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1. Weekly Monthly Run the task every hour s until the end of the day Optional steps Resultant schedule Run the task at 2 37 00 PM every day Backup method Run with credentials What to exclude User name TW HOMElAdministrator Backup options Password eeeee Automatic consolidation Run the task only when the computer is idle Con 7 1f missed run the task at startup 13 1 5 Setting up weekly execution If you choose weekly execution set the Start time specify the task execution periodicity in the Run the task every x week s on box every week every two weeks etc and select the days on which to execute the task You can also specify the task Start date Reduked steps Scheduling Run this task weekly What to back up Do not schedule Start at oz arem E hrs once only Upon event Run the taskevery 1 week s on V Monday E Thursday Tuesday V Wednesday Friday Saturday Sunday Este em TATT Periodically Daily Weekly Monthly w v Optional steps Resultant schedule Run the task at 2 37 00 PM every week on Monday Wednesday Friday Backup method Run with credentials What to exclude Username TW HOME Administrator Backup options Password 0 Automatic consolidation E Run the task only when the computer is idle Comments E If missed run the task at startup 13 1 6
2. m Path E My BackupsiSystemBackup 11 24 2009 tib As was already mentioned you can save full and incremental or differential backups to different locations For example you can save the initial full backup to an external USB hard drive and then burn the subsequent incremental backups or differential backups that are an even better choice to CDs or DVDs It is also possible to save such backups to a network share If you have saved backups belonging to the same backup chain to various places Acronis True Image Home may prompt you Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 65 for the locations of previous backups during data recovery in the case when the selected backup archive does not contain the files you want to recover or contains only a part of them 9 3 Backup Wizard detailed information Here we give detailed information on all steps of the Backup Wizard Let s go through all the steps 1 Start Acronis True Image Home Click Backup on the sidebar then select Disk and Partition Backup or File Backup in the right pane depending on what you want to back up Backup Wizard allows you to perform the following backups Disk and Partition Backup image backup of any set of disks partitions My Data file level backup of any set of files folders or entire file categories System State file level backup of the boot files registry protected Windows files and COM CLASS registration database
3. P AllLocations v Everything Te Documents E E mail Other 1 054 results E Acronis True Image Home Data Sources ODBC acronis htm 3ds max xml access 2000 xml access 2003 xml access 2007 xml access xp xml Unable to display preview amp 0S WS 0S 0S ey adobe photoshop cs3 xml i ig i adobe photoshop cs 9 xml after effects 7 xml iis is iis i amp i i bittorrent xml diskeeper administrator 10 xml easy screensaver 4 1 xml f secure is 2007 xml Windows Search results Windows Vista search results 146 xm P v b Search Results in Indexed Locations v 4 I my name myback Show only fall E mail Document Picture Music Other Advanced Search a Location B Indexed Locations v Name myback Date gt any 3 5 2008 Tags Addatag Size KB any xj Authors Add an author Include non indexed hidden and system files might be slow By Organize v ws M4 Save Search n Search Tools v ig Burn i Favorite Links Name Date modified Type Folder Authors Tags Sa MyBackup 3 5 2008 1 25 PM Acronis True Imag Desktop C Users IF Documents E Pictures Did you find what you were searching for I Music Advanced Search D Recently Changed IB searches a Public Folders m z m 1item Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 19 Other operations 19 1 Validating backup archives The
4. Nonstop Backup It What to Back Up Run the task at 5 08 00 AM every day Edit schedule I Browse Recovery 54 Options Update Backup Now Store no more than 10 versions of each file Delete versions older than 90 days Change cleanup options Tasks amp Log Try amp Decide Tools amp Utilities If you have performed backup on this computer before you will see how much Online storage space is occupied by the backed up files and folders The screen also shows the space occupied by the data backed up from other computers if any and the remaining free space on the Online storage in accordance with your quota When you are going to back up from the current computer for the first time or need to change the files and folders selected for online backup click What to Back Up This will open the What to Back Up window with two tabs Include and Exclude The Include tab displays your computer s file and folder tree The area to the right of the tree shows the contents of a selected folder This tab allows you to select individual files and folders for backing up as well as data categories For more information on categories see Selecting what data to back up p 66 Furthermore you can create a custom category by clicking Add new category For more information see Creating a custom data category for backups p 81 Select the files and folders that need to be backed up The Exclude tab enables hidden and system file
5. Backup location G System_C_ date tib gt Browse Optional steps Scheduling Backup method What to exclude Backup options Automatic consolidation A Initial execution of this task will use the full backup method By default subsequent runs will use the incremental method unless you change it on the backup method step Comments The completed steps are marked with green checkmarks The green arrow shows the current step After you complete all the required steps and come to the Finish step the program displays the Summary screen If you wish to omit the optional steps read the summary of the operation to be performed to make sure that the default settings satisfy you and then click Proceed to start the task Otherwise click Options to go to the optional steps where you can change the default settings for the current task Taskbar notification area icons During most of the operations special indicator icons appear in the Windows taskbar notification area the right portion of the status bar with the clock If you mouse over the icon you will see a tool tip indicating the operation s progress or state Right clicking on the icon opens a shortcut menu where you can change operation s status or cancel the operation if necessary This icon doesn t depend on the main program window being open It is present for background execution of scheduled tasks as well 5 2 Acronis One click Backup The Acronis One Click Backu
6. 5 000GB E C 1 4 658 GB NTFS bg 8GB Optional steps F Primary Logical J Dynamic E Acronis Secure Zone _ Unallocated Unsupported Next gt Cancel To select a partition click the corresponding rectangle You will see a red mark in the upper right corner indicating that the partition is selected You can select an entire hard disk or several disks for data destruction To do this click the rectangle corresponding to the hard disk with a device icon disk number and capacity You can simultaneously select several partitions located on different hard disk drives or on several disks as well as unallocated space on disks Click Next to continue If the disks and or partitions you have selected include the system disk or partition you will see a warning window Required steps Source selection Algorithm selection Ul ig T X Warning You have selected the active partition oO Primary Logical Dynamic D Acronis Secure Zone 5 Unallocated Unsupported Next gt _ cancel Be careful because clicking OK in this warning window and then Proceed in the Summary window will result in wiping the system partition containing your Windows operating system Acronis DriveCleanser utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction methods described in detail in Hard Disk Wiping Methods p 189 of this manual If you want t
7. 6 alternate sequences of 0x00 and OxFF 2 OxAA i e 0x00 OxFF 0x00 OxFF 0x00 OxFF OxAA Logical zeros 0x00 numbers to each byte of each sector for 6 to 4 secu rity level systems Randomly selected symbols numbers to each byte of each sector for 3 to 1 security level systems Peter Gutmann s method is very sophisticated It s based on his theory of hard disk information wiping see Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid State Memory Bruce Schneier offers a seven pass overwriting method in his Applied Cryptography book i pass OxFF gne pass 0x00 and then five times with a cryptographically secure pseudo random sequence Logical zeros 0x00 numbers to all sectors to wipe 25 Startup Parameters Additional parameters that can be applied prior to booting Linux kernel 25 1 Description Additional parameters that can be applied prior to booting Linux kernel Description The following parameters can be used to load Linux kernel in a special mode acpi off Disables ACPI and may help with a particular hardware configuration noapic Disables APIC Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller and may help with a particular hardware configuration nousb Disables loading of USB modules nousb2 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 Th
8. Windows Run List Local Disk F g Opened Saved Files History viS Mew Volume G I g User Credentials l Windows Prefetch Directory 22 5 5 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 r System Clean up You can view and change the current settings for the selected item 4 Fz System Clean up a 4 P System Components Commands b x Recycle Bin Show Commands k T Search by the criteria below l 97 Temporary file Hard Disk Free 5 bbc tems Enter all or part of the comi You can see a list of the commands to be removed from the p Find Computers List list according to your mask I a Find Files List x Press th b D Recently Used Documents List ness tne Show Comma commands to be removed fi Search is completed 4 items Found 4 CJ Windows Run List mask a UNE Show Commands fA Windows Run List E cmd E 9 Opened Saved Files History f iJ explorer E amp User Credentials Windows remembers the programs e fi f Windows Prefetch Directory that you have executed and run meconnig Here you can clean up this list 17J services msc 22 5 6 Network Places Filter setting Here y
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11. At the bottom of this window you can choose whether you want to get notifications when the operation is completed successfully check Add full log to the notification to add the full operation log to the message if the operation failed check Add full log to the notification to add the full operation log to the message during the operation when user interaction is required After setting up e mail notifications you can send a test mail message by clicking the appropriate button 19 2 2 WinPopup notification WinPopup notification is not available in Windows Vista and Windows 7 because these operating systems do not support the Messenger Service To set up WinPopup notification select Tools amp Utilities Options Notifications Messenger WinPopup Reset all EC der alc Reset the current to Geral Backup options Recovery options A Messenger WinPopup Local storage settings aes 5 Specify WinPopup settings for notifications Search options Notifications Computer name homecomputer E mail v Send notification upon operation s successful completion Messenger WinPopup v Send notification upon operation Failure Appearance Feedback v Send notification when user interaction is required Send test WinPopup message Provide the name of the computer to which notifications will be sent At the bottom of this window you can choose whether you want to
12. Choose Recover whole disks and partitions and select the Use Acronis Universal Restore box 5 Ifthe target hardware has a specific mass storage controller such as an SCSI RAID or Fibre Channel adapter for the hard disk s specify where to find the driver s for the specific hardware at the Drivers manager step If the driver s is stored on a diskette or CD select the Search removable media for device drivers box If some drivers are stored on a local hard disk or a network share select the Search for device drivers in the following locations box when it is not selected by default and specify the path to the driver s after clicking Add Search Path When the both boxes are selected at this step Acronis Universal Restore will use three sources for drivers the removable media the drivers storage folder s specified at this step and the Windows default driver storage folders in the image being restored The program will find the most suitable of all available drivers and install them into the restored system 6 Atthe What to recover step select the system partition then specify the settings for the target partition new system partition Make sure that the partition type is primary and active Usually you do not need to change the partition size which will be assigned automatically 7 Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step If you do not want to validate the backup click Proceed otherwise click Option
13. after clicking Proceed you will be asked to confirm the reboot Canceling the reboot will cancel the entire procedure After the clone process finishes you will be offered an option to shut down the computer by pressing any key This enables you to change the position of master slave jumpers and remove one of the hard drives Cloning a non system disk or a disk containing an operating system but one that is not currently active will proceed without the need to reboot After you click Proceed Acronis True Image Home will start cloning the old disk to the new disk indicating the progress in a special window You can stop this procedure by clicking Cancel In that case you will have to repartition and format the new disk or repeat the cloning procedure After the cloning operation is complete you will see the results message 21 Adding a new hard disk If you don t have enough space for your data you can either replace the old disk with a new higher capacity one data transfers to new disks are described in the previous chapter or add a new disk only to store data leaving the system on the old disk If the computer has a bay for another disk it would be easier to add a data disk drive than to clone a system drive To add a new disk you must first install it in your computer 21 1 Selecting a hard disk To start the Add New Disk Wizard select Tools amp Utilities Add New Disk in the main program menu Select the disk that you ve
14. oO Primary Logical Dynamic D Acronis Secure Zone 5 Unallocated Unsupported 166 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 After you click Proceed Acronis True Image Home will start creating new partition s indicating the progress in a special window You can stop this procedure by clicking Cancel You will then have to repartition and format the new disk or repeat the disk add procedure 22 Security and Privacy Tools Acronis True Image Home includes tools for secure destruction of data on an entire hard disk drive individual partitions as well as for erasing individual files and eliminating user system activity traces These tools ensure the security of your confidential information as well as maintain your privacy when you work with a PC because they clean up the evidence showing your actions records in various system files that you don t even know about This could include usernames and passwords If you need to securely destroy files or folders you select run File Shredder securely destroy data on selected partitions and or disks so it can t be recovered run Acronis DriveCleanser clean up Windows components folders files registry sections etc related to general system tasks which are capable of retaining user PC activity evidence run System Clean up 22 1 Using File Shredder The File Shredder enables quick permanent destruction of selected of files and folders To destroy permanently ce
15. AND OR NOT please take note of the upper case Only one logical operator is allowed the first one that occurs in a search string otherwise they are ignored and interpreted as search words All space separated words must be in a topic for successful match The Backup names area shows the archive files whose comments satisfy the search criterion Double clicking on an archive opens it for exploring 18 2 Windows Search and Google Desktop integration Acronis True Image Home has plug ins for Google Desktop and Windows Search WDS If you use any of these search engines on your computer Acronis True Image Home will detect the search engine you use and install an appropriate plug in for indexing your tib backup archives Indexing of backups will speed up searches in the backup archives After such indexing you will be able to search archive content by entering a filename into the Google Desktop or Windows Search deskbar query field without opening Acronis True Image Home The search results will be shown in a browser window Using the search results you can Select any file and open it for viewing and or save that file back to anywhere in the file system not in the archive or where it was before See in which archive a given file is stored and recover that archive Google Desktop has a Quick Find window This window is filled with the most relevant results from your computer The results change as you type so you can qu
16. Backing up the System state allows you to recover the system files drivers etc but not the data files and folders you use in your work For more information on the System State backup see Microsoft TechNet article Backing Up and Restoring Data My E mail file level backup of Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail settings and messages My Application Settings file level backup of Windows applications settings File level backup operations are supported only for the FAT and NTFS file systems Selecting a backup type starts the Backup Wizard which will guide you through the steps of creating a backup task Depending on the backup type chosen the number of steps in the Backup Wizard may change For example in case of backing up the System State the program backs up predefined data and requires the minimum number of settings for configuring a backup task After you finish configuring a backup task it can be started immediately if you do not unselect the Run task now box prior to clicking Proceed 9 3 1 Selecting what data to back up When the Backup Wizard screen appears select what data to back up in case of choosing the System State this step will be omitted Disk and Partition Backup select the disks or partitions to back up You can select a random set of disks and partitions The wizard s right pane shows the hard drives of your computer Selecting a hard drive results in selecting all partiti
17. CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 185 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home Full version Click the My Disks link under Back Up on the Welcome screen zierunis Prue ies Honma 2U1U Backup 4 Recovery se Tools amp Utilities Welcome to Acronis True Image Home 2010 What would you like to do 4L Back Up 3 My Disks Files amp Folders Recove y 4 Recover 3 9 My Disks Files amp Folders Log My favorites Tools amp Utilities Help Options 38 Tools amp Utilities 4 Select the system disk as the source for backup by checking the appropriate disk box this will select all partitions on the disk including the hidden ones 5 Choose atarget archive for the backup being configured you can either add a new backup to an existing archive or create a new one Choose the backup location and assign a name to the backup to be created It is better to use meaningful names e g Disk1 full tib 6 Carefully read the Summary of actions to be performed during backup and click Proceed if you are satisfied with the backup task settings otherwise click Options on the Summary screen to change the settings Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 41 7 Select a backup method For a more detailed explanation of the methods see Full incremental and differential backups p 18 When performing backups in the recovery environmen
18. Carefully read the summary of operations to be performed If you do not want to validate the backup click Proceed otherwise click Options and select the Validate backup archive before recovery box before clicking Proceed 11 When the operation finishes exit the standalone version of Acronis True Image Home Windows should not see both the new and old drive during the first boot after recovery If you upgrade the old drive to a larger capacity new one disconnect the old drive before the first boot otherwise there may be problems booting Windows Switch off the computer if you need to disconnect the old drive otherwise just reboot the computer after removing the rescue media Boot the computer to Windows It may report that new hardware hard drive is found and Windows needs to reboot After making sure that the system operates normally restore the original boot sequence 10 2 2 Recovering a disk with a hidden partition Recovering a backup of the system disk with a hidden partition e g created by the PC manufacturer for diagnostics or system recovery to a different capacity hard drive requires to take into account some additional factors First of all for the best chance of success it is necessary to keep on the new drive the physical order of the partitions that exist on the old drive and place the hidden partition to the same location usually at the start or the end of the disk space In addition it is better to recov
19. Microsoft Internet Explorer BE File Edit View Favorites Tools Help ay Q Ba Q ix a Search Sip Fevortes veas e a x E Address http 127 0 0 1 4664 search s AoFySigTpU3YG mu2rg7WhakNHQ amp q coffee b Go Links Web us Groups News Shopping Maps Scholar Desktop more Goo ogle coffe Desktop Preferences Desktop Advanced Search Choose whatto do with the file q View Note partial results only L is idle X Recover r 12 of 2 0 015 Index Sort by relevance Sorted by date Desktop All 0 email dexing is done when your computer AL accessorinf inside E bmp Blumon16 Blue Mong Coffee Bean 16 bmp Coffeebn Coffee Bear 7 EDT amean riddle Preview tib acronis content E MyBac eee inf 1 mH 12 35pm Coffee Bean bmp inside E MyBackup tib tib facronis content E MyBackup tib 386 Coffee Bean bmp 12 30pm coffee 4B Internet lt 142 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Choosing View starts the application associated with this file type and opens the file Choosing Recover starts Acronis True Image Home and you can then recover the file to a desired location Google Desktop also provides for searching files in zip backup archives created by Acronis True Image Home though you cannot open or recover files from zip archives by clicking on a line with a filename in the browser window To recover files found in zip backup archives by
20. The maximum size is equal to the disk s unallocated space plus the total free space on all partitions selected at the previous step When creating the zone the program will first use the unallocated space If there is not enough unallocated space the selected partitions will be decreased Partition resizing may require a reboot Reducing a system partition to the minimum size might prevent your operating system from booting 5 Then you will see a list of operations to be performed on the partitions disks Required steps Summary Location Disk 2 Size 3 002 GB Password None The current disk state 9 New Volume G 7 997 GB NTFS 9 8GB New Volume G ACRONIS SZ 4 995 GB NTFS 3 003 GB FAT32 Optional steps E Primary jf Logical JJ Dynamic E Acronis Secure Zone _ Unallocated Unsupported Password Options Proceed JI Cancel Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 119 6 You can set a password to restrict access to the zone The program will ask for the password at any operation relating to it such as data backup and recovery mounting images or validating archives on the zone resizing and deleting the zone To set a password click Options on the Summary window Acronis True Image Home repair or update will not affect the password However if the program is removed and then installed again while keeping the Acronis Secure Z
21. There may be no operating system on disk E or it may be inactive In this case BIOS queries the next device in the list The BIOS numbers disks according to the order in which they are connected to IDE controllers primary master primary slave secondary master secondary slave next go the SCSI hard disks This order is broken if you change the boot sequence in BIOS setup If for example you specify that booting has to be done from hard disk E numbering starts with the hard disk that would be the third in usual circumstances it is usually the secondary master for IDE hard drives After you have installed the hard disk in your computer and have configured it in BIOS one can say that the PC or the motherboard knows about its existence and its main parameters However it is still not sufficient for an operating system to work with the hard disk In addition you have to create partitions on the new disk and format the partitions using Acronis True Image Home See Adding a new hard disk p 165 24 2 Installing hard disk drives in computers 24 2 1 Installing an IDE hard disk drive general scheme To install a new IDE hard disk you should do the following we will assume you have powered OFF your PC before you start 1 Configure the new hard disk as slave by properly installing jumpers on its controller board Disk drives generally have a picture on the drive that shows the correct jumper settings 2 Open your computer
22. When you store different backup archives in the same location e g on an external drive you may want to create a new folder when creating a new backup archive To do this click Create new folder on the toolbar then assign a meaningful name to the folder 4 As your project will take several days it is reasonable to back up the project files at least once a day by setting an appropriate schedule so click Options at the Summary step to be able to create a schedule 5 Select the Daily scheduling option If you think that your work results will be safer being backed up more often select Run the task every x hour s until the end of the day box and specify the interval in hours Your files can be open when backups are running though it might be advisable to close them when working with a database 6 Choose a backup method If you would like to save several versions of your project files select the Incremental method Thus Acronis True Image Home will at first create a full backup then will supplement it with incremental backups till the project is finished After finishing the project you will be able to either delete the task or disable it until you need to run the task again 7 The next step allows you to exclude from the backup temporary files created e g by Microsoft Word by providing appropriate criteria 8 When the project files contain sensitive information the backup options allow protecting your backups with a password and en
23. You cannot use mapped network drives and Acronis Secure Zone as the storage for keeping Nonstop Backup data Content exclusion select the files and folders to be excluded from protection by Acronis Nonstop Backup By default the program excludes files pagefile sys and hiberfil sys on the system partition as well as the default folders Windows uses for temporary files You can exclude other files and folders by selecting them click Add folder or Add file on the toolbar and select items to be excluded or by creating masks for exclusion using the common Windows wildcard characters click Add mask and specify a mask For instance to exclude all files with bmp extension type bmp You can also exclude files and folders by selecting them in Windows Explorer and choosing Storages Exclude from Nonstop Backup in the shortcut menu that opens by right clicking on the selected file or folder To change the default Nonstop Backup storage click the Storage item in the Nonstop Backup settings select a new storage among acceptable ones and click Create Storage and Make Active on the toolbar of the Nonstop Backup storage management window s Nonstop Backup Options Nonstop Backup sett a Nonstop Backup storage management Prot n management Select the storage location or delete its obsolete content Storage Content exclusion K Create Storage and Make Active Backups G Active storage
24. kb acronis com content 1804 You cannot get access to recovered files or folders After recovering files folders with Acronis True Image you get Access denied message when trying to access them To solve the issue see the Acronis Support KB article Access Denied to Files or Folders Restored with Acronis True Image by clicking the following link http kb acronis com content 1520 23 5 Bootability after recovery issues If a system was bootable at the time of backup you expect that it will boot after recovery However the information the operating system stores and uses for booting up may have become outdated at the time of recovery especially if you change partition sizes locations or destination drives Acronis True Image Home automatically updates Windows loaders after recovery Other loaders might also be fixed but there are cases when you have to re activate the loaders Specifically when you recover Linux volume in a dual boot configuration it is sometimes necessary to apply fixes or make booting changes so that Linux can boot and load correctly Below is a summary of typical situations that require additional user actions when the recovered operating system becomes unbootable The machine BIOS is configured to boot from another hard disk drive HDD Solution Configure the BIOS to boot from the HDD where the operating system resides In some cases BIOS has two menus for setting the boot sequence one for setting the boot
25. of the partitions selected for protection and then will operate like it has done with the previous storage If you select a new storage while the old one is not yet filled up you will be able to continue using the old storage after some time This may be useful when your old storage is an external hard disk drive You can disconnect it for a while e g for safekeeping at a friend s house When you decide to use the storage again attach the drive select it on the Nonstop Backup storage management window and make it the active storage After you activate the old storage Acronis Nonstop Backup will consolidate the old backups according to the algorithm it uses for consolidating backups and will then start to back up changes on the selected partitions again When the need arises to recover some data your actions will differ depending on what you want to recover partitions or files folders A partition is recovered using the Recovery Wizard If you need to recover a data partition it is easier to do in Windows Recovery of the system partition is better to perform after booting from the rescue media For more information see Recovering partitions protected with Acronis Nonstop Backup p 49 The Recovery Wizard allows you to recover files and folders as well though in many cases it is more convenient to recover files using Acronis Time Explorer For more information see Recovering files protected with Acronis Nonstop Backup p 50 7 4
26. parties are detailed in the license txt file located in the root installation directory You can always find the latest up to date list of the third party code and the associated license terms used with the Software and or Service at http kb acronis com content 7696 Table of contents 1 IMEFOMDUCTION mr e PRm 9 1 1 What is Acronis True Image Home cccccccsssccsecsssseceesssseeecsseseceesesseceeseseceeseseceesseseeeeseeaeees 9 1 2 Acronis True Image Home basic CONCEPIHS ccccsssccccecessesscsececeeecessesseaeeeeeessesseseeaeeeeeesseseees 10 1 3 Newin Acronis True Image Home 2010 eeeeeeseeeeeeseeeee eene nn nnn nnn nn nnn n nana 12 1 4 System requirements and supported media esses enne 13 1 4 1 Minimum system requirements ccesccsecssccsecssscsscssccsecssscsesssccsecesesessscesesesessseaecaesesssssseaecauseassnesenesenseges 13 1 4 2 Supported operating systems 1 43 Supported file Systemi eee tree tenido eren e ta gno seek e eet e og rin SEE Ree eaaa s VERE RR e PRXTER 1 44 Supported storage media riter terere eee Cer inset eed irae o ix ES ey RH 15 Customer technical support het tese tret ee nte c ete eer e eden Acronis True Image Home installation and startup eeee eese eee eene eee eene nnn nnne 15 2 1 Installing Acronis True Image HOMEC cscsccccecessssesssecececeseeseaaec
27. then right click on the file in the right pane and choose Open in the shortcut menu Acronis True Image Home will recover the file version to a temporary folder and then will open the file using the associated application 7 6 Managing Acronis Nonstop Backup storage Inevitably the Acronis Nonstop Backup Storage becomes full after a period of time which depends on the selected Nonstop Backup storage and the number and composition of partitions protected by Acronis Nonstop Backup When your selected Acronis Nonstop Backup storage fills up you can choose another storage without losing the previously backed up data One more way of managing the Acronis Nonstop Backup storage is cleaning up the data you do not need anymore To clean up the storage select Backup Nonstop Backup on the sidebar and then click the link to the active Nonstop Backup storage to the right of Storage for nonstop backups on the right pane This will open the Nonstop Backup Options window To clean up the active Nonstop Backup storage click the Storage item select the active storage and then click Clean up on the toolbar Acronis True Image Home displays a window allowing you to select a period of time for deleting the backups created during that period Select the required period and click OK 8 Online backup Acronis Online Backup might be unavailable in your region To find more information click here https www acronis eu my online backup The main
28. 2000 2010 73 a maximum archive size Required steps Automatically consolidate backups when What to back up Number of backups exceeds a Archive location You can set a limit on the number of backups Finish 6 Storage period of old backups exceeds days You can set a limit on the age of backups 30 Size of archive exceeds You can set a limit on the size of backup archives sE GB x Optional steps Backup options Automatic consolidation Comments By default there are no limits set and automatic consolidation is not performed To enable automatic consolidation you must select at least one of the limits and either leave its default value or change it according to your needs If limits are set then after creating a backup the program checks the archive for quota violations such as exceeding a pre set maximum number of gigabytes set aside for backups and if any limitation is exceeded consolidates the oldest backups For example if you ve pre set your archive to store 50GB of backup files and your backups reach 55GB you have exceeded a quota and the system will respond automatically based on rules that you ve already set This operation creates a temporary file and thus requires disk space Consider also that the quota must be violated so that the program can detect the violation Therefore to be able to consolidate the files the program needs some spac
29. 3 0 This WnPE distribution can also work on x64 hardware A PE image based on Win PE 2 x or 3 0 requires at least 256MB RAM to work The recommended memory size for PE 2 x or 3 0 is 512MB Adding Acronis Plug in to WinPE 2 x or 3 0 ISO To add Acronis Plug in to WinPE 2 x or 3 0 ISO 1 Doone of the following When adding the plug in to the existing Win PE 2 or PE 3 ISO unpack all files of your Win PE 2 or 3 ISO to a separate folder on the hard disk When creating a new PE 2 or 3 ISO select from the Start menu Microsoft Windows AIK Windows PE Tools Command Prompt run the copype cmd script to create a folder with Windows PE files For example from a command prompt type cd Program Files Windows AIK Tools PETools copype lt arch gt lt destination gt Where lt arch gt is the hardware architecture can be x86 amd64 or ia64 but Acronis supports x86 only and lt destination gt is a path to the local folder For example copype x86 c Nwinpe x86 2 Select Acronis Plus Pack for Acronis True Image Home 2010 Acronis WinPE ISO Builder from the Start menu Specify path to the folder WinPE ISO e g c winpe_x86 ISO Specify path to the folder with the Acronis Plug in files Check the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Acronis MediaAddons Settings BartPE for the plug in location Choose whether you want to create ISO or WIM image Specify the full path to the resulting image file including the file name C
30. 3 X Storage cleanup 8 5 4 ProXy Settlngs 1 Hetero eR cbc FERE Er iR E inta OPE Ree C naety E ER Rei Ded 8 6 Recommendations on selecting data for storing online seeseceeeerenee 60 Additional backup features iis ccsessccccessessceessscsccestecccedsesccasssaciccentesceusesaiiovestesscsatsscensaseibecass 61 9 1 Making reserve copies of your backups ccscssccececeseesesnsseceeeceseeseaeaeeeeeesseeseceaeeeeeeeseeseeaeas 61 92 Archive to various places er ett t aset t E etu E de be a inr tunes 63 9 3 Backup Wizard detailed information enne nnne nnn nnns 9 3 1 Selecting what data to back UP cc cecsessssssscssesscssssssssssssscssessesesssssessessssseseesessessessussessseeeseseessesauesesasenseess 9 32 Selecting archive loc ti n senp eee eerte dee ege De dr e n ee Rd 9 3 3 Scheduling cre ette re RH et ean mit retine ub TE 9 3 4 Backup method ete iren dien reti mtb er dh i eed LR Cd 9 3 5 Selecting what to exclude iii erre eer eed tere e beer e e eee eere uva e ud 93 67 Selecting the backup options erret nhe o bene rore bonn id ene den nrbe ete red dh 9 3 7 Setting automatic consolidation 9 3 8 Providing a COMMENK seis oues ore erret Petr esed terra inert ortae De aa aa e er eatae NE NETER a 9 3 9 The backup PFO CESS innotescere edes 75 9 4 Fine tuning your backups ccccecsessececececessessaeaeceeecesseeaaeseeeescesseseaseeeeeesceseesaaaeseeeeseeesesnsaeess 75 9 4 1 BACKU
31. Acronis or C Program Files Acronis Media Add ons Rename the BartPE folder to Acronis Copy this folder into the Plugin folder in the BartPE builder installation directory The default directory is C pebuilder3110a or similar Run the PE builder put in the necessary paths the online help is available at PE builder help and click the Plugins button PE PE Builder v3 1 10a Builder Source Help Builder Source path to Windows installation files Di Custom include files and Folders From this directory Output C pebuilder3110a BartPE BartPE Media output O None Create ISO image enter Filename c pebuilder3110a pebuilder iso O Burn to CD DVD Make sure you have the Acronis True Image Home plug in enabled on the Plugins screen PE PE Builder v3 1 10a Plugins Plugin list M z Enabled Mame Yes 443 File Management Utility Acronis True Image Ad Aware SE Adaptec ASPI Background info bginfo Bart s Stuff Test free edition BartPE Installer v2 BARTPE Network Support Boot Fix Enabling Press any key to boot from CD Check Disk chkdsk exe Customize Deep Burner Free Disk Commander v1 1 Dos 16 bit support For WinPE Drive SnapShot ERD Commander 2002 Irfanview Keyboard Layout read PluginHelp McAfee Stinger McAfee VirusScan for Win32 Nero Burning Rom Nu2Menu Nu2Shell PENETCFG Automatically start PE Network configurator PENETCFG PE Network configurator theTruth PuTTY RA
32. Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Along with the hard disk number you will see disk capacity label partition and file system information Different partition types including primary logical and unallocated space are marked with different colors Flags Capacity Free Sp Type IF NTFS Unlabeled C Change Disk Layout Unallocated 2 615 MB Unallocated Finish C 7 997 GB NTFS n 8GB oO Primary Logical Dynamic D Acronis Secure Zone _ Unallocated Unsupported Next gt Proceed Cancel First select a partition to resize and click Edit on the toolbar This will open the Partition Settings window where you can resize and relocate the partition Partition Settings Required steps Select partitior EL g Please specify settings for the partition being created Partition i Disk 2 Size ANTFS Unlabele Min 1 983 GB Been Unalocated EN 73 Oo 6 Finish Partition C 5 398 GB NTFS Max 7 397 GB al Used space il Free space F Unallocated space Partition size bos GB Free space before 0 S MB Free space after 1 999 un GB File system Partition letter Partition label NTFS c Y Selectthe type of partition Q Primary Mark the partition as active 8j Primary Logi Logical v You can do this by entering values in the Free space before Partition size Free space
33. Department They will build an iso image of a custom rescue media compatible with your computer hardware and send you an iso file Burn this file to a CD DVD using a program that can handle iso files such as Nero Incidentally this report may also be useful when you request the Acronis Customer Service Department to help you with a problem After burning your custom rescue CD test it to make sure that your hard disk drives and network adapter are now detected in the recovery environment 5 Getting to know Acronis True Image Home 5 1 Program workspace Starting Acronis True Image Home takes you to the Welcome screen This screen provides quick access to backup and recovery features as well as highlights any issues with your system s protection Your system is considered fully protected when it is backed up and a bootable rescue media is created If some of the aforementioned have not been done Acronis True Image Home shows the following links allowing to solve the protection issues Back Up My System Create Bootable Rescue Media After an issue is solved the corresponding link disappears rc Acronis True Image Home 2010 E M Backup Welcome to Acronis True Image Home 2010 irs Your system is not fully protected Perform the following operations N d EN Backup Create Bootable Rescue Media Recovery What would you like to do Fee ee L dp Back Up Recover asks amp LOG My Disks Files amp Folders My Disks Fil
34. IDE 0 Secondary Slave COO O 4 00066 C 3 991 GB NTFS oO Primary j Logical Dynamic D Acronis Secure Zone amp Unallocated Unsupported You can determine the source and destination using the information provided in this window disk number capacity label partition and file system information 20 3 3 Selecting destination disk After you select the source disk you have to select the destination where the disk information will be copied Required steps Select the target hard disk from the list below Clone Mode Capacity E B VMware Virtual IDE H 0000 Finish ual IDE H 0000 e Disk 3 5 000 GB VMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Secondary Slave l GB New Volume E 7 997 GB NTFS Bj Primary Logical Dynamic D Acronis Secure Zone B Unallocated Unsupported The previously selected source becomes grayed out and disabled for selection If any disk is unpartitioned the program will automatically recognize it as the destination and bypass this step 160 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 20 3 4 Partitioned destination disk At this point the program checks to see if the destination disk is free If not you will be prompted by the Conformation window stating that the destination disk contains partitions perhaps with useful data Capacity Model Interface 100 GB VMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Primary Master 8 GB VMware Virtu
35. If you choose the Periodically option set the Start time and specify the interval between backups in hours and minutes You can also specify the task Start date Required steps Scheduling Run this task periodically C De not schedule Run every 02 00 hhmm C Once only Upon event C Daily Weekly Monthly Optional steps 3 Scheduling Resultant schedule Run the task every 2 hours after the previous run was started Backup method Run with credentials What to exclude Username TW HOME Administrator Backup options Password eeeeee Automatic consolidation E Run the task only when the computer is idle Comments If missed run the task at startup Next gt J Proceed 13 1 4 Setting up daily execution If you choose daily execution set the Start time and days on which you want to execute the task Every day Every weekday Every x days once every several days specify the interval If you want the task to be repeated several times per day select Run the task every x hour s until the end of the day box and specify the interval in hours Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 111 You can also specify the task Start date Required steps Scheduling RI E EEK daily Do not schedule Start at 02 37 PM hmm once only Q Every day Upon event CO Every weekday Percdcaly Overy 21 devs Start date 11 24 2009
36. Image Home 15 Installing an IDE hard disk drive general scheme 188 Installing hard disk drives in computers 188 Introduction 9 L Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore 25 Local storage settings 80 M Main screens 34 Making reserve copies of your backups 62 Managing Acronis Nonstop Backup storage 51 Managing Acronis Secure Zone 21 119 Managing backup archives 155 Managing Online Storage 56 Managing scheduled tasks 114 115 Minimum system requirements 13 Motherboard sockets IDE cable power cable 189 Mounting an image 90 135 Moving backup archives 155 159 N Network connection speed 80 New in Acronis True Image Home 2010 e 12 O Online backup 52 Operation results notification 36 150 Options screen 36 Other issues 185 Other operations 149 Overwrite file options 99 P Partitioned destination disk 164 Pre post commands 77 99 Preparing for disaster recovery 26 Preparing for your first backup 38 Program workspace 31 Providing a comment 75 Proxy settings 60 Purpose of Acronis Universal Restore 24 R Recommendations on selecting data for storing online 60 Recovering a data partition or disk 49 89 Recovering a disk backup to a different capacity hard disk 85 Recovering a disk with a hidden partition 86 87 Recovering a disk without a hidden partition 86 Recovering data from Online Stor
37. In this case you have to transfer the system to a higher capacity hard disk To transfer the system you must first install the disk in the computer see details in Hard disks and boot sequence p 185 If your computer doesn t have a bay for another hard disk you can temporarily install it in place of your CD drive or use a USB connection to the external target disk If that is not possible you can clone a hard disk by creating a disk image and recovering it to a new hard disk with larger partitions There are two transfer modes available automatic and manual In the automatic mode you will only have to take a few simple steps to transfer all the data including partitions folders and files to a new disk making it bootable if the original disk was bootable There will be only one difference between these disks partitions on the newer disk will be larger Everything else including the installed operating systems data disk labels settings software and everything else on the disk will remain the same This is the only result available in the automatic mode The program can only duplicate the original disk layout to the new one To obtain a different result you will have to answer additional questions about cloning parameters The manual mode will provide more data transfer flexibility You will be able to select the method of partition and data transfer asis new disk space is proportionally distributed between th
38. Nonstop Backup 7 1 What is Acronis Nonstop Backup Acronis Nonstop Backup is a new Acronis True Image Home feature that provides convenient protection of your disks and files and allows you to recover from disaster both entire disks and individual files and even their versions By default Acronis Nonstop Backup will protect your system partition though you can select other partitions and disks to be protected too Acronis True Image Home will recommend you the disk or partition it considers the best location for storing the backup data The storage selection algorithm is similar to that used by the One Click Backup feature though the Acronis Secure Zone cannot be used as the storage for Acronis Nonstop Backup Once you start Acronis Nonstop Backup it will perform an initial image backup of the partition s selected for protection Having finished this task Acronis Nonstop Backup will then save changes in your system and files including open ones every five minutes so you will be able to recover your system to an exact state in time States of the protected partitions will be backed up at 5 minute intervals for the last 24 hours The older backups will be consolidated in such a way that Acronis True Image Home will keep daily backups for the last 30 days and weekly backups until all Nonstop Backup storage space is used The consolidation will be performed every day between midnight and 01 00 AM The first consolidation will take place after
39. Partition 2 Drive letter I File system NTFS Label Size 4 658 GB Cluster size 4KB Partition 3 Drive letter J File system NTFS Label Size 180 4 MB Cluster size 0 5 KB Optional steps Drive letter You can also select a letter to be assigned 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 unselect the partition s checkbox Required steps Drive letter Select partitions to mount and assign drive letter Mount letter Flags Cap Disk 1 V Ld NTFS Unlabeled E H x Pi 164 7MB 125 5 MB NTFS v La NTFS Unlabeled C Do not mount Pri Act 4 658 GB 2 226 GB NTFS V NTFS Unlabeled F Pri 180 4MB 177 9 MB NTFS Optional steps gt Drive letter _ Mount the partitions in the read write mode l Proceed J Cancel 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 archive file to capture the changes It is strongly recommended that you list the forthcoming changes in the Comments 136 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 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 virtua
40. Recovering partitions protected with Acronis Nonstop Backup You can recover partitions from Acronis Nonstop Backup Storage using the Recovery Wizard Let s first recover a data partition in Windows 1 Start Acronis True Image Home 2 Choose Recovery on the sidebar then click the Disk backups tab on the right pane Select the backup archive from which you want to recover files at the Nonstop Backup Storages area Right click on the backup and choose Recover in the shortcut menu to start the Recovery Wizard 3 Select Recover whole disks and partitions on the Recovery method screen At the next step select the point in time at which the partition s to be recovered was in the desired state You can select a point in time for the files that changed within the last 24 hours and a date for older backups For backups that were made more than 30 days ago the program will keep weekly backups highlighting the dates for which backed up data is kept Having selected the recovery point click Next 5 The next steps of the Recovery Wizard are similar to those performed when recovering data partitions or disks from a classic backup For more information see Recovering a data partition or disk p 88 Depending on circumstances recovery of the system partition may be performed both in Windows and after booting from your rescue media when Windows does not start Recovery in Windows is similar to recovery of a data partition though it will require
41. Secure Zone the program will check its size and when the size is sufficient for backup it will use Acronis Secure Zone In case the zone is too small for backing up the system partition the program will move to the next best option 3 If there is an external hard drive with enough free space your system partition backups will be stored on that drive as such backup place will provide better protection for your computer 4 If the first two options are 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 5 If your computer has only one hard drive with several partitions not counting hidden ones then the program will use a non system partition with maximum free space 6 Finally if your computer has only one hard drive with a single partition not counting hidden ones with enough free space the program will suggest creating Acronis Secure Zone to use it for backup If you agree the program will create the zone and use it for storing the backup If you start Acronis One Click Backup the first time by double clicking the appropriate shortcut the program will not suggest creating Acronis Secure Zone 6 3 2 Backing up an entire system disk When your backup storage device has enough free space it is advisable to back up the entire system disk Such a backup is most suitable for recovering your system and applications both when
