in the Partition size area The partition will occupy the entire new disk by default You can
250. ty of all of the information on your PC It can back up the operating system applications settings and all of your data while also securely destroying any confidential data you no longer need With this software you can back up selected files and folders settings and messages of Microsoft e mail clients or even the entire disk drive or selected partitions Acronis Online Backup will allow you to store your most important files on a remote storage Your data will be protected even if your computer is lost stolen or destroyed Should your disk drive become damaged or your system attacked by a virus or malware you can recover the backed up data quickly and easily eliminating hours or days of work trying to rebuild your disk drive s data and applications from scratch Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition provides you with all the essential tools to recover your computer system should a disaster occur such as losing data accidentally deleting critical files or folders or suffering a complete hard disk crash If failures occur that block access to information or affect system operation you will be able to recover the system and the lost data easily The unique technology developed by Acronis and implemented in Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition allows you to perform exact sector by sector disk backups This includes backups of all operating systems applications and configuration files personal settings and data Acronis
251. u like Note that the key is case sensitive An encryption key cannot be retrieved Please remember the key that you specify during your computer registration While attempting to access the encrypted data the program asks you to enter the encryption key 5 3 2 2 Why does the program ask for the key The program will ask you to enter the encryption key when it needs to be used for decrypting the backed up data from the selected computer on the Online Storage You will not be able to access the data until you provide the correct key To access the data type in the encryption key and click OK 5 3 3 Setting up online backup for a new computer After registering a new computer on Acronis Online Storage is complete you are offered to specify what to back up from this computer and when to do that Clicking the appropriate link opens the Items to Back Up Selection window where you can specify the files and folders you want to back up on the Online Storage For more information see Selecting items to back up p 91 Having made the selection click the Save and Close button to return to the previous window for setting a schedule for online backup or for starting the backup manually To set an online backup schedule click the link with the default backup schedule settings Never and then turn on the scheduler by clicking the Turn On button For more information on scheduling the online backup task see Scheduling p 94 Clicking the Save
252. umber in this column opens the View Versions window where you can select the version you want to recover Please note that Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition does not search files in encrypted and password protected tib backups In addition the program does not search files in zip backups created by Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 6 6 2 Windows Search and Google Desktop integration Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition has plug ins for Google Desktop and Windows Search If you use any of these search engines on your computer you can install an appropriate plug in for indexing your backups Indexing will speed up searches in the backups After indexing you will be able to search backup content by entering a filename into the Google Desktop or Windows Search deskbar query field without opening Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition 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 backup or where it was before Seein which backup a given file is stored and recover that backup In addition to indexing the files in backups by their names the Google Desktop and Windows Search provide Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition with the ability to perform full text indexing of many files in your backups You will be able to use this feature and perform searc
253. up intact and an exact image of the partition will be created Backup file format Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition usually saves backup data in the proprietary tib format using compression This reduces the amount of needed storage space It also allows for backward compatibility with the previous Acronis True Image Home Netbook Edition version When 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 for the verification of data integrity The data from tib file backups can be recovered only through the Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition program This may be done in Windows or in the recovery environment However Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition is also able to save data in the well known zip format This allows you to retrieve files from backups anywhere without using Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition For example you can back up files to a USB stick and retrieve files from such backups on your notebook without installing Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition The most widely used operating systems Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X have built in support for the zip file format Backup validation The backup validation feature allows you to confirm that your system can be recovered As mentioned above the program adds checksum values to the data blocks being backed up During backup va
254. ur system in case of a disaster A single backup may turn out to be corrupted and system recovery will be impossible The timing of subsequent system disk backups depends on how often you install new applications updates etc In many cases it is sufficient to schedule a new system backup once a month You may first try to schedule incremental backups and then have a look at the incremental backup size after the next backup runs If the size is comparable to that of the initial full backup it makes sense to create only full backups Recovery from a full backup takes less time than from a backup chain that includes a full backup and several incremental ones Furthermore corruption of an incremental backup in a chain renders the later backups in the chain useless For more detailed information see Full incremental and differential backups p 35 In Windows Vista and Windows 7 incremental or differential backups may become large because these operating systems by default perform such background tasks as defragmentation indexing etc Those tasks change file locations on the disk Incremental backups reflect the changes as they include the sectors changed since the previous backup If you like trying new applications games and utilities it is advisable to have a backup of your clean system It is made after installing only Windows and must have applications e g Microsoft Office an antivirus product favorite utilities etc Thereafter y