42. True Image Home allows you to move backup archives to another location This may come in handy if you want to free space for a new backup but want to keep an earlier backup archive at another location for example a network share Another possible scenario you want to recover a disk used for keeping your backup archives As the program cannot recover if the backup archive is on the same hard disk you are going to recover you need to move the backup archive to another hard disk 1 Selectthe archive for moving after clicking Recovery on the sidebar 2 Tomove the archive select it on the Data recovery and backup management screen If the archive consists of several backups you can select any of them because Acronis True Image Home always moves the entire archive 3 After making your selection right click and choose Move in the shortcut menu When moving is complete the path to the archive will change in the Path column of the Data recovery and backup management screen 20 Transferring the system to a new disk 20 1 General information Sooner or later most computer users find that their hard disk is too small If you just don t have space for more data you can add another disk just for data storage as described in the following chapter However you might find that your hard disk does not have enough space for the operating system and installed applications preventing you from updating your software or installing new applications
43. What is Acronis Nonstop Backup 46 What is Acronis True Image Home 9 What is Try amp Decide e 22 What to exclude 73 76 Windows Search and Google Desktop integration 36 140 WinPopup notification 151 Working with vhd files 131
44. a tib image of your Windows 7 system partition 133 Booting from system image tib files 24 C Changing password for Acronis Secure Zone 122 Changing the recovered partition size and location 97 Changing the recovered partition type 97 Cleaning up separate system components 180 Cloning summary 167 Cloning with manual partitioning 165 Compression level 77 Configuring hard disk drives jumpers 190 Connection attempts 58 Consolidating backups 35 155 156 Converting tib images into vhd virtual disks and vice versa 131 Converting to Acronis backup 132 156 Converting to Windows backup 131 156 Creating a custom data category for backups 54 68 82 Creating a custom rescue CD 29 Creating Acronis Secure Zone 119 Creating an Online backup account 52 Creating backup archives 38 Creating BartPE disc with Acronis True Image Home 125 Creating bootable media 15 123 Creating custom algorithms of data destruction 173 175 Creating Linux based rescue media 123 Creating new partitions 168 Creating scheduled tasks 109 Creating WinPE based rescue media 127 129 Customer technical support 14 D Data recovery with Acronis True Image Home 84 Deciding what data to back up 38 Deleting Acronis Secure Zone 122 Description 194 Detailed information on recovery operations involving dynamic GPT disks and volumes 100 Disk add summary 169 E E
45. above steps and select the destination disk 7 Clicking Accept will return you to the Settings of partition screen Check the partition type and change it if necessary You should remember that the system partition must be primary and marked as active 8 Proceed to specifying the partition size by clicking Change default in the Partition size area By default the partition will occupy the entire new disk You can resize and relocate the partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse on the horizontal bar on the screen or by entering corresponding values into the appropriate fields Partition size Free space before Free space after While specifying the partition size remember that you need to leave as much unallocated free space after the newly resized partition as will be needed for the second partition Usually the free space before partitions is equal to zero Click Accept when the partition has the size you have planned for it then click Next 9 Begin specifying the settings for the second partition Click New location then select unallocated space on the destination disk that will receive the second partition Click Accept check the partition type change if necessary and then proceed to specifying the partition size which by default is equal to the original size Usually there is no free space after the last partition so allocate all the unallocated space to the second partition click Accept and then click Next 10
46. added to the computer Required steps Select your hard disk from the list below Disk selection Partition creation Interface ware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Priman I es New Volume G 7 997 GB NTFS oO Primary Jj Logical Dynamic oO Acronis Secure Zone __ Unallocated Unsupported If there are any partitions on the new disk you will be shown a warning window For you to be able to add the disk they must be deleted first so click OK to continue 21 2 Creating new partitions Next you will see the current partition layout Initially all disk space will be unallocated This will change after you add new partitions To create a partition click Create new partition on the toolbar and set the new partition location and size You can do this both by entering values in the Free space before Partition size Free space after fields and by dragging partition borders or the partition itself If the cursor turns into two vertical lines with left and right arrows it is pointed at the partition border and you can drag it to enlarge or reduce the partition size If the cursor turns into four arrows it is pointed at the partition so you can move it to the left or right if there is unallocated space near it Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 165 Select a file system for the new partition You may select a partition letter of your choice or leave the default one and input a label for the new
47. and insert the new hard disk into a 3 5 or 5 25 slot with special holders Fasten down the disk with screws 3 Plug the power cable into the hard disk four threaded two black yellow and red there is only one way you can plug in this cable 4 Plug the 40 or 80 thread flat data cable into the sockets on the hard disk and on the motherboard plugging rules are described below The disk drive will have a designation on the connector or next to it that identifies Pin 1 The cable will have one red wire on the end that is designated for Pin 1 Make sure that you place the cable in the connector correctly Many cables are also keyed so that they can only go in one way 5 Turn your computer on and enter BIOS setup by pressing the keys that are displayed on the screen while the computer is booting 6 Configure the installed hard disk by setting the parameters type cylinder heads sectors and mode or translation mode these parameters are written on the hard disk case or by using the IDE autodetection BIOS utility to configure the disk automatically 7 Set the boot sequence to A C CD ROM or some other depending on where your copy of Acronis True Image Home is located If you have a boot diskette set the diskette to be the first if it is on a CD make the boot sequence start with the CD ROM 8 Quit BIOS setup and save changes Acronis True Image Home will automatically start after reboot 9 Use Acronis True Image Home to con
48. and sectors per track When recovering to a smaller capacity hard drive the partition s size will be proportionally reduced When recovering to a larger capacity hard drive there are two cases 1 if the hard drive has the same geometry the backed up disk will be recovered as is thus leaving unallocated space and 2 if the hard drive has different geometry the partition s size will be proportionally enlarged 10 4 Recovering files and folders Depending on the backup types you have used there may be several methods of recovering files and folders In most cases you recover files and folders in Windows You can recover files and folders from a file backup archive and from a disk partition image as well To recover files folders from an image you can mount the image see Mounting an image p 134 and copy files folders to a desired location using Windows Explorer If you need to recover just a single file folder or a few files double click on the required image backup archive Then drill down to the folder containing the file s you need to recover select the file s right click and choose Copy in the shortcut menu open a folder for saving the files to be recovered right click in the folder and choose Paste in the shortcut menu You can also drag the files from the backup archive into the destination folder This method can also be used in case of My Data type backup archives One more method of recovering files folders from an image
49. applications and configuration files software updates personal settings and data Acronis True Image Home helps you protect your identity as well Simply deleting old data will not remove it permanently from your computer Acronis True Image Home now includes Acronis DriveCleanser that permanently destroys files and wipes personal information from partitions and or entire disks as well as a wizard that cleans up your Windows system of all traces of user activity You can store backups on almost any PC storage device internal or external hard drives network drives or a variety of IDE SCSI FireWire IEEE 1394 USB and PC Card formerly called PCMCIA removable media drives as well as CD R RW DVD R RW DVD R RW BD R BD RE magneto optical lomega Zip and Jaz drives When performing scheduled backup tasks Acronis True Image Home automatically selects a backup mode full incremental differential in accordance with the backup policy set by the user If you are going to install a new hard disk drive Acronis True Image Home will help you to transfer information from the old one in minutes including operating systems applications documents and personal settings After migrating to the new hard disk you can destroy all confidential information on the old one securely This is the recommended procedure if you intend to donate throw away or sell the old hard disk drive Wizards and a Windows Vista style interface will make your work eas
50. backup data in the proprietary tib format using compression This provides for reducing the storage space requirements as well as for backward compatibility with the previous Acronis True Image Home version While creating a tib file the program calculates checksum values for data blocks and adds these values to the data being backed up These checksum values allow verifying the backup data integrity However using the proprietary format means that the data from such backups can be recovered only with the help of Acronis True Image Home itself either in Windows or in the recovery environment Backup archive validation How can you be sure that you ll be able to recover your system if the need arises The feature called backup validation provides a high degree of such assurance As was already said the program adds checksum values to the data blocks being backed up During backup validation Acronis True Image Home opens the backup file re calculates the checksum values and compares those values with the stored ones If all compared values match the backup file is not corrupted and there is a high probability that the backup can be successfully used for data recovery It is highly recommended to validate system partition backups after booting from the rescue media For users of Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate Acronis True Image Home provides a unique way of ensuring that you will be able to boot from the recovered system partition The
51. be respectively changed to Fit the new drive size IF the new drive is smaller the partitions will be shrunk accordingly if the new drive is bigger the partitions will be enlarged proportionally Finish Manual Allows you to set partition size manually Next gt Proceed Cancel If you elect to transfer information as is a new partition will be created for every old one with the same size and type file system and label The unused space will become unallocated Afterwards you will be able to use the unallocated space to create new partitions or to enlarge the existing partitions with special tools such as Acronis Disk Director Suite As a rule as is transfers are not recommended as they leave a lot of unallocated space on the new disk Using the as is method Acronis True Image Home transfers unsupported and damaged file systems If you transfer data proportionally each partition will be enlarged according to the proportion of the old and new disk capacities FAT16 partitions are enlarged less than others as they have a 4GB size limit Depending on the selected combination you will proceed to either the cloning summary window or the Change disk layout step see below 20 3 6 Cloning with manual partitioning The manual transfer method enables you to resize partitions on the new disk By default the program resizes them proportionally In the next window you will see the new disk layout 162
52. can make changes in the created task by choosing the step you want to change and editing its settings If you click Cancel no changes will be made to the disk s Clicking Proceed will launch the task execution The task progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel However it is critical to note that the target partition will be deleted and its space unallocated the same result you will get if the recovery is unsuccessful To recover the lost partition you will have to recover it from the image again 11 2 Setting default recovery options To set the recovery options to be used by default during any data recovery select Tools amp Utilities gt Options Recovery options You can always restore the default recovery options to the values preset during installation of Acronis True Image Home To do this click Reset the current to default on the toolbar of the Options window To reset just a single recovery option select it on the left pane and click Reset the current to default Clicking Reset all to default will reset all the default options for backup recovery notifications etc to their preset values so this button should be used with caution 11 2 1 File recovery options Recover files with their original security settings The preset is enabled If the file security settings were preserved during backup see File level security settings p 77 you can choose whether
53. 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 read 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 22 5 3 Computers setting 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 As a result all computer search strings will be del
54. crash and maybe just at the worst possible moment We may interpret Murphy s Law the other way around it is vitally important to consider all the possible things that can go wrong and act so as to prevent them The best way to counteract a possible disaster is by taking the necessary precautionary measures 1 To be better prepared for a disaster you need to make a full backup of your system disk or at the very least the partition containing Windows and your applications To make this task easier Acronis has provided the One Click Backup feature that allows you to back up the system partition and MBR during the first start of the newly installed program If you decide not to use the One Click Backup e g because the external hard drive you plan to use for your backups has not been attached at that time or because you plan to back up more than just the system partition please make such a backup as soon as possible 2 Whenever possible you should store your system drive image on a hard drive other than your primary hard disk C preferably on an external one This gives an additional guarantee that you will be able to recover your system if your primary hard disk drive fails Furthermore it is usually better to keep your personal data separate from your operating system and applications for example on disk D Such an arrangement speeds up the creation of your system and data disks or partitions images and reduces the amount of information
55. desired states You can select a point in time for the files that changed within the last 24 hours and a date for older backups For backups that were made more than 30 days ago the program will keep weekly backups and will highlight the dates for which backed up data is kept Having selected the recovery point click Next 5 The next steps of the Recovery Wizard are similar to those performed when recovering files and folders from a classic backup For more information see Recovering files and folders from image archives p 90 Recovering files using Acronis Time Explorer Time Explorer provides more flexibility when you need to recover just a few files It allows you to view the number of versions of a file kept on the storage select a specific version open this version in the associated application to make sure that the version contains the data you need and recover just that version 1 Choose Recovery on the sidebar then click Recover data from nonstop backup on the right pane to open Acronis Time Explorer s Nonstop Backup Version from 11 24 2009 10 31 15 AM DX I Non Backup Online Storage Folders Name Type Date m Computer 10sdk tutorialRLS xml XML Document 11 24 2009 10 1 A C 1sdkRUS xml XML Document 11 24 2009 10 1 C 2sdk generalsRUS xrnl XML Document 11 24 2009 10 1 3sdk_purposeRUS xml XML Document 11 24 2009 10 1 4sdk prerequisitesRLIS xml XML Document 11 24 2009 10 1 Ssdk ti princi
56. differential backups is made the next time a new full backup and a set of subsequent incremental differential backups will be created this process will then continue until you decide to change it When the Delete previous backup archive box is selected creation of a new full backup in accordance with the specified backup policy results in deletion of the complete previous backup chain the previous full backup and its subsequent incremental or differential backups regardless of the overall limitations you set on the archive at the Automatic consolidation step If you decide to keep old backups by not selecting the Delete previous backup archive box and creation of a new full backup results in violation s of the limits set for automatic consolidation the program will use the following algorithm 1 ifthe actual number of backups exceeds the maximum number of backups the program automatically consolidates the old full backup with the oldest incremental differential one to correct this quota violation 2 ifafter correcting the number of backups limit violation other quota violations remain the program consolidates the oldest backup to correct the storage period of old backups limit violation if possible otherwise it deletes the old full backup 3 ifafter correcting the storage period of old backups limit violation the archive size limit violation remains the program consolidates the old full backup with the oldest incremental
57. disk error checking utilities simultaneously because this can irreparably corrupt the file system as well as make the system disk unbootable kkk Acronis True Image Home will track changes until the disk space on the location selected for storing virtual changes is almost full Then the program will alert you that the time has come to make a decision on whether to apply or discard the changes made so far If you choose to not heed the alert message the program will automatically restart the system when the disk is full discarding the changes in the process of rebooting At that point all changes will be lost KKK When the Try amp Decide mode is started you won t be able to use the previously activated Acronis Startup Recovery Manager When you stop the Try amp Decide mode and apply or discard changes the previously activated Acronis Startup Recovery Manager remains activated but you will not be able to use it by pressing the F11 key To use the F11 key deactivate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and then activate it once more kkk If you have chosen Discard Changes and rebooted the computer with multiple operating systems installed you won t be able to boot other operating systems except the one used for working in the Try amp Decide mode The second reboot will restore the original MBR and make other operating systems bootable 12 1 Using Try amp Decide Now let s see how to use this feature First of all you should decide f
58. environment After booting from the rescue media make sure that you can browse to the share in the Backup wizard or Recovery wizard It may be advisable to first back up and recover some files to ensure that you can perform those operations over the network In addition it is not recommended to map the drive containing the network share Specifying the UNC path makes it easier to establish network connection in most cases Let s suppose you want to back up your system partition 1 Start Acronis True Image Home and click the My Disks link under Back Up on the Welcome screen Select the check box of your system partition on the Source selection screen When you are connecting to a networked computer in most cases you will need to provide the network credentials user name and password to access a network share To do this select the Use NT authentication box and enter the user name and password into the appropriate fields Pressing the Test authentication and connection button allows testing the ability of the computer to connect to the selected network share If testing results in an error message check whether you provided the correct credentials and enter the right credentials for the network share When the Use NT authentication box is left unselected the computer will try to log on to the share with the credentials used for logging on to Windows Having provided the required information click OK to continue Choose a target archive for
59. finds out that the free space on the selected backup archive location is already less than the specified value the program will not begin the actual backup process but 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 or to cancel the task In case of choosing to cancel the backup you can either free some space on the storage and restart the task or create a new task with another location for the backup archive If you choose Browse select another storage click OK and the backup file will be created on that storage If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup task is being run the program will display the same message and you will have to make the same decisions However if you choose to browse for another location you will need to assign a name for the file that will contain the remaining data being backed up or you may accept the default name assigned by the program Acronis True Image Home can monitor free space on the following storage devices Local hard drives USB cards and drives Networks shares SMB NFS This option cannot be enabled for FTP servers and CD DVD drives The message will not be displayed if the Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode box is selected in the Error handling settings 9 4 2 4 Archive splitting Sizeable backup
60. 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 will launch 10 seconds after the menu is displayed To find out more about components of other Acronis products see their respective user guides Select the type of bootable media CD R RW DVD R RW or 3 5 diskettes to create If your BIOS has this feature you can create other bootable media such as removable USB flash drives You can also choose to create a bootable disk ISO image When using 3 5 diskettes you will only be able to write one component at a time for example the full version of Acronis True Image Home on a set of diskettes To write another component start Bootable Media Builder again Acronis Media Builder Bootable media type selection Select a drive to be used to create bootable media The list contains all available devices that can be used to create bootable media You can create CD DVD USB flash drive or other bootable media or build an ISO image of a bootable disc Name Type 3 314 Floppy A 315 Inch Floppy Disk 3150 image ISO image file Back I Next gt Cancel 4 Ifyou are creating a CD DVD or any removable media insert a blank disc so the program can determine its c
61. for using the One Click Backup tool not during the first start 1 If you want to use your external drive for backing up the system partition attach and power it on before starting Acronis True Image Home Choose Tools amp Utilities One Click Backup in the main program menu Acronis True Image Home will offer the destination for storing your backup if you do not have the Acronis Secure Zone the destination will be the attached external hard drive If you would prefer another backup destination click the link under the Archive location line and select the storage location most suitable for you 1 Bydefault the One Click Backup tool schedules subsequent full backups of your system partition once every seven days but you can change the interval between backups or cancel scheduling 2 After you finish settings click Protect to start the backup task It is recommended to validate the created backup by running a validation task either manually or on schedule The Acronis One Click Backup tool performs only full backups of the system partition scheduling an incremental or differential backup is not possible 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 program estimates the space required for operation of the One Click Backup tool 2 If you have upgraded from a previous Acronis True Image Home version and already have Acronis
62. get notifications when the operation is completed successfully when the operation failed during the operation when user interaction is required 19 3 Viewing Tasks and Logs Acronis True Image Home has a Tasks and Log screen that allows you to view its working logs and scheduled tasks The logs can provide information for instance about scheduled backup or validation task results including reasons for any failures Most Acronis True Image Home operations write their own entries in the logs though logs are not provided for the Try amp Decide operation image mounting unmounting Acronis Startup Recovery Manager activation deactivation and bootable media creation The logs contain only partial information on operation of Acronis Online Backup and Acronis Nonstop Backup The remaining information on operation of those features is written to their own log That log is not available to users as it is intended for Acronis Support personnel to help in troubleshooting the issues users have with those features It is included in Acronis System Report 150 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 To open the Tasks amp Log screen click Tasks amp Log on the sidebar By default the screen opens with the Scheduled Tasks tab selected The tab shows all scheduled tasks if any Selecting the Unscheduled Tasks tab will show all tasks that have been configured after choosing Do not schedule at the Scheduling step in the Backup or Validation wizar
63. gt Clone disk in the main program menu 20 3 1 Selecting Clone mode You will see the Clone Mode window Required steps Choose clone mode Q Automatic recommended Source Disk s TR As All your partitions From the source hard disk will be copied to the target disk in a Few simple steps and your new hard disk will be made bootable Your existing partitions will be automatically resized to fit the target hard disk Manual Manual mode will give you full control over the hard disk cloning procedure You will be able to adjust the size of the target partitions change their parameters and much more We recommend using automatic mode in most cases The manual mode can be useful if you need to change the disk partition layout If the program finds two disks one partitioned and another unpartitioned it will automatically recognize the partitioned disk as the source disk and the unpartitioned disk as the destination disk In such case the next steps will be bypassed and you will be taken to the cloning Summary screen Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 159 20 3 2 Selecting source disk If the program finds several partitioned disks it will ask you which one is the source i e the older data disk Required steps Select the source hard disk from the list below 00 ual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Primary Master e Disk2 8 GB VMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Primary Slave Disk 3 5 000 GB VMware Virtual IDE H 0000
64. in the Deleting partition and Recovering partition items must match If you do not want to validate the backup click Proceed otherwise click Options and select the Validate backup archive before recovery box before clicking Proceed 8 When the operation finishes exit the standalone version of Acronis True Image Home remove the rescue media and boot from the recovered system partition After making sure that you recovered Windows to the state you need restore the original boot sequence 10 2 Recovering a disk backup to a different capacity hard disk Recovery of a disk backup containing several partitions to a hard disk that has a different capacity using manual resizing of the partitions can be considered as one of the most complicated operations in Acronis True Image Home This is especially true when you have backed up the original hard disk containing a hidden diagnostic or recovery partition Recovering a dual multiboot system disk e g with Windows and some flavor of LINUX may be even more fraught with difficulties Quite often it requires some research on the appropriate forums before attempting to perform a recovery so this section does not cover such case Make the preparations described at the beginning of the previous section Recovering your system partition p 83 In case of upgrading the healthy system disk to a larger capacity new one if you have not assigned unique names to the partitions on the system disk before making a s
65. inexpensive in most cases purchasing an external hard drive for storing your backups will be an optimal solution In addition to enhancing the security of your data you can keep it off site for example at home if you back up your office computer and vice versa many models are hot pluggable so you can attach and detach the drive as required You can choose various interfaces USB FireWire eSATA depending on the configuration of your computer ports and the required data transfer rate In many cases the best choice will be an external USB hard drive If you have a Gigabit Ethernet home network and a dedicated file server or NAS for example Buffalo TeraStation 1 0 TB NAS Gigabit Ethernet Home Server you can store backups on the file server or NAS practically like onto an internal drive Blank optical discs such as DVD R DVD R are very cheap so they will be the lowest cost solution for backing up your data though the slowest one especially when backing up directly to DVDs Furthermore if your backup consists of several DVDs data recovery from such backup will require a lot of disc swapping Due to the necessity of swapping discs it is strongly recommended to avoid backing up to DVDs if the number of discs is more than three If you decide to use an external hard drive NAS etc you will need to check whether Acronis True Image Home detects the selected backup storage Some external hard drives are sold preformatted FAT32 If
66. keep the last backup archive When a task for the current backup finishes the old backup is deleted freeing up space for the next One Click Backup If there is not enough free space on your PC the program will notify you that it cannot back up your system and will suggest that you specify a destination for backup yourself 5 3 Main screens And now let s get acquainted with some of the other screens you will use while working with Acronis True Image Home To go to one more screen of interest click Recovery on the sidebar I M Backup LES y 3 Tools amp Utlities v QN Manage Acronis Secure zone Validate Remove s gt Home Data recovery and backup management 1 Disk Recovery Backup dp Recover your computer from a backup lt Recover data from nonstop backup Recover data from online backup Recovery isk Backups L4 Browse For backup Comments Rating Method Path Images Tasks amp Log i system E CF 11 23 2009 SiSystem E C F 11 23 2009 11 23 2009 5 06 06 PM Full backup ECFA n 53 PM LEX E S Incremental backup G Sysl Try amp Decide a B Databisk E F 11 23 2009 3 DataDisk E F 11 23 2009 11 23 2009 5 33 11 PM 94 Full backup GilDataDisk E F 11 Tools amp Utilities f amp Acronis True Image H The Data recovery and backup management screen gives detailed information on your backup archives and provides for quickly performing operations on these archives Recover Validat
67. list If the list does not contain those disks the tib files will not be indexed To include the disks click Modify and select them in the window that appears Indexed Locations Change selected locations S Local Disk C Local Disk E Local Disk F le Microsoft Outlook Express Main Identity Q4 XP K Administr Summary of selected locations Included Locations Exclude Se Local Disk C Application Data Default User Local Disk E Es Microsoft Outlook Express M tib s 1 5 21 1645522239 If you store backups on a network share Windows Search can index them too You just have to add the share to the Indexed Locations list by typing the appropriate UNC path after selecting the Add UNC Location tab of Advanced Options Give Windows Search some time for indexing all tib files on your computer s hard disks and adding the indexing information to its index database The required time depends on the number of tib archives and the number of files they contain After completing the indexing the Desktop Search will be able to search files in tib backup archives The search engines in WDS and Windows similar functionalities though search results are presented somewhat differently data Windows Desktop Search File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Q Back o amp ya Search lige Folders Address 4 2 Windows Desktop Search Results Vista have Window Desktop Search
68. mass storage drivers Acronis Universal Restore searches the Windows default driver storage folders in the image being restored for HAL and mass storage device drivers and installs drivers that best fit the target hardware You can specify a custom driver repository a folder or folders on a network drive or CD which will also be used to search for drivers In addition Acronis Universal Restore can search drivers on removable media The Windows default driver storage folder is determined in the registry value DevicePath which can be found in the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Microsoft Windows CurrentVersion DevicePath This storage folder is usually WINDOWS inf 2 Installing drivers for Plug and Play devices Acronis Universal Restore relies on the built in Plug and Play discovery and configuration process to handle hardware differences in devices that are not critical for the system start such as video audio and USB Windows takes control over this process during the logon phase and if some of the new hardware is not detected you will have a chance to install the drivers for it later manually 4 Preparing for disaster recovery 4 1 How to best prepare for a disaster Let us remind you of Murphy s Law Whatever can go wrong will go wrong and at the worst possible time in the worst possible way And some people say that Murphy was an incurable optimist So be warned your computer may crash and will eventually
69. 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 Full version item and press the F11 key 2 When the command line appears type vga ask without quotes and click OK Enter Linux kernel command line quiet vgasask Cancel Acronis True Image Home 2010 Turn Off Computer To start click atask 28 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 3 Select Acronis True Image Home Full version in the boot menu to continue booting from the rescue media To see the available video modes press the Enter key when the appropriate message appears 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 Resolution Type Mode Resolution Type 88x25 UGR 1 F81 88x58 UGA 2 F82 88x43 UGR 88x28 UGA 4 F85 88x38 UGA 5 F86 88x34 UGR 88x68 UGA 7 3280 320x2880x8 VESA 8 321 328x488x8 VESA 5480x488x8 VESA 323 640x4880x8 VESA b 324 888x688x8 VESA 1824x768x8 VESA 326 1152x864x
70. of the backed up data when the original is lost due to hardware failure fire theft or just erroneous deletion of some important files There may be various reasons for recovering your system from unstable operation after installing a new application driver or Windows update to complete failure of the system hard drive or replacement of the old hard drive by a new larger one In addition it may be necessary to recover either only the system partition or the entire system disk comprising several partitions including hidden ones Acronis True Image Home provides for all these cases though details of recovery may differ In any case it is better to perform system recovery when booting from the rescue media On the other hand recovery of a data disk partition or files and folders is usually performed in Windows 10 1 Recovering your system partition Let s first consider the simplest case recovery of the system partition to the original location on the original hard disk drive As recovery of the system partition is one of the most important operations it requires careful preparation even when you just want to recover a previous known good Windows state While preparing for recovery you need to a create and test Acronis bootable rescue media For more information on testing media see Testing bootable rescue media p 27 b boot from the rescue media and validate the backup you want to use for recovery Such validation is very impo
71. off the computer if you need to disconnect the old drive otherwise just reboot the computer after removing the rescue media Boot the computer to Windows It may report that new hardware hard drive is found and Windows needs to reboot After making sure that the system operates normally restore the original boot sequence 10 3 Recovering a data partition or disk As we already said data partitions and disks are usually recovered in Windows because this allows you to avoid such issues as the program not detecting your hard drives changing disk letters etc To reduce the risk of problems during recovery even more validate the backup archive to be recovered and check the destination disk for errors using chkdsk Attach the external drive if it contains the backup archive to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before starting Acronis True Image Home 1 Start Acronis True Image Home 2 Select Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu then choose the image backup containing the data partition you want to recover 3 Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step As you are going to recover a data partition there is no need to select the Recover MBR and track O box at the What to recover step Select just the data partition you want to recover 5 The next step allows you to select settings for the partition to be recovered When recovering
72. operations with dynamic and GPT disks you need separately purchased Acronis Plus Pack Creation of Acronis Secure Zone is not supported Recovery of a dynamic volume as a dynamic volume with manual resizing is not supported m GPT disks can be recovered only volume to volume without the possibility of resizing Try amp Decide cannot be used for protecting dynamic and GPT disks Clone disk operation is not supported for dynamic and GPT disks An FTP server must allow passive mode file transfers Data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the archive to consist of files of no more than 2GB each It is recommended that you change the source computer firewall settings to open Ports 20 and 21 for both TCP and UDP protocols and disable the Routing and Remote Access Windows service Burned rewritable discs cannot be read in Linux without a kernel patch 1 5 Customer technical support Users of legally purchased and registered copies of Acronis True Image Home are entitled to free technical support If you experience problems installing or using Acronis products that you can t solve yourself by using this guide then please contact Acronis Technical Support More information about contacting Acronis Technical Support is available at the following link http www acronis eu homecomputing support In order to open a support trouble ticket please fill out the Web form on the Acronis site support will only open a trouble tic
73. search enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the Acronis True Image Home window and then click the magnifying glass icon For more information see Searching p 138 Another useful screen shows the log of program operations and scheduled tasks A calendar provides quick access to the logs for past dates or tasks for future dates You just click on a desired date For more information see Viewing Tasks and Logs p 150 I i Backup M Greate Backup Task Ww Greate Validation Task Home Tasks management Calendar today 11 23 2009 Backup 4 October 2009 November 2009 December 2009 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Recovery 123 4567 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 3031 1234567 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 EE 24 EJ 26 27 28 29 E 1235885 6 Es 9 10M 2 13 Fis 16 17 iE 19 20 El 22 23 24 EJ 26 Selected date I Scheduled task I Failed 27 El 2 EE m Tasks amp Log Bl successful Unscheduled tasks Log Try amp Decide All tasks You have 2 scheduled tasks Show all scheduled tasks Name Si Schedule Last Run Time Tools amp Utilities Backup e Project Idle Run the task at 5 51 00 PM on the 4 11 18 25 30 last day s of the month Monday November 23 2009 5 38 12 F z System E CF Idle Run the task at 5 12 00 PM every week on Monday Monday November 23 2009 5 12 01 F f amp Acronis T
74. stet sena sose sena sree enun 185 24 1 Arranging boot sequence in BIOS ssssssssssssesesee eene nennen nnn nnns nennt nian nsn nnn 24 2 Installing hard disk drives in computers essere nennen enne nn 24 2 1 24 2 2 24 2 3 24 2 4 24 2 5 Installing an IDE hard disk drive general scheme Motherboard sockets IDE cable power cable eese eene enne ennt nnn nnns Configuring hard disk drives jumpers esses eee eene nn tnnt Irnistalling SATA hard drive 5 eere tnter een edet e re pe d Steps for installing a new internal SATA drive entente nnne nnt rnnt ntes nn nnne 24 3 Hard Disk Wiping methods sesenta nnns nn sanas nnns 24 3 1 Functioning principles of Information Wiping methods essent 189 24 3 2 Information wiping methods used by Acronis esses eene tne nn ennt rnnt nnne stata tnn 190 25 Startup Parameters n eee fern eei etre ete de Peto e dope ep ee RE SPyR SE Sep Osee se ev pue pee pe ee pete eost eese ee peer 191 25 1 Description ase e ERR eae ea teh ee hse ee eoe ee E ERU ERE EO En nee eS 191 LMMTIeCEE E 193 1 Introduction 1 1 What is Acronis True Image Home Acronis True Image Home is an integrated software suite that ensures security of all information on your PC It can back up the operating system appli
75. the Nonstop Backup works not less than 24 hours For example you have turned on the Nonstop Backup at 10 00 AM on September 12 In this case the first consolidation will be performed between 00 00 and 01 00 AM on September 14 Then the program will consolidate the data every day at the same time If your computer is turned off between 00 00 and 01 00 AM the consolidation will start when you turn the computer on If you turn off the Nonstop Backup for some time the consolidation will start after you turn it on again You may think that at these backup rates the storage will fill in no time Do not worry as Acronis True Image Home will back up only so called deltas This means backing up not entire changed files but only differences between new and old versions For example if you use Microsoft Outlook or Windows Mail your pst file may be very large Furthermore it changes with each received or sent E mail message Backing up the entire pst file after each change would be a big waste for your storage space so Acronis backs up only its changed parts in addition to the initially backed up file The program checks partitions and files for changes every five minutes and creates a new time slice only when it finds changes so the intervals between slices can be more than five minutes In addition if for instance you are working in Word and do not use the Save operation for an hour changes in the Word document will not be backed up every five
76. the disk Do not recover to keep the file on the disk and Recover but keep both files the recovered file will be renamed If you want to use the choice for all files with identical names select the Apply to all files check box It is impossible to Recover and replace files on the disk which are being used or locked by the operating system at the moment of recovery If you need to recover a specific version of a file select the file right click and choose View Versions in the shortcut menu This opens the File Versions window Select the required version by its backup time and click Recover on the toolbar You can also recover the version by dragging it into a selected folder To choose the correct version you can open the version in the associated application and view the file contents Select the file in the right pane and the bottom line of Time Explorer will show the times of backing up all its versions kept on the Online Storage Choose a version by its backup time then right click on the file in the right pane and choose Open in the shortcut menu Acronis True Image Home will recover the file version to a temporary folder and then will open the file using the associated application 8 4 Managing Online Storage As the available space on Acronis Online Storage is limited depending on the chosen backup plan you need to manage your Online Storage space by cleaning up the obsolete data Cleanup can be done in a variety of ways T
77. the scenario of creating only full backups and automatically deleting the oldest ones This can be done using Acronis Secure Zone and Acronis True Image Home for Windows As in the previous scenario suppose you want to save weekly full backups to a dedicated hard disk drive until it has room for backups and then want the program to delete the oldest backup thus freeing place for the next one a Create Acronis Secure Zone on the hard drive you want to use for storing your backups The size of the zone will depend on your requirements and may vary from the space needed for storing a single full backup with some reserve to practically the hard drive s entire capacity b Open the default backup options by choosing Tools Options Backup options in the main menu Click on Error handling and select the When not enough space in ASZ delete the oldest archive box c When you come to the Scheduling step while configuring a backup task select the Weekly option leave the default value Run the task every 1 week then select a day of the week for making backups e g Saturday d At the Backup method step choose the Full option This will result in creating only full backups Finish configuring the task The task will run and the full backups will be stored in the Acronis Secure Zone until it has room When the zone does not have enough space for the current full backup the program will automatically delete the oldest backup to free up space
78. used with a search string E System Clean up X You can view and change the current settings for the selected item 4 B9 system Clean up 4 BY system Components Files Items g Recycle Bin Moe 4 Temporary file Search by the criteria beli You can see a list of the files and folders to be cleaned according pata Destruction Method il Mies Enter all or part of the fik to your mask Gi Files Hard Disk Free Space D Find C ters List Press the Show Items Search is completed 4 items found XI Computers Pis to be cleaned according t I a Find Files List e fil in p T 1 e lev os Recently Used Documents List D emporary file CADOCUME 1 ADMINI 1 LOCALS 1 TemplyMwareDni E Windows Run List NM he BcADOCUME 1ADMINI 1 LOCALS 1 Temp yMwareDni Sometimes Windows orapplications x M A c9 Opened Saved Files History use files For a specific purpose and _ CNDOCUME 1 ADMINI 1 LOCALS 1 Temp tmp7 tmp user credentials retain them in a folder designated L C IDOCUME 1 ADMINI 1 LOCALS 1 Temp windowsD For temporary files Cleaning Windows Prefetch Directory temporary files ensures that confidential data that might have been stored is completely gone 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
79. visit Web sites that might contain potentially troublesome content For example if you visit a Web site or open an E mail attachment that puts a virus on your temporary duplicate you can simply destroy the duplicate and no harm will be done the virus will not appear on your machine It is important to remember that if you download E mail from a POP mail server create new files or edit existing documents while in the Try amp Decide mode and then decide to discard your changes those files document changes and mail will no longer exist If you use POP E mail make sure to change the settings in your E mail client to leave your mail on the server before you activate the Try amp Decide mode This way you can always retrieve your E mail again Similarly save new files and or edited documents to a drive not protected by Try amp Decide After starting Try amp Decide mode you can safely install any system updates drivers and applications without worrying about what might happen to your system If anything goes wrong you can simply discard the changes made in the Try amp Decide mode One of the best features of Try amp Decide is that it isolates your real operating system from changes to the temporary operating system duplicate made by updates Should you find any kind of incompatibility you can easily revert your system to the initial state which was not changed when the update was applied Because of this you can safely install syst
80. you enter the correct password 2 If you are going to recover data from an archive containing incremental backups Acronis True Image Home will enable selecting one of the successive incremental backups by its creation date time Thus you can roll back the disk partition state to a certain date To recover data from an incremental backup you must have all previous backup files and the initial full backup If any of the successive backups are missing recovery is not possible To recover data from a differential backup you must have the initial full backup as well 11 1 3 Recovery method selection Select what you want to recover Required steps Choose recovery method Archive selection 7 Recover whole disks and partitions Recovery method What to recover s as they were in the original backup Use Acronis Universal Restore Using Acronis Universal Restore you are able to recover the image of a system volume on any computer regardless of what hardware configuration it has Recover chosen files and folders elect files and Folders to recover from the original disk backup Optional steps Recover whole disks and partitions Having chosen a disk and partition recovery type you may need to select the following option Sector by sector The program will recover both used and unused sectors of disks or partitions This option will appear only when you choose to reco
81. you will need to recover This makes the backup file of your system disk much smaller and recovery can be easier In its turn the smaller the backup file size the less chance of its corruption and the less time required for your system recovery 3 If you store your data documents videos photos etc on a non system disk e g using the arrangement described in item 2 it needs to be backed up too You can either back up the folders containing your data or create a data disk image Remember that the imaging procedure is much faster than copying files and could speed up the backup process significantly when it comes to backing up large volumes of data Incidentally if the image file becomes corrupted for some reason it is sometimes possible to mount the image and save most files and folders by copying them from the mounted image using Windows Explorer 4 As recovery of your system from a disaster in most cases will be done after booting from the rescue media you must test the rescue media as described in the next section Testing bootable rescue media p 27 4 1 1 Recommendations for testing that your backups can be used for recovery 1 Even if you start recovery of the active partition in Windows the program will reboot into the Linux environment after the recovery process starts because Windows cannot be left running while the recovery of its own partition is being carried out So you will recover your active partition under the reco
82. 000 2010 made sure that the new system and all your applications operate normally and made one more incremental backup naming it DiskCWindowsVista Required steps Target backup archive Target selection Create new backup archive Add to existing backup archive Select an existing archive to update DiskCafterCloning Backup location E My Backups DiskCWindows vista tib Optional steps Scheduling Backup method What to exclude Backup options Automatic consolidation When run the task will create incremental backups unless you select another backup method ents Cancel After working under Windows Vista for some time you decided that you would like to try Linux as well Before creating a partition for Linux you perform an incremental backup of the system disk and name it DiskCBeforePartitioning and so on As a result if the need to recover arises you will be able to find at a glance a backup archive corresponding to the system disk state you want to recover Required steps Select a backup from which to recover Archive selection Recovery method r Name Created Co Rating Images B8 B DiskCaftercloning 3 DiskCafterCloning 11 24 20 www Full backup SP DiskCBeforeUparading 11 24 20 www Incremental backup AP DiskCWindowsVista 11 24 20 www Incremental backup AP DiskCBeforePartitioning 11 24 20 4 Incremental backup Bj SystemBackup 11 24 2009
83. 4 Acronis WWW ACRONIS EU es ES AM Acronis True Image Home 2010 User s Guide Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 All rights reserved Acronis and Acronis Secure Zone are registered trademarks of Acronis Inc Acronis Compute with Confidence Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Acronis Active Restore and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis Inc Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds VMware and VMware Ready are trademarks and or registered trademarks of VMware Inc in the United States and or other jurisdictions Windows and MS DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder Distribution of this work or derivative work in any standard paper book form for commercial purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED AS IS AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON INFRINGEMENT ARE DISCLAIMED EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH DISCLAIMERS ARE HELD TO BE LEGALLY INVALID Third party code may be provided with the Software and or Service The license terms for such third
84. 8 VESA e 1288x968x8 VESA 1288x1824x8 UESR h 1792x1344x8 VESA 1856x1392x8 k 1928x14480x8 VESA a d g 1466x1858x8 j 320x288x16 VESA m 32 328x488x16 S n 336 646x468x16 VESA p s v y 1688x1288x8 VESA 648x488x16 VESA 888x588x16 q 1624x768x16 VESA 1152x864x16 VESA 1286x966x16 t 1288x1824x16 UESR Q TE VA 3 6 ga E f I3 o 1488x1858x16 VESA 1688x1288x16 1856x1392x16 VESA 3B 1926x1446x16 33 328x288x32 VESA 320x488x32 VESA 33E 646x488x32 a 5640x488x32 VESA 888x588x32 VESA 1824x758x32 1152x864x32 VESA 1288x968x32 UESR 1288x1824x32 VESA 1488x1858x32 VESA 16588x1288x32 VESA s 1792x1344x32 1856x1392x32 VESA 1926x1448x32 VESA E B540x488x8 E B5480x488x8 UESR 888x588x8 UESR 1824x758x8 1288x1824x8 UESR 328x288x16 VESA 646x486x16 2S 314 888x6588x16 VESA 1824x768x16 VESA 1288x1824x15 m Enter a video mode or scan to scan for additional modes _ 39 1792x1344x16 VESA x Incidentally when there is a digit or letter before a three digit number you can also select such video mode by typing the corresponding single digit or letter v in our instance 5 Wait until Acronis True Image Home 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 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 automat
85. Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home Full version 3 Select Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu and then choose the image backup of your system partition or entire system disk that you want to use for recovery Right click on the backup and choose Recover in the shortcut menu If the disks have different disk letters in Windows and the recovery environment the program will display the following error message Acronis True Image Home cannot detect volume N of Name archive where Name is the name of the required image backup archive and volume number N may be different depending on the number of backups in the archive Click Browse and show the path to the archive Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step Select the system partition usually C on the What to recover screen If the system partition has a different letter select the partition using the Flags column It must have the Pri Act flags As you are recovering the system partition to the original hard drive there is no need to select the MBR and track 0 box 6 Atthe 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 so as to suit you before clicking Next 7 Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step If you have not resized the partition the sizes
86. EA Create new tolder Browse for Location Delete M 6 Desktop 4 a My Documents b a My Music I a My Pictures gt MyBackups 4 E My Computer b 4 315 Floppy A b amp Local Disk C b 4 Acronis Media D gt amp Local Disk E b amp Local Disk F b amp New Volume G gt S KINGSTON Hi gt Shared Documents p a My Network Places Folder Hi 3 Finish configuring your backup task as usual 4 Click Proceed 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 remember that CD DVDs are not supported as locations for reserve copies created as zip archives and flat files 62 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 9 2 Archive to various places Now Acronis True Image Home offers much greater flexibility You can save full incremental and differential backups to different places including a network share CD DVD USB stick as well as any local internal or external hard drive You cannot use Acronis Secure Zone as one of the places for storing a part of backups belonging to the same backup chain because such backups may be automatically deleted during automatic backup archive consolidation in Acronis Secure Zone As a result the backup chain will be corrupted In addition the Archive to vario
87. EE F m babe te cg File or Folder has not been backed up completely a i D 2 This window also allows choosing the computer from which you backed up the files and folders you need to recover Select the computer by its name on the directory tree under Online Storage in the left pane 3 By default the state of the Online Storage after the latest backup is displayed so the latest versions of the files and folders will be recovered If you need to recover earlier versions select the date and time on which you want to recover the state of the files and folders 4 Select the folder containing the files you want to recover in the left pane The right pane lists the files in that folder Select the files to recover When selecting multiple files you can use the Ctrl and Shift keys like in Windows Explorer Having finished selection click the Recover icon on the toolbar 5 Acronis True Image Home 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 finds a file with the same name there it will open a dialog window where you can choose what to do with the file Recover and replace the file on
88. Google Desktop use Acronis True Image Home s Recovery feature 18 2 2 Using Windows Search with Acronis True Image Home 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 Windows Search support for tib files If you do not have Windows Search installed but would like to use it you can download Windows Search 4 0 for free from Microsoft s Web site To download click Windows Search 4 0 Double click on the downloaded file and follow the instructions for installation Windows Search does not support indexing of zip files content To use Windows Search support 1 Toregister the plug in choose Tools amp Utilities on the sidebar Click Search settings on the right pane and select the appropriate check box in the Desktop Search Options window After successful registration of the plug in Acronis True Image Home will display the Plug in registration succeeded information window 2 Youcan verify that the tib support is enabled Right click on the Windows Search icon in your system tray and select Windows Desktop Search Options in the context menu The following window appears Make sure that the tib item is present in the Included Locations list To open the Indexing Options window in Windows Vista open the Control Panel and then double click the Indexing Options icon The Windows Vista indexing options have some dif
89. Image Home 2010 Acronis WinPE ISO Builder from the Start menu Specify path to the folder with the WinPE files Specify path to the folder with the Acronis Plug in files Check the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Acronis MediaAddons Settings BartPE for the plug in location Specify the full path to the resulting ISO file including the file name Check your settings in the summary screen and click Proceed 7 Burn the ISO to CD or DVD using a third party tool or copy to a flash drive Once a machine boots into the WinPE Acronis True Image Home starts automatically 15 3 2 Adding the Acronis Plug in to WinPE 2 x or 3 0 Acronis WinPE ISO Builder provides three methods of integrating Acronis True Image Home with WinPE 2 x and WinPE 3 0 Adding the Acronis Plug in to the existing PE 2 or PE 3 ISO This comes in handy when you have to add the plug in to the previously configured PE 2 or PE 3 ISO that is already in use Creating the PE 2 or PE 3 ISO with the plug in from scratch Adding the Acronis Plug in to a WIM file for any future purpose manual ISO building adding other tools to the image and so on To be able to perform any of the above operations Acronis Plus Pack and Windows Automated Installation Kit WAIK must be installed on your PC If you have not installed WAIK install it as described in Creating WinPE based rescue media p 126 Acronis WinPE ISO Builder supports only x86 WinPE 2 x and WinPE
90. Kit AIK for Windows Vista and Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 or later PE 2 0 http www microsoft com Downloads details aspx familyid C7D4BC6D 15F3 4284 9123 679830D629F2 amp displaylang en AIK for Windows Vista SP1 http www microsoft com downloads details aspx FamilyID 94bb6e34 d890 4932 81a5 5b50c657de08 amp DisplayLang en AIK for Windows 7 PE 3 0 http www microsoft com DOWNLOADS details aspx familyid 696DD665 9F76 4177 A811 39C26D3B3B34 amp displaylang en optional Burn the Windows AIK to DVD or copy to a flash drive Install the Microsoft NET Framework v 2 0 from this kit NETFXx86 or NETFXx64 depending on your hardware 4 Install Microsoft Core XML MSXML 5 0 or 6 0 Parser from this kit 5 Install Windows AIK from this kit It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the help documentation supplied with Windows AIK A good starting point is the Create an image section of Getting Started for IT Professionals white paper To access the document select Microsoft Windows AIK Documentation Getting Started for IT Professionals from the start menu 15 3 1 Adding the Acronis Plug in to WinPE 1 x Acronis Plug in for WinPE can be added to Windows PE 2004 1 5 Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 To add Acronis Plug in to WinPE 1 x 1 Unpack all files of your WinPE 1 5 ISO to a separate folder on the hard disk 2 Select Acronis Plus Pack for Acronis True
91. M 8 19 2009 2 47 43 PM 8 19 2009 2 47 44 PM 8 19 2009 2 47 44 PM 8 19 2009 2 47 45 PM 8 19 2009 2 47 45 PM 8 19 2009 2 47 46 PM 8 19 2009 2 47 47 PM 8 19 2009 2 47 47 PM 8 19 2009 2 47 49 PM ANANN 2 47 56 PM QP Information Information amp P Information Information information Information EP Information CP Information 9 information 10 Information 11 GP Information ie amp 9 TnFormatinn nis True Image H amp Disk1_Backup Wednesday August 19 2009 2 47 37 PM Operation Disk Backup started Priority changed to Low Analyzing partition 0 0 Analyzing partition E Analyzing partition C Analyzing partition F Analyzing partition 0 0 Analyzing partition G Create Incremental Backup Archive From Disk 1 To file G My BackupslDisk1 Backup tib Compression N Pending operation 143 started Creating partition image Locking partition E Pending nneratinn 143 started Creatinn nartitinn imane T To view the logs for a specific period select the period by clicking the right arrow buttons in the From and To fields of the Show for the period area Clicking the arrow in the From field opens a pop up calendar where you can set the start day of the period by double clicking the appropriate day Then set the end day using the same procedure for the To field You can change months and years in the pop up calendars using the left and right arrows in the month name a
92. MDisk Nu2 Productions Remote Desktop Client RpcSS needs to launch DComLaunch Service first SP2 only Close Enable Disable File a434a43 inf Acronis acronis inf adawarese adawarese inf aspi aspi inf bginfolbginfo inf bstSibst5 inf peinstipeinst inf bartpe bartpe inF bootfix bootfix inF chkdskichkdsk inf custom custom inf deepburnerldeepburner inf dskemdidskemd inf dospe Dospe inf snapshot snapshot inF erd2002 erd2002 inf irfanview irFanview inf keyboard keyboard inf stinger stinger inf meafee mcafee inf nero burning rom penero inf nuZmenu nu2menu inf zz5inu2shellinu2shell inf penetcfg autorun penetcfg inF penetcfgipenetcfg inf putty putty inf ramdiskiramdisk inF mstsc mstsc inf dcomlaunchtdcomlaunch inf ELE Add Remove Help Close the Plugins window and click the Build button to start the building process If you want the image to be burned to CD select the Burn to CD option and choose the necessary burner in the Device menu After the image is created burn it to CD or DVD If you did not check the Burn to CD option at the previous step After booting from the CD DVD you can find the Acronis True Image Home plug in in Go System Storage Adding drivers BartPE supports adding two types of drivers storage drivers and network drivers For instructions on how to add drivers refer to PE builder driver help There is also an option to add storage drivers for RAID or SC
93. P OPTIONS REESE ELM 75 9 4 2 Eocalstorage settihigs 5 ee Wr e tr eee genet Ie EE EUER ERREUR EE ESSERI PES RETE TENE 79 9 4 3 Creating a custom data category for backups sess eene tne tn trn tnnt nts tasas tnis 81 10 Data recovery with Acronis True Image Home eee eese eese eene eene eene nennen nnno nonna n nost 83 10 1 Recovering your system partitiOn eeeeeeeeseeeeeeeeee eene nnn in nnn nain ania nara annus 83 10 2 Recovering a disk backup to a different capacity hard disk ccccsessceceeeeessessaeeeeeeeseesees 84 10 2 1 Recovering a disk without a hidden partition esee eene ennt nnne nnns nnne nnne 85 10 2 2 Recovering a disk with a hidden partition cc cceccscesessessesesssesessesscsscsecsecseesesacssesecsessessessesaeesessesasereeeees 86 10 3 Recovering a data partition or disk esses eene ennt nnn 88 10 4 Recovering Tilesand folders t eet ete tne 89 10 4 1 Recovering files and folders from file archives esses eene enne ennt nnn nennen 89 10 4 2 Recovering files and folders from image archives eese eene ennt nnnnn nnn 90 11 Additional recovery information eese eese eee eese ee eene eene nennen nnno e na stt ese na stet sena artes nas 92 11 1 Recovery Wizard detailed information 11 1 1 Starting the Recovery Wizard eene e an E neiaa ansi
94. SI devices during BartPE boot up You need to press F6 and point to the diskette with the drivers Common storage drivers are available at PE builder drivers When you boot from the newly created BartPE media Acronis True Image Home can be found here Go System Storage Acronis True Image Home 15 3 Creating WinPE based rescue media To create a WinPE based rescue media you need to purchase and install Acronis Plus Pack Acronis Plug in for WinPE can be added to WinPE distributions based on any of the following kernels Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 PE 1 5 Windows Vista PE 2 0 also suitable for Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 or later Windows Vista SP1 PE 2 1 Windows 7 PE 3 0 If you already have media with PE1 x distribution unpack the media ISO to a local folder and start the Acronis WinPE ISO Builder by selecting it from Start Acronis Plus Pack for Acronis True Image Home 2010 The wizard will guide you through the necessary operations Please refer to Adding the Acronis Plug in to WinPE 1 x p 127 for details To be able to create or modify PE 2 x and 3 0 images you must have Windows Automated Installation Kit AIK installed The further operations are described in the Adding the Acronis Plug in to WinPE 2 x or 3 0 p 128 section If you do not have Windows AIK installed on your PC prepare as follows 1 Download and install Windows Automated Installation
95. Setting up monthly execution If you select monthly execution set the Start time and days on which to execute the task 112 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 On the specify a day on the specified day e g on the second Tuesday or fourth Friday select this from the drop down lists On every x day s of the month on the specified date s For example you may want the task to be executed on the 10th 20th and Last days of the month You can also specify the task Start date UE COE CIS Scheduling Run this task monthly What to back up DINE nel Do not schedule Start at 02 37 PM hhimm Once only lon m Finish 2 JOnthe First Sunday X 3 Upon event d QiOnevery 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 day s ofthe month Periodically 8 9 Eii 12 13 14 E 15 16 17 18 19 B21 Daily 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 C Weekly E Start date 11 24 2009 gt Optional steps gt Scheduling Resultant schedule Run the task at 2 37 00 PM on the 10 20 last day s of the month sand Run with credentials What to exclude Username TW HOMElAdministrator Backup options Password eeeee Automatic consolidation E Run the task only when the computer is idle Comments E If missed run the task at startup Next gt Proceed Cancel 13 2 Importing scheduled tasks when upgrading When you upgrade from a previous Acronis True Im
96. To mount an incremental image you must have all previous images and the initial full image If any of the successive images are missing mounting is not possible By default the program will mount the latest incremental image To mount a differential image you must have the initial full image as well If the archive was password protected Acronis True Image Home 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 Required steps Archive selection Finish Optional steps Drive letter Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Mount backup Name Created Archive Protection Password Required Password Please specify the password to access the archive Path G System_E_C_F_11_24_2009 tib 135 3 Select a partition to mount as a virtual disk Note that you cannot mount an image of the entire disk except in the case when the disk consists of one partition If the image contains several partitions by default all of them will be selected for mounting with automatically assigned drive letters If you would like to assign different drive letters to the partitions to be mounted click Options Required steps Summary rn Partitions to mount 3 Mode Read Partition 1 Drive letter H File system NTFS Label Size 164 7 MB Cluster size 0 5 KB
97. Vista SP2 all editions Windows 7 all editions Acronis True Image Home also enables creation of a bootable CD R DVD R that can back up and recover a disk partition on a computer running any Intel or AMD based PC operating system including Linux The only exception is the Intel based Apple Macintosh which is currently not supported in native mode 1 4 3 Supported file systems FAT16 32 NTFS Ext2 Ext3 ReiserFS Linux SWAP If a file system is not supported or is corrupted Acronis True Image Home can copy data using a sector by sector approach The Ext2 Ext3 ReiserFS and Linux SWAP file systems are supported only for disk or partition backup recovery operations You cannot use Acronis True Image Home for file level operations with these file systems file backup recovery search as well as image mounting and file recovering from images as well as for backups to disks or partitions with these file systems 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 0 2 0 3 0 FireWire IEEE 1394 and PC card storage devices REV Jaz and other removable media Acronis True Image Home does not support the following dynamic volume types Mirrored and RAID 5 There are some additional limitations on operations with dynamic and GPT disks To perform
98. a 1 138 GB of 7 997 GB used 6 860 GB available Acceptable partitions i System C Storage not created E a 0 i 2 395 GB of 4 658 GB used 2 263 GB available N J Non acceptable partitions l Nonstop Backup is Data E Click e it off UUt T J ix Used space I Nonstop backups Available space Partitions to protect Data E Photos F W 139 2 MB totally used Having finished the settings click OK and Acronis Nonstop Backup will start protection with the new settings Acronis Nonstop Backup remains enabled after restarting Windows and even after switching the computer off 7 3 Using Acronis Nonstop Backup Using Acronis Nonstop Backup is easy After you start Nonstop Backup the program automatically creates the initial image of the partitions you have selected for protection and thereafter continues to back up changes on those partitions until the Nonstop Backup Storage has free space Be aware that when all free space is used Acronis Nonstop Backup does not delete the oldest data automatically but simply stops working and notifies you by displaying a balloon message in the Windows taskbar notification area In this case you will need either to clean up the obsolete data manually to free up some space or select another location for Nonstop Backup Storage If you select a new location for storage Acronis Nonstop Backup will create there a new initial image
99. a were stored on the same primary partition on a damaged disk If you are recovering a system partition to the new or the same disk and want to load the operating system from it you will select Active Acronis True Image Home automatically corrects boot information during recovery of the system partition to make it bootable even if it was not recovered to the original partition or disk If you recover a system partition to another hard disk with its own partitions and OS most likely you will need only the data In this case you can recover the partition as Logical to access the data only By default the original partition type is selected Selecting Active for a partition without an installed operating system could prevent your computer from booting 11 1 7 Changing the recovered partition size and location You can resize and relocate a partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse on the horizontal bar on the screen or by entering corresponding values into the appropriate fields Using this feature you can redistribute the disk space among partitions being recovered In this case you will have to recover the partition to be reduced first r o B Required steps Specify recover settings of Partition C Archive selection Partition location required NTFS New Volume G New location Settings of Partition C Partition type Finish Primary Mark the
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101. ach 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 Incremental or Differential The difference is typically that in an incremental backup only the files changed or added since the last time the backup ran are added to the archive With a differential backup all the files changed or added since the initial full backup are added to the archive Thus differential backups take longer to run than incremental backups When recovering from an incremental backup the program must copy the entire initial backup and then step through each of the previous backups to retrieve all the updated files A differential backup on the other hand can be recovered quicker because the software must copy only the original backup and the most recent one 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 3 3 Backup file naming conventions Let s remember that Acronis True Image Home may split a full or incremental archive into volumes either when a user sets the splitting option or when a large backup having a size bigger than 4GB is saved to a FAT32 disk See Backup archive component
102. ackup into Acronis True Image Home provides a single solution for all your data backup needs Acronis Online Backup might be unavailable in your region To find more information click here https www acronis eu my online backup Powerful scheduler The scheduler became more powerful and flexible We expanded the set of already existing scheduling options The new scheduler allows you to specify the date when a scheduled task should run for the first time While scheduling a monthly task you can use a month calendar for specifying the date e g 1st day of the month or dates for running the task e g on 10th 20th Last day of the month If you do not need to run a scheduled task for some time but intend to use it again in the future you can disable the task for the time being and then re enable it when required So it is not necessary to recreate the task from scratch You can clone a scheduled task and then introduce some minor changes into the duplicate This may be useful when creating several similar tasks In combination with a selected backup method and automatic consolidation rules the scheduler allows implementing various backup strategies Selective validation Earlier versions of Acronis True Image Home could validate only a whole backup archive Sometimes this may be inconvenient Suppose you have a full backup archive with a size of 20GB and a longish chain of differential backups having sizes of several gigabytes each a
103. after fields by dragging partition borders or the partition itself If the cursor turns into two vertical lines with left and right arrows it is pointed at the partition border and you can drag it to enlarge or reduce the partition s size If the cursor turns into four arrows it is pointed at the partition so you can move it to the left or right if there s unallocated space near it Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 163 Having provided the new location and size click Accept You will be taken back to the Change disk layout window You might have to perform some more resizing and relocation before you get the layout you need 20 3 7 Cloning summary The cloning summary window graphically as rectangles illustrates information about the source disk partitions and unallocated space and the destination disk layout Along with the disk number some additional information is provided disk capacity label partition and file system information Partition types primary logical and unallocated space are marked with different colors Required steps Summary Source disk Disk 1 Target disk Disk 2 Finish Before bes New Volume E 7 997 GB NTFS After c 7 997 GB NTFS lal 8GB oO Primary Logical Dynamic D Acronis Secure Zone Unallocated Unsupported Cloning a disk containing the currently active operating system will require a reboot In that case
104. age 55 Recovering files and folders 90 93 Recovering files and folders from file archives 90 Recovering files and folders from image archives 50 90 91 Recovering files protected with Acronis Nonstop Backup 49 50 Recovering partitions protected with Acronis Nonstop Backup 49 Recovering your system partition 49 84 85 Recovery issues 184 Recovery method selection 94 Recovery priority e 100 Recovery using vhd files created by Windows Backup 133 Recovery Wizard detailed information 93 155 Removable media settings 79 Removing Acronis True Image Home 16 Removing backup archives 155 159 Resizing Acronis Secure Zone 121 Running Acronis True Image Home 16 S Scheduling 70 Scheduling tasks 21 55 70 109 Searching 35 139 Searching backup archives and their content 139 Security 161 Security and Privacy Tools 171 Selecting a disk partition to recover 95 Selecting a hard disk 168 Selecting a target disk partition 96 Selecting archive location 69 Selecting Clone mode 162 Selecting destination disk 163 Selecting partition transfer method 164 Selecting source disk 163 Selecting the backup options 74 Selecting what data to back up 54 67 Selecting what to exclude 73 Setting automatic consolidation 43 45 74 Setting default recovery options 36 89 98 Setting online backup options 57 Setting recovery options 98 Setting
105. age Home version and already have scheduled tasks during the first start the upgraded Acronis True Image Home will automatically find those tasks and add them to the list of tasks shown on the Tasks and Log screen on the Scheduled tasks tab The tasks are executed according to their scripts The program searches for task scripts in a special folder the usual path is C Documents and Settings All Users Application Data Acronis TruelmageHome Scripts The new tasks created after upgrading will have their scripts placed into the same folder If you upgrade from Acronis True Image Home 2009 you will be able to perform all operations provided by the program with the imported tasks These operations are described in the Managing scheduled tasks p 114 section If you have any unscheduled tasks that were created when you performed backup or validation in Acronis True Image Home 2009 manually without scheduling they will be found too and shown on the Unscheduled tasks tab When upgrading from Version 11 of Acronis True Image Home the existing tasks will be found too However you will only be able to start them manually This is because the task script format underwent serious changes in Acronis True Image Home 2009 So there is little sense in keeping the old tasks You will need to create new scheduled tasks from scratch Tasks from Acronis True Image Home 10 and earlier versions cannot be imported 13 3 Managing scheduled tasks To manage the s
106. al IDE H 0000 IDE O Primary Slave Confirmation i The destination hard disk drive you have chosen contains some partitions that could contain useful data Click OK to confirm deletion of all the partitions on the destination hard disk drive 8 GB New Volume E 7 997 GB NTFS oO Primary Logical Dynamic oO Acronis Secure Zone Unallocated Unsupported To confirm deletion of the partitions click OK Note that no real changes or data destruction will be performed at this time For now the program will just map out cloning All changes will be implemented only when you click Proceed If you selected the automatic mode the program will not ask you anything else and will take you to the cloning summary window 20 3 5 Selecting partition transfer method When you select the manual cloning mode Acronis True Image Home will offer you the following data move methods Asis Proportional the new disk space will be proportionally distributed among cloned partitions Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 161 Manual you will specify the new size and other parameters yourself Required steps Choose data moving method from old to new hard drive Clone Mode J Asis The data on your old hard disk will be moved to the new drive in its current state the size of the partitions will not be changed Move Method Proportional The size of the original partitions will
107. algorithms of data destruction eese eene 172 22 4 Systemi Clean UD 5o tton re iie ce iR E e ba o RE ONE VERA a 173 22 5 System Clean Up Wizard settings ccccessssccececessessnsececececeesesesaeceeecsseeseasaeeeeeceseessasaeeeeeens 22 5 1 22 5 2 22 5 3 22 5 4 22 5 5 22 5 6 Data Destruction Method setting Files settini RE ET Computers setting erecti iet e dede tenete cendo ols idee t b a tle Drive Free Space setting uuo tete need inertes e per En eO EN UTE Ve ERE ERR ERE XE T TY R0 Commands settirig 3 meer eripere tret generi eh e e reete ir EE aE Network Places Filter setting 22 6 Cleaning up separate system components sesesssseeseeeeeenen nennen nnn nnne ennt nnn nnn 177 23 Troubleshooting 5 1 1reid Lore tet eres eo EE nan ae naa EE SERERE S S FR RR RRR RS NN RRREaaden i 178 23 General a unte TE A e e ew eE AEE 178 23 2 Installation issues ERE hnic RB 178 23 3 Backup and validation issues esses eene nennen nennen nhan isses nri nn nsns 179 234 RECOVERY ISSUES eee ett AA ee e RR EE RISE 181 23 5 Bootability after recovery issues cccecsessssecececessesssaeeeceeeceesesaaecececesessesasaeseeseessessaeaeeeesens 181 23 6 Other SUCS eade iter Pere e ER ne Ee a Ee Fee Enna ER ta REN eu Ee xe ERN R a ER ER Tae 182 24 Hard Disks and Boot Sequence eeeee eese eese eese eene nenne nu nonne na soto sena
108. apacity If you choose to create a bootable disc ISO image specify the ISO file name and the folder in which to place it 5 Next the program will estimate how many blank diskettes are required in case you have not chosen ISO or CD DVD and give you time to prepare them When you are finished click Proceed After you create a bootable media mark it and keep it in a safe place Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions Due to this reason we strongly recommend that you create a new bootable media after each Acronis True Image Home upgrade One more thing you should remember when booting from the rescue media and using a standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 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 p 77 On the other hand backup archives encrypted using the Acronis True Image Home encryption feature can be recovered 15 2 Creating BartPE disc with Acronis True Image Home Bart PE Bart Preinstalled Environment is a bootable Windows CD DVD created from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation setup CD The current version of Acronis True Image Home does not have a plug in for a preinstalled environment based on Windows Vista and Windows 7 The main advantage of Bart PE is that
109. ard disks in Windows the issue is probably in a third party software blocking access to the hard disks For more details see the Acronis Support KB article Acronis Product Does Not Detect Hard Disks in Windows at http kb acronis com content 1515 Acronis True Image Home and Windows BitLocker To back up and recover the system encrypted with BitLocker you need to create a sector by sector image after booting from Acronis rescue media For more detailed information see the Compatibility of Acronis True Image with Windows Vista BitLocker article at http kb acronis com content 1734 Acronis True Image Home does not accept the correct backup archive password If you provide the correct password and Acronis True Image Home displays The password does not match error message please reinstall the program to resolve the issue For more details see the Acronis Support KB article Acronis True Image Cannot Access a Backup Archive with the Password does not match Error at http kb acronis com content 1803 Disk clone operation in Windows aborted after reboot Acronis product reboots in Windows Native Mode but the cloning process finishes after a few seconds with no result To handle the issue see the Acronis Support KB article Acronis Product Fails to Clone After Reboot at http kb acronis com content 1757 You do not receive E mail notifications How to work around the situation when the set up E mail notifications fail to be received ca
110. as started it will be completed because task execution cannot be interrupted by the user However you can work on the computer while the task is running If the computer is off when the scheduled time comes the task won t be performed but you can force the missed task to run at the next system startup by selecting the If missed run the task at startup box The option does not work when your computer wakes up from sleep or hibernate mode If you schedule a task for performing backup to a USB flash drive two more check boxes appear on the scheduling screen If missed run the task when device is attached and Run task only if the current device is attached Selecting the first box will let you perform a missed backup when the USB flash drive is attached if it was disconnected at the scheduled time If you want the missed task to be performed only when the same device is attached also select the Run task only if the current device is attached box Otherwise the missed task will run when any USB flash drive is attached Run the task upon HDD alarm available if Acronis Drive Monitor is installed if enabled the task 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 task 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 1 Specify the task
111. ata 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 controller However using special equipment one can easily read the underlying sequence of 1 s and O s It only requires specialized software and inexpensive hardware to read data deleted this way by analyzing magnetization of hard disk sectors residual magnetization of track sides and or by using current magnetic microscopes Writing to magnetic media leads to subtle effects summarized as follows every track of a disk stores an image of every record ever written to it but the effect of such records magnetic layer becomes more subtle as time passes 24 3 1 Functioning principles of Information wiping methods Physically the complete wiping of information from a hard disk involves the switching of every elementary magnetic area of the recording material as many times as possible by writing specially selected sequences of logical 1 s and 0 s also known as samples Using logical data encoding methods in current hard disks you can select samples of symbol or elementary data bit sequences to be written to sectors in order to repeatedly and e
112. ating system To do this go to the Device Manager SATAcontrollers usually appear under the SCSI and RAID controllers section of Device Manager while hard drives are listed under the Disk drives section The SATA controller and SATA hard drive must not be displayed in the Device Manager with a yellow exclamation mark or any other error indication 1 After you have installed the hard disk in your computer and have configured it in BIOS one can say that the PC knows about its existence and its main parameters However it is still not enough for the operating system to work with the hard disk In addition you have to create partitions on the new disk and format the partitions using Acronis True Image Home See Adding a new hard disk p 165 Then configure your BIOS to boot from the SATA controller and boot from the SATA hard drive to ensure it works 24 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 D
113. b file you can remove the file from the boot loader list and delete the temporary vhd file though you can keep it 3 12 Acronis Universal Restore 3 12 1 Purpose of Acronis Universal Restore Universal Restore is part of Acronis Plus Pack which is purchased separately has its own license and is installed from its own setup file You need to re create bootable media to make the newly installed Universal Restore add on operational in the bootable recovery environment A system disk image can be restored easily on the hardware where it was created or to identical hardware However if you change the motherboard or use another processor version a likely possibility in case of hardware failure the recovered system could refuse to boot An attempt to transfer the system to a new much more powerful computer will usually produce the same unbootable result because the new hardware is incompatible with the most critical drivers included in the image Using Microsoft System Preparation Tool Sysprep does not solve this problem because Sysprep permits replacing drivers only for Plug and Play devices sound cards network adapters video cards etc As for system Hardware Abstraction Layer HAL and mass storage device drivers they must be identical on the source and the target computers see Microsoft Knowledge Base articles 302577 and 216915 Acronis Universal Restore technology provides an efficient solution for hardware independent syst
114. b selected s Online Storage AS D Nonstop Backup Online Storage Folders Name 3ds_max xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 05 3ds max 9 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 access 2000 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 access 2003 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 access 2007 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 access xp xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 acdsee 2009 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 acdsee 8 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 acdsee photo editor xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 05 acdsee photo editor 2009 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 05 GQ MediaBuilderHome active desktop calendar xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 BQ Schedule2 J adobe photoshop cs 8 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 D SnapAPI adobe photoshop cs 9 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 ij TrueImageHome g adobe photoshop cs3 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 GD UniversalRestore after effects 7 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 07 Microsoft Shared aim pro xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 4 m m alcohol 120 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 02 altova xmlspy 2006 xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 gt File or folder has been changed 4 antihacker xml XML Document 7 21 2009 10 0 Local file or Folder has been deleted 2 antispyware xml XML Document 721 2009 10 08 Online Storage 1 amp 3 encrypt data Se C eo Documents and Settings gj Program Files GQ Common Files cro gg CDP ig CDRecord 7v EEESER
115. c algorithm A 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 though in the case being considered this will most likely not be an issue because the files will not be too large The encryption settings are available only for password protected archives If you try to recover data from a password protected archive or append an incremental differential backup to such an archive Acronis True Image Home will ask for the password in a special window allowing access only to those who know the password 9 4 1 5 Backup priority The preset is Low The priority of any process running in a system determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process Decreasing the backup priority will free more resources for other CPU tasks Increasing the backup priority might speed up the backup process by taking resources from the other currently running processes The effect will depend on total CPU usage and other factors 9 4 1 6 File level security settings Preserve file security settings in archives The preset is enabled By default files and folders are saved in the archive 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 gt Security If you recover a secured file folder on a comput
116. cations 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 Windows applications settings 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 so they will be protected even if your computer gets stolen or your house burns down Acronis Nonstop Backup continuously saves changes in your system and files as often as every five minutes allowing you to rollback easily to any point in time if the need arises 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 provides you with all the essential tools you need to recover your computer system should a disaster occur such as losing data accidentally deleting critical files or folders or a complete hard disk crash If failures occur that block access to information or affect system operation you will be able to recover the system and the lost data easily The unique technology developed by Acronis and implemented in Acronis True Image Home allows you to perform exact sector by sector disk backups including all operating systems
117. cheduled tasks click Tasks and Log on the sidebar and you will go to the Tasks management screen with the Scheduled tasks tab selected by default in the right pane The tab displays all scheduled tasks along with their name status schedule last run time last result and owner By default you see only your own tasks but you have the option to view or manage tasks of other users To do so select Tools amp Utilities Options Appearance from the main program menu Then choose Filter and unselect the Show only tasks created by the current user check box You can change the task parameters by editing them This is performed in the same way as creation however the earlier selected options will be set so you only have to enter the changes To edit a task select it and click Edit on the toolbar If you want to make changes only in a task schedule select the task and click Change Schedule on the toolbar To delete a task with confirmation select it and click Delete on the toolbar To rename a task select it click Rename on the toolbar and enter the new task name You can also start execution of a selected task at any moment by clicking Start on the toolbar If you do not need to run a scheduled task for some time but intend to use it again in the future you can disable the task for the time being by clicking Disable on the toolbar and then re enable it when required So it is not necessary to recreate the task from scratch When y
118. ching the criteria you specify You can add your own criteria by clicking Add While adding criteria you can use the common Windows wildcard characters and type several criteria in the same line separating them by semicolons For example to exclude all files with gif and bmp extensions you may type gif bmp One more thing if for example you want to exclude all the files with the name of test regardless of their extension you should specify exclusion criteria such as test otherwise those files will not be excluded You can also specify the path to a folder to be excluded for example C Program Files Common Files Note that the path must end with the symbol otherwise the folder will not be excluded Required steps Files to exclude What to back up Exclude hidden files and folders Archive locatio Exclude system files and folders Finish Optional steps Virus scan Scheduling Backup method What to exclude Backup options Automatic consolidation Comments Remove All l Next gt J Proceed J Cancel These filter settings will take effect for the current task For information on how to set the default filters that will be used each time you select folders to back up see What to exclude p 75 72 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 9 3 6 Selecting the backup options Select the backup options that is backup file spli
119. ck Restore is a minimal addition to your backup media allowing one click data recovery from an image archive stored on this media This means that when booting from the media you click recover all data will be recovered to its original place automatically No options or selections such as resizing partitions will be available The 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 task s backup options even if the box is selected in the default backup options If you want more functionality during recovery write a full standalone version of Acronis True Image Home to the rescue media As a result you will be able to configure the recovery task using Recovery Wizard By clicking the Advanced tab you can select Acronis True Image Home Full version and Acronis System Report In addition Acronis True Image Home Safe version will be available for those who purchased the boxed version of Acronis True Image Home and installed the appropriate add on 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 on this tab as well 9 4 2 Local storage settings Th
120. ckup to another location using Windows Explorer 3 If you have only one computer at home it is advisable to print some information that may be helpful in recovering from a disaster because you may not be able to use the Internet Keep the printed material in a safe place along with the rescue CD DVD or another rescue media 4 2 Testing bootable rescue media To 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 1 If you purchased a boxed version of the product that has a bootable CD please make sure that your computer can boot from this CD Though Acronis try to place drivers for the latest hardware on the bootable CD an almost infinite variety of hardware configurations exist so we cannot give you a one hundred percent guarantee of being able to boot from the rescue CD 2 If you purchased the program after downloading it you absolutely must create a bootable rescue CD or other rescue media for example a USB stick following the recommendations given in the User s Guide or program s Help and then make sure this rescue media is bootable on your computer You must configure your computer so as to enable booting from the rescue media and make your rescue media device CD ROM DVD ROM drive or USB stick the first bo
121. creating a backup schedule To do so click Update Backup Now This may be useful when you want to back up immediately some important changes to the files backed up on the Online Storage Incidentally if the last scheduled online backup has failed this link changes to Update Backup Now Last backup failed allowing you to repeat the failed backup task right away If you have suspended the previous online backup for any reason the link text will be as follows Update Backup Now Last backup suspended 8 3 Recovering data from Online Storage Log on to your online backup account by clicking Backup Online Backup on the sidebar and entering your e mail address used for opening the account and the password After the program connects to Acronis Online Backup Server select a computer for registration on the Online Storage By default your current computer is selected for registration Click the Continue button The Online storage screen opens with this computer selected If you have data backed up from more than one computer you can select on this screen the computer from which to recover required files Naturally you can only browse and recover the data backed up from other computers If you encrypted data on another computer you will be asked to enter the encryption key for the computer to get access to its data on the Online Storage 1 Click Browse on the Online storage screen Acronis Time Explorer will be opened with the Online Storage ta
122. cryption In addition you can set validation of backups immediately after creation this makes sense in case of frequent backups as it relieves you of remembering to validate them later 9 The next step allows setting automatic consolidation of the backup archive for example when the age of backups exceeds the desired time period 30 days by default 10 If you wish provide comments to the backup You will also be able to add comments later 11 Click Proceed when you are satisfied with the backup task settings 6 3 5 Backing up to a network share With Acronis True Image Home you can back up your data to a network share This may be desirable for example when you have a file server and want to use it for backing up data from PCs in your home network Depending on your backup strategy you may want to back up just files and folders or entire disks One more consideration is the data transfer rate provided by your network For example a Gigabit Ethernet network has a bandwidth sufficient for all amounts of data to be backed up However backing up over Wi Fi connection may be time consuming when you need to back up a hundred gigabytes Files and folders or data partitions can be backed up and recovered in Windows If you plan to back up your system disk or partition please make sure that the standalone version of Acronis True Image Home can see the network share to be used for backups as system recovery will be done in the recovery
123. d drive Before trying other solutions described in this chapter it is advisable to check if the issue is caused by one of the following loose connections to the external drive poor quality connecting cable When using an external USB hard drive try the following additional suggestions if the drive is connected through a hub connect it directly to a rear connector of your PC to prevent conflict with other USB devices attached to your PC try disconnecting all the USB devices except the mouse and keyboard 23 2 Installation issues When you cannot install Acronis True Image Home try the following solutions 1 If you selected Install for the current user only during the installation try to select Install for all users that share this computer and vice versa 2 Launch the installation file in the following way right click on the file and select Run as administrator 3 Login to Vista s built in administrator account and try to install the program a Click Start All Programs then find and open the Accessories folder b Right click on the Command Prompt item and select Run as administrator c Type the following command line in to the opened window net user administrator active yes Take note that there is a space between Administrator and active yes d Log off the current account and log in to the Administrator account e Try to install the application again If these solutions do not h