255. ust 12 2010 3 28 50 PM Thursday August 12 2010 3 29 12 PM Thursday August 12 2010 3 29 22 PM Thursday August 12 2010 3 29 36 PM Open J Recover Select the required version by its backup time and click the Recover button This will open the File Recovery window Select the destination and recover the file version to the folder of your choice For more information see Recovering data from file level backups p 74 You can also recover the version by dragging it into a selected folder in Windows Explorer To choose the correct version you can open the version in the associated application and view the file contents Choose the version by its backup time and then click the Open button Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition will recover the file version to a temporary folder Then it will open the file using the associated application 4 7 How to use Acronis Startup Recovery Manager The Acronis Startup Recovery Manager enables you to start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition on a local computer without loading the operating system If Windows won t load this feature allows you to run Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition by itself to recover damaged partitions To be able to use Acronis Startup Recovery Manager at boot time Click Tools amp Utilities on the menu bar and select Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Click the Activate button Acronis Startup Recovery Manager E Acron
256. version chain will be deleted only if after deletion the age of the oldest version exceeds the specified period Store no more than n recent versions available for full method only Select this option to limit the maximum number of backup versions When the number of versions exceeds the specified value the oldest backup version will be automatically deleted Store no more than n recent version chains available for incremental and differential methods only Select this option to limit the maximum number of backup version chains When the number of version chains exceeds the specified value the oldest backup version chain will be automatically deleted Keep size of the backup no more than defined size Select this option to limit maximum size of the backup After creating a new backup version the program checks whether the total backup size exceeds the specified value If it s true the oldest backup version will be deleted The first backup version option Often the first version of any backup is one of the most valuable versions This is true because it stores the initial data state for example your system partition with recently installed Windows or some other stable data state for example data after a successful virus check Do not delete the first version of the backup Select this check box to keep the initial data state The program will create two initial full backup versions The first version will be exclude
257. will not have to wait until the operation completion The program will perform the backup and turn off your computer automatically This option is also useful when you schedule your backups For example you may want to perform backups every weekday in the evening to save all your work Schedule the backup and select the check box After that you may leave your computer when you finish your work knowing that the critical data will be backed up and the computer will be turned off 3 10 12 File level security settings for backup You can specify security settings for backed up files these settings relate only to file folder backups Preserve file security settings in backups selecting this option will preserve all the security properties permissions assigned to groups or users of the backup files for further recovery By default files and folders are saved in the backup with their original Windows security settings i e permissions for read write execute and so on for each user or user group set in file Properties Security If you recover a secured file folder on a computer without the user specified in the permissions you may not be able to read or modify this file To eliminate this kind of problem you can disable preserving file security settings in backups Then the recovered files folders will always inherit the permissions from the folder to which they are recovered parent folder or disk if recovered to the root Or you
258. xt system start up To do so select the If missed run the task at startup check box If there is no Internet connection when the scheduled time comes you can force the missed backup to run when an Internet connection is established To do so select the Run when the connection is established check box Monthly execution parameters You can set up the following parameters for monthly task execution Frequency Monthly If you select Every choose a numeral and the day of the week from the dropdown lists example First Monday the backup will be performed on the first Monday of every month If you select On choose the date s for backup execution example you may want the task to be run on the 10th 20th and Last day of the month Start either at a certain time or upon a certain event If you select At set the task s start time Enter hours and minutes manually or set the desired start time by using the up and down buttons If you select Upon event choose the event you need At user logon At user logoff At system startup or At system shutdown To run a backup only at the first occurrence of the event select the Once a day only box Advanced settings To postpone a scheduled task until the next time the computer is not in use screen saver is displayed or computer is locked select the Run the task only when the computer is idle check box If the computer is switched off when the scheduled time comes the backup won t be perf
259. ze and location and then click Next Specify the settings for the second partition which in this case is your system partition Click New location and 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 which 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 9 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 10 When the operation finishes proceed to MBR recovery You need to recover the MBR because the PC manufacturer could change the generic Windows MBR or a sector on the track 0 to provide access to the hidden partition 11 Reselect the same backup Then 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 12 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 Home 2011 Ne

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