124. d regardless of whether they have been completed or not ve 777 M Greate Backup task Ww Greate Validation Task Home Backup Recovery Tasks management Calendar today 11 23 2009 4 October 2009 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 12 3 4567 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 November 2009 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 123245567 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 EE 24 El 26 27 28 29 Ef December 2009 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa i 2 3 5 6 Es 9 10M 1 2 13 W i5 16 17 H 19 20 Hl 22 23 24 Ed 26 Selected date I scheduled task I Failed 27 E 2 EB m Tasks amp Log Bl successful Unscheduled tasks Log Try amp Decid u ea All tasks You have 2 scheduled tasks Show all scheduled tasks Name 5 Schedule Last Run Time Tools amp Utilities Backup e Project Idle Run the task at 5 51 00 PM on the 4 11 18 25 30 last day s of the month Monday November 23 2009 5 38 12 F EjSvstem E C F Idle Run the task at 5 12 00 PM every week on Monday Monday November 23 2009 5 12 01 F f amp Acronis True Image H EM Search Desktop 94 lt 5 40PM The color marks in the calendar show information about the days with scheduled tasks tasks completed with errors and successfully completed tasks The current day is highlighted in bold font Clicking a day marked with a scheduled task shows the task s scheduled for this date The buttons with left and right arrows at th
125. d button Please keep in mind that when recovering the system partition to the original place your post command will not be executed because recovery of the system partition requires a reboot resulting in loss of the command Such a command will also be lost if the program requests a reboot during any other recovery operation 11 2 4 Recovery priority The preset is Low The priority of any process running in a system determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process Decreasing the recovery priority will free more resources for other CPU tasks Raising recovery priority may speed up the recovery process as it takes resources from other currently running processes The effect will depend on total CPU usage and other factors 11 3 Detailed information on recovery operations involving dynamic GPT disks and volumes The below information is intended for helping you with recovery operations involving dynamic GPT disks and volumes There may be various situations for example where you may use both basic and dynamic disks in your computer Similarly you may use disks with both MBR and GPT partition schemes at the same time 1 Acronis True Image Home supports recovery of dynamic volumes to the following locations on the local hard drives totheoriginal location to the same dynamic volume to another dynamic disk or volume to unallocated space of the dynamic group toa basic disk If a dynamic v
126. d to enter the encryption key for the computer only once during its registration though it will be required if you try to recover files backed up from this computer when connected to the Online Storage from another computer Having made all the necessary settings click Continue Computer Selection Select your current computer or register a new one If you have registered this computer before select it from the list Otherwise select an empty tab and register a new computer encrypt_data testi E tw new New computer bo Name your computer Home 4 Enter a key to use encryption Warning Remember the key kfGYe3TU4e It cannot be restored 5 Remove Continue Cancel Until you log off subsequent connections to the Online Storage from this computer will occur automatically you just need to select Online Backup If you already registered the computer select it from the list of registered computers then click Continue By default your current computer is selected for registration When the computer connects to the online storage the Online storage screen with your storage space quota appears S e ET WB Recovery 3 Tools amp tities Log Off Online storage 50 GB amp vivolkhonsky mail ru Home EE encrypt WE testi 86 15 MB 153 1 MB Backup ee Backup center D Online Backup encrypt_data 3 Remove encrypt_data ET active ile backup
127. data partition or disk image backup as well as recovery It is recommended to perform data disk backup in Windows because in most cases Windows drivers for storage devices operate better and faster than the respective Linux drivers used in the recovery environment In addition recovery of data disks and partitions usually occurs in Windows Let s create a data disk backup task in Windows Attach the external drive if it is to be used as the backup destination and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before starting Acronis True Image Home Click the My Disks link under Back Up on the Welcome screen Select the box of your data partition or disk on the What to back up screen Choose a target archive for the backup task being configured you can either add a new backup to an existing archive or create a new one Choose the backup location and assign a name to the backup to be created It is better to use meaningful names e g Data disk tib When you store different backup archives in the same location e g on an external drive you may want to create a new folder when creating a new backup archive To do this click Create new folder in the toolbar then assign a meaningful name to the folder 4 Carefully read the Summary of actions to be performed during backup and click Proceed if you are satisfied with the backup task settings otherwise click Options on the Summary screen to change the settings 5 The first op
128. date as the Start date b At the Backup method step choose the Incremental method select the Create a new full backup after checkbox and set 6 in the number of backups field In addition select the Delete previous backup archive check box then finish configuring the backup task c Create the second backup task with the same settings as the first one To do this right click on the just created task on the Tasks and Log screen and choose Clone in the pop up menu Rename the cloned task as you wish and then choose Edit on the toolbar or in the pop up menu When creating the second task make sure that the target archive name differs from the archive name assigned in the first task because if the names are identical the backups created by the second task will overwrite those created by the first one In addition set the date a week later than the current one as the Start date d Similarly create the third backup task with the same settings except the backup archive name The start date should be two weeks later When all three tasks run they will implement exactly the backup scenario you want This approach can be used for implementing any similar backup strategy For instance if you want to keep backup chains for two weeks create two scheduled tasks each running every 2 weeks To keep such backup chains for four weeks it is necessary to create four tasks each running every 4 weeks etc If you turn off the computer
129. de Tasks amp Lo 9 Apply changes All the changes will be applied to your system Try amp Decide Apply changes with reboot faster option All the changes will be applied to your system after a reboot Je Tools amp Utilities Discard changes Your system will be reverted to the state before you start Try amp Decide 2 481 GB Note this action requires a reboot Available Notify me if free disk space is less than 500 MB and Try amp Decide has been working for 10 Minutes Change alert settings Reset settings to default f amp Acronis True Image H RON h 2 15PM Apply changes will allow you to keep the changes made to the system Apply changes with reboot will speed up applying the changes They will be applied after rebooting your computer 104 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Discard changes will return your system to the state it was in before turning on the Try amp Decide mode Please note that while working in the Try amp Decide mode you will experience slowing down of the system performance Furthermore the process of applying changes could take considerable time KKK Please be aware that Try amp Decide cannot track changes in disk partitions so you will be unable to use the Try amp Decide mode for virtual operations with partitions such as resizing partitions or changing their layout In addition you must not use the Try amp Decide mode and disk defragmentation or
130. devices priority and the other for setting the HDD boot order Windows was recovered to a dynamic volume that cannot be set bootable Solution Recover Windows to a basic or simple dynamic volume A system partition was recovered to a disk that does not have an MBR When you configure recovery of a system partition to a disk that does not have an MBR the program prompts whether you want to recover the MBR along with the system partition Opt for not recovering only if you do not want the system to be bootable Solution Recover the partition once again along with the MBR of the corresponding disk Windows fails to boot with NTLDR is missing error message Solution Instructions on how to make Windows XP bootable if it reports NTLDR is missing after being recovered with Acronis True Image Home can by found in the following Acronis Support KB article Windows Fails to Boot With NTLDR is missing available at http kb acronis com content 1759 23 6 Other issues Installation of Acronis True Image Home makes shared folders inaccessible To learn why local shared folders on the machine cannot be accessed after installation of Acronis True Image Home on this computer see the Acronis Support KB article Shared Folders Cannot be Accessed after Installation of Acronis True Image at http kb acronis com content 1554 Acronis True Image Home does not find any hard disks in Windows If the Acronis product reports that it has not found any h
131. differential one then will repeat consolidation if necessary and possible 4 ifafter consolidating all the previous backups the archive size quota violation remains the old backup archive will be deleted in order to correct the violation 5 if the new full backup file size exceeds the archive size limit the program will record a warning into the log WO Required steps Backup method Full Overwrites the existing backup archive Finish y A new full backup overwrites the previous one Incremental recommended Backs up only the changes that have occurred since the last backup of any type The first task run creates a full backup all subsequent task runs create incremental backups Differential Backs up only the changes that have occurred since the last Full backup The first task run creates a Full backup all subsequent task runs create differential backups V Create a new full backup after Optional steps Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 aS E Delete previous backup archive incremental or differential backups 71 9 3 5 Selecting what to exclude This step will be present only for the Disk and Partition Backup and My Data backup types It enables you to exclude unnecessary files from your backup in case you just want to exclude certain file types without creating custom categories You can exclude hidden or system files and folders as well as files mat
132. disks or partitions with Ext2 Ext3 ReiserFS and Linux SWAP file systems 1 Choose Create Bootable Rescue Media in the Tools amp Utilities menu You can also run the Bootable Rescue Media Builder without loading Acronis True Image Home by choosing Programs Acronis Acronis True Image Home Bootable Rescue Media Builder from the Start menu 2 Select which components of the Acronis programs you want to place on the bootable media Acronis Media Builder lela x 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 Acronis True Image Home V Q9 Acronis True Image Home V Q Acronis System Report Version 13 0 6053 Language English TO Acronis System Report JP Acronis System Rep By booting a computer from a media with this component you will be able to generate a system report lt m r Space required 99 86 MB 9 Help lt Back i Next gt l Cancel Acronis True Image Home offers the following components Acronis True Image Home full version Includes support of USB PC Card formerly PCMCIA and SCSI interfaces along with the storage devices connected via them and therefore is strongly recommended Acronis System Report This component all
133. e Move Remove Consolidate Update Explore backup archives as well as Mount Convert image backups by right clicking on an archive and choosing the required operation This starts the appropriate wizard or performs the appropriate action In addition this screen provides for recovery of your data from Nonstop Backup and Online Backup storages by clicking the appropriate link Here you can also edit comments for backups see detailed information on the backups and assign ratings to your backups For instance you may want to assign a high rating to an important backup A backup rating is indicated by the number of stars in the Rating column more stars means a higher rating The default rating is three stars but you can raise or lower it by clicking on the stars in the 34 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 column The assigned backup ratings may be helpful for example when sometime later you will need to consolidate the backups stored in an archive it will be easier to choose which backups to keep after consolidation For more information on manual backup consolidation see Consolidating backups p 154 In addition these ratings might save you a lot of time you will otherwise spend on exploring multiple files in your backup archives trying to guess which of the outdated backups can be deleted without losing important data Furthermore this screen shows the results of searches for backup archives and their content To perform a
134. e Internet My E mail Acronis True Image Home offers a straightforward way to back up messages accounts and settings for Microsoft Outlook 2000 2002 2003 2007 Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail 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 The list of supported e mail clients will be gradually built up Updates will be available with new program builds or via the Internet You can select the following items Messages contained in PST DBX Database Files E mail accounts For Microsoft Office Outlook 2000 2002 2003 2007 Mail Folders Calendar Contacts Tasks Notes Signatures News Folders m User Settings Address Book For Microsoft Outlook Express Mail Folders Address Book select Windows Address Book Acronis True Image Home 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 local e mail folders backup is available Take note that Acronis True Image Home does not support Unicode characters in the items backed up using My E mail backup type 9 3 2 Selecting archive location Select the location for the backup archive and specify the archive name If you are go
135. e can help you in a variety of ways here are some examples There are cases when the installation of antivirus software cripples the functionality of some applications in fact some programs might even refuse to start after antivirus installation The Try amp Decide feature can help you to avoid such problem Here s how 1 Select an antivirus program and download a trial version Turn on the Try amp Decide mode Install the antivirus software Try to work with the applications installed on your computer performing your usual tasks Ur ope If everything works without any snags you can be reasonably sure that there will be no incompatibility problems and can buy the antivirus software 6 If you encounter any problems discard the changes in your system and try antivirus software from another vendor The new attempt might turn out to be successful Here s another example You have accidentally deleted some files and then emptied the Recycle Bin Then you have remembered that the deleted files contained important data and now you are going to try to undelete them using an undelete software program However sometimes you may do something wrong while trying to recover deleted files making things worse than before trying to recover them Here s one way you could try to recover the lost files 1 Turnon the Try amp Decide mode 2 Launch the file undelete utility 3 After the utility scans your disk in search of the deleted file or folde
136. e disks and have any doubts when selecting the destination disk you may abort the recovery by clicking Cancel and try to identify the target disk by its model number interface etc To see this information select Tools amp Utilities Add New Disk in the main menu and the Disk selection screen will show the information Use it for identifying the destination disk number then click Cancel start the Recovery Wizard again repeat the above actions and select the destination disk Clicking Accept will return you to the Settings of partition screen Check the partition type and change it if necessary Proceed to specifying the partition size by clicking Change default in the Partition size area By default the partition will occupy the entire new disk You need to keep the hidden partition size unchanged as well as place it to the same location on the disk at the start or the end of disk space To do this resize and relocate the partition by dragging it or its borders with a mouse on the horizontal bar on the screen or by entering corresponding values into the appropriate fields Partition size Free space before Free space after Click Accept when the partition has the required size and location and then click Next Specify the settings for the second partition which in this case is your system partition Click New location then select unallocated space on the destination disk that will receive the partition Click Accept check the
137. e hard disk parts that contain data for supported file systems Furthermore it does not back up swap file information pagefile sys under Windows XP and later and hiberfil sys a file that keeps RAM contents when the computer goes into hibernation This reduces image size and speeds up image creation and recovery However you might use the Create an image using the sector by sector approach option that lets you include all of the sectors of a hard disk in an image A partition image includes all files and folders This includes all attributes including hidden and system files boot record and FAT file allocation table as well as files in the root directory and the zero track of the hard disk with the master boot record MBR A disk image includes images of all disk partitions as well as the zero track with the master boot record MBR By default files in all Acronis True Image Home archives have a tib extension Do not change this file extension It is important to note that you can recover files and folders not only from file archives but from disk partition images too To do so mount the image as a virtual disk see Exploring archives and mounting images p 134 or start the image recovery and select Recover chosen files and folders 3 2 Full incremental and differential backups Acronis True Image Home can create full incremental and differential backups A full backup contains all data at the moment of backup creati
138. e old disk partitions new disk space is distributed manually On program screens damaged partitions are marked with a red circle and a white cross inside in the upper left corner Before you start cloning you should check such disks for errors and correct the errors using the appropriate operating system tools The current Acronis True Image Home version does not support cloning of dynamic and GPT disks 20 2 Security Please note the following if the power goes off or you accidentally press RESET during the transfer the procedure will be incomplete and you will have to partition and format or clone the hard disk again No data will be lost because the original disk is only being read no partitions are changed or resized The system transfer procedure does not alter the original disk at all After the procedure finishes you might want to format the old disk or securely wipe the data it contains Use Windows tools or Acronis DriveCleanser for these tasks Nevertheless we do not recommend that you delete data from the old disk until you are sure it is correctly transferred to the new disk the computer boots up from it and all applications work 20 3 Executing transfers For best results install the target new drive where you plan to use it and the source drive in another location e g in an external USB enclosure This recommendation is especially important for laptops To start cloning select Tools amp Utilities
139. e on the disk in excess of the archive quota The extra amount of space can be estimated as the size of the largest backup in the archive though sometimes consolidation requires more space In case of setting a limit on the number of backups the actual number of backups can exceed the maximum number of backups by one This enables the program to detect quota violation and start consolidation Similarly if you pre set a backup storage period for example 30 days the program will start consolidation when the oldest backup is stored for 31 days 9 3 8 Providing a comment Providing a comment for the archive can help identify the backup and prevent you from recovering the wrong data However you can choose not to make any notes The backup file size and creation date are automatically appended so you do not need to enter this information In addition you can provide or edit a comment after the backup has been executed This may be helpful for adding comments to scheduled backups which run unattended To edit or add a comment go to the Data recovery and backup management screen by clicking Recovery on the sidebar choose the appropriate backup right click and select Edit comments in the shortcut menu 9 3 9 The backup process Clicking Proceed after completing all the optional steps you need for configuring the current backup task will start the task execution if you have configured the task to be started manually by choosing the Do not sched
140. e sides of the calendar allow you to browse the months being shown in the calendar If you have gone several months back or forward clicking the Today button will quickly return you to the current month and date Clicking any day in the past takes you to the Log tab and shows logs for the selected date If there are no logs for that date an appropriate message appears To view logs you can just click on the Log tab Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 151 When the Log tab is selected the upper pane shows the calendar while the lower one shows logs contents M Backup Tasks management Hi emg Calendar today 8 19 2009 4 July 2009 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa i 3 5 87 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Backup 234 Recovery Ea 31 Tasks amp Log Event log August 2009 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 FE 20 21 22 ES 24 25 26 27 28 29 September 2009 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 12345 5 67 8 G7 8 9 1011 12 FE 14 15 16 17 18 FE EJ 21 22 23 24 25 26 E 28 29 30 fi Selected date B scheduled task Wi Failed Bl successful Scheduled tasks Unscheduled tasks Show for the period from 08 j 19 2009 08 j 19 2009 E show at eJ To Try amp Decide Event Date Message amp System Backup Wednesday August 19 2009 2 40 38 PM Tools amp Utilities 8 19 2009 2 47 37 PM 8 19 2009 2 47 37 P
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142. ed that your private information is secure 8 1 Creating an Online backup account Performing backups to Acronis Online Storage requires subscription to the Online Backup service Select Back Up Online Backup in the main program menu and then click the Subscribe to Online Backup service link on the Online Backup Login window This will open your web browser and take you to the main Acronis Web site to continue registration If you already have an Acronis account type the e mail address and password for that account under Log in to Your Account to the right You will be taken to your account page where you will be able to subscribe to the Online Backup Service If you do not have an Acronis account fill in the appropriate fields and the account will be created for you Provide your first and last names and e mail address You will be offered a country selected on the basis of the IP address of your computer though you can select another country if you wish Then provide a password for your new account and confirm the password by retyping it once more in the appropriate field When you perform all actions necessary for account registration please wait for an e mail message that will confirm opening of the account To keep your personal data secure choose a 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 t
143. ed video mode is unsuitable for your hardware 26 Index A Acronis Boot Sequence Manager 134 Acronis DriveCleanser 172 Acronis DriveCleanser File Shredder and System Clean up 23 Acronis Nonstop Backup 23 46 Acronis One click Backup 32 Acronis Secure Zone e 20 70 119 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager 16 21 Acronis True Image Home basic concepts 10 19 41 Acronis True Image Home installation and startup 15 Acronis Universal Restore 24 101 Adding a new hard disk 168 188 192 Adding the Acronis Plug in to WinPE 1 x 128 Adding the Acronis Plug in to WinPE 2 x or 3 0 128 129 Additional backup features 62 Additional recovery information 93 Archive protection 77 Archive selection 93 Archive splitting 81 Archive to various places 64 Archive validation 82 Arranging boot sequence in BIOS 11 28 41 84 86 88 101 133 188 Assigning a letter to the recovered partition 98 B Backing up a data partition or disk 42 Backing up a system partition 39 Backing up an entire system disk 40 Backing up files folders 43 Backing up to a network share 44 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage 53 Backup and validation issues 182 Backup file naming conventions 19 Backup method 70 Backup options 76 Backup priority 78 Backup reserve copy 81 Backup Wizard detailed information 67 Bootability after recovery issues 184 Booting from
144. eed with backup right away you can omit the Scheduling step If you do not want to exclude any files from the backup you can omit the What to exclude step When you want to use the default backup options you can omit the Backup options step and so on Now let s see what optional steps you can set up while configuring a backup task Click the Options button 9 3 3 Scheduling By default the Do not schedule option is chosen so the task will run after completing the wizard and clicking Proceed However you may wish to schedule the task being configured by choosing one of the scheduling options Renee scr Scheduling Run this task weekly Do not schedule Start at 08 E Pm hh mm P Once only what to back up Archive location Finish Run the task every 1 week s on Upon event E Monday Tuesday V Wednesday P Periodically Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Daily E Start date 12 30 2009 weekly Monthly Optional steps Virus scan 3 Scheduling Resultant schedule Run the task at 8 30 00 PM every week on Wednesday ees Run with credentials What to exclude User name TW HOMElAdministrator Backup options Password eeeee Automatic consolidation E Run the task only when the computer is idle Comments If missed run the task at startup Next gt J Proceed Cancel For more informati
145. elected Acronis True Image Home generates a new disk signature for the recovered drive This may be needed when you use an image backup not for disaster recovery but for cloning your Windows Vista hard drive to another one Trying to boot Windows after cloning with both drives connected will result in a problem During Windows booting its loader checks the disk signatures of all the connected drives and if it finds two identical disk signatures the loader changes the signature of the second disk which would be the clone disk Once this happens the clone disk would not be able to boot up independently of the original disk because the MountedDevices fields in the clone s registry reference the disk signature of the original disk which will not be available if the original disk is disconnected 11 1 5 Selecting a target disk partition 1 Select a target disk or partition where you want to recover the selected image You can recover data to its initial location to another disk partition or to an unallocated space The target partition should be at least the same size as the uncompressed image data All the data stored on the target partition will be replaced by the image data so be careful and watch for non backed up data that you might need 2 When recovering an entire disk the program will analyze the target disk structure to see whether the disk is free Required steps R Capacity Model Interface What to reco
146. elp an AcronisSupport Knowledge base article may help you in troubleshooting and resolving the issue Just follow the steps in the appropriate scheme See Troubleshooting Installation Issues of Acronis Software 23 3 Backup and validation issues 1 When you get a problem with backup or validation first of all make sure that you have the latest build of Acronis True Image Home You can download it through your Acronis account This is because Acronis are continuously working on improving our products The latest build may contain bug fixes and provide enhanced hardware compatibility 2 Errors encountered while backing up data or validating backup archives may be caused by hard disk errors and or bad sectors so check the source and destination disks if you encounter an issue when backing up or check the backup archive storage disk when validating a backup archive To do this use the Windows chkdsk utility as follows Go to the Command Prompt Start Run cmd Enter the following command chkdsk DISK r where DISK is the partition letter you need to check e g D Please note that checking the C drive may require you to reboot the PC 3 The reason for errors may be defective RAM modules To test the memory modules of your PC please download one of the archives depending on what media type you are going to use memtest archive for diskette memtest archive for USB Flash drive memtest archive for CD Unpack the arc
147. em restoration by replacing the crucial Hardware Abstraction Layer HAL and mass storage device drivers Acronis Universal Restore is applicable for 1 Instant recovery of a failed system on different hardware 2 Hardware independent cloning of operating systems 3 12 1 1 Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore 1 The system recovered by Acronis Universal Restore might not start if the partition structure in the image or the target disk partitioning does not coincide with that of the source disk As a result the loader restored from the image will point to the wrong partition and the system will not boot or will malfunction This may occur if you back up only selected partitions but not the entire source disk restore not the entire source disk but only the selected partitions In some cases especially if your system resides on a partition other than the first this can confuse the loader and prevent the restored system from startup To avoid the problem we recommend that you back up and restore the entire system disk 2 The Acronis Universal Restore option does not work if a computer is booted with Acronis Startup Recovery Manager using F11 or the backup image is located in Acronis Secure Zone This is because Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and Acronis Secure Zone are primarily meant for data recovery on the same computer 3 12 2 General principles of Acronis Universal Restore 1 Automatic selection of HAL and
148. em updates when they appear When Windows Update informs you that updates for the system and Microsoft applications are ready for installing turn on the Try amp Decide mode and then proceed to install the updates If you encounter any sort of problem discard the changes and leave your real operating system and applications untouched e e M Backup v Home Backup Recovery Tasks amp Log Try amp Decide Tools amp Utilities Acronis True Image H e Try amp Decide Elapsed time Wi Try amp Decide is on Click to stop O day 0 hour 19 minutes When Try amp Decide is on you can install unsafe software visit untrusted Web sites open suspicious e mails and perform any other potentially dangerous operations without risk Try amp Decide lets you apply or discard changes to your computer Learn more Options Protected partitions C Storage for virtual changes C E B BB B 1 Used space i Used by Try amp Decide Available 1 96 GB 221 9 MB 2 481 GB Notifications Notify me if free disk space is less than 500 MB and Try amp Decide has been working for 10 Minutes Change alert settings Reset settings to default J You can leave the Try amp Decide mode turned on as long as you like maybe days on end however in such case applying changes may take a long time since this mode survives across reboots of your operating system If you use Windows Vista or Windows 7 please be awa
149. entire disks partitions but files folders too 1 Start the Recovery Wizard by selecting Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main program menu Select the archive Data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the archive to consist of files of no more than 2GB If you suspect that some of the files are larger first copy the entire archive along with the initial full backup to a local hard disk or a network share disk See notes and recommendations for supporting FTP servers in Supported storage media p 14 If you are going to recover files from an archive containing incremental backups Acronis True Image Home will enable selecting one of the successive incremental backups by its creation date time Thus you can roll back the file folder state to a certain date 10 To recover data from an incremental backup you must have all the previous backup files and the initial full backup If any of the successive backups are missing recovery is not possible To recover data from a differential backup you must have the initial full backup as well At the Recovery method step select Recover chosen files and folders Select where you want to recover the chosen files folders You can recover data to its original location or choose a new one if necessary When recovering files folders under bootable rescue media the Original location option is disabled because drive letters in standalone Acronis True I
150. eps Post wiping actions Source selection Select actions to be performed after the data is wiped Algorithm selection No action Finish Do nothing with the wiped partitions Note that the wiped partitions will be unusable until Formatted Delete partitions Delete the partition from the partition table Format Format the wiped partitions with the current file systems Optional steps Post wiping actions In this example the switch is set to Format This will allow you to see the results of partition and data destruction along with the reformatting of the partition You cannot delete partitions on dynamic and GPT disks Up to this point you can make changes in the created task Clicking Proceed after you select a post wiping action will launch the task execution if the Proceed button is unselectable click Finish on the sidebar and select the Wipe the selected partitions irreversibly box to enable the Proceed button Acronis DriveCleanser will perform all actions necessary for destroying the contents of the selected partition or disk After this is done you will see a message indicating the successful data destruction Acronis DriveCleanser offers you another useful capability to estimate the results of executing a data destruction method on a hard disk or partition To view the state of your cleaned disks or partitions choose Tools amp Utilities on the sidebar The Acronis DriveCleanser area in
151. er on Usually the message with the required key combination is displayed during the startup test Pressing this combination takes you to the menu of the setup utility that is included in your BIOS The menu can differ in appearance sets of items and their names depending on the BIOS manufacturer The most widely known BIOS makers for PC motherboards are Award Phoenix and AMI Moreover while items in the standard setup menu are mostly the same for various BlOSes items of the extended or advanced setup heavily depend on the computer and BIOS version Among other things the BIOS menu allows you to adjust the boot sequence Boot sequence management differs for various BIOS versions e g for AMI BIOS AWARDBIOS and brand name hardware manufacturers Computer BIOS allows booting operating systems not only from hard disks but also from CD ROMs DVD ROMs and other devices Changing the boot sequence may be required for example to make your rescue media CD DVD or USB stick device the first booting device If there are several hard disks installed in your computer labeled as C D E and F you can reorder the boot sequence so that an operating system is booted from for example disk E In this case you have to set the boot sequence to look like E CD ROM A C D This does not mean that booting is done from the first device in this list it only means that the first attempt to boot an operating system will be from this device
152. er the hidden partition without resizing to minimize the risk of possible problems So before proceeding with recovery you need to know about all partitions existing on the system disk their sizes and physical order To see this information start Acronis True Image Home and choose Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu Select a backup of your system disk and click Details on the toolbar Acronis True Image Home will display information about the backed up disk including a graphical view of all partitions the disk contains and their physical order on the disk If any partition display is too small for accommodating the relevant information hover the mouse pointer over the partition to see the information Assuming that you have got the information let s proceed with recovery of a system disk using the rescue media Attach the external drive if it contains the backup archive to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before booting from Acronis rescue media 1 Arrange the boot sequence in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 185 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home Full version Select Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu and then choose the image backup of your system disk that you want to use for recovery If the disks have d
153. er 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 archives 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 can disable file security settings during recovery even if they are available in the archive see Files recovery options p 97 The result will be the same In archives store encrypted files in a decrypted state The preset is disabled If you do not use the encryption feature available in Windows XP and later operating systems simply ignore this option File folder encryption is set in Properties General Advanced Attributes gt Encrypt contents to secure data 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 These options relate only to file folder backups In addition they are unavailable for zip backup archives 9 4 1 7 Error handling Ignore bad sectors The preset is disabled This option lets you run a backup even if there are bad sectors on the hard disk Although most disks do not have bad sectors
154. es amp Folders Try amp Decide Recent backups My favorites System_E_C_F D Update 4B Disk and Partition Backup Tools amp Utilities a What s new lt Nonstop Backup Clicking the items in the right pane takes you to the corresponding screen where you can either start the backup or recovery task immediately or make further selections The My favorites area in the right pane lists the features you have used most often and provides shortcuts to them in case you would like to use the features again The Recent backups area lists the backups you have recently run and allows you to update the backup archives with just one click You can easily access the Acronis True Image Home features through the so called sidebar occupying the left side of the screen Choosing an item on the sidebar takes you to a screen where you can access the corresponding features Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 31 Acronis True Image Home uses wizards which guide you through many operations Like the main program window wizards also have the sidebar listing all the steps both required and optional needed for completing the operation For example see the Backup Wizard screen shot below Required steps Target backup archive What to back up Target selection Archive location Create new backup archive Finish _ Add to existing backup archive Select an existing archive to update No archive is selected
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156. es in the source except the following Then click Add and select the desired file types in the window that appears r Add New Type X You can add registered or custom file types for the category being created Name My file types set 1 Choose registered file types Search 2 _ Extensions File Types Iz v EFF JPEG Image Eos Task Object 7 A00 Microsoft Jet OLEDB 4 0 J v j 3PE JPEG Image a v j 3PEG JPEG Image v EPa JPEG Image Blas JScript Script File IE Blase JScript Encoded Script File L M 38 v lel N O 12 vid P Q 34 v R S 37 vR Edit custom file types es You can select file types as follows 1 By name Enter the file name in the upper Name field You can use the common Windows wildcard characters For example My exe will select all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my 2 Bytype Select the desired file types in the list You can also search the desired registered file types by entering their extension or description in the Search field 3 Byextension Click the Edit custom file types link and enter the extensions semicolon separated in the File extensions field If you do not want to keep custom contents of the current backup simply select the files folders from the tree This set will be effective only for the current backup task 10 Data recovery with Acronis True Image Home The ultimate purpose of data backup is recovery
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158. escribes the selected property in detail The disk information includes its physical parameters connection type device type size etc partition information includes both physical sectors location etc and logical file system free space assigned letter etc parameters You can change the width of a column by dragging its borders with the mouse 3 7 What is Try amp Decide The Acronis True Image Home Try amp Decide feature allows you to perform potentially dangerous operations such as software installation or opening e mail attachments without putting your PC at risk It does this by creating essentially a controlled secure temporary workspace that is insulated from the rest of your computer If the system crashes or your computer stops responding during these operations you should revert the system to the previous state by discarding changes made in the Try amp Decide mode If operations are successful you have the choice of applying the changes to the real system For more details see Try amp Decide p 102 3 8 Acronis DriveCleanser File Shredder and System Clean up Acronis True Image Home contains utilities for secure destruction of data on an entire hard disk drive individual partitions as well as for erasing individual files and eliminating user system activity traces When replacing your old hard drive with a new higher capacity one you may unwittingly leave on the old disk lots of personal and confidential info
159. ese settings also affect the backup process for example they may have a more or less noticeable effect on the backup process speed Their values also depend on the physical characteristics of the local storage devices 9 4 2 1 HDD writing speed The preset is Maximum Backing up in the background to an internal hard disk for example to Acronis Secure Zone may slow other programs performance because of the large amounts of data transferred to the disk You can limit the hard disk usage by Acronis True Image Home to a desired level To set the desired HDD writing speed for data being backed up drag the slider or enter the writing speed in kilobytes per second 9 4 2 2 Network connection speed The preset is Maximum If you frequently back up data to network drives you may consider limiting the network bandwidth used by Acronis True Image Home To set the desired data transfer speed drag the slider or enter the bandwidth limit for transferring backup data in kilobytes per second 9 4 2 3 Free space threshold The preset is disabled You may want to be notified when the free space on the backup storage becomes less than the specified value To enable such notification select the On insufficient free disk space box then specify the free space threshold value in the below fields When this option is enabled Acronis True Image Home will monitor free space on your backup storage If after starting a backup task Acronis True Image Home
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161. eted from the registry After entering the Computers setting value you can browse the 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 22 5 4 Drive Free Space setting Here you can manually specify physical and or logical drives to clean up free space on By default the System Clean up Wizard 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 System Clean up You can view and change the current settings for the selected item 4 Fz System Clean up 4 Bj System Components L6 Drive Free Space g Recycle Bin r d a Temporary file You can select the logical drives to wipe fr Add Logical Drive Data Destruction Method Please select logical drives g Files d Disk Logical Drives Free Space ME A 4 Hard Disk Free Space cA AGE Select the logical drive pata Destruction Method z EA 28 01 MB Drive Free Space b D Find Computers List FA 1r 9MB m 9 My Computer gt E Find Files List Gi 6 313 GB V w Local Disk C 2 Recently Used Documents List w Local Disk E gt
162. ferences in content and appearance though most of the following information is applicable to Windows Vista as well Indexing Options 31 986 items indexed E E Indexing complete Index these locations Included Locations Exclude Local Disk C Application Data Default User 5 Microsoft Outlook Express M amp tib Hs 1 5 21 1645522239 m 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 mm RB Contents Advanced Options Index Settings File Types Add UNC Location 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 IFilter Null Filter Plain Text Filter File Properties Filter Mull Filkor Extension as sym E sys e tab E tar e tdi text E tgz EN theme tib S S S ST ST S IST IS T C amp IRAR 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 store your tib backup archives are shown in the Included Locations
163. ffectively wipe confidential information Methods offered by national standards provide single or triple recording of random symbols to disk sectors that are straightforward and arbitrary decisions in general but still acceptable in simple situations The most effective information wiping method is based on deep analysis of subtle features of recording data to all types of hard disks This knowledge speaks of the necessity of complex multipass methods to guarantee information wiping The detailed theory of guaranteed information wiping is described in an article by Peter Gutmann Please see Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid State Memory 24 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 RM of built in information wiping methods United States Department of 1 pass randomly selected symbols to each byte of Defense 5220 22 M each sector 2 complementary to written during the 1 pass 3 random symbols again 4 writing verification United States NAVSO P 5239 1 pass 0x01 to all sectors 2 0x27FFFFFF 3 26 RLL random symbol sequences 4 verification United States NAVSO P 5239 1 pass 0x01 to all sectors 2 Ox7FFFFFFF 3 26 MFM random symbol sequences 4 verification 1
164. figure hard disks by answering the wizard s questions 10 After finishing the installation turn off the computer set the jumper on the disk to the master position if you want to make the disk bootable or leave it in slave position if the disk is installed as additional data storage 24 2 2 Motherboard sockets IDE cable power cable There are two slots on the motherboard to which the hard disks can be connected primary IDE and secondary IDE Hard disks with an IDE Integrated Drive Electronics interface are connected to the motherboard via a 40 or 80 thread flat marked cable one of the threads of the cable is red Two IDE hard disks can be connected to each of the sockets i e there can be up to four hard disks of this type installed in the PC there are three plugs on each IDE cable two for hard disks and one for the motherboard socket As noted IDE cable plugs are usually designed so that there is only one way to connect them to the sockets Usually one of the pinholes is filled on the cable plug and one of the pins facing the filled hole is removed from the motherboard socket so it becomes impossible to plug the cable in the wrong way In other cases there is a jut on the plug on the cable and an indentation in the sockets of the hard disk and the motherboard This also ensures that there is only one way to connect the hard disk and the motherboard In the past this design of plug did not exist so there was an empirica
165. first school Who was your childhood hero What is your favorite pastime Who is your all time favorite sports team What was your high school mascot What make was your first car or bike Where did you First meet your spouse What is your pet s name 3 Enter the new password and confirm it or select Do not use password protection You can also select a secret question that will be asked in case you forget the password 4 To perform the password change operation click Proceed in the final wizard window 14 4 Deleting Acronis Secure Zone 1 If you want to remove the Acronis Secure Zone select Tools amp Utilities Manage Acronis Secure Zone in the main menu and then choose Remove Acronis Secure Zone 2 Selectthe partitions to which you want to add the space freed from the zone If you select several partitions the space will be distributed proportionally to each partition 3 Next you will see a list of briefly described operations to be performed on partitions disks After you click Proceed Acronis True Image Home will start deleting the zone Progress will be reflected in the opened window If necessary you can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel However the procedure will be canceled only after the current operation is finished Zone deletion might take several minutes or longer Please wait until the whole procedure is finished Acronis Secure Zone deletion will automatically destroy all back
166. for it 1 Perform task running scheduling Select one of the following scheduling options 5 1 ejt Requited steps Scheduling Run this task manually What to back up Do not schedule Archive location Once only Finish i C Upon event Periodically Daily Weekly Monthly Optional steps Scheduling Backup method What to exclude Backup options Automatic consolidation Comments Resultant schedule never Next gt f Proceed f Once only the task will be executed once at the specified time and day Upon event the task will be executed upon an event to be selected in the right pane Periodically the task will be executed periodically with a frequency to be specified in the Run this task periodically pane where you specify the time between runs for the task being scheduled Daily the task will be executed once a day or once every several days Weekly the task will be executed once a week or once every several weeks on the selected day Monthly the task will be executed once a month on the selected day To postpone a scheduled task until the next time the computer is idle select the Run the task only when the computer is idle box The task will automatically start when the computer is idle you are not using the mouse and the keyboard for the number of minutes specified in the Wait setting of the screen saver Once the task h
167. for several days for instance when leaving home for the weekend or on vacation some incremental backups will not run and this sequence will be broken In such case you will have to delete old backup archives and start the scenario once more 14 Managing Acronis Secure Zone The Acronis Secure Zone is a special partition for storing archives on the same computer that created the archive For more information see Acronis Secure Zone p 20 When you select Tools amp Utilities gt Manage Acronis Secure Zone in the main menu the program searches for the zone on all local drives If the zone is found the wizard will offer to manage it resize or change the password or delete it If there is no zone you ll be prompted to create it If the Acronis Secure Zone is password protected the correct password must be entered before any operation can take place 14 1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone Acronis Secure Zone can be located on any internal disk except dynamic volumes and GPT disks It is created using unallocated space if available or at the expense of free space on a partition Partition resizing may require a reboot A computer can have only one Secure Zone To create a zone on another disk you must first delete the existing zone 1 Before creating the zone you need to estimate its size To do so start a backup and select all data you are going to copy into it At the Backup Options step set the compression level You will
168. for the new one 13 4 4 Full incremental differential backups with automatic rotation Because of Vista and Windows 7 s housekeeping activities such as defragmenting and indexing that usually run in the background incremental and differential backups may be comparable in size with full backups even if changes made by a user are few and far between Taking this into account the optimum backup policy for users of Vista and Windows 7 as well as automatic disk defragmentation programs such as Diskeeper may be making only full backups With this in mind let s consider a more complex backup strategy scenario requested by a real Acronis True Image Home user You want to schedule backups as follows on the first day a full backup followed by 6 incremental or differential backups than a new full backup You want to keep 3 weeks worth of backups but not more At the beginning of the fourth week once the full backup has been created you would like the program to automatically delete the full backup from the first week and all 6 linked incremental backups This is not possible to implement with one backup task but three backup tasks will provide the desired result Suppose you plan to make backups every night at 10 00 PM a When you come to the Scheduling step while configuring the first backup task select the Weekly option set Run the task every 3 weeks then select all seven days of week and set 10 00 PM as the start time Leave the current
169. from an archive containing incremental backups Acronis True Image Home will enable selecting one of the successive incremental backups by its creation date time Thus you can roll back the files folders state to a certain date To recover data from an incremental backup you must have all the previous backup files and the initial full backup If any of the successive backups are missing recovery is not possible To recover data from a differential backup you must have the initial full backup as well Select a folder on your computer where you want to recover selected files folders a target folder You can recover data to its original location or choose a new one if necessary Choosing a new location results in appearance of one more required step namely Destination When you choose a new location by default the selected items will be recovered without recovering the original absolute path You may also wish to recover the items with their entire folder hierarchy If this is the case select Recover absolute path At the Destination step select a new location on the directory tree You can create a new folder for the files to be recovered to by clicking Create new folder At the What to recover step select the files and folders to recover You can choose to recover all data or browse the archive contents and select the desired folders or files Clicking Next will bring you to the Finish step Click Proceed if you do not need to chan
170. ge the default recovery options otherwise click Options The first optional step allows you to keep useful data changes made since the selected backup was created Choose what to do if the program finds in the destination folder a file with the same name as in the archive By default the program will overwrite existing files and folders though more recent files and folders are protected from overwriting If necessary you can protect the system hidden files and folders from being overwritten by selecting the appropriate check boxes In addition you can protect the files that meet the criteria you specify in this window from being overwritten Unselecting the Overwrite existing files check box will give the files on the hard disk unconditional priority over the archived files Select the options for the recovery process that is recovery process priority file level security settings etc The options you set on this page will be applied only to the current recovery task Up to this point you can make changes in the created task by choosing the step you want to change and editing its settings Clicking Proceed will launch the task execution The task progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel Please keep in mind that the aborted procedure may still cause changes in the destination folder 10 4 2 Recovering files and folders from image archives Image archives provide recovery of not only
171. ght pane Required steps Select a backup from which to recover Archive selection fee Details Recovery method Name Created Com Images system E_C_F_11_23_2009 gSystem E C F 11 23 2009 11 77 B atabisk E F 11 23 2009 a System C 11 24 2009 system C 11 24 2009 11 24 2009 1 01 27 PM Nonstop Backup Storages m 3 Nonstop Backup storage m Optional steps Rating Path G System E C F 11 23 20092 tib If the archive is located on removable media e g CD first insert the last CD and then insert disks in reverse order when the Recovery Wizard prompts you KK K Data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the archive to consist of files of no more than 2GB each If you suspect that some of the files are larger first copy the entire archive along with the initial full backup to a local hard disk or network share disk See notes and recommendations for supporting FTP servers in Supported storage media p KK 14 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 92 When recovering a backup of Windows Vista or Windows 7 system disk containing restore points some of your restore points or all of them may be missing if you boot from the recovered system disk and open the System Restore tool If the archive is password protected Acronis True Image Home will ask for it The partitions layout and the Next button will be unavailable until
172. gs Notifications E m Me WinPopup Appearance Feedback Reset the current to derault Specify the default e mail account that will be used by backup and recovery wizards For notification E mail address myhome mail com Server settings Outgoing mail server SMTP Set port 25 smtp mail com User name myname Password IIIIIII Additional e mail parameters Provide the e mail address to which notifications will be sent as well as the outgoing SMTP server name and port A user name and a password might also be needed if the SMTP server requires user authentication 148 Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 To set up the additional e mail parameters click Additional e mail parameters Additional E mail Parameters E mail notifications You can set additional parameters For e mail notifications Incoming mail server POP Set port 110 Encryption None Subject Acronis True Image Home Notification from tw home From V Send notification upon operation s successful completion V Send notification upon operation Failure V Send notification when user interaction is required 7 Add full log to the notification OK Cancel If the outgoing SMTP server requires logging on to an incoming mail server before it allows sending outgoing messages enter the necessary information for the incoming mail server
173. he Windows version of Acronis True Image Home only the preset is enabled When this setting is disabled and there is not enough space in the Acronis Secure Zone for the backup file being created the program will display a dialog warning you that the zone is full and will require your intervention The backup is suspended until you take a required action and this makes unattended backups impossible The dialog opens even when the Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode setting is enabled So it is advisable to select the When not enough space in ASZ delete the oldest archive box when planning unattended scheduled backups to the Acronis Secure Zone 9 4 1 8 Removable media settings Ask for first media while creating backup archives on removable media The preset is enabled 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 task can run unattended Place Acronis One Click Restore on media The preset is disabled When backing up to removable media you can make this media bootable and will not need a separate rescue disk The Acronis One Cli
174. he free space on that disk in the right pane If the free space is enough for completing the backup assign a name for the file that will contain the remaining data being backed up You can either enter the name manually for example Tail end tib or use the file name generator a button to the right of the line Then click OK and Acronis True Image Home will complete the backup Acronis True Image Home permits to assign any backup archive whatever name you wish Suppose you bought a new hard disk drive and transferred to it the contents of the old one by cloning You decided to perform a full backup of the new system disk and named it DiskCafterCloning Required steps What to back up Archive location Finish Optional steps Scheduling Backup method What to exclude Backup options Automatic consolidation Comments e Target backup archive Target selection Q Create new backup archive Add to existing backup archive No archive is selected Backup location E My Backups DiskCafterCloning tib Initial execution of this task will use the Full backup method By default subsequent runs will use the incremental method unless you change it on the backup method step After a while you chose to upgrade to Windows Vista To be on the safe side you made an incremental backup before the upgrade and named it DiskCBeforeUpgrading Upon upgrading you 64 Copyright Acronis Inc 2
175. he most drastic one is removing a computer registered on the Online Storage if you have registered more than one Removing a computer results in deleting all data that was backed up from that computer so such an operation must be carried out with caution To remove a computer select it on the Online storage screen by its name and click Remove Computer name then click Yes in the confirmation window After the deletion finishes click Refresh on the toolbar to refresh the storage state shown The Online backup options provide for automatic cleanup of the Online Storage You can specify deletion of files that have been kept on the storage longer than the specified number of months or days In addition you can set the maximum number of file versions to be kept on the Online Storage You can accept the default settings for those options shown above the Change cleanup options link or set the values you need To change the above options click the link and set the desired values You can also manage Acronis Online Storage by deleting individual files or even some of their versions 1 Click Browse on the Online storage screen Acronis Time Explorer will be opened with the Online Storage tab selected Online Storage Fh Online Storage i encrypt data uw C B Documents and Settings gj Program Files GQ Common Files BD Acror Name ka 3ds max xml 3ds max 9 xml access 2000 xml access 2003 xml
176. heck your settings in the summary screen and click Proceed 9 o uw Burn the ISO to CD or DVD using a third party tool or copy to a flash drive Once a machine boots into WinPE Acronis True Image Home starts automatically Be aware that starting may take considerable time To create a PE image ISO file from the resulting WIM file replace the default boot wim file in your Windows PE folder with the newly created WIM file For the above example type copy c AcronisMedia wim c winpe_x86 1ISO sources boot wim use the Oscdimg tool For the above example type oscdimg n bc winpe_x86 etfsboot com c winpe_x86 ISO c winpe_x86 winpe_x86 iso Adding Acronis Plug in to WinPE 2 x or 3 0 WIM 1 Select Acronis Plus Pack for Acronis True Image Home 2010 Acronis WinPE ISO Builder from the Start menu 2 Specify path to the source WINPE WIM file The standard path to this file for x86 hardware is Program Files Windows AIK Tools PETools x86 winpe wim 3 Specify path to the folder with the Acronis plug in files Check the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SOFTWARE Acronis MediaAddons Settings BartPE for the plug in location 4 Specify the full path to the resulting WIM file including the file name 5 Check your settings in the summary screen and click Proceed For how to create a PE image ISO file from the resulting WIM file please see the previous section For more information on customizing Windows PE see the Windows P
177. hive and create bootable media with the memory test Instructions on how to do it can be found in README txt in the archive 4 Check whether this section contains a solution to your problem Scheduled task does not run If your scheduled backup or validation task does not run first of all carefully check all the settings made while creating the task If the settings are correct proceed as follows Open Control Panel Administrative Tools Services and check whether Acronis Scheduler2 Service is Started and its Startup Type is set to Automatic If not right click on the item choose Properties and set the required Startup Type on the General tab than start the service Verify that the task can now be started This recommendation relates to unscheduled tasks as well If the issue persists try the solutions provided in Acronis Support KB article Acronis Backup Software Scheduled Tasks Do Not Run by clicking the following link http kb acronis com content 1518 The RPC server is unavailable When a backup task is supposed to run according to its schedule or after starting a task manually you get an error message Error 1722 The RPC server is unavailable In such case try the solution provided in Acronis Support KB article RPC Server is Unavailable Error Code 1722 by clicking the following link http kb acronis com content 1521 Network backup issues Instructions on how to troubleshoot issues with backing up to a ne
178. hive to update No archive is selected Backup location Z Documents and Settings Administrator My Documents MyBackups System_C_ date Browse Optional steps Virus scan Scheduling Backup method What to exclude Backup options Automatic consolidation Initial execution of this task will use the full backup method By default subsequent runs will use the incremental method unless you change it on the backup method step Comments The farther you store the archive from the original folders the safer it will be in case of disaster For example saving the archive to another hard disk will protect your data if the primary disk is damaged Data saved to a network disk an FTP server or removable media will survive even if all your local hard disks are damaged You can also use the Acronis Secure Zone for storing backups if you are using the Windows version of the product see details in Acronis Secure Zone p 20 See notes and recommendations for supporting FTP servers in Supported storage media p 14 After selecting the archive location and naming the backup archive to be created you have completed all the required steps for a backup task and this is confirmed by the fact that you come to the Finish step with the Summary of the backup task being displayed on the right pane All the remaining steps are optional and in many cases you may omit them and just click Proceed For example when you want to proc
179. hives in a metadata information database deleting unneeded archive files using Windows Explorer will not delete information about these archives from the database and Acronis True Image Home will consider that they still exist This will result in errors when the program tries to perform operations on the backups that no longer exist So you must only remove obsolete backups and backup archives using the tool provided by Acronis True Image Home To remove the entire backup archive select it and click Remove on the toolbar or right click on the full backup of the backup archive and choose Remove in the shortcut menu To remove an incremental or a differential backup select it and click Remove on the toolbar or right click on the selected backup and choose Remove in the shortcut menu In this case all other successive incremental and differential backups created later than the selected incremental or differential backup will also be deleted The following screen appears Backup Removal Are you sure you want to delete the selected backups a MyBackup 8 24 2009 1 58 37 PM The Following backups will be deleted A Details Name Created Comments Rating Method Path 3 MyBackup 8 24 2009 1 58 37 PM UW WW Fullbackup E AMy BackupsiMyBackup tib If you click Delete the program will remove the backup archive from its metadata information database as well as from the hard disk 19 7 Moving backup archives Now Acronis
180. ically select that video mode To do this start Acronis Media Builder select the required media components and type the mode number with the Ox prefix 0x338 in our instance in the command line at the Bootable media startup parameters step then create the media as usual 4 3 Creating a custom rescue CD If the recovery environment cannot detect some of the hard disk drives or the network adapter usually there is a problem with the drivers Acronis rescue CD cannot contain drivers for all hardware on the market So when the standard rescue CD lacks some of your hardware drivers you need to create a custom 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 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
181. ickly get to what you want on your computer Windows Search provides similar functionality In addition to indexing the files in backup archives by their names the Google Desktop and Windows Search provide Acronis True Image Home with the ability to perform full text indexing of many files in tib archives so you will be able to use this feature and perform searches of the files content Full text indexing of files in backup archives is provided only for the file types recognizable by Google Desktop and Windows Search They recognize text files Microsoft Office files all Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express items and more KKK The contents of password protected tib backup archives or archives protected by a password and encryption as well as the System State and My E mail backup archives will not be indexed though Google Desktop and Windows Search provide search for the tib files themselves and in the comments to such archives Furthermore Google Desktop and Windows Search have no access to Acronis Secure Zone so these search engines will be unable to search and index archives in the zone 18 2 1 Using Google Desktop with Acronis True Image Home If you do not have Google Desktop it can be downloaded for free from Google s Web site Click Google Desktop and follow the instructions for download and installation To enable using Google Desktop for searching files in tib archives 1 Toinstall the plug in choose T
182. ier Just perform a few simple steps and let Acronis True Image Home take care of everything else When a system problem occurs the software will get you up and running in no time 1 2 Acronis True Image Home basic concepts This section provides general information about basic concepts which could be useful for understanding how the program works Backup According to Wikipedia backup refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event Backups are useful primarily for two purposes The first is to restore a state following a disaster called disaster recovery The second is to restore small numbers of files after they have been accidentally deleted or corrupted Acronis True Image Home provides for both purposes by creating disk or partition images and file level backups respectively By default Acronis True Image Home stores in an image only those hard disk parts that contain data for supported file systems However you may use an option that lets you include in an image all of the sectors of a hard disk so called sector by sector backup When you back up files and folders only the data along with the folder tree is compressed and stored Disk cloning This operation migrates copies the entire contents of one disk drive to another e g when installing a larger disk to get two identical drives with the same file structure The Disk Clone tool effectivel
183. ifferent disk letters in Windows and the recovery environment the program will display the following error message Acronis True Image Home cannot detect volume N of Name archive where Name is the name of the required image backup archive and volume number N may be different depending on the number of backups in the archive Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step At the What to recover step select the boxes of the partitions to be recovered Do not select the MBR and Track 0 box as this will result in selecting the entire disk for recovery Recovering the entire disk does not allow you to resize partitions manually You will recover the MBR later Select the partitions and click Next Selecting partitions leads to appearance of the relevant steps Settings of partition Take note that these steps start with partitions without an assigned disk letter as usually is the case with hidden partitions then go in ascending order of partition disk letters and this order cannot be changed The order may differ from the physical order of the partitions on the hard disk You can specify the following partition settings location type and size You will first specify the settings of the hidden partition as it usually does not have a disk letter Because you are recovering to the new disk click New location Select the destination disk by either its assigned name or capacity If you have not assigned names to th
184. ike jpg pdf or mp3 It does not make any sense to select the Maximum compression for such files because in this case the backup operation will take significantly longer and you will not get an appreciable reduction of backup size If you are not sure about the compression ratio of a file type try to back up a couple of files and compare the sizes of the original files and backup archive file A couple of additional tips generally you can use the Normal compression level because in most cases it provides an optimal balance between backup file size and backup duration If you select None the data will be copied without any compression which may significantly increase the backup file size while making the fastest backup 9 4 1 4 Archive protection The preset is no password Suppose you have some files with sensitive information for example your tax return which you need to back up Acronis True Image Home can help you protect your sensitive information from getting into the wrong hands The simplest and the least secure way is protecting your backup with a password Let s remind you that to make a password more difficult to guess it should consist of at least eight symbols and contain both letters upper and lower case preferably and numbers If you think that a password will not give you sufficient security use encryption for your backup Acronis True Image Home allows encrypting backup files with the industry standard AES cryptographi
185. ill 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 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 130 Home except the Acronis Secure Zone and 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 Acronis True Image Home cannot convert tib files containing images of spanned and striped dynamic volumes 16 1 2 Converting to Acronis backup Windows Vista and Windows 7 users can convert vhd files created by Windows Backup into tib archives 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 as converted tib files are smaller than the corresponding vhd files due to compression The virtual to physical conversion is done as follows 1 Select Tools amp Utilities Convert Windows backup in the main program menu Required steps Select a Windows backup Archive selection Archive location Name Created Com Rating Windows Backups a Disk1 backup2 Diskt_backup2 11 24 2009 4 15 51 PM LE 4 Fullbac
186. ill be split into several files In addition Acronis True Image Home automatically splits a slice into several files of 4GB each except the last file when you make a large backup to a FAT32 formatted hard disk These files are the slice s volumes Snapshots While creating disk images Acronis True Image Home uses snapshot technology that allows creating even system partition backups while running Windows with files open for reading and writing without the necessity to reboot the computer Once the program starts the partition backup process it temporarily freezes all the operations on the partition and creates its snapshot Snapshot creation usually takes just several seconds After that the operating system continues working as the imaging process is under way and you will not notice anything unusual in the operating system functionality In its turn the Acronis driver continues working to keep the point in time view of the partition Whenever the driver sees a write operation directed at the partition it checks whether these sectors are already backed up and if they are not the driver saves the data on the sectors to be overwritten to a special buffer then allows overwriting The program backs up the sectors from the buffer so that all the partition sectors of the point in time when the snapshot was taken will be backed up intact and an exact image of the partition will be created Backup file format Acronis True Image Home saves
187. inal 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 to proceed with recovery If you recover the files to the original folder and Acronis True Image Home finds a file there with the same name it will open a dialog window where you can choose what to do with the files Recover and replace the file on the disk Do not recover to keep the file on the disk and Recover but keep both files the recovered file will be renamed If you want to use the choice for all files with identical names select the Apply to all files check box It is impossible to Recover and replace files on the disk which are being used or locked by the operating system at the moment of recovery If you need to recover a specific version of a file select the file either in Time Explorer or in Windows Explorer right click and choose View Versions in the shortcut menu This opens the File Versions window Select the required version by its backup time and click Recover on the toolbar To choose the right version you can open the version in the associated application and view the file contents Select the file in the right pane and the backup times for all its versions kept on the Nonstop Backup Storage will be shown in the bottom line of Time Explorer Choose a version by its backup time
188. ing 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 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 task 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 in Acronis Secure Zone and make a reserve copy of the project on a USB stick to finish the project at home To make a reserve copy 1 When you come to the Backup options step while configuring a My Data backup task in the Backup Wizard or select
189. ing to create a new archive i e perform a full backup select Create new backup archive and enter the path to the archive location and new archive file name in the Backup Location field below or click Browse select the archive location on the directory tree and enter the new file name in the File name line or use the file name generator a button to the right of the line When you have chosen the My Data backup type for backing up files and or folders you can select the zip archive type For more information see Support for Zip format p 23 CD DVD and the Acronis Secure Zone are not supported as locations for zip archives If you want to append an incremental or differential backup file to an existing archive select Add to existing backup archive and click the Select button to select the existing archive you are going to update If the archive already has incremental or differential backups you can select any of the target archive files It doesn t matter which one you select as the program recognizes them as a single archive If you want to change the location of added backup files browse for a new backup location after clicking the Browse button otherwise leave the location the same as that of the existing archive Required steps Target backup archive What to back up Target selection 3 Archive location Create new backup archive Add to existing backup archive Select an existing arc
190. ion see the Acronis Support KB article Acronis True Image Fails to Back Up a Compressed Partition available at http kb acronis com content 1811 Acronis True Image Home states that a backup is corrupted Instructions on how to troubleshoot and resolve issues with corrupt backups can be found in the Acronis Support KB article Troubleshooting Issues with Corrupt Backups available at http kb acronis com content 1517 Incremental differential backup files have large sizes You find out that incremental or differential backup files have sizes comparable with that of the full backup file This can have several causes For more information and possible solutions see the Acronis Support KB article Acronis True Image Creates Large Incremental or Differential Backup Archives available at http kb acronis com content 2712 23 4 Recovery issues System and or data recovery after a disaster is the most important operation performed with Acronis True Image Home Indeed what s the value of a backup program that cannot recover backed up data If you have problems with recovery try the following actions 1 First of all make sure that you have the latest build of Acronis True Image Home You can download it through your Acronis account 2 If you recover the image from an external drive try to copy that image to another storage and retry recovery as the issue may be related to the hardware 3 If you have tried recovery in Windows boot to the
191. ions for the recovery process that is recovery process priority file level security settings etc The options you set on this page will be applied only to the current recovery task Up to this point you can make changes in the created task by choosing the step you want to change and editing its settings Clicking Proceed will launch the task execution The task progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel Please keep in mind that the aborted procedure may still cause changes in the destination folder s 11 Additional recove ry information 11 1 Recovery Wizard detailed information The below description of the Recovery Wizard refers to recovering partitions disks from image backups If you need to recover files and folders see Recovering files and folders p 89 11 1 1 Starting the Recovery Wizard Start the Recovery Wizard by selecting Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main program menu 11 1 2 Archive selection 1 Select the archive Acronis True Image Home will show the list of backup archives whose locations it knows from the information stored in its database If the program has not found the backup you need for example when the backup was made in the recovery environment or by a previous Acronis True Image Home version you can find it manually by clicking Browse and then selecting the backup location on the directory tree and choosing the backup in the ri
192. is described below See Recovering files and folders from image archives p 90 10 4 1 Recovering files and folders from file archives This section describes how to recover files and folders from a file backup archive 1 Start the Recovery Wizard by selecting Recovery File Recovery in the main program menu 2 Select the archive Data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the archive to consist of files of no more than 2GB If you suspect that some of the files are larger first copy the entire archive along with the initial full backup to a local hard disk or a network share disk See notes and recommendations for supporting FTP servers in Supported storage media p 14 KK Please note that before recovering Microsoft Outlook mail messages accounts contacts settings etc from My E mail backup on a new computer with a newly installed Microsoft Outlook you should launch Outlook at least once If Microsoft Outlook is launched for the first time after recovering the E mail information it may malfunction If you use Microsoft Outlook Express and recover its mail folders accounts etc from My E mail backup on another PC or after performing a so called clean install of Microsoft Windows please do not forget to switch to your identity after recovery by selecting File Switch Identity in Outlook Express and then double clicking on your identity in the list of the dialog box 3 Ifyou are going to recover files
193. is parameter is enabled by default and the startup messages are not displayed Deleting it will result in the startup messages being displayed as the Linux kernel is loaded and the command shell being offered prior to running the Acronis program nodma Disables DMA for all IDE disk drives Prevents kernel from freezing on some hardware nofw Disables FireWire IEEE1394 support nopcmcia Disables PCMCIA hardware detection nomouse Disables mouse support module name off Disables the module e g sata_sis off pci bios Forces to use PCI BIOS and not to access the hardware device directly For instance this parameter may be used if the machine has a non standard PCI host bridge pci nobios Disallows use of PCI BIOS only direct hardware access methods are allowed For instance this parameter may be used if you experience crashes upon boot up probably caused by the BIOS pci biosirq Uses PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt routing table These calls are known to be buggy on several machines and they hang the machine when used but on other computers it is the only way to get the interrupt routing table Try this option if the kernel is unable to allocate IRQs or discover secondary PCI buses on your motherboard vga ask Gets 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 select
194. it uses Windows drivers and has a Windows like graphical user interface It also provides for adding any storage drivers at startup in the same manner as when installing Windows on the hard drive by pressing F6 and inserting a diskette with the drivers Applications are installed into Bart PE in the form of plug ins and the Acronis True Image Home plug in can be included into the Bart PE plug in tab If you do not have the boxed version of Acronis True Image Home you will need to download a separate installation file from your Acronis account Go to My Account section Log in Register the serial number for your copy of Acronis True Image Home if it is not registered yet Click Registered Products Under the registered products click on Bart PE amp Safe Media to download the plug in Install the plug in as follows 1 Double click on the downloaded file to start installation 2 If you only want to install the Bart PE plug in choose Custom installation and unselect the Safe Media add on Otherwise choose Typical 3 Having finished the installation you can proceed with creating a Bart PE CD DVD with Acronis True Image Home plug in The below description is based on PE builder version 3 1 10a To create a BartPE CD with the Acronis True Image Home plug in follow the instructions below Download the PE builder and install it Go to the Acronis True Image Home installation folder The default folder is C Program Files
195. ive Then plug the power supply lead or use a Molex to SATA adapter Prepare your drive If you re installing a SATA 300 hard drive check your PC s or SATA host adapter s documentation to make sure it supports SATA 300 drives If it doesn t you might need to change a jumper setting on the drive see the drive s manual for instructions If you have a SATA 150 hard drive you don t need to change any settings 4 Turn on the PC and look for the new drive in the boot up messages If you don t see it enter the PC s CMOS setup program and search the BIOS configuration menu for an option that will let you enable SATA for the ports you are using or maybe you will just need to enable SATA See your motherboard documentation for instructions specific to your BIOS 5 If the operating system does not recognize the SATA drive you need the appropriate drivers for your SATA controller If the drive is recognized go to step 8 Usually it is best to obtain the latest driver version from the motherboard or SATA controller manufacturer s Web site If you download a copy of the SATA controller drivers place the driver files to a known location on your hard drive 1 Bootfrom the old hard drive The operating system should detect the SATA controller and install the appropriate software You might need to provide the path to the driver files 1 Ensure that the SATA controller and the connected SATA hard drive are correctly detected by the oper
196. k before starting backup or 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 Please do not try to execute interactive commands i e commands that require user 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 9 4 1 3 Compression level The preset is Normal Let s consider such an example you need to backup to a USB stick some files with a total size comparable to or exceeding the USB stick s capacity and want to make sure that the stick accommodates all the files In this case use the Maximum compression for the files to be backed up However you should take into account that the data compression ratio depends on the type of files stored in the archive for example even the Maximum compression will not significantly reduce the backup size if it contains files with already compressed data l
197. ket if it is initiated from this form 2 Acronis True Image Home installation and startup 2 1 Installing Acronis True Image Home To install Acronis True Image Home Runthe Acronis True Image Home setup file Before installation you can check for a newer Acronis True Image Home build on the Acronis Web site If available the newer version will be offered for installation Inthe Install Menu select the program to install Acronis True Image Home Follow the install wizard instructions on the screen WWW ACRONIS COM 4 Check for Updates WA check for f Acronis True Image Home et Install Acronis True Image Home 2 In iage Home to back up and recover Acronis True Image Home User s Guide E ion ol ronis True Image Home Acronis True Image Home 2010 Typical Custom and Complete installation is available Having pressed Custom you can choose not to install Rescue Media Builder With Rescue Media Builder you can create bootable rescue disks see details in Creating bootable media p 122 You might not need this tool if you purchased a boxed product that contains a bootable CD 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 creates a new device in the Device Manager list Control Panel System Hardware Device Ma
198. kup c Optional steps Path G Disk1_backup2 vhd Next gt Select the vhd disk file to convert 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 but you can select another location by clicking Browse The file can be directed to any storage supported by Acronis True Image Home except for Acronis Secure Zone 4 The next step allows you to set options for the tib backup to be created You can protect the archive with a password and encryption select a desired compression level as well as split the backup for example for later burning to DVDs 5 Add comments to the archive if you wish 6 Click Proceed in the Summary window Acronis True Image Home cannot convert vhd files containing dynamic volumes which were originally located on more than one disk drive striped or spanned on two or more disk drives Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 131 16 2 Recovery using vhd files created by Windows Backup If you used Windows Backup utility included into Windows Vista except Home editions and Windows 7 operating systems for backing up the system hard drive and later purchased Acronis True Image Home you can recover your system hard drive from those Windows Backup utility backups vhd files using Acronis True Image Home So when you need to recover your system using a vhd backup file proceed as follo
199. l 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 17 2 Unmounting an image We recommend that you unmount the virtual disk after all necessary operations are finished as maintaining virtual disks takes considerable system resources If you do not unmount the disk it will disappear after your computer is turned off To disconnect the virtual disk choose Tools amp Utilities Unmount Image select the disk to unmount and click OK 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 T7 Unmount drive Select the drives you want to unmount Drive Letter T Volume Label Disk Size File System vy r 4 658 GB NTFS Cancel You can also do this in Windows Explorer by right clicking on the disk icon and choosing Unmount 18 Searching backup archives and their content 18 1 Searching In addition to the ability to explore backup archives Acronis True Image Home provides a search facility for tib and zip archives themselves for files in tib archives only as well as offering full text search in the comments to archives This facilitates searching for the information you need for using Acronis True Image Home and for recovering fi
200. l rule the IDE cable is connected to the hard disk socket so that the marked thread is the closest to the power cable i e the marked thread connected to pin 41 of the socket A similar rule was used for connecting cables with the motherboard Incorrect connection of the cable with either the hard disk or the motherboard does not necessarily damage the electronics of the disk or the motherboard The hard disk is simply not detected or initialized by BIOS There are some models of hard disks especially the older ones for which incorrect connection damaged the electronics of the drive kkk We will not describe all the types of hard disks Currently the most widely used are those with IDE or SCSI interfaces Unlike IDE hard disks there can be from six to 14 SCSI hard disks installed in your PC However you need a special SCSI controller called a host adapter to connect them SCSI hard disks are not usually used in personal computers workstations but are found mostly in servers Aside from an IDE cable a four thread power cable must be connected to the hard disks There is only one way to plug in this cable 24 2 3 Configuring hard disk drives jumpers A hard disk drive can be configured in a computer as master or as slave The configuring is done using special connectors called jumpers on the hard disk drive The jumpers are either located on the electronic board of the hard disk or a special socket that provides for the co
201. le to the default location with the same name or browse for another location Saving to another location allows changing the name of the vhd file If there is not enough space for the converted file in the selected location the program will notify you You can delete unnecessary files and click Retry or cancel the conversion and repeat the operation choosing another location for the converted file 5 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 Incidentally from the above it follows that you cannot boot from the vhd file if it is located on your sys
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203. les volumes are named as follows MyBackup_mm_dd_yyyy1 tib MyBackup_mm_dd_yyyyN tib where N is the number of volumes Subsequent incremental or differential backups to this full backup will get the names as follows MyBackup mm dd yyyy2 tib MyBackup_mm_dd_yyyy3 tib etc if the full backup is not split or MyBackup mm dd yyyyN 1 tib MyBackup mm dd yyyyN 2 tib etc For instance if N 8 incremental or differential backups will get the names MyBackup mm dd yyyyS tib MyBackup mm dd yyyy10 tib etc 3 When you back up for example partitions C and D the backup gets the name System C D mm dd yyyy tib 4 When you perform file level backups they are named depending on the backup type My Data backup gets the following name MyBackup mm dd yyyy tib System State backup gets the following name System State mm dd yyyy tib My E mail backup gets the following name Email mm dd yyyy tib and My Application Settings backup gets the following name Application Settings mm dd yyyy tib 5 If you right click on a folder in Windows Explorer and choose Back Up in the shortcut menu the backup file gets the name of the folder with appended date e g My Documents mm dd yyyy tib If you right click on a file in Windows Explorer and choose Back Up in the shortcut menu the backup file gets the name of the file with appended date i e filename mm dd yyyy tib If you select in Windows Explorer several files in the same folder and the
204. les from your backup archives Here s how you can search for the data you need 1 Enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the Acronis True Image Home window and then click the magnifying glass icon You will be taken to the Data recovery and backup management screen The search results are output in the corresponding tab of the window Data recovery and backup management 1 Disk Recovery Backup ds Recover your computer from a backup Se Recover data from nonstop backup 4B Recover data from online backup Recovery Disk backups File backups Found SA Browse for backup Name Size Object type Last modified Folder Backup names Tasks amp Log Diski _backup2 tib 161 267 KB Disk backup 11 24 2009 4 57 59 PM Gi li Diski _backup tib 1 660 204 KB Disk backup 11 24 2009 4 57 42 PM Gi Backup contents d Try amp Decide C MyBackups OKB File Folder 11 24 2009 3 46 34 PM Gr Diskt_backup2 tib C Documents and O OnlineBackup OKB File Folder 11 24 2009 3 45 27 PM G Diski_backup2 tib C Documents and gl Acronis One Click Backup Ink 1 893 KB Shortcut 11 24 2009 3 39 11 PM G Diski_backup2 tib C Documents and Tools amp Utilities Ig Backup Ink 1 496 KB Shortcut 8 23 2006 1 23 37 AM G Disk1_backup2 tib C Documents and Acronis One Click Backup Ink 1 910 KB Shortcut 11 24 2009 3 39 11 PM G Diski_backup2 tib C Documents and O BackupScripts OKB File Folder 11 24 2009 3 39 04 PM G Disk1_backu
205. lications and important data or if you do not have enough free space for backing up the entire system disk A system partition backup would be most helpful when you need to recover the operating system corrupted by a virus malware or for example after Windows update installation Recovery on a new hard disk drive is possible too though it may be a bit complicated in case you want to create more than one partition on the new hard disk Otherwise it is better to back up the entire system disk especially if it has hidden recovery or diagnostic partitions created by your computer s manufacturer Furthermore a system disk backup is more convenient when recovering on a new disk Backing up the system partition may also be advisable when you like testing a lot of applications or games Most applications cannot be uninstalled without a trace including Acronis True Image Home itself You can make a basic system partition backup containing your operating system and main applications like MS Office and Outlook Thereafter you will always be able to recover that basic system state after trying new programs if you don t like them or if something goes wrong The easiest way of backing up the system partition is using the One Click Backup either during the first start of Acronis True Image Home after installation or later This tool is intended for backing up only the system partition and MBR Of course you can use the Backup Wizard too but here is the procedure
206. line Storage Nonstop backup storages and devices that are recognized by Windows as Devices with removable storage The Backup names area shows the results of the search for tib and zip archives by archive filename Double clicking on a filename opens the corresponding archive in Windows Explorer where you can explore the archive contents You can validate or recover the archive by right clicking on its filename and choosing the appropriate item in the shortcut menu The shortcut menu contains the following items Recover Update Mount for image backups Validate Move Remove Consolidate Explore backup Convert Acronis backup or Convert Windows backup for vhd archives Edit Comments and Details buttons for tib archives or Recover Validate Move Remove Update backup Edit Comments and Details buttons for zip archives Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 138 The Backup contents area shows results of searches for files and folders in tib archives Double clicking on a filename opens the file You can recover the file by right clicking on its filename and choosing Recover in a shortcut menu This shortcut menu also enables you to open the file or the parent folder that contains that file To help you better understand the search results here is some information on the algorithms used by the Search feature 1 When searching files in tib archives you can type all or part of the filename and use the common Windows wildcard charac
207. lishing connection to the Online Storage Reset the current to derant A Connection attempts Specify the number of and time interval between connection attempts Number of attempts 10 Time interval between attempts 30 7 Here you can specify how many connection attempts will be made if the first attempt fails the default number is 10 In addition you can specify a time interval between connection attempts 30 seconds by default 8 5 2 Storage connection speed One more option gives you the ability to throttle the bandwidth allocated for data transfer to the Online Storage Set the connection speed that will allow you to send e mail or surf the Web without annoying slowdowns while online backup is running To do this select the Limit transfer rate to check box and set the connection speed 8 Mbps by default 58 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 To back up your data to the Online storage at the maximum speed your Internet connection can provide unselect the Limit transfer rate to check box Options oo eee CR A Storage connection speed You can set transfer rate for the data being backed up to the online storage Limit transfer rate to 2 Mbps 8 5 3 Storage cleanup The Storage cleanup page is intended for setting the options that enable automatic cleanup of obsolete file versions from the online storage to keep the storage from overfilling Options EEE z Rese
208. lts in a browser Google wir s Start fe Acronis True Image H a 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 Zi Cannot find server Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Tools Help Q a x a JO search Sg Favortes Meda O B E Address amp http 127 0 0 1 4664 search s AoFySjgTpU3YG6mu2rg7 WbakNHQ amp qg coffee Web Images Groups News Shopping Maps Scholar Desktop more ogle Desktop Preferences 098 pue Search Advanced Search Goo 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 EMyBackup tib bmp Blumon16 Blue Monday 16 bmp Bubbles Soap Bubbles bmp Coffee16 Coffee Bean 16 bmp Coffeebn Coffee Bean brnp Feather Feather axtar bmp Fidlhead Fiddle GB 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 Internet Clicking in the browser window on a line related to the desired file version opens a small dialog with just two options View and Recover 3 Cannot find server
209. ly check the free space in the zone For information on how to create resize or delete Acronis Secure Zone using this wizard see Managing Acronis Secure Zone p 118 3 5 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager 3 5 1 How it works The Acronis Startup Recovery Manager lets you start Acronis True Image Home without loading the operating system With this feature you can use Acronis True Image Home by itself to recover damaged partitions even if the operating system won t start up for some reason As opposed to booting from Acronis removable media you will not need a separate media or network connection to start Acronis True Image Home 3 5 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 2 Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager To do so click Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and follow the wizard s instructions 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 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 Acroni
210. mage Home might differ from the way Windows identifies drives Choosing a new location results in appearance of one more required step namely Destination When you choose a new location by default the selected items will be recovered without recovering the original absolute path You may also wish to recover the items with their entire folder hierarchy If this is the case select Recover absolute path At the Destination step select a new location on the directory tree You can create a new folder for the files to be recovered by clicking Create new folder Select the files and folders to recover Make sure that you unselect all unnecessary folders Otherwise you will recover a lot of excess files The first optional step allows you to keep useful data changes made since the selected backup was created Choose what to do if the program finds a file in the destination folder with the same name as in the archive By default the program will overwrite existing files and folders though more recent files and folders are protected from being overwritten If necessary you can protect the system hidden files and folders from being overwritten by selecting the appropriate check boxes In addition you can protect the files that meet the criteria you specify in this window from being overwritten Unselecting the Overwrite existing files checkbox will give the files on the hard disk unconditional priority over the archived files Select the opt
211. mail notification 150 Enabling and setting up Acronis Nonstop Backup 46 Error handling 78 Examples of backup scheduling scenarios 42 44 115 Executing recovery 98 Executing transfers 162 Exploring archives and mounting images 15 18 135 155 Extracting Acronis True Image Home 15 F File recovery options 78 98 File level security settings 78 98 125 Fine tuning your backups 36 74 76 Free space threshold 80 Full incremental differential backups with automatic rotation 110 117 Full backups to Acronis Secure Zone with automatic deletion 116 Full backups with automatic deletion on quota violation 115 Full backups with automatic deletion when backup storage is filled 116 Full incremental and differential backups 18 42 44 70 Functioning principles of Information wiping methods 192 G General 181 General information 161 General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 18 General principles of Acronis Universal Restore 25 Getting to know Acronis True Image Home 31 H Hard Disk Wiping methods 171 173 177 192 Hard Disks and Boot Sequence 161 188 HDD writing speed 80 How it works 21 How to best prepare for a disaster 26 How to use 21 Importing scheduled tasks when upgrading 114 Information wiping methods used by Acronis 193 Installation issues 181 Installing a SATA hard drive 191 Installing Acronis True
212. minutes because the program checks file changes on the disk and not in the memory 7 2 Enabling and setting up Acronis Nonstop Backup You can make settings for Nonstop Backup and enable Nonstop Backup by selecting Backup Nonstop Backup on the sidebar and clicking the Nonstop Backup icon on the Acronis Nonstop Backup screen After analyzing your computer s configuration Acronis True Image Home opens the Nonstop Backup Options window By default Acronis True Image Home selects your system partition for Nonstop Backup and offers a storage it considers optimal for keeping Nonstop Backup data Click OK in the Nonstop Backup Options window to accept the default settings or change them according to your preferences Incidentally you can also change the settings later To do this click the Settings icon the cog wheel on the toolbar of the Time Explorer window when the Nonstop Backup tab is selected Changing Acronis Nonstop Backup settings The Nonstop Backup Options window allows you to change the settings of Acronis Nonstop Backup ff Nonstop Backup Options ES ee Nonstop Backup settings Partition protection management nent i i Miser managemen Select one or more partitions For nonstop protection Q3 Remove Protection Data E Protected 39 15 MB of 164 7 MB used System C 2 395 GB of 4 658 GB used m Photos F Protected j UO a Nonstop Backup is 100 1 MB
213. mple in order to free up some space for new backups by removing the oldest backups or those you no longer need As now Acronis True Image Home stores information about the backup archives in a metadata information database you must manage backup archives e g delete or move some of them by using the program s tools and not Windows Explorer To manage your backup archives go to the Data recovery and backup management screen by selecting Recovery on the sidebar All backup archives are distributed between two tabs Disk backups and File backups The Disk backups tab lists the image backups and the File backups the My Data System State My E mail and Application Settings backups lt D M Backup TECOVETY x 5 amp Utilities QW Manage Acronis Secure zone 8 Remove E backup N EE Data recovery and backup management Home n 1 Disk Recovery 7 Recover data fror ds Recover your computer from a backup D Recover data fror Backup W File backups 34 Found Name Created Comments Recovery Images s B MyBackup B MyBackup 8 24 2009 1 58 37 PM Tasks amp Log i DiskCaftercloning B DiskCafterCloning 8 24 2009 2 58 04 PM EP DiskCBeforeUparading 8 24 2009 3 16 14 PM Try amp Decide Tools amp Utilities 9 6 15PM The shortcut menu opened by right clicking on a desired backup archive provides the following operations with backups Explore see Exploring archives and mounting images p 134 Recover see Recove
214. n at the What to recover step Usually you will not need to recover the MBR 7 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 8 Read the Summary of the recovery operations and then click Proceed You can also recover partitions and disks from vhd files while working in Windows This is preferable for recovering data partitions and disks 16 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 thus testing bootability of the backed up system without actual recovery This can be done only when running Acronis True Image Home in Windows If you have Windows 7 Enterprise or Ultimate installed 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 selecting Tools amp Utilities Acronis Boot Sequence Manager in the main program menu 2 Click Add on the toolbar of Acronis Boot Sequence Manager and browse for the required tib file then click OK 3 As actual booting is performed from VHD the program needs to convert the selected tib file so the appropriate dialog will appear 4 Click OK if you want to save the converted fi
215. n be found through the following Acronis Support KB article E mail Notifications Fail in Acronis True Image at http kb acronis com content 1531 The standalone version of Acronis True Image Home does not detect your hard drive s or NIC card This is because the recovery environment does not have the appropriate drivers The issue can be solved as follows Create Acronis System Report and request Acronis Customer Central http www acronis com support to provide you with an iso file of the rescue media that contains the required drivers Create a Windows based recovery environment that includes the required drivers See Working with Acronis True Image Plug In for BartPE at http kb acronis com content 1506 Partition analysis is accompanied by multiple Failed to read from sector error messages To resolve the issue try running chkdsk and updating Acronis drivers For more details see the following Acronis Support KB article Multiple Failed to read from sector Error Messages During Partition Analysis at http kb acronis com content 1514 Wrong capacity of cloned hard drive If the capacity of the cloned drive is the same as that of the original drive when it should not be then the issue is caused by Host Protected Area For details see the following Acronis Support KB article HPA Makes the Cloned Drive Display Wrong Capacity at http kb acronis com content 1710 The Access denied message appears when expl
216. n choose Back Up in the shortcut menu the backup file gets the name of the folder with appended date e g My Documents mm dd yyyy tib If you select in Windows Explorer two or more folders and then choose Back Up in the shortcut menu the backup file gets the name of the parent folder or disk letter when you selected folders in the root directory with appended date e g My Documents mm dd yyyy tib or C mm dd yyyy tib 6 When you rename backups on the Data recovery and backup management screen a backup is renamed only in the program s metadata database however backup file names on the disk remain unchanged 3 4 Acronis Secure Zone The Acronis Secure Zone is a secure partition that enables keeping backup archives on a managed machine disk space and therefore recovery of a disk to the same disk where the backup resides In the Acronis True Image Home wizards windows the zone is listed along with all locations available for storing archives Certain Windows applications such as Acronis disk management tools can access the zone When you create Acronis Secure Zone an icon appears under My Computer in the Other section Double clicking on the Acronis Secure Zone icon opens the zone and you can view all the backup archives it contains You can also open the zone by right clicking on its icon and choosing Open in the shortcut menu Double clicking on an archive opens it and shows all backups full incremental differential belonging to
217. n the sidebar 2 Select the archive to validate and click Validate on the toolbar If the selected archive is password protected Acronis True Image Home will ask for the password in a dialog box 3 After entering the correct password you will be taken to the Scheduling step where you can schedule validation of the backup or leave the default setting Do not schedule Required steps Scheduling Run this task ually Archive selection Q Do not schedule Finish C Once only C Upon event Periodically P Daily Weekly P Monthly Optional steps Scheduling Resultant schedule never 4 Clicking Proceed will start the validation procedure If you have decided to validate the backup archive on schedule the validation will proceed according to the schedule you set After the validation is complete you will see the results window You can cancel validation by clicking Cancel 19 2 Operation results notification Sometimes a backup or recovery procedure can last an hour or longer Acronis True Image Home can notify you when it is finished using the WinPopup service or via e mail The program can also duplicate messages issued during the operation or send you the full operation log after operation completion 19 2 1 E mail notification To set up e mail notification select Tools amp Utilities Options Notifications E mail Backup options Recovery options Local storage settin
218. n the zone click OK and the oldest full backup of the type being created will be deleted with all subsequent incremental differential backups then the backup operation will recommence If deleting the oldest backup does not free up enough space you will get the same warning message again You may delete the next oldest backup if any and repeat this until all the previous backups are deleted If after deleting all the previous backups there is still not enough space for completing the backup you will get an error message and the backup will be canceled The program distinguishes only two types of backups in the zone disk image backups and file level backups My Data System State My E mail and My Application Settings backups are considered as file level type backups For example if you have an e mail backup My E mail in the zone and there is not enough space for backing up a folder My Data the program will delete the e mail backup to free up space for the folder backup You can back up data automatically on a schedule see Scheduling tasks p 108 In order to not worry about the zone becoming too full when Acronis True Image Home for Windows performs a scheduled backup it is recommended to select the When not enough space in ASZ delete the oldest archive box in the Backup options Error handling and the scheduled backup task options However if you keep long chains of incremental backups it will be good practice to periodical
219. nables you to recover the system in minutes in case of a system crash or hardware failure Moreover the imaging procedure is much faster than copying files and could speed up the backup process significantly when it comes to backing up large volumes of data for details see The difference between file archives and disk partition images p 18 You might think it would take a while to make a copy of your entire hard disk but the proprietary technologies used in Acronis True Image Home ensure that image creation is quite fast And the program can also back up incrementally or differentially so after the first time updating your image to reflect the current state of your hard disk requires only copying the files that are new or changed and will take much less time Because images can save you a lot of time when you need to recover the operating system or data it is recommended that you make them part of your backup strategy You should create images of your primary disk and any other partition you normally use If you have multiple partitions on a drive it is advisable to include all of them in the image because failure of the hard drive in most cases will mean that all the partitions it contains also fail Although we strongly recommend you to create images of your hard disk on a regular basis that is just part of a reliable backup strategy Do you have bank records family photos videos etc you accumulated on your computer for several year
220. nager Acronis Devices Acronis True Image Backup Archive Explorer Do not disable or uninstall this device as it is necessary for connecting image archives as virtual disks see Exploring archives and mounting images p 134 2 2 Extracting Acronis True Image Home When installing Acronis True Image Home 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 Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 15 Run the Acronis True Image Home 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 installation with using the msi file must be done from the command line as follows 1 Choose Start gt Run 2 Type cmd 3 When the command line interpreter window opens type the following command 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 2 3 Running Acronis True Image Home You can run Acronis True Image Home in Windows by selecting Start Programs Acronis Acronis True Image Home Acronis True Image Home or by clicking on the appropriate shortcut on the desktop If your operating system d
221. nd amounting to 100GB In this case Acronis True Image Home validated the whole 120GB archive and this could take quite a long time Now the program will validate just a single selected differential backup and the full one Support of dynamic GPT disks provided by separately purchased Acronis Plus Pack operations with dynamic GPT disks expand the range of hard drive configurations supported by Acronis True Image Home Dynamic disks offer greater flexibility for volume management and may provide benefits in computers with more than one hard drive GUID Partition Table GPT is a new hard disk partitioning scheme providing advantages over the old MBR partitioning scheme It was introduced as a part of the Extensible Firmware Interface EFI initiative VHD format support Virtual Hard Disk VHD is a file format containing the complete contents and structure representing a hard disk drive Furthermore Windows Backup utility included into Windows Vista except Home editions and Windows 7 operating systems now uses this format for backing up an image of the system hard drive when users select the Complete PC Backup option Acronis True Image Home can convert vhd files into tib files and vice versa recover operating system from vhd files and even boot from vhd images of Windows 7 Booting from tib images containing Windows 7 Users of the Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate can boot from a tib image containing a backup of their s
222. nd 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 allows you to remove all entries related to virtual disks and restore the original booting configuration 17 Exploring archives and mounting images Acronis True Image Home offers two kinds of archive contents management mounting for images and exploring for both images and file level archives Exploring images and file level archives lets you view their contents and copy the selected files to a hard disk To explore a backup archive double click on the corresponding tib file You can also right click on the file and choose Explore in the shortcut menu When you copy files from a backup being explored the copied files lose the Compressed and Encrypted attribute If you need to keep these attributes it is recommended to recover the backup Mounting images as virtual drives lets you access them as though they were physical drives Such ability means that anew disk with its own letter will appear in the drives list using Windows Explorer and other file managers you can view the image contents as if they were located on a physical disk or partition you will be able to use the virtual disk in the same way as the real one open save copy move create dele
223. nd forget about them at least while the backup disk has enough free space or until the need for recovery arises The terms related to these concepts will be repeatedly used in the Acronis True Image Home documentation so understanding the above concepts may be helpful when using the program s features 1 3 New in Acronis True Image Home 2010 Acronis Nonstop Backup Near CDP Continuous Data Protection is now available to Acronis True Image Home users You will be able to revert your documents to previous states in time This may come in handy when you accidentally deleted an important document or made some corrections that turned out to be wrong and you need to return the document to the state in which it was for example two weeks ago When you need to recover a file a Windows Explorer like browser with integrated search makes searching for a file you need to recover very easy But Acronis Nonstop Backup is much more than a versioning tool It also provides for recovering your system if you ever need that Online backup you can make your critically important data much more secure by storing it off site Because files are stored on a remote storage they are protected even if your computer gets stolen or your house burns down So the risk of data loss as a result of fire theft or other natural disasters is practically eliminated And you can safely recover any corrupted lost or deleted files on your computer Integrating Online b
224. 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 does 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 2K 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 A A 7 cji x Scan is completed 101 items found Below is a detailed list of the found items n System Clean up V system Components a System Components V Recycle Bin vd Temporary file View and change operating system components clean up parameters Hard Disk Free Space D Find Computers List E Find Files List v B Recently Used Documents Lis 4 Windows Run List J 9 Opened Saved Files History dll user Credentials WA windows Prefetch Directory J s S 4 m D Please press
225. ng the size of Acronis Secure Zone the program will first use unallocated space If there is not enough unallocated space the selected partitions will be decreased in size Resizing of the partitions may require a reboot When reducing the size of the zone any unallocated space if the hard disk has any will be allocated to the selected partitions along with the space freed from the zone Thus no unallocated space will remain on the disk 5 Next you will see a list of briefly described operations to be performed on partitions disks N N After you click Proceed Acronis True Image Home will start resizing the zone Progress will be reflected in a special window If necessary you can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel However the procedure will be canceled only after the current operation is finished Zone resizing can take several minutes or longer Please wait until the whole procedure is finished 14 3 Changing password for Acronis Secure Zone 1 If you want to change the password for Acronis Secure Zone select Tools amp Utilities Manage Acronis Secure Zone in the main menu 2 Select Change password Required steps Set or change the password for Acronis Secure Zone Action Selection Do not protect Password Set password Einish Enter new password 00000000 Confirm 99909000909 Secret question IJ Answer What is your Father s middle name i What was the name of your
226. nis True Image Home cannot consolidate incremental backups created when editing partition images mounted in the Read Write mode To consolidate backups in an archive 1 Select the archive for consolidation after choosing Recovery on the sidebar 2 Startthe Consolidation Wizard by right clicking on the selected backup archive and choose Consolidate in the shortcut menu 3 The program displays a list of backups belonging to the selected archive with their creation date and time The top backup is the full backup the rest are incremental backups Select the backups you want to keep and click Next Required steps Select backups to keep archive Backup selection Finish Name Created Images a Disk1 backup 3 Diski backup 11 24 2009 3 57 51 PM ran Full backup AP Diskt backup2 11 24 2009 4 03 06 PM P355 5 5 Increment EP Disk backup3 11 24 2009 4 35 12 PM Incremente EP Diskt backup4 11 24 2009 4 44 54 PM WW WwW Incremente Optional steps Result location 4 Bydefault the program selects the same location for the consolidated archive and the original backup archive will be overwritten But you can choose a new location and in such case the source archive will stay as is unless you choose to delete it by selecting the Delete original archive box This requires more disk space but ensures the security of the archive in case the consolidation fails beca
227. niversal Restore Using Acronis Universal Restore provided by separately purchased Acronis Plus Pack will help you create a bootable system clone on different hardware for more information see Acronis Universal Restore p 24 Choose this option when restoring your system disk to a computer with a dissimilar processor different motherboard or a different mass storage device than in the system you originally backed up This may come in handy for example after replacing the failed motherboard or when deciding to migrate from a desktop to a laptop You can use Acronis Universal Restore for restoring your system disk both from tib and vhd files In most cases you will need to use bootable rescue media Acronis Universal Restore is unavailable when recovering the system partition from an Acronis Nonstop Backup archive To restore your system with the help of Acronis Universal Restore 1 Make your rescue media the first boot device in BIOS See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 185 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home Full version Click the My Disks link below Recover on the Welcome screen to start the Recovery Wizard and then choose the image of the system disk for recovery As drive letters in the standalone Acronis True Image Home may differ from the way Windows identifies drives you may need to specify the path to the image file by clicking Browse and selecting the disk and folder that stores the image
228. nnection of the hard disk and the motherboard There is usually a sticker on the drive that explains the markings Typical markings are DS SP CS and PK Each jumper position corresponds to one hard disk s installation mode DS master factory default SP slave or no jumper required CS cable select for master slave the purpose of the hard disk is determined by its physical position with respect to the motherboard PpK jumper parking position the position where one can put the jumper if it is not necessary in the existing configuration The hard disk with the jumper in master position is treated by the basic input output system BIOS as bootable The jumpers on hard disks that are connected to the same cable can be in the cable select for master slave position In this case BIOS will deem as master the disk that is connected to the IDE cable which is closer to the motherboard than the other one Unfortunately hard disk markings were never standardized You might well find that markings on your hard disk differ from the ones described above Moreover for old types of hard disks their purpose could be defined by two jumpers instead of one You should study the markings carefully before installing your hard disk in the computer It is not enough to physically connect the hard disk to the motherboard and set the jumpers properly for the hard disk to function hard disks have to be properly configured with the mothe
229. o create a custom data destruction algorithm choose Custom and go to Creating custom algorithms of data destruction p 172 Required steps Algorithm selection 2ource selection To specify a data destruction method select a predefined method from the list A description of the selected algorithm appears below the list To create and use your own algorithm select Algorithm selection Custom To use a previously defined and saved custom method select Load from file Einish U S Standard DoD 5220 22 M B U S Standard DoD 5220 22 M NAVSO P 5239 26 RLL NAVSO P 5239 26 MFM German Standard SITR Russian Standard GOST P50739 95 Peter Gutmann Bruce Schneier Optional steps Post wiping actions 170 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 After selecting or creating the disk wiping method click Next to continue Acronis DriveCleanser will display the data destruction task summary You can click Proceed after selecting the Wipe the selected partitions irreversibly box or click Options to select the post wiping action on the partitions selected for data destruction if the default action namely Format does not suit you In the Post wiping actions window Acronis DriveCleanser offers you three choices No action just destroy data using the method selected below Delete partitions destroy data and delete partition s Format destroy data and format partition default Required st
230. o your account page subscribe to the Online Backup service and then wait for an e mail message describing the details of your subscription plan and expiration date Now you can perform your first online backup 8 2 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage To perform an online backup log on to your Online Backup service account by clicking Backup gt Online Backup on the sidebar and entering your e mail address used for opening the account and the password In order to not enter the password during subsequent logons you may want to select the Remember the password check box Make these settings and click Log In After the program connects to Acronis Online Backup Server select a computer for connection to the Online Storage When logged on to the online backup service for the first time register a computer for work with Online Backup To do this click New computer then type in the computer name If you want to use encryption for the data to be stored on the Online Storage enter an encryption key to be used for encrypting your data Entering the encryption key automatically enables encryption of all data stored on the Online Storage The encryption key is similar to a password but it is used for unlocking access to your encrypted data Acronis Online Backup uses the industry standard AES 256 encryption algorithm The data will be encrypted before transferring through the Internet to the Online Storage and will be stored in encrypted form You nee
231. oes not load for some reason you can run Acronis Startup Recovery Manager However this must be activated prior to use see Acronis Startup Recovery Manager p 21 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 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 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 2 4 Upgrading Acronis True Image Home If you already have Acronis True Image Home installed the new version will simply update it there is no need to remove the old version and reinstall the software Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions so if you roll back Acronis True Image Home to an older version you likely will have to re create the archives using the older version We strongly recommend that you create new bootable media after each Acronis True Image Home upgrade 2 5 Removing Acronis True Image Home Select Start Settings Control panel Add or remove pr
232. of 180 4 MB used on Click to turn it off ee ees i Used space Nonstop backups Available space Storage for protected data Backups G 6 860 GB available Protection management select the partitions on your computer to be protected by Nonstop Backup To add a partition select it on the right pane and click Protect on the toolbar To remove a partition from protected ones select it and click Remove protection on the toolbar Removable storage devices cannot be protected by Acronis Nonstop backup Storage select the storage for keeping Nonstop Backup data Acronis True Image Home shows here all hard disks and partitions available on your system dividing them into two categories acceptable and non acceptable for creating a Nonstop Backup storage The non acceptable category includes partitions that do not have enough free space for storing the backup data as well as partitions you want to protect by Nonstop Backup You can try to resolve the problems preventing a partition from becoming an acceptable one For instance if the partition has a sufficient capacity for storing Nonstop Backup data you can try to make it acceptable by cleaning up the occupied space To do this select the partition click Resolve on the toolbar and then click Resolve the insufficient space issue This will start Microsoft s Disk Cleanup utility which will offer various options for freeing up the disk space
233. ograms Acronis True Image Home gt Remove Then follow the instructions on the screen You may have to reboot your computer afterwards to complete the task If you use Windows Vista select Start Control panel Programs and Features Acronis True Image Home Remove Then follow the instructions on the screen You may have to reboot your computer afterwards to complete the task If you have Acronis Secure Zone on your computer remove it before removing the program itself because removing Acronis True Image Home will not remove the zone 3 General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 3 1 The difference between file archives and disk partition images A backup archive is a file or a group of files also called backups in this guide that contains a copy of selected file folder data or a copy of all information stored on selected disks partitions When you back up files and folders only the data along with the folder tree is compressed and stored Backing up disks and partitions is performed in a different way Acronis True Image Home stores a sector by sector snapshot of the disk which includes the operating system registry drivers software applications and data files as well as system areas hidden from the user This procedure is called creating a disk image and the resulting backup archive is often called a disk partition image By default Acronis True Image Home stores only thos
234. olume is recovered to unallocated space of the dynamic group the type of the recovered volume will be the same as it was in the archive Manual resizing of dynamic volumes during recovery to dynamic disks is not supported If you need to resize a dynamic volume during recovery it should be recovered to a basic disk When performing a so called bare metal recovery of dynamic volume s to a new unformatted disk the recovered volumes become basic If you want the recovered volumes to remain dynamic prior to recovery the target disk s should be prepared partitioned and formatted using third party tools for example Windows Disk Management snap in 2 The target disk s partitioning scheme remains unchanged after recovery ifa GPT disk image is recovered over a GPT disk the target disk remains a GPT disk if a GPT disk image is recovered over an MBR disk the target disk remains an MBR disk if an MBR disk image is recovered over an MBR disk the target disk remains an MBR disk if an MBR disk image is recovered over a GPT disk the target disk remains a GPT disk Recovery to unallocated space of a GPT disk is not supported 3 The target volume type does not change when recovering over an existing volume Examples When a dynamic volume is recovered over a basic volume the target volume remains basic m When a dynamic spanned volume is recovered over a dynamic striped volume the target volume remains striped 11 4 Using Acronis U
235. om method of hard disk wiping is possible after choosing Custom from the drop down list in the Algorithm selection window In this case some new required steps appear in the DriveCleanser wizard and you will be able to create a data destruction algorithm matching your security requirements Required steps Your algorithm wiping passes adjustment Source selection Please select a pass from the list below then click the Edit button to change the settings n For the chosen pass Note that you can change the settinas for several passes at once Algorithm selection Wiping Pass Adjustment Algorithm Definition Operation write Custom Algorithm write Change parameters for the custom algorithm pass All the data will be overwritten with the chosen pattern Please enter the pattern 00 Write a random number Random length A random value will be generated Then all the data will be overwritten with this number Please select the number of bytes in the random value The random value length can vary from 1 to 512 bytes long 3 8 Write complementary to previous pass pattern Select this operation if you want Acronis True Image Home to count complementary to the previous step pattern The data will be overwritten with the newly counted pattern Verify Select this operation if you want the previously written data to be verified Optional steps e Ga Cena 172 Copyright O Ac
236. ome allows booting from a tib file containing a system partition image though it is converted into a VHD which is used for actual booting So if you are able to boot from such backup you almost certainly will be able to boot after an actual recovery from that backup 4 1 2 Additional recommendations 1 Many IT professionals recommend that you have at least two copies of your system backup three are even better To be on the safe side it is further recommended to keep one copy of a backup ina different location from the other preferably on other premises for example at work or at a friend s home if you use the backed up computer at home One more argument in favor of several backups when starting recovery Acronis True Image Home deletes the target partition or disk so when you have just a single backup the moment the system partition is deleted on the computer being recovered you are at great risk the only thing you have is the image being recovered and if it is corrupted you are in big trouble 2 It is better to format the hard drive used for storing your backups to the NTFS file system rather than FAT32 This is due to the 4GB file size limit on FAT32 disks So if your backup has a size of about 100GB Acronis True Image Home will split it into 25 files When there are several such full backups on the hard disk the number of files will multiply accordingly This may be inconvenient if for example you would like to move the ba
237. on It is well known that the Add or Remove Programs component of the Windows Control Panel cannot give a complete guarantee of cleanly uninstalling applications This is because most applications do not provide enough information for it to be able to uninstall them without a trace So almost every time you install a trial program and then remove it you have some garbage left on your computer and after a while Windows may get slower Even use of special uninstaller utilities cannot guarantee complete uninstallation The Try amp Decide feature however will ensure complete and perfect uninstallation of any software quickly and easily Here s how 1 2 3 4 Turn on the Try amp Decide mode Install the software application you want to evaluate Try using the application When you want to uninstall it just discard all the changes made to your computer in the Try amp Decide mode This may come in handy not only for those who for example like to play a lot of games but for professional software testers as well to use on their testing machines 13 Scheduling tasks 13 1 Creating scheduled tasks You can schedule a new task in the Backup Wizard or Validate Wizard in the Scheduling step It is also possible to create a scheduled task by clicking Create Backup Task or Create Validation Task on the toolbar of the Tasks and Log screen If the backup archive you want to validate is password protected Acronis True Image Home will ask
238. on It forms a base for further incremental or differential backup or is used as a standalone archive A full backup has the shortest recovery time compared to incremental or differential ones An incremental backup file only contains data changed since the last backup of any type full incremental or differential Therefore it is smaller and takes less time to create but as it doesn t contain all the data all the previous backups and the initial full backup are required for recovery Unlike an incremental backup when every backup procedure creates the next file in a chain a differential backup creates an independent file containing all changes since the last full backup Generally a differential backup will be recovered faster than an incremental one as it does not have to process through a long chain of previous backups 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 If you are interested in saving only the last data state to be able to recover it in case of system failure consider the differential backup It is particularly effective if your data changes tend to be few compared to the full data volume The same is true for incremental backup 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 e
239. on drive letter order and that this order cannot be changed The order may differ from the physical order of the partitions on the hard disk In the case being considered no hidden or recovery partitions the physical order of the partitions on the new disk does not have special importance as Acronis True Image Home automatically fixes the appropriate Windows loader files Incidentally this step allows you to find out whether the disk you are going to recover contains a hidden partition Hidden partitions do not have disk letters and they go first in the Settings of partition steps If you find a hidden partition see Recovering a disk with a hidden partition p 86 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 Because you are recovering to the new disk click New location Select the destination disk by either its assigned name or capacity If you have not assigned names to the disks and have any doubts when selecting the destination disk you may abort the recovery by clicking Cancel and try to identify the target disk by its model number interface etc To see this information select Tools amp Utilities Add New Disk in the main menu and the Disk selection screen will show the information Use it for identifying the destination disk number then click Cancel start the Recovery Wizard again repeat the
240. on see Scheduling tasks p 108 9 3 4 Backup method Select whether you want to create a full incremental or differential backup If you have not backed up the selected data yet or the full archive is old and you want to create a new master backup file choose full backup Otherwise it is recommended that you create an incremental or differential backup see Full incremental and differential backups p 18 If you are adding a backup to the existing backup archive the Full method will be unselectable You can set a backup policy for the backup task Acronis True Image Home offers three types of backup policies create full backups only create full backups after a specified number of incremental backups create full backups after a specified number of differential backups When the first backup on a schedule is executed Acronis True Image Home always creates a full backup If you choose 1 by selecting the Full method you can also choose what to do with the previous full backup when creating a new one By default Acronis True Image Home overwrites the previous full backup but you can choose to keep it by unselecting the A new full backup overwrites the previous one box If you choose 2 or 3 by selecting the Create a new full backup after box the next backups will be incremental or differential until the specified number of incremental differential backups is reached After the selected number of incremental or
241. one on the disk the password to the zone will be reset After you click Proceed Acronis True Image Home will start creating the zone Progress will be reflected in a special window If necessary you can stop zone creation by clicking Cancel However the procedure will be canceled only after the current operation is finished Acronis Secure Zone creation might take several minutes or longer Please wait until the whole procedure is finished 14 2 Resizing Acronis Secure Zone 1 If you want to resize the Acronis Secure Zone select Tools amp Utilities Manage Acronis Secure Zone in the main menu Required steps Action Selection gt Increase size A Select this item if you want to increase the size of Acronis Secure Zone Free space selection gt Decrease size Select this item if you want to decrease the size of Acronis Secure Zone gt Remove Select this item if you want to remove Acronis Secure Zone gt Change password Set or change the password for Acronis Secure Zone 2 Select to increase or decrease the zone size You might need to increase it to provide more space for archives The opposite situation may arise if any partition lacks free space 3 Select partitions from which free space will be used to increase the size of Acronis Secure Zone or that will receive free space after the zone is reduced 4 Enter the new size of the zone or drag the slider to select the size When increasi
242. ons on that drive If a hard drive has more than one partition you may want to select individual partitions for backing up To do so click on the Down arrow at the right of the drive s line Select the desired partition s in the displayed partition list By default the program copies only the hard disk sectors that contain data However sometimes it might be useful to make a full sector by sector backup For example perhaps you deleted some files by mistake and want to make a disk image before trying to undelete them because sometimes un deleting may create havoc in the file system To make a sector by sector backup select the Back up sector by sector requires more storage space box Please note that this mode increases processing time and usually results in a larger image file because it copies both used and unused hard disk sectors In addition when configuring a sector by sector backup of a complete hard disk you can include in the backup unallocated space on the hard disk by selecting Back up unallocated space Thus you will include in the backup all physical sectors on the hard drive My Data select the file category ies to back up documents finance images music and video 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 con
243. ools amp Utilities on the sidebar Then click Search settings on the right pane and select the appropriate check box in the Desktop Search Options window The following window appears Third Party Plug in Installation Google has not tested or verified the Features or security of this third party Plug in Please confirm that you want to install Acronis Indexer Description Acronis Backups 2 Verify that the plug in is installed Right click on the Google Desktop icon in your system tray and select Options in the context menu Google Desktop opens the Preferences window in your browser Make sure that Acronis Indexer Acronis Backups is selected in the Indexing Plug ins area F Google Desktop Preferences Microsoft Internet Explorer File Edit View Favorites Help Eel Ay Q 5s P x a Search Sf Favorites QP Media 2 r E Address amp http 127 0 0 1 4664 options amp s WAs4jWOR MeATS103cEjF8DISY1 Email Chats Web history Media files Text and other files s s L1 s Word Excel PowerPoint PDF Contacts M a a M r2 Jv Calendar Tasks Notes Journal Archives ZIP C Password protected Office documents Word Excel C Secure pages HTTPS in web history Indexing Plug ins Index these additional iterns v Acronis Indexer Acronis Backups To install plug ins to index other items visit the Plug ins Download page Sea
244. oose reserve copies to be made in the form of flat files those files will be placed into folders which will be automatically created and named as follows backupfilename reserved copy mm dd yyyy hh mm ss AM or PM After you set the backup reserve copy settings Acronis True Image Home will create reserve copies each time you select the My Data backup type If a reserve copy could not be made due to a lack of free space in the selected location or due to disconnection of the selected storage device e g a USB stick the program will write an error message to the event log 9 4 2 6 Archive validation Validate backup archive when it is created The preset is disabled When enabled the program will check the integrity of the just created or supplemented archive immediately after backup When setting up a backup of critical data or a disk partition backup we strongly recommend you to enable the option to ensure that the backup can be used to recover lost data 9 4 3 Creating a custom data category for backups To add a custom data category click Add New Category in the Files to back up screen of the Backup Wizard select the folder data source and provide a name for the category You can include in the category all files in the selected folder or apply filters to select the specific types of files that you wish or do not wish to back up To set a filter select its type Back up files of the following types only or Back up files of all typ
245. or yourself which part of your system you want to protect and set the Try amp Decide options accordingly Those options also provide other settings for the Try amp Decide mode 12 1 1 Try amp Decide options and notifications You can configure the Try amp Decide options as required Protected partitions specify the partitions you want to protect from unauthorized changes during a Try amp Decide session By default T amp D protects the system partition Disk C though you may add other partitions or disks in your system Storage for virtual changes specify where Try amp Decide will store information about virtual changes to your system By default T amp D saves the information to a free space on Disk C You can also choose as such place Acronis Secure Zone or another logical disk or hard drive When choosing to protect more than one partition you cannot select one of the partitions to be protected to store virtual changes In addition you cannot select an external hard disk drive Notifications specify whether Try amp Decide should alert you when it uses up all the space allotted for saving virtual changes and after a specified time period has passed By default all notifications are On To change the default settings click Change alert settings You can always restore the default settings for the Try amp Decide options by clicking Reset settings to default 12 2 Try amp Decide usage examples The Try amp Decide featur
246. oring a mounted image archive Why you may get this message while trying to explore some folders in a mounted image and solutions to this issue can be found through the following link to the Acronis Support KB article When Trying to Explore Certain Folders of a Mounted Image Archive Access Denied Message Appears at http kb acronis com content 1549 You fail to mount an image spanned over several CD DVDs For an explanation of the issue with mounting a spanned image see Mounting an Image Spanned over Several CD or DVD Discs Fails at http kb acronis com content 1546 It takes a long time to start Acronis True Image Home Try the following solutions to resolve this issue make sure that you have the latest build of Acronis True Image Home install the latest Acronis drivers If you do not have them request them from Acronis Customer Central http www acronis com support disable the Distributed Link Tracking Client service add Acronis executable files to trusted applications in your antivirus software delete Vista restore points if you do not need them 24 Hard Disks and Boot Sequence 24 1 Arranging boot sequence in BIOS BIOS has a built in setup utility for initial computer configuration To enter it you have to press a certain key combination Del F1 Ctrl Alt Esc Ctrl Esc or some other depending on your BIOS during the POST power on self test sequence that starts immediately after you turn your comput
247. ot device See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 185 In case you have a rescue CD press a key to start booting from the CD as soon as you see the prompt Press any key to boot from CD If you fail to press a key within five seconds you will need to restart the computer When using other rescue media the procedure will be similar 3 After the computer boots into the recovery environment check that it detects all the hard drives you have in your system including external ones if you use them for storing backups Incidentally you must attach the external drive s before booting from the rescue media otherwise the recovery environment might not detect the drive s 4 If you store your backups on the network you should also check that you can access the network in the recovery environment When booted from the rescue media Acronis True Image Home might not detect the network If no computers are visible on the network but the Computers near me icon is found under My Computer ensure that a DHCP server is running on your network If you don t use a DHCP server specify network settings manually in the window available at Tools amp Utilities 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 shipped with Acronis True Image Selecting video mode when booting from the rescue media When booting from the rescue
248. ou 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 credentials a username and password While entering hostnames and IP addresses you can use and wildcards To see the list of network places for which the stored network user credentials will be wiped according to your filter click Show Network Places 22 6 Cleaning up separate system components If you don t want to clean up all system components you can clean components of your choice or an individual component separately In this case all global settings of the System Clean up Wizard will be valid for individual components as well To clean up individual components select them in the System Components section in the System Clean up window and run the System Clean up Wizard 23 Troubleshooting 23 1 General The below sections may help you in troubleshooting issues encountered during installation and use of Acronis True Image Home Among other information the Troubleshooting chapter includes links to Acronis Support Knowledge Base KB articles intended for helping to solve issues with Acronis products If the appropriate Troubleshooting section does not provide a solution to your issue you can click any link to go to the KB and then use the Search funstion just enter the key words related to your problem Since the Troubleshooting chapter covers j
249. ou need to create several similar tasks select a task click Clone on the toolbar then rename the cloned task and introduce the required changes In addition all the above actions can be chosen from the shortcut menu that you open by right clicking on a selected scheduled task The same operations are available for unscheduled tasks listed on the Unscheduled tasks tab If while editing an unscheduled task you set up any of the scheduling options that task moves from the Unscheduled tasks tab to the Scheduled tasks tab 13 4 Examples of backup scheduling scenarios 13 4 1 Full backups with automatic deletion on quota violation Some users prefer creating only full backups A full backup has the shortest recovery time compared to incremental or differential ones and in addition many consider it more reliable since the program needs just one file when recovering a backup Let s suppose you have plenty of room on the hard disk dedicated to storing backups and want to have five full backups of the system disk made weekly thus spanning a period of about a month In addition you want to ensure automatic deletion of the oldest backup in order to keep just five backups in the backup archive Here s how it can be done a When you come to the Scheduling step while configuring a backup task it is necessary to select the Weekly option leave the default value Run the task every 1 week then select a day of the week for making backups e g Sa
250. over operations with multivolume zip archives and zip archives exceeding 4GB in size or which contain files of more than 4GB each The Zip format is available when backing up files and or folders as well as when making reserve copies of your backups Acronis True Image Home provides for the zip format most of the functionality available for the tib format except password protection and encryption you can schedule backups validate zip backup archives recover files and folders from zip archives make incremental and differential backups and so on Acronis True Image Home can recover and validate only its own zip archives If a zip archive was created by a file archiver program it cannot be recovered and validated by Acronis True Image Home 3 10 Acronis Nonstop Backup Acronis Nonstop Backup provides easy protection of your disks and files and allows you to recover both entire disks and individual files and even their versions from disaster By default Nonstop Backup will protect your system partition though you can select other partitions and disks for protection as well Once you start Acronis Nonstop Backup it will perform an initial image backup of the partition s selected for protection Having finished this task Acronis Nonstop Backup will save changes in your system and files including open ones every five minutes so you will be able to recover your system to an exact state in time In general cases states of the p
251. ows you to generate a system report after booting from the rescue media when both Windows and Acronis True Image Home full version cannot start Acronis True Image Home safe version If you purchased the boxed product the installation CD contains an installation file for installing Acronis True Image Home safe version and an Acronis True Image Home plug in for the well known Bart PE utility The safe version does not include USB PC Card or SCSI drivers This is recommended for use on rare occasions where problems running the full version occur After installation Acronis True Image Home safe version will appear as one of the components to be offered by Acronis Media Builder for placing on the bootable media and you will be able to add Acronis True Image Home safe version when creating your bootable rescue media By the way you can download that installation file from the Acronis Web site In the next window you can set Bootable media startup parameters in order to configure rescue media boot options for better compatibility with different hardware Several options are available nousb nomouse noapic etc For all the available startup parameters see Startup Parameters p 191 These parameters are provided for advanced users If you encounter any hardware compatibility problems while testing boot from the rescue media it may be best to contact Acronis Technical Support The Start automatically after parameter specifies the timeout interval
252. p tool allows you to begin protecting your computer as soon as you install Acronis True Image Home During installation the program creates Acronis One Click Backup shortcut on the desktop Double clicking the shortcut starts the One Click Backup tool which automatically backs up your system partition and the Master Boot Record MBR to a location it considers the optimum place for backups If there is no suitable location for the backup the program displays an error message By the way later you will be able to refresh the system partition backup by double clicking the shortcut again If you choose to not use the One Click Backup shortcut Acronis True Image Home will offer to perform One Click Backup during the first start after installation as well as schedule subsequent full backups see the screen shot below The Acronis One Click Backup tool performs only full backups of the system partition scheduling an incremental or differential backup is not possible In addition it does not support backup of drives protected by BitLocker Drive Encryption in Windows Vista Acronis One Click Backup Acronis One Click Backup Create your disk image and schedule regular updates to ensure your system is gt recoverable in case of disaster Learn more p Partition to back up NT No label C 2 330 GB of 4 658 GB used Archive location G My Backups Schedule Run the task at 8 00 00 PM eve
253. p2 tib C Program Files C S9 ntbackup chm 74 02 KB Compiled HTML Help file 1 25 2004 3 32 24 AM G Disk1 _backup2 tib C WINDOWS Help ntbackup hip 56 91 KB Help File 1 25 2004 3 32 24 AM G Disk1_backup2 tib C WINDOWS Help amp backup log 2 654 KB Text Document 8 23 2006 1 24 01 AM G lDiskl backup2 tibyC YWINDOWSlseci ntbackup exe 1 172 KB Application 1 25 2004 3 32 24 AM G Disk1_backup2 tib C WINDOWSi sysl ntbackup exe 1 172 KB Application 1 25 2004 3 32 24 AM _G Disk1_backup2 tib C WINDOWSi sysl j backup jpa 3 457 KB JPEG Image 1 25 2004 3 32 24 AM _G Disk1_backup2 tib C WINDOWS sys C PerfstringBackup INI 376 3 KB Configuration Settings 11 24 2009 3 33 26 PM G Disk1_backup2 tib C WINDOWS sysl ReinstallBackups OKB File Folder 2 28 2007 1 31 10 PM G Diski_backup2 tib C WINDOWSi sysl eatin for Mac Backup var jpg 87 82 KB JPEG Image 3 6 2008 3 23 19 PM G Disk1_backup2 tib E Mac eatin for Mac Backup jpg 164 3KB JPEG Image 3 6 2008 3 23 19 PM G Disk1_backup2 tib E Mac eatin for Mac Backups jpg 19 25 KB JPEG Image 3 6 2008 3 23 19 PM G Disk1_backup2 tib E Mac m 2 Bydefault the search is performed in all the sources where Acronis True Image Home can search information You can select an information source of interest by choosing the appropriate area among Backup names and Backup contents Acronis True Image Home cannot perform search on network shares Acronis On
254. partition as active Change default Partition size Partition Size Free space befor Partition size 7 Free space after ga You can change the size of the partition 0 LL O a Logical drive lette S G X E Used space Free space Unallocated space Optional steps Partition size p 997 E cB Options EL Free space before 0 03 7 MB Free space after 2 615 MB 7 Accept 96 Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 These changes might be useful if you are going to copy your hard disk to a new high capacity one by creating its image and recovering it to a new disk with larger partitions 11 1 8 Assigning a letter to the recovered partition Acronis True Image Home will assign an unused letter to a recovered partition You can select the desired letter from a drop down list or let the program assign a letter automatically by selecting the Auto setting You should not assign letters to partitions inaccessible to Windows such as to those other than FAT and NTFS 11 1 9 Setting recovery options Clicking Options at the Finish step allows selecting the options for the recovery process that is recovery process priority etc The settings will be applied only to the current recovery task Or you can edit the default options See Setting default recovery options p 97 for more information 11 1 10 Executing recovery Up to this point you
255. partition in the corresponding field Finally select a partition type Required steps Partition Settings Disk g Please specify settings for the partition being created Partition creation Finish i Size Min 3 MB Max 7 999 GB N Partition G 6 GB NTFS Minimal space Free space F Unallocated space Partition size 6 EG EEI Free space before 0 Gel MB Free space after 1 999 E GB File system Partition letter Partition label NTFS T G X z Select the type of partition Primary 1 Mark the partition as active Logical e Click the Accept button and you will be taken back to the Partition Creation screen Check the resulting partition s settings and start creating another partition by clicking Create new partition again You can also edit the new partition s settings by clicking Edit on the toolbar or delete it by clicking Delete If you allocate all unallocated space on the disk to the new partition the Create new partition button disappears 21 3 Disk add summary Clicking Next after creating a desired partition layout takes you to the disk add summary The disk add summary contains a list of operations to be performed on disks Required steps Summary Location Disk 2 Before 8GB New Volume G 7 997 GB NTFS After 8GB H 1 G 6 GB NTFS 999 GB NTFS
256. 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 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 In this case you need to recover the MBR as the PC manufacturer could change the generic Windows MBR or a sector on the track O to provide access to the hidden partition 11 Select the same backup once more right click and select Recover in the shortcut menu choose Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step and then select the MBR and Track 0 box 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 Windows should not see both the new and old drive during the first boot after recovery If you upgrade the old drive to a larger capacity new one disconnect the old drive before the first boot otherwise there may be problems booting Windows Switch
257. plesRUS xml XML Document 11 24 2009 10 1 6sdk_placesRUS xml XML Document 11 24 2009 10 1 7sdk uri usageRUS xml XML Document 11 24 2009 10 1 8sdk simple typesRLS xml XML Document 11 24 2009 10 1 9sdk_csharpRUS xml XML Document 11 24 2009 10 1 acrotls dll Application Exten 11 24 2009 10 1 add 11 24 2009 10 1 addview exe Application 11 24 2009 10 1 ATIEShelp xml XML Document 11 24 2009 10 1 s Fcalloc dll Application Exten 11 24 2009 10 1 El fnis dii Application Exten 11 24 2009 10 1 E Fobject dll Application Exten 11 24 2009 10 1 E Fomatik_basic dll Application Exten 11 24 2009 10 1 E Fomatik walker dll Application Exten 11 24 2009 10 1 y File or Folder has been changed Application Exten 11 24 2009 10 1 4 Local file or folder has been deleted XML Document 11 24 2009 10 1 File or Folder has not been backed up completely m i uc EE ce O Builds Documents and Settings D Program Files O WINDOWS FAL mE Ih 2 Select the partition and then the folder that contains the files you want to recover on the directory tree in the left pane The right pane lists the files in that folder Select the files to recover When selecting multiple files you can use the Ctrl and Shift keys like in Windows Explorer Having finished selection right click on the selected files and choose Recover in the shortcut menu 3 Acronis True Image Home opens the Browse for folder dialog By default the orig
258. program allows booting from a tib file containing the system partition image though it first converts the tib file into a VHD used for actual booting So if you can boot from the converted vhd file you will be able to boot after recovering this backup to your disk Disaster recovery Recovering from a disaster usually requires a rescue media because such disaster often means that your operating system does not boot either due to system data corruption e g caused by a virus or malware or a hard disk failure When the operating system fails to boot you need some other means of booting and using Acronis True Image Home to recover the system partition So to be better prepared for a disaster you absolutely must have a rescue media Owners of the boxed product already have a bootable rescue CD Other legal owners of the program can create a rescue media using the tool called Media Builder To enable booting to the recovery environment it is necessary to ensure that the BIOS boot sequence includes the rescue media See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 185 Scheduling For your backups to be really helpful they must be as up to date as possible This means that you should run backup tasks on a regular basis say once a day Though creating a backup task in Acronis True Image Home is quite easy it would be very tedious remembering to do the same thing every day Well with the scheduler you do not have to remember You can schedule backups a
259. ptions will be used only for this task Similarly the Recovery options item provides for making settings to be used by default by any recovery task For detailed information on the recovery options and possible settings see Setting default recovery options p 97 As with the backup options you can change the recovery options for a specific recovery task The Local storage settings item provides for making other settings related to the backup process for example they may have a more or less noticeable effect on the backup process speed For more information see Fine tuning your backups p 75 The Search options allow you to enhance the Search function by integrating it with Windows Search or Google Desktop search engines If you have one of those search engines installed you can include tib files in their index files by selecting the appropriate box in the Desktop search options window For more information see Windows Search and Google Desktop integration p 139 The Notifications options allow you to enable sending of notifications upon any backup recovery operation completion either by E mail or through the Messenger WinPopup service By default all notifications are disabled For more information see Operation results notification p 148 The Appearance options allow modifying the appearance of the program s user interface by selecting a font to be used on screens in dialogs etc You can also modify a font to be used in the menu i
260. r by performing the validation task either manually or on schedule You should get into the habit of validating your backups 6 3 4 Backing up files folders Though image backups of a data disk partition contain all files and folders there may be cases when backing up an entire partition isn t efficient Suppose you are working on an urgent project and make changes only in the related files Backing up the entire data partition with the project files will require much more time and disk space so backing up just the project files will be a more efficient solution For such situations Acronis True Image Home provides the My Data backup type Attach the external drive if it is to be used as the backup destination and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before starting Acronis True Image Home 1 Start Acronis True Image Home and click the Files amp Folders link under Back Up on the Welcome screen 2 Seta checkmark in the box of your project files folder e g Myproject on the What to back up screen The right side of the Files to back up pane will show the folder contents with all the selected files and subfolders There you can unselect the files you do not need to back up if any 3 Choose a target archive for the backup task being configured in this case create a new one Choose the backup archive location and assign a name to the backup to be created It is better to use meaningful names e g Project tib
261. r entries it will present you the deleted entries it has found if any and offer you the opportunity to save whatever it is able to recover There is always a chance that you might pick the wrong file and while recovering it the utility may overwrite the very file you are trying to recover If not for Try amp Decide this error would be fatal and the file would be lost irretrievably 4 Butnow you can simply discard the changes made in the Try amp Decide mode and make one more attempt to recover the files after turning on the Try amp Decide mode again Such attempts can be repeated until you recover the files or until you are sure that you have done your best to recover them One more benefit of the Try amp Decide feature Now you can let your children use your computer without worrying that they may inadvertently harm the operating system or mess up your business documents We assume that your kid has the Limited user account 1 Turn on the Try amp Decide mode Making any changes to the Try amp Decide options or turning off the Try amp Decide mode will require administrator authority Log off and then log on using your kid s account Let your kid use the computer When your kid is through with gaming or Internet surfing or when you think that it is time for the them to go to bed return the system to the state it was in before they started using the computer To do so log on and discard the changes made during the Try amp Decide sessi
262. r is idle Comments E f missed run the task at startup l Next gt JI Proceed f Cancel 13 1 2 Setting up upon event execution If you choose the upon event execution option set the event upon which to execute the task System startup the task will be executed at every OS startup System shutdown the task will be executed before every system shutdown or reboot User logon the task will be executed each time the current user logs on to the OS User logoff the task will be executed each time the current user logs off the OS You can also specify the task Start date If you want to run a task only at the first occurrence of the event on the current day select the Once a day only box dene Scheduling Run this task at 7 Do not schedule System startup Once only 5 Finish j Q Upon event C user logon Periodically O User logoff v Once a day onl C Daily ind Start date 11 24 2009 gt Weekly Monthly Optional steps Resultant schedule Run the task at system shutdown once a day Backup method Run with credentials What to exclude User name TW HOMElAdministrator Backup options Password eeeee E Run the task only when the computer is idle If missed run the task at startup Next gt Proceed 110 Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 13 1 3 Setting up periodical execution
263. rations involving dynamic GPT disks and volumes 99 11 4 Using Acronis Universal R StOre cccccssssccececssssssssececececesseseaeseceeecesseeaaeaeeeescesseseuaeaeeeesens 100 pucr me 102 12 1 sing Try amp Decide ih eee miren t saa nu esaet sud nae ese eve darted Senes EAA 105 12 1 1 Try amp Decide options and notifications ccccccsscscssssscsscsscssessesesscsscsscsessessessessessessseecsecseseesausaesaeesseesees 105 12 2 Try amp Decide usage examples 13 Scheduling tasks cerei 2 terree eoo rao t ed eoe eres tu aeo osa coo Eae baba erae rb aa eon 2d ca oe pe LaRa Cope M ao rpg eS 13 1 Creating scheduled tasks one e er asse te eI Hu ER e Tee uev eR Re de RN Rep 13 1 1 Setting up once only execution 00 ccccccsccscssessesssssesesscescsecssssecssssessesecsecssssessessessusseasseesesorssesausaesaseaeaesers 13 1 2 Setting up upon event execution sese nnt nnn enns tnnt na sesta stas e tasa setas ta sinas isis sa 13 13 Setting up periodical executi n oce ire ee tre reete ee ree EU EAE PER YEN PR eens 13 1 4 Setting up daily execution sess eene tn ennt nn E E tnnt ists E snas EEEa er ATE stains snas 13 1 5 Setting up weekly execution cccccscsccsesscssessesssssssesscescecsecsecssssessesscsscsessessessessessesasssssesoeesesaesaesassasoesets 13 1 6 Setting up monthly execution c cc ececcesscssessesssssesessesscsecsessesssesessesecscsessessessessuss
264. rboard BIOS 24 2 4 Installing a SATA hard drive Most recently manufactured PCs use the SATA interface for hard drives In general installing a SATA hard drive is easier than an IDE drive as it is not necessary to configure master slave jumpers SATA drives use a thin interface cable with seven pin keyed connectors This improves airflow through the PC case Power is supplied to SATA drives through 15 pin connectors Some SATA drives also support legacy four pin power connectors Molex you can use a Molex or SATA connector but do not use both at the same time because this could damage the hard drive You ll also need a free power lead fitted with a SATA power connector Most systems that come with SATA ports have at least one SATA power connector If this is not the case you will need a Molex to SATA adapter In case your system has the SATA power connector but it is already occupied use a Y adapter that splits a lead in two 24 2 5 Steps for installing a new internal SATA drive 1 Find an unused SATA port using the documentation provided with your PC If you are going to connect your new SATA drive to a SATA controller card install the card If you are going to connect the SATA drive to the motherboard enable applicable motherboard jumpers if any Most hard drive kits include a SATA interface cable and mounting screws Attach one end of the SATA interface cable to a SATA port on the motherboard or interface card and the other to the dr
265. rch 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 Internet 3 Right click on the Google Desktop icon in your system tray once more and select Indexing Re Index Click Yes in the confirmation window that appears Google Desktop will add all the new content to the existing index Give Google Desktop some time for indexing all tib files on your computer s hard disks and adding the indexing information to its index database The required time depends on the number of tib archives and the number of files they contain After for example an hour check whether Google Desktop has indexed the tib archives by entering in its query field the name of a file which you know for sure that you backed up If Google Desktop has completed indexing it will show you the tib archives where it has found the file Search Web winter e Search Desktop winter Hit Ctrl twice to search using the Quick Search Box E Winterjpg Shared Pictures Sample Pictures E MyBackup 1 tib tib acronis content NAME winter jpg E MyBackup tib tib acronis content E DiscC_Backup tib tib acronis content NAME winterjpg E MyBackup 1 tib tib acronis content 41 Winter jpg E MyBackup tib tib acronis content 28 Winter jpg See these desktop resu
266. re that in the Try amp Decide mode the program may use free disk space quite intensively even when your computer is idle This is due to housekeeping activities such as indexing that run in the background Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 103 When your computer reboots for whatever reason while working in the Try amp Decide mode before booting of the operating system starts you will be shown a dialog offering you two choices stop the mode and discard changes or continue working in the mode This will allow you to discard the changes that have resulted in a system crash On the other hand if you reboot for example after installing an application you can continue working in the Try amp Decide mode after starting Windows orking in Acronis Try amp Decide Turn Off Computer The moment comes eventually when you decide to turn the mode off by clicking the Stop button After clicking the button the program will show a dialog where you should decide what to do with the changes to your system made in the Try amp Decide mode apply or discard e M Backup 28 Recovery Home Try amp Decide vat Elapsed time Try amp Decide is on Backup Click to stop 0 day 0 hour 20 minutes Recover Try amp Decide an install unsafe software LER open suspicious e mails and perform y danc a without rick ly or discard changes to your computer sneratione Select what you want to do with the changes you have ma
267. rea In addition you can enter the desired period start and end dates directly in the fields If you would like to see all the logs click the Show all button To delete a log entry select it and click the Delete button on the toolbar To delete all log entries click the Delete all button You can also save a log entry to file by clicking the Save button To save all logs to file click Save all If any step shown in the logs was terminated by an error the corresponding log will be marked with a red circle with a white cross inside The three buttons to the right control message filters the white cross in the red circle filters error messages the exclamation mark in a yellow triangle filters warnings and the filters information messages in the blue circle To better view the details of the current step you can hide the calendar by clicking the Up arrow at the top right of the calendar pane This will enlarge the logs area To view the calendar again click the Down arrow at the top right of the calendar pane Clicking a day marked with a scheduled task takes you to the Scheduled tasks tab with the task details shown Clicking any day in the future also takes you to the Scheduled tasks tab To view all scheduled tasks created so far click the Show all scheduled tasks button Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 19 4 Managing backup archives After a while you may wish or be forced to manage your backup archives for exa
268. reason for using Acronis Online Backup is that you will be able to keep your data secure by storing off site Because your files are stored elsewhere they are protected even if your computer gets stolen or your house burns down So the risk of data loss as a result of theft fire or other natural disasters is practically eliminated Online backup is basically a method of off site data storage whereby files and folders are regularly backed up on a remote storage As a result you can safely recover any corrupted lost or deleted files on your computer Of course online backup is not without its shortcomings If there is a problem with your Internet connection you could be left without access to your data for some time And you won t be able to boot up your computer from an online backup so it is advisable to supplement online backup with image backups to local hard disks The biggest drawback of online backup is speed Even through a fast broadband connection backing up your data online will be much slower than backing up to a local hard drive Depending on the amount of data you want to store off site your first full online backup could last several hours though subsequent backups will take much less time as you ll be backing up only new or changed files If you decide to use encryption the files will be encrypted before transmission over the Internet and data will be stored on the Acronis Online Storage in encrypted form so you can rest assur
269. reating backups directly on CD R RW or DVD R RW might take considerably more time than it would on a hard disk 9 4 2 5 Backup reserve copy The preset is disabled You may want Acronis True Image Home to make reserve copies of your backups in a certain location each time when you choose the My Data backup type for backing up selected files and folders To enable creation of reserve copies select the Create a reserve copy of my backups check box and then choose the method for making reserve copies You have three choices duplicate the backups as tib files make reserve copies as zip archives or simply copy the files and or folders to a specified location as is To specify the location for storing reserve copies of your backups click the Location link Select a location a local hard disk USB stick or a network share You can create a folder for reserve copies by clicking the Create new folder icon Reserve copies created as tib and zip files will be named automatically as follows backupfilename_reserved_copy_mm dd yyyy hh mm ss AM tib or backupfilename_reserved_copy_mm dd yyyy hh mm ss PM zip where mm dd yyyy hh mm ss is the date and time of reserve copy creation in the following format month one or two digits day one or two digits year four digits hour one or two digits minute two digits and second two digits AM or PM is a 12 hour period For example MyBackup reserved copy 8 15 2008 9 37 42 PM zip If you ch
270. reboot By the way usually it is safer to recover the system partition using the rescue media When using the rescue media the recovery procedure is very similar to the procedure used for recovering the system partition from a classic backup except the Recovery point step that allows selecting the point in time to which you recover the system partition For more information see Recovering your system partition p 83 If you use as a Nonstop Backup Storage an external USB hard drive and after booting from the rescue media the Disk backups tab does not show backups on that external hard drive in the Nonstop Backup Storages area click the Refresh backups button to find them Acronis True Image Home safe version does not support recovery from Nonstop Backup Storages 7 5 Recovering files protected with Acronis Nonstop Backup You can recover files from Acronis Nonstop Backup Storage using both the Recovery Wizard and Acronis Time Explorer Recovering files using the Recovery Wizard 1 Choose Recovery on the sidebar then click the Disk backups tab on the right pane 2 Select the backup archive from which you want to recover files at the Nonstop Backup Storages area Right click on the backup and choose Recover in the shortcut menu to start the Recovery Wizard 3 Select Recover chosen files and folders on the Recovery method screen At the next step select the point in time at which the files and folders to be recovered were in
271. reinstallation Environment User s Guide Winpe chm 16 Working with vhd files 16 1 Converting tib images into vhd virtual disks and vice versa Conversion operations are not supported in standalone versions of Acronis True Image Home that start when booting from the rescue media 16 1 1 Converting to Windows 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 want 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 To convert an Acronis disk image tib file to a vhd virtual disk 1 Select Tools amp Utilities Convert Acronis backup in the main program menu es ie Archive location Name Created Com Rating Images a Disk1 backup 3 Diski backup 11 24 2009 3 57 51 PM Full backup X Disk backup2 11 24 2009 4 03 LEX X x Ju Path G Disk1_backup2 tib Browse Next gt Cancel 2 Select the disk image to convert If the archive is password protected Acronis True Image Home will ask for it Take note that the resulting vhd file will lose password protection Converting an incremental backup requires all the previous incremental backups as well as the original full backup Converting a differential backup requires the original full backup The result of conversion w
272. rescue media and try the recovery procedure once more 4 If this is a data partition backup you can try mounting it to recover at least some files and folders 5 If the above suggestions have not helped to solve the problem check whether this section gives a solution to your problem Network share with a backup not found by standalone Acronis True Image Home There can be several reasons why you are not able to locate the desired network share when using a standalone version of Acronis True Image See the Acronis Support KB article Standalone Version of Acronis True Image Cannot Find Network Share with an Image Archive by clicking the following link http kb acronis com content 1550 You cannot log on to a network share after booting to rescue media How to solve the problem when a standalone version of Acronis True Image Home cannot log you on to the network where the image archive is and keeps asking for the user name and password again and again See the Acronis Support KB article Standalone Version of Acronis True Image Recovery Wizard Keeps Asking for User Name and Password When Trying to Restore an Image from a Network Share by clicking the following link http kb acronis com content 1551 New user profile created after recovering My mail backup of Microsoft Outlook You can find the solution in the Acronis Support KB article Restoring E Mail Backup of Microsoft Outlook Creates a New Profile through the following link http
273. rmation that can be recovered even if you have reformatted it The Acronis DriveCleanser provides for the destruction of confidential information on hard disk drives and or partitions 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 File Shredder provides the same capabilities for individual files and folders Finally the System Clean up wizard ensures elimination of all your activity traces while working with a PC you leave thousands of bytes of evidence showing your actions records in various system files that you don t even know about 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 completely from the disk drive 3 9 Support for Zip format Now you will be able to retrieve files from backups anywhere without using Acronis True Image Home if you choose the zip format instead of the tib format You can back up files for example to a USB stick and retrieve files from such archives on your notebook at home without installing Acronis True Image Home because the most widely used operating systems namely Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X have built in support of the zip file format Please be aware that built in support of zip files in Windows does not c
274. ronis Inc 2000 2010 Having created a custom method you can save the algorithm you created This will be handy if you are going to use it again To save your algorithm you need to give it a filename and show the path to the folder you want to store it in by selecting the folder from the tree shown in the left pane Each custom algorithm is stored in a separate file with its own name If you try to write a new algorithm to a pre existing file the existing file s contents will be erased If you created and saved your algorithm for data destruction while working with Acronis DriveCleanser you can use it later in the following way In the Algorithm selection window choose Load from file from the drop down list and select the file with custom data destruction algorithm parameters By default such files have a alg extension 22 4 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 Windows 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
275. rotected data will be backed up at 5 minute intervals for the last 24 hours Note that if Acronis Nonstop Backup protects a non system partition and no changes have occurred for 5 minutes since the last backup the next scheduled backup will be skipped Acronis Nonstop Backup will wait for a significant data change and will create a new incremental backup only when such change has been detected In this case the real time interval exceeds 5 minutes The older backups will be consolidated in such a way that Acronis True Image Home will keep daily backups for the last 30 days and weekly backups until all Nonstop Backup data storage space is used 3 11 Booting from system image tib files Users of the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 can now test whether they will be able to boot from the recovered system partition Acronis True Image Home 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 creates a temporary vhd file by converting this tib file so your hard disk must have enough free space for storing it Then the program adds a new item to the Windows boot loader list When you select the tib file in the boot loader list your computer will actually boot from that temporary vhd file After testing the bootability of the ti
276. rtain files folders select Tools amp Utilities File Shredder in the main program menu This starts File Shredder Wizard which will guide you through the steps required for permanently destroying the selected files and folders 1 First select the files and or folders you wish to destroy Required steps File selection Finish Name Date Type 7 316 Floppy A V gti e s 4 11 2008 1 Windows Installer i Local Disk C Bjlvcredist x86 4 11 2008 1 Application gt JCS Builds BO Documents and Settings DO Program Files DO RECYCLER BO System Volume Informatio OO wiNDOws w Local Disk E w Local Disk F amp New Volume G Optional steps Data destruction method Next gt Cancel 2 To destroy permanently the selected files using the default data destruction method Fast select the Destroy the selected files and folders irreversibly check box in the next window and click Proceed otherwise click Options to select the desired data destruction method 3 By default the program will use the Fast method see Hard Disk Wiping Methods p 189 You can also choose one of the other preset data destruction methods from the drop down list N E ce m p co Qnurinht Acranic Inr 2000 20 Copyright Acronis INC ZUUU ZUIJ Clicking Proceed after you select the desired method will start the task execution if the Proceed button i
277. rtant because Acronis True Image Home deletes the target partition the system partition in this case when starting partition recovery so you may find yourself without your system and applications if the backup file is corrupted In addition there were reports from users that a backup archive that has been successfully validated in Windows is declared corrupted when being validated in the recovery environment This may be due to the fact that Acronis True Image Home uses different device drivers in Windows and the recovery environment C assign unique names to the disks and partitions used on your computer This is strongly recommended because the drive lettering in Windows and in the recovery environment may differ If you have not done this before making the backup you can assign names now The names will help you in finding the drive containing your backups as well as the target system partition d optionally check the system hard drive for errors using Microsoft s Chkdsk utility which is part of Windows Assuming that you have carried out the above let s proceed with recovery Attach the external drive if it contains the backup archive to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before booting from Acronis rescue media 1 Arrange the boot sequence in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 185 2
278. rue Image H We will not bore you with a description of other screens because many of them are self explanatory and some are described in the appropriate chapters of this guide In addition you can always open contextual help by clicking the corresponding button Incidentally you can also select most of the features through the main program menu which is always at your disposal on the toolbar Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 35 5 4 Options screen Acronis True Image Home has options related to its appearance and various program functions To view or edit the default options choose Tools amp Utilities Options in the main program menu Reset all toder aul Reset the current EO der aul Backup options B m What to exclude Specify Files you do not want to include in the backup archives Exclude system files and Folders Error handing Exclude files matching the following criteria Removable media settings ta Remove All Recovery options Local storage settings Search options Notifications Appearance Feedback The Backup options item provides for making settings to be used by default in any backup task You can modify the settings depending on your backup needs For detailed information on the backup options and possible settings see Fine tuning your backups p 75 In addition you can change the backup options while configuring a specific backup task In such case the changed o
279. ry Wizard detailed information p 92 Update adding an incremental or differential backup to an existing backup archive without creating a new backup task Validate Archive see Validating backup archives p 147 M Mount Image only for images see Mounting an image p 137 Consolidate see Consolidating backups p 154 Edit Comments editing comments made during backup creation or adding comments for a scheduled backup that ran unattended Rename renaming backup archives or individual backups a backup is renamed only in the program s metadata database however the backup filename remains unchanged Move see Moving backup archives p 157 Remove see Removing backup archives p 157 Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 153 Convert to Windows backup see Converting to Windows backup p 130 this item appears only if an image backup in the tib format is selected Convert to Acronis backup see Converting to Acronis backup p 131 this item appears only if an image backup in the vhd format is selected Details viewing detailed information on the selected backup 19 5 Consolidating backups There are two kinds of backup consolidation procedures in Acronis True Image Home automatic consolidation and file name based consolidation In the case of automatic consolidation the program uses the rules set for backup archives After creating a backup the program checks the backup archive for quo
280. ry week on Sunday e Proceed Cancel As we already mentioned Acronis True Image Home offers the optimum place for backups If you would prefer another storage location click the link with the default path to the location under the Archive location line and select the storage location most suitable for you Clicking Proceed will start the backup task But before proceeding with the backup the program will ask you under whose user credentials the subsequent scheduled backups will run F Acronis One Click Backup LE Acronis One Click Backup User credentials X08 d C system is r 7 Run the scheduled task with credentials Partition t E No lat User name TW HOME Administrator n Password eeeeeeee Archive lo G My Back E 2 Lc jJ me Schedule Run the task at 8 00 00 PM every week on Sunday T Proceed Cancel Clicking Cancel will cancel One Click Backup If you decide to use this feature later select Tools amp Utilities on the sidebar and then choose One Click Backup in the right pane of the screen In case the archive storage location is a USB flash drive the backup will begin automatically when the device is plugged in but only if a scheduled backup has been missed The USB flash drive must be the same as the one used for all previous backups if you plug in another flash drive the backup process won t start The system will always
281. s Hardware and software can be replaced your personal data cannot because it is unique Though there may be some exceptions the optimal backup strategy for most users consists of creating both images and file level backups After the initial full backup file level backups usually take comparatively little time to run making it easy to back up your data once or even several times a day This ensures that your most recent backup is never more than a day old Because they also offer insurance against accidental deletion or change and file damage file level backups are an essential part of a good backup strategy But file level 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 that you could avoid with an image of your hard disk 6 3 Some typical backup scenarios Below are several scenarios of classic backups describing frequently used backup tasks Depending on your backup strategy you may find some of them useful 6 3 1 Backing up a system partition It is recommended to back up the system partition when your C disk consists of a single partition though in this case partition backup is equivalent to system disk backup It is also makes sense to back up the system partition if it contains all your app
282. s Startup Recovery Manager message This will start a standalone version of Acronis True Image Home that differs only slightly from the complete version Be careful Drive letters in standalone Acronis True Image Home might sometimes differ from the way Windows identifies drives For example the D drive identified in the standalone Acronis True Image Home might correspond to the E drive in Windows You won t be able to use the previously activated Acronis Startup Recovery Manager if the Try amp Decide mode is started 3 6 Viewing disk and partition information You can change the way data is represented in all schemes you see in various wizards The header may have up to three icons Columns Arrange Icons by and Disk properties the latter duplicated in the context menu opened by right clicking objects To sort messages by a particular column click the header another click will switch the messages to the opposite order or the Arrange Icons by button and select the column To select which columns to view right click the headers line or left click the Columns button Then flag the columns you want to display When left clicking the Columns button you can also change the display order of columns using the Move Up and Move Down buttons If you click the Disk properties button you will see the selected partition or disk properties window This window contains two panels The left panel contains the properties tree and the right d
283. s in Acronis True Image Home basic concepts p 10 Though users may assign any name to backups many would still prefer using automatic naming and the below information may come in handy when viewing the contents of a backup archive storage in Windows Explorer and trying to figure out e g which are full and which are incremental 1 When you agree to use the One Click Backup offered during the first start of the newly installed program the resultant backup file is named SystemBackup mm dd yyyy tib where mm dd yyyy is the date of backup creation in the following format month one or two digits day one or two digits year four digits When saved to a FAT32 disk such backup may be split into volumes with the names SystemBackup mm dd yyyy1 tib SystemBackup mm dd yyyy2 tib SystemBackup mm dd yyyy3 tib etc As in this case the subsequent automatically scheduled backups will replace the previous one once every seven days by default only after the next backup finishes to keep the old backup in the event of the current backup s failure the backup filename s will be alternately named SystemBackup mm dd yyyy tib and SystemBackup mm dd yyyy 1 tib 2 In some cases when you create a new full backup task at a new destination the backup gets the name MyBackup mm dd yyyy tib If a backup is split either automatically e g due to the 4GB file size limit on FAT32 disks or when configuring a backup task the constituent backup fi
284. s 31 5 4 Program workspaCe eriein a i dier ter ra eaae pete qe cadet este ed rb qa ERE ERE quada 31 5 2 Acronis One click Back p nee tere e reed ERA ee 32 53 Main SCTe ens iu eio te cols eee cane ee SERRE cane EY REPRE E ER CEA YE SERRE E E NREYN EAR ER E FRE REN R E ia 34 54 Options Screener erint aane IE 36 Creating backup archives 11i rere I Dee eee s reo euro ene o eoe aun n eo pene ee SOENE a EE PER e So DRE ye nro ea ee Eu pad 38 6 1 Preparing for your first DACKUP cccccccccessessssssecececessessseseceescesseseaaeseeeescesseseaaeseeeessesseseaaeess 38 6 2 _ Deciding what data to back Up eee rere eco Peer eee de REY eves ee 38 6 3 Some typical backup scenarios nerd i RET TH ERR ERE FEX TREES E Ue 39 6 3 1 Backing up a system partition esses estne tntn NAFEA aAa tn tni tete tni Aaa Er aOR TINE tnis 39 6 3 2 Backing up an entire system disk eese nennen teeth rnt tn enhn tas tn starts tassa stas ta sana 40 6 3 3 Backing up a data partition or disk esses esent teen E tete ttn tn tren tnit tn s 42 6 3 4 Backing up files fOolders cccscssssesesesesescssssssesesescseseesscscecscsesesssssecscsesesssesesasscsesesseneneeeaeas 6 3 5 Backing up to a network share Acronis Nonstop Backup 5 2 11 eere eee ru se tora nna o nana nn o uaa a ae i a Rua e aa RR SER AESA a 46 7 1 What is Acronis Nonstop Backup ess
285. s and folders to be excluded from online backup as well as files meeting the criteria you specify Excluding unnecessary files may be useful for backups to the Online storage as the data transfer rate and available space are limited You can also exclude include files and folders by selecting them in Windows Explorer and choosing Storages gt Exclude from Online Backup or Include in Online Backup in the shortcut menu that opens by right clicking on the selected file or folder This shortcut is only available when you are logged on to the Online Backup service Having finished selecting files and folders for backing up to the Online storage and for excluding from backup click OK If you do not unselect the Run the updated online backup task now check box that is selected by default the online backup task will start immediately Otherwise it will run according to the schedule you set To schedule online backups click the Edit schedule link For instance you may want the backups to be performed at night in order to not interfere with your web surfing For more information see Scheduling tasks p 108 When you finish scheduling and click OK the schedule information will be shown above the Edit schedule link By default Acronis True Image Home schedules daily backups to the Online Storage with randomly selected backup start time You can quickly start updating the files and folders backed up on the Online storage without
286. s can be split into several files that together form the original backup A backup file can be split for burning to removable media or saving on an FTP server data recovery directly from an FTP server requires the archive to be split into files of no more than 2GB A backup destined for the Acronis Secure Zone cannot be split Suppose you have a full backup of your PC on an external hard disk but want to make one more backup copy of the system to keep it in a different location from the first one for added security However you do not have one more external hard disk and a USB stick would not accommodate such a large backup Using Acronis True Image Home you can make a reserve backup copy on blank DVD R DVD R discs which are very cheap nowadays The program can split large backups into several files that together form the original backup If you have enough space on your PC s hard disk you can first create a backup archive consisting of multiple files with a specified size on the hard disk and burn the archive to DVD R discs later on To specify the split file size select Fixed size mode for Archive splitting and enter the desired file size or select it from the drop down list If you do not have enough space to store the backup on your hard disk select Automatic and create the backup directly on DVD R discs Acronis True Image Home will split the backup archive automatically and will ask you to insert a new disc when the previous one is full C
287. s on the sidebar and select the Validate backup archive before recovery box before clicking Proceed During restore the program may be unable to find some driver s in the specified folders and display an error message s In such case you can click Ignore to continue restoration or Cancel to cancel the process then try to find the required driver and repeat restore After successfully restoring the system partition exit Acronis True Image Home enter the BIOS make the system hard disk the first boot device and boot to the restored Windows During the first booting Windows will display numerous Found new hardware pop up messages and will then ask you to reboot the computer If you use Acronis Universal Restore for restoring a backup of multiboot configuration with two or more editions of Windows the most critical drivers will be replaced for all Windows installations 12 Try amp Decide The Try amp Decide feature allows creating a secure controlled temporary workspace on your computer without requiring you to install special virtualization software You can perform various system operations not worrying that you might damage your operating system programs or data After making virtual changes you may apply them to your original system If you make changes that you want to keep you might want to commit those changes to the system Among the operations you may attempt with this feature is to open mail attachments from unknown senders or
288. s unselectable click Finish on the sidebar and select the Destroy the selected files and folders irreversibly box to enable the Proceed button 22 2 Acronis DriveCleanser Many operating systems do not provide users with secure data destruction tools so deleted files can be recovered easily by using simple applications Even a complete disk reformat cannot guarantee you permanent confidential data destruction Acronis DriveCleanser solves this problem with guaranteed and permanent data destruction on selected hard disks and or partitions It allows you to select from a number of data destruction methods depending on the importance of your confidential information To start Acronis DriveCleanser select Tools amp Utilities Acronis DriveCleanser in the main program menu Acronis DriveCleanser allows you to do the following clean up selected hard disks or partitions using preset methods create and execute custom user methods of hard disk clean up Acronis DriveCleanser is based on a wizard that scripts all hard disk operations so no data destruction is performed until you click Proceed in the wizard s Summary window At any moment you can return to the previous steps to select other disks partitions or data destruction methods First you must select the hard disk partitions where you want to destroy data Required steps Select drives and partitions with data to erase Source selection Algorithm selection U
289. see the estimated full backup size for disk partition backup or the approximate compression ratio for file level backup with which you can calculate the estimated full backup size Multiply this by 1 5 to be able to create incremental or differential backups Remember that the average compression rate is 2 1 so you can use this as a guide as well to create a zone Let s say you have a hard disk with 10GB of programs and data Under normal conditions that will compress down to approximately 5GB As a result you might want to make the total size 7 5GB If there are several disks installed select one on which to create Acronis Secure Zone Select the partitions from whose space the zone will be created Required steps Create ASZ Partition content Disk 1 Partition F Capacity Free S Type T ia LA NTFS New Volume G Pri 7 997 GB 4 948 GB NTFS Disk2 Space allocation Optional steps oO Primary Logical Dynamic Acronis Secure Zone __ Unallocated Unsupported 4 Inthe next window enter the Acronis Secure Zone size or drag the slider to select any size between the minimum and maximum Required steps Please specify settings for the partition being created 50 MB a Finish D Acronis Secure Zone Space available Acronis Secure Zone 3 002 E GB Optional steps Password The minimum size is about 50 MB depending on the geometry of the hard disk
290. settings from your browser s configuration Options Reset all to detaule Reset the current to der atit Online backup options eA Proxy settings If you connect to the Internet via a proxy server specify its settings Host name proxy example com Port Use proxy User name Password 8 6 Recommendations on selecting data for storing online Because online backups are relatively slow you should think over what data to back up First of all consider backing up your personal data that cannot be recovered if lost as a result of fire computer theft etc Before proceeding with a backup estimate how long it will take to back up your data For instance if your folders take up 10GB and your upload speed is 1000 Kbps somewhat less than half a gigabyte per hour it should take more than 20 hours to perform your first full backup So depending on the speed of your Internet connection you may want to back up just the most critical files 60 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 9 Additional backup features 9 1 Making reserve copies of your backups When you choose the My Data backup type for backing up selected files and folders 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 archive security with replication this feature allows you to copy a set of documents for example to a USB stick for work
291. so it is better to convert the external hard drive for backups from FAT32 into NTFS because of the 4GB file size limit of the FAT32 system Due to this limitation large backup files will automatically split into 4GB chunks thus increasing the chance that something will go wrong during data recovery If you plan to use an external USB hard drive with your desktop PC connecting the drive to a rear connector using a short cable will usually provide the most reliable operation reducing the chance of data transfer errors during backup recovery 6 2 Deciding what data to back up As operating systems and application software become ever larger for example Windows Vista x64 requires 15GB of free space on a hard disk usually it will take you several hours to reinstall your operating system and application software from original CDs or DVDs on a new hard disk Furthermore the practice of buying application software by downloading from the Internet is becoming more and more popular If you lose your registration information for example the activation key and or registration number which are usually sent by software vendors by e mail you may have problems with restoring your right to use the application So making a backup of your entire system disk making a disk image will save you a lot of valuable time in case of a disaster as well as safeguard you against other possible problems Backing up the entire system disk takes more disk space but e
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293. start time and other schedule parameters according to the selected periodicity For most scheduled tasks except for those scheduled to run Once only you can select the Start date box and set the date when the task will run for the first time This may be useful when implementing a specific backup scenario For example see Full incremental differential backups with automatic rotation p 116 2 Next you will have to specify the name of the user who owns the task to be executed otherwise no scheduled execution will be available 3 Enter the username or leave the name of the logged on user Enter the password 13 1 1 Setting up once only execution If you choose once only execution set the start time Then set the date on which to execute the task using the provided calendar Required steps Scheduling Run this task only once Do not schedule 3 archive location Start at 02 37 PM hhimm Q Once only 4 November 2009 gt Su Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 3 4 5 6 7 Periodically 8 10 11 12 13 14 E 15 17 18 19 20 21 O Daily 22 24 25 26 27 28 29 Finish Upon event C Weekly 5 Monthly Optional steps Scheduling Resultant schedule Run the task at 2 37 00 PM Tuesday November 24 2009 Backup method Run with credentials What to exclude Username TW HOMElAdministrator Backup options Password LIII Automatic consolidation E Run the task only when the compute
294. t all to der aui Reset the current Eo derauit Online backup options FH d Storage cleanup Specify parameters for automatic online storage cleanup V Delete versions that are older than 3 E Months T Store no more than 10 recent versions You can Delete versions that are older than the specified time period 6 months by default Specify how many versions of your files must be kept on the Online Storage This will allow you to return to a previous file version if your changes in a file turn out to be erroneous By default Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 Acronis True Image Home will keep 10 versions of your files though you can specify any other number 8 5 4 Proxy settings If your computer is connected to the Internet using a proxy server enable use of the proxy server and enter its settings Acronis Online Backup supports only http and https proxy servers In the Host name box type the name or IP address of the proxy server such as proxy example com or 192 168 0 1 In the Port box type the proxy server s port such as 8080 In the User name and Password boxes type the credentials you use for connecting to the proxy server if necessary To test the proxy server connection click the Test button 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
295. t filters for the specific types of files you wish to preserve during archive recovery For example you may want hidden and system files and folders newer files and folders as well as files matching selected criteria not to be overwritten by the archive files While specifying the criteria you can use the common Windows wildcard characters For example to preserve all files with extension exe add exe My exe will preserve all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my Unselecting the Overwrite existing files check box will give the files on the hard disk unconditional priority over the archived files 11 2 3 Pre post commands You can specify commands or batch files to be automatically executed before and after the recovery procedure 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 Please note that interactive commands i e commands that require user input are not supported Unselecting the Do not perform operations until the command s execution is complete box selected by default will permit the recovery procedure to run concurrently with your command execution If you want the recovery to be performed even if your command fails uncheck the Abort the operation if the user command fails box checked by default You can test execution of the command you created by clicking the Test comman
296. t many users prefer full backups though you may choose another method depending on your needs 8 Set the backup options When backing up in the recovery environment you must set the options manually for each backup task You can encrypt the backup for data protection and select a compression level the program shows estimated backup sizes for each level You can also choose to validate the backup immediately after its creation though it can be done later In any case validation of a system disk backup is best performed in the recovery environment as you will use the recovery environment when recovering the system partition or disk 9 If you wish provide comments to the backup You will also be able to add comments later 10 Click Proceed to start the backup It is extremely important to validate the system disk backup before trying to recover because Acronis True Image Home deletes the original partition s on the disk before starting recovery and if it finds a problem with the backup file during recovery you are left with nothing It is even better to try system disk recovery to a spare hard drive if you have one 6 3 3 Backing up a data partition or disk Your personal data MS Office documents financial documents pictures music videos etc require protection in no less degree than your operating system Such data is better kept separately from your operating system and applications on a dedicated partition or disk This speeds up
297. ta violations such as exceeding a preset maximum number of gigabytes set aside for backups and if any limitation is exceeded consolidates the oldest backups It will combine the first full backup with the next incremental one into one full backup which will be dated the latter backup date Then if necessary this backup will be combined with the next until the occupied storage space or number of backups decreases to the preset limit Thus the archive integrity will not be affected despite the fact that the oldest backups will be deleted The actual number of backups created can exceed the Maximum number of backups by one This enables the program to detect that the number quota was exceeded and start consolidation Backup will be prohibited until the consolidation finishes The file name based consolidation allows deleting the backups that you do not need anymore from any archive while maintaining the archive consistency If required you can delete from an archive the base full backup The program will create another full backup in place of the oldest remaining backup The two kinds of backup procedures have the following difference Automatic consolidation only can consolidate two backups in one File name based consolidation keeps whichever backups you choose and deletes any backups that are not selected The current Acronis True Image Home version does not support consolidation of backup archives created in the zip format Acro
298. te files or folders If necessary the image can be mounted in read only mode The operations described in this chapter are supported only for the FAT and NTFS file systems Please keep in mind that though both file archives and disk partition images have a default tib extension only images can be mounted If you want to view file archive contents use the Explore operation The following is a brief summary of the Explore vs Mount operation Explore Mount Archive type File level disk or partition image Partition image Assigning a letter Yes Archive modification Yes in R W mode File extraction Yes Yes 17 1 Mounting an image 1 Start the Mount Wizard by selecting Tools amp Utilities Mount Image in the main program menu or by right clicking on an image archive on the Data recovery and backup management screen and selecting Mount Image in the shortcut menu 2 Select the archive for mounting Optional steps Drive letter If you selected an archive containing incremental images you can select one of the successive Mount backup Name Created Images a Disk1 backup BDiskt_backup2 11 24 2009 4 01 09 PM 11 24 2009 4 41 57 PM a System E c F 11 24 2009 B System E C F 11 24 2009 11 24 2009 5 29 35 PM Path G Disk1_backup2 tib incremental images also called slices by its creation date time Thus you can explore the data state at a certain moment
299. tem 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 image 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 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 16 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 a
300. tems To view the appearance of a concrete font click the button select the font and have a look at the sample text If you are satisfied with the font s appearance click OK otherwise try another font or click Cancel In addition the Appearance options let you filter all tasks created on your computer By default you see only your own tasks but you have the option to view or manage tasks created by other users To do so choose Filter and unselect the Show only tasks created by a current user box The Feedback option allows you to quit the Acronis Customer Experience Program if you decided to join it during Acronis True Image Home installation or join the program by selecting the Yes want to participate in the program radio button If you want to know more about the Customer Experience Program click the Learn more link If modifying the default options does not provide the desired results or if you just want to restore the default options values set during Acronis True Image Home installation click Reset all to default on the toolbar When you need to set the default values only for a selected option click Reset the current to default on the toolbar 6 Creating backup archives 6 1 Preparing for your first backup First of all you should decide where to store your backups Acronis True Image Home supports quite a lot of storage devices For more information see Supported storage media p 14 Since hard disk drives are now quite
301. tents of any custom or default file category edit the category or delete it The default file categories cannot be deleted For more information on custom categories see Creating a custom data category for backups p 81 If you do not want to keep custom contents of the current backup by creating a data category simply select the files folders from the tree This set will be effective only for the current backup task File filtering can be applied to manually added folders in the optional What to exclude step My Application Settings back up custom settings of Windows applications This is a subset of file level backups that backs up predefined folders and requires minimum user selections The program displays a list of supported applications that have been found on the computer sorted by categories You can select a random set of categories and applications It is important to note that the program backs up only your settings and not the application executable files If an application seems to malfunction or ceases to run reinstall it using the latest updates and then recover your settings from the backup To select all the supported applications found on the computer for backing up check the Installed Applications box For instant messenger applications the program will back up both the settings and history The list of supported applications will be expanded gradually Updates will be available with new program builds or via th
302. ters For example to find all batch files in the archives type bat Typing my exe will allow you to find all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my It should be noted that search is case insensitive i e Backup and backup is the same search string Furthermore the search stops after the program finds 100 files corresponding to a search criterion you have typed If the search results do not contain the file you need you will have to refine the search criterion Please note that Acronis True Image Home does not search files in encrypted and password protected tib archives nor in the password protected Acronis Secure Zone In addition the program does not search files in zip backup archives created by Acronis True Image Home kk When a file is included in several backups and it has not been modified the search results will show it only once in the oldest backup file If such a file has been changed the search results will show all backup files containing differing versions of the file 2 Search in the comments to backup archives is carried out differently First of all you cannot use and as Windows wildcard characters As in this case the program uses full text search it will just find all occurrences of these characters in the comments if any The full text search uses the following rules Search criteria consist of words separated by space character s or by a logical operator
303. that step after completing all the required steps choose Backup reserve copy and then select the Create a reserve copy of my backups box if it is not selected in the default backup options Required steps a Archive Protection Bl Pre Post commands b back up i Compression level Archive location 4 Backup performance L Backup priority HDD writing speed s Free space threshold Finish e Backup reserve copy In addition to your main backup a reserve backup can be created in a different location in a desired File Format Note the option is only valid For File and Folder backups v Create a reserve copy of my backups Specify a location For your backup copies 4 Notifications Location E mail Select reserving method E Messenger WinPopup Archive splitting File level security settings WD Error handling W Archive validation iC Backup reserve copy 7 Copy created backups TIB files No password specified Password protection Optional steps z Flat files Scheduling s Backup method What t de Next gt J Proceed Cancel 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 Location link select the drive letter of the USB stick and create a folder for a reserve copy by clicking on the Create new folder icon gt MA WA
304. the partition to the original location you only need to check the settings If you want to recover the partition to another location select the new location and set the partition type you need or leave the default setting When the new location is an existing partition usually you may leave its disk letter and size unchanged When the new location is unallocated space e g after installing a new hard drive you intend to use for your data specify the size of the new partition and assign a logical disk letter 6 Carefully read the Summary After making sure that you have made the correct settings click Proceed if you do not need to change the default recovery options otherwise click Options 7 The Options step allows setting the recovery options for example to check the file system after recovery For more information about the recovery options see Setting default recovery options p 97 After setting the recovery options click Proceed Recovering the entire data disk backup requires similar steps with few minor differences for example there is no Check file system after recovery option When recovering to the original hard drive the steps of the Recovery Wizard are straightforward just make sure that you select the disk with the same number as the backed up disk as the destination Recovering your data disk backup to a hard drive with a different capacity has some nuances depending on its capacity and geometry the number of heads
305. the Clean up button to continue Click here if you want to change the clean up settings before proceeding e You can view the search results and manually select the items you wish to remove 22 5 System Clean up Wizard settings 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 To enable or disable any System Clean up component check or uncheck its Enable flag In the System Clean up Wizard Properties window you can also set clean up parameters for each system component Some of these parameters apply to all components You can restore the default system clean up settings by clicking the Restore Defaults button in the Properties window 22 5 1 Data Destruction Method setting This setting defines the method of guaranteed data destruction to use for cleaning up a given component By default all components that have this setting have it set to Use common method You can change the common method by clicking the Click to change this setting link and selecting a desired method from the drop down list see Hard Disk Wiping Methods p 189 If you need to set a custom method of data destruction for a component choose Use a custom method for this component and then select the one you prefer from the drop down list 22 5 2 Files setting The Files setting defines the names of files to clean with System Clean up Wizard and can be
306. the archive Right clicking on a specific backup opens the shortcut menu allowing to choose a desired operation mount for image archives recover validate update remove the backup and view the backup s details If Acronis Secure Zone is password protected any operation except viewing backup details will require entering the password Double clicking on a backup will start the default operation Mount for image backups and Recovery for data backups The shortcut menu that appears after right clicking on the Acronis Secure Zone icon has two more items Create Shortcut for placing it on the Desktop and Explore for exploring the zone contents Choosing Explore opens Windows Explorer with Acronis Secure Zone selected on the directory tree enabling you to explore the zone contents The Acronis Secure Zone is available as a location to store backup files as long as it has free space If there is not enough space older backups will be deleted to create free space Acronis True Image Home uses the following approach to clean up Acronis Secure Zone If you are in the process of creating a backup and there is not enough free space in the zone to create it the program will display a dialog which warns you that the Acronis Secure Zone is full You can click Cancel to cancel the backup operation In that case you may want to increase the size of the Acronis Secure Zone and then run the backup operation again If you want to free up some space i
307. the backup task being configured you can either add a new backup to an existing archive or create a new one It is better to use meaningful names e g Disk_C tib 4 Carefully read the Summary of actions to be performed during backup and click Proceed if you are satisfied with the backup task settings otherwise click Options on the Summary screen to change the settings 5 The first optional step offers to schedule the backup task Scheduling together with a backup method and automatic consolidation rules allows implementing a desired backup strategy For more information see Examples of backup scheduling scenarios p 114 6 Choose a backup method For a more detailed explanation of the methods see Full incremental and differential backups p 18 Let s reiterate that selection of the backup method may depend on the desired backup strategy 7 Atthe next step you may exclude certain files and folders from backup e g temporary ones 10 11 Set the options for the backup task being created You can choose to validate the backup immediately after its creation though it can be done later Set the automatic consolidation rules when required by the chosen automatic backup archive management strategy For more information see Setting automatic consolidation p 73 If you wish provide comments to the backup You will also be able to add comments later Click Proceed when you are satisfied with the backup task settings 7 Acronis
308. the left pane 3 Select the folder containing the files you want to manage in the left pane The right pane lists the files in that folder 4 Ifyou want to delete some versions of a specific file select the file and click View Versions on the toolbar This opens the File Versions window Select the version you want to delete and click Remove on the toolbar When you want to delete several versions use the Ctrl and Shift keys like in Windows Explorer to select the versions for deletion and then click Remove on the toolbar Having finished removing the versions click OK To delete all versions of the file click Remove All on the toolbar 5 If you want to delete a file select it in the right pane When selecting multiple files for deletion you can use the Ctrl and Shift keys like in Windows Explorer Having finished selection right click on the selection and choose Delete in the shortcut menu After you finish managing the Online Storage close the Acronis Time Explorer window 7 To see how much space you have freed up click Refresh on the toolbar of the Storage state screen and check the new value of free space 8 5 Setting online backup options You can set these options after logging on Acronis Online Backup and selecting a computer for use with Online backup service To do so click Settings on the Storage state screen 8 5 1 Connection attempts This page allows you to optimize the settings Acronis True Image Home uses when estab
309. the possibility that they might occur increases during the course of the hard disk s lifetime If your hard drive has started making strange noises for example it starts making quite loud clicking or grinding noises during operation such noises may mean that the hard drive is failing When the hard drive completely fails you can lose important data so it is necessary to back up the drive as soon as possible There may be a problem though the failing hard drive might already have bad sectors If the Ignore bad sectors box is left unselected a backup task is aborted in case of read and or write errors that could occur on the bad sectors Selecting this box lets you run a backup even if there are bad sectors on the hard disk ensuring that you save as much information from the hard drive as possible Do not show messages and dialogs while processing silent mode The preset is disabled You can enable this setting to ignore errors during backup operations This feature was mainly designed for unattended backups when you cannot control the backup process In this mode no notifications will be displayed if errors occur during backup Instead you can view the detailed log of all operations after the task finishes by selecting Tasks and Log on the sidebar and then clicking the Log tab You may use this option when configuring a backup task to be run during the night When not enough space in ASZ delete the oldest archive The option can be set in t
310. the right pane contains the View the current state of your hard drives link Click on the link and then choose the partition whose cleaning results you wish to view This opens an integrated Acronis Disk Editor in read only mode The aforementioned algorithms offer various levels of confidential data destruction Thus the picture you might see on a disk or partition depends on the data destruction method But what you actually see are disk sectors filled with either zeros or random symbols Acronis Disk Editor read only mode disk 1 sectors 337 367 10 104 884 T Disk Edit View Search Help PRIO mi 37 A 262 L JB ENS amm f6 f f Pere EE H gf E Jiph 6 mE amp K 4m oln Lh PR a tet 20 gen Miry mLfL P m meaP bg gff8 JL gf9 ES f gp E g x EH Lo H E fTZ g p wu fO fll es fY E LgfTx H gf unt l enem l gf gjB E4 gfHP g JB E gfH rBmI fQ fJVesfY QE beTx H g 8 mpf 3lLgAt E Sector 337 967 Position o View Hex 22 3 Creating custom algorithms of data destruction Acronis DriveCleanser gives you the opportunity to create your own algorithms for wiping hard disks Although the software includes several levels of data destruction you can choose to create your own This is recommended only for users familiar with the principles of data destruction used in secure disk wiping methods Creating a cust
311. tional step offers to schedule the backup task Scheduling together with a backup method and automatic consolidation rules allows implementing a desired backup strategy For more information see Examples of backup scheduling scenarios p 114 6 Choose a backup method For a more detailed explanation of the methods see Full incremental and differential backups p 18 Let s reiterate that selection of the backup method may depend on the desired backup strategy 7 Atthe next step you may exclude certain files and folders from backup For example you transferred some movies from your DVDs to the data disk They occupy quite a lot of space and it doesn t make sense to back them up because you have the DVDs 8 Set the options for the backup task being created 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 right immediately after its creation though it can be done later 9 Set the automatic consolidation rules when required by the chosen automatic backup archive management strategy For more information see Setting automatic consolidation p 73 10 If you wish provide comments to the backup You will also be able to add comments later 11 Click Proceed when you are satisfied with the backup task settings If you have not included validation into the backup task settings it is strongly recommended to validate the backup late
312. to default Clicking Reset all to default will reset all the default options for backup recovery notifications etc to their preset values so this button should be used with caution In addition when backing up your data files the program provides for creating custom data categories for backup 9 4 1 Backup options 9 4 1 1 What to exclude By default the program excludes files with the following extensions from backups tmp and tib You can also set other default filters for file exclusion for example you may want hidden and system files and folders not to be stored in the backup archives as well In addition you can apply your own filters using the common Windows wildcard characters For example to exclude all files with extension exe add exe mask My exe will exclude all exe files with names consisting of five symbols and starting with my This option affects real folders selected at My Data backup If the name of a whole folder matches a mask you set this folder will be excluded with all its content Backup of a file category uses file filters preset at creation of the category My Application Settings System State or My E mail backup implies dedicated lists of files that must not be filtered 9 4 1 2 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 remove some temporary tmp files from the dis
313. to restore them or let the files inherit the security settings of the folder where they will be recovered This option is effective only when recovering files from file folder archives Set current date and time for recovered files The preset is disabled You can choose whether to recover the file date and time from the archive or assign the files the current date and time By default the file date and time from the archive will be assigned Validate backup archive before recovery The preset is disabled Before data is recovered from the archive Acronis True Image Home can check its integrity If you suspect that the archive 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 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 11 2 2 Overwrite file options This option is not applicable to recovery of disks and partitions from images By default the program will overwrite existing files and folders though more recent files and folders are protected from overwriting You can set defaul
314. tting compression level password protection etc The settings of the options will be applied only to the current backup task Required steps An a Archive Protection m PrejPost commands Compression level 4 t Backup performance back up Finish b Backup priority i HDD writing speed s Free space threshold 4 Notifications E mail E Messenger WinPopup L Archive splitting Error handling VW Archive validation Optional steps Virus scan Scheduling Backup method Automatic consolidation Comments D Backup priority You can set up the priority of the backup process making it run faster or slower Low Select this item if you want the backup process to be run with low priority ON Select this item if you want the backup process to be run with normal priority High Select this item if you want the backup process to be run with high priority Proceed Or you can edit the default backup options and local storage settings if you want to save the current settings for future tasks For more information see Fine tuning your backups p 75 9 3 7 Setting automatic consolidation Automatic consolidation of a backup archive is enabled by setting the overall limitations for the archive These limitations include a maximum number of backups a maximum storage period for the archive files Copyright Acronis Inc
315. turday b At the Backup method step choose the Full method and unselect the A new full backup overwrites the previous one check box selected by default c At the Automatic consolidation step it is necessary to select the Number of backups exceeds check box and set a limit of five backups then finish configuring the backup task The program will create full backups starting from the nearest Saturday and will accumulate the first five backups in the archive On the sixth run the program will create a sixth backup thus exceeding the limit on the number of backups As it is not possible to consolidate full backups the program will simply delete the oldest backup This procedure will be repeated during the next task run etc Of course this backup scenario can be used for making full backups more and less frequently for example on daily or monthly basis users just need to set an appropriate schedule In the given backup scenario you could achieve the same result by selecting the Storage period of old backups exceeds days check box and setting the number of days to 30 for example The program will delete the oldest backup when its storage period exceeds 30 days leaving five backups that are younger than 30 days 13 4 2 Full backups with automatic deletion when backup storage is filled Here is one more scenario for using only full backups and automatically deleting the oldest ones Suppose you want to save weekly f
316. twork share in Windows can by found in the Acronis Support KB article Troubleshooting Network Backup Issues in Windows through the following link http kb acronis com content 1684 Backups to a mapped drive fail from time to time Explanation of why saving an image to a mapped drive may sometimes fail and how to prevent this can be found in the Acronis Support KB article Saving an Image to a Mapped Drive from an Acronis True Image Task Fails Sporadically through the following link http kb acronis com content 1545 Insert next volume message when backing up to a USB flash drive Acronis True Image Home treats your USB flash drive as removable media If it is formatted in FAT32 the size of one file is limited to 4GB so when your backup exceeds this size the program automatically splits it into 4GB volumes and waits for insertion of the next media for the next volume Just click OK and the backup process will continue Repeat this if the message is displayed again until your backup finishes For more detailed information see the Acronis Support KB article Acronis True Image Asks to Insert Next Volume When Backing Up to USB Flash Drive at http kb acronis com content 1805 Issue with backing up an NTFS compressed partition Acronis True Image may fail to back up an NTFS compressed partition due to some limitations on working with such partitions If it is possible decompress the partition before backing it up For more detailed informat
317. ule option at the Scheduling step or having selected the Run task now box for a scheduled task to select the box you should return to the Finish step Otherwise the task will run when the scheduled time comes The task progress will be shown in a special window You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel You can also close the progress window by clicking Hide The backup creation will continue but you will be able to start another operation or close the main program window In the latter case the program will continue working in the background and will automatically close once the backup archive is ready If you prepare some more backup operations they will be queued after the current one 9 4 Fine tuning your backups You can fine tune your backups to specific tasks Such fine tuning is made by configuring backup options before starting a backup task You can set temporary backup options by changing the default backup options while creating a backup task If you would like to use the changed options for future tasks make appropriate changes in the default backup options after selecting Tools amp Utilities Options Backup options Incidentally you can always restore the default backup options to the values preset during installation of Acronis True Image Home To do this click Reset all to default on the toolbar of the Options window To reset just a single backup option select it on the left pane and click Reset the current
318. ull backups to a dedicated hard disk drive until it has room for backups and then want the program to delete the oldest backup thus freeing up space for the next one In this case you need to set the task options like in items a and b of the previous backup scenario At the Automatic consolidation step select the Size of archive exceeds check box and set a limit on the archive size as follows the hard disk capacity minus the estimated size of a full backup the limit can be adjusted by editing the task after running the first full backup and finding out the actual size of the backup file To trigger the automatic consolidation procedure which in this case will consist in deleting the oldest backup the archive size quota must be violated This will occur after creating the next full backup that should fill up the disk almost to capacity When setting the archive size limit it is advisable to provide some additional reserve space for the last full backup created before consolidation because the subsequent full backups may be larger than the first one One more argument in favor of providing a reserve space if there is not enough room for the backup file the task run will be aborted so the program will neither create a new backup nor delete the oldest one If you do not intervene this situation will repeat during subsequent task runs 13 4 3 Full backups to Acronis Secure Zone with automatic deletion There is one more way of implementing
319. up daily execution 112 Setting up monthly execution 113 Setting up once only execution 110 Setting up periodical execution 112 Setting up upon event execution 110 Setting up weekly execution 113 Some typical backup scenarios 39 Starting the Recovery Wizard 93 Startup Parameters 124 194 Steps for installing a new internal SATA drive 191 Storage cleanup 59 Storage connection speed 58 Support for Zip format 23 69 Supported file systems 13 Supported operating systems 13 Supported storage media 14 38 70 90 91 93 System Clean up 176 System Clean up Wizard settings 177 System requirements and supported media 13 T Testing bootable rescue media 26 27 41 84 The backup process 76 The difference between file archives and disk partition images 18 38 Transferring the system to a new disk 161 Troubleshooting 181 Try amp Decide 22 103 Try amp Decide options and notifications 106 Try amp Decide usage examples 107 U Unmounting an image 138 155 Upgrading Acronis True Image Home 16 Using Acronis Nonstop Backup 48 Using Acronis Universal Restore 101 Using File Shredder 171 Using Google Desktop with Acronis True Image Home 141 Using Try amp Decide 106 Using Windows Search with Acronis True Image Home 144 V Validating backup archives 149 155 Viewing disk and partition information 22 Viewing Tasks and Logs 35 152 W
320. ups stored in the zone 15 Creating bootable media 15 1 Creating Linux based rescue media You can run Acronis True Image Home from an emergency boot disk on a bare metal system or a crashed computer that cannot boot You can even back up disks on a non Windows computer copying all its data into the backup archive by imaging the disk one sector at a time To do so you will need bootable media that has a copy of the standalone Acronis True Image Home version installed on it If you purchased the boxed product you already have a bootable CD because the installation CD itself is bootable in addition to serving as the program installation disk If you purchased Acronis True Image Home on the Web or as a download from a retailer you can create bootable media using the Bootable Media Builder For this you will need a blank CD R RW a blank DVD R RW or any other media from which your computer can boot such as a Zip drive Acronis True Image Home 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 installation you will not be able to use this feature KK When booting from the Rescue Media you cannot perform backups to
321. us places feature does not work with FTP servers One more useful aspect of this feature is its ability to split backups on the fly Suppose you perform a backup to a hard disk and in the middle of the backup process Acronis True Image Home finds out that the disk to which you are backing up does not have sufficient free space for completing the backup The program displays a message warning you that the disk is full Operation Progress a Operation status Information 9 Disk is full Free up additional disk space to continue You can either empty the Recycle Bin or delete old data files Click Browse to specify volume location Retry to try again or click Cancel Retry Cancel r Shutdown the computer after completion 7 To complete the backup you may either try to free some space on the disk and click Retry or select another storage device To choose the latter option click Browse in the information window The Browse for Location window appears Browse for Location Lx 8 Desktop Name Date Type Size gh FTP Connections No items to display b a My Documents D 9 My Computer b Le My Network Places gt O Mac 4 m gt Filename FATail end tib amp Generate name Files of type Backup Archives tib X The left pane shows the storage locations available on your computer After you select a disk in the left pane the program shows t
322. use of power failure or a lack of disk space To choose a new location click Options on the Summary screen You cannot choose another location when consolidating backups in an archive located in Acronis Secure Zone New archive location Original location Finish Your original backup archive will be overwritten Path Z Documents and Settings Administrator My Documents MyBackups MyBa Browse Delete original archive Optional steps Result location Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 155 5 After choosing the new location click Proceed to start consolidation In our example when consolidation is complete disk G will contain two new archives Disk1_backup2 and Disk1_backup4 Disk1_backup2 is a full backup and Disk1_backup4 is an incremental backup You can make sure of this by starting the consolidation wizard again selecting the archive Disk1_backup and proceeding to the next window Required steps Select backups to keep m Name Created Cons Rating Method Images a Disk1 backup B Diski backup2 11 24 2009 4 01 09 PM GGGH Fulbackup EP Diski _backup4 11 24 2009 4 41 57 PM Ve 5 5 v5 Incrementz r Ceo Eea 156 Copyright Acronis Inc 2000 2010 19 6 Removing backup archives You may want to remove backups and backup archives you no longer need Because Acronis True Image Home stores information on the backup arc
323. ust the most common issues maybe the KB has recommendations on solving your specific problem Furthermore Acronis Support team continuously adds new articles to the KB When you are not able to find the solution to your problem in the KB or the suggested solution does not help feel free to contact Acronis Customer Central http www acronis com support Acronis Support personnel may request you to provide the system report To create the report select Generate System Report in the Help menu if you are able to start the program in Windows then save the report and send it to Acronis Customer Central If the issue prevents booting to Windows try booting from Acronis rescue media and create the report in the standalone version of Acronis True Image Home selecting the same item in the Help menu You can also start system report generation by simultaneously pressing the Ctrl F7 keys both in Windows and the standalone version of Acronis True Image Home even when a wizard is opened a task is running or an error message is displayed Furthermore now you can add to your rescue media Acronis System Report tool that allows you to generate the system report after booting from the rescue media when both Windows and Acronis True Image Home full version cannot start In this case you will need a USB flash drive that will be used for saving the report Quite often the cause of an issue may be trivial for example a loose connection of an external har
324. validation procedure checks whether you will be able to recover data from a particular backup so when you select for validation a full backup the program validates the full backup only adifferential backup the program validates the initial full backup and the selected differential backup an incremental backup the program validates the initial full backup the selected incremental backup and the whole chain if any of backups to the selected incremental backup If the chain contains one or more differential backups the program validates in addition to the initial full backup and the selected incremental backup only the most recent differential backup in the chain and all subsequent incremental backups if any between the differential backup and the selected incremental backup This information can be helpful for example when you find out that a backup archive comprising a full backup and a chain of incremental ones is corrupted To troubleshoot the archive do as follows First of all validate the full backup If it is damaged all the archive will be useless When it is not damaged proceed to validating incremental backups starting from the oldest until you find the culprit All incremental backups made after the corrupted one will be unusable but you will be able to recover the data at least from the previous backups You can perform such validations using the Validate Wizard 1 To validate an archive click Recovery o
325. ver Archive selection Partition Flags Capacity UsedS Type lilii Disk 1 Settings of Partition C y What to recover Ls NTFS Unlabeled C Prij ct 4 658GB 2 293 GB NTFS Ls NTFS Unlabeled E Pri 164 7MB 39 15 MB NTFS E Lg NTFS Unlabeled F Pri 180 4MB 2 518 MB NTFS MER and Track 0 MBR and Track 0 Optional steps Disk and partition images contain a copy of track O along with the MBR master boot record It appears in this window in a separate line You can choose whether to recover the MBR and track O by selecting the corresponding box Recover the MBR if it is critical to your system booting When MBR recovery is chosen the Recover disk signature box will appear in the bottom left corner at the next step Recovering disk signature may be desirable due to the following reasons 1 Acronis True Image Home creates scheduled tasks using the signature of the source hard disk If you recover the same disk signature you don t need to re create or edit the tasks created previously Some installed applications use disk signature for licensing and other purposes If you use Windows Restore Points they will be lost when the disk signature is not recovered to p Copyright O Acronis Inc 2000 2010 4 In addition recovering disk signature allows to recover VSS snapshots used by Windows Vista and Windows 7 s Previous Versions feature If the box is uns
326. ver 5 000 GB VMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE Q Primary Master Destination of Disk 1 8 GB VMware Virtual IDE H 0000 IDE 0 Primary Slave Cannot recover the partition because the backup file is on the same hard disk that you are going to recover You can copy the backup file to another hard drive and try again E Recover disk signature E New Volume G Optional steps 7 997 GB NTFS Options oO Primary Logical Dynamic D Acronis Secure Zone __ Unallocated Unsupported Next gt l Cancel If there are partitions on the target disk you will be prompted by the confirmation window stating that the destination disk contains partitions perhaps with useful data You will have to select between QOK allexisting partitions will be deleted and all their data will be lost Cancel no existing partition will be deleted discontinuing the recovery operation You will then have to cancel the operation or select another disk Note that no real changes or data destruction will be performed at this time For now the program will just map out the procedure All changes will be implemented only when you click Proceed in the wizard s Summary window 11 1 6 Changing the recovered partition type When recovering a partition you can change its type though it is not required in most cases To illustrate why you might need to do this let s imagine that both the operating system and dat
327. ver a sector by sector backup Change size of disk or partition for advanced users This box will appear only when you choose to recover a backup from CD DVDs By default the box is unchecked and partition s will be recovered as is This allows you to reduce the amount of disc swapping while recovering a partition when a backup archive spans several CD DVDs Selecting this box when you need to resize a partition or disk greatly increases the amount of disc swapping so we recommend to copy all CD DVDs to a folder on a hard disk and recover from this folder Use Acronis Universal Restore Using Universal Restore provided by separately purchased Acronis Plus Pack allows recovering an image of your system partition on a computer with dissimilar hardware Recover chosen files and folders If you are not going to recover the system but only want to repair damaged files select Recover chosen files and folders You can recover files from disk partition images only if they have the FAT or NTFS file systems 11 1 4 Selecting a disk partition to recover The selected archive file can contain images of several partitions or even disks Select which disk partition to recover During a single session you can recover several partitions or disks one by one by selecting one disk and setting its parameters first and then repeating these actions for every partition or disk to be recovered Required steps Select the items to reco
328. very and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before booting from Acronis rescue media 1 Arrange the boot sequence in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 185 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home Full version Select Recovery Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu then choose the image backup of your system disk that you want to use for recovery If the disks have different disk letters in Windows and the recovery environment the program will display the following error message Acronis True Image Home cannot detect volume N of Name archive where Name is the name of the required image backup archive and volume number N may be different depending on the number of backups in the archive Click Browse and show the path to the archive Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step 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 If necessary you can recover the MBR later Select the partitions and click Next Selecting partitions leads to appearance of the relevant steps Settings of partition Take note that these steps are in ascending partiti
329. very environment in all cases If you have a spare hard drive we strongly recommend you to try a test recovery to this hard drive booting from the rescue media which uses Linux If you do not have a spare drive please at least validate the image in the recovery environment A backup that can be read during validation in Windows may not always be readable under Linux environment When you use the Acronis True Image Home rescue media the product creates disk drive letters that might differ from the way Windows identifies drives For example the D drive identified in the standalone Acronis True Image Home might correspond to the E drive in Windows To be on the safe side it is advisable to assign unique names to all partitions on your hard drives This will make finding the disk containing your backups easier 2 It may also be useful to complete all the steps in the Recovery Wizard right up to the Summary screen but not click the Proceed button This will allow you to simulate the recovery process and to make sure that Acronis True Image Home recognizes both the drive containing your backups and the target drive After completing all the Recovery Wizard s steps click Cancel on the Summary screen You may repeat this until you feel sure of your settings and choices 3 Users of the Enterprise and Ultimate editions of Windows 7 now have a way of testing whether they will be able to boot from the recovered system partition Acronis True Image H
330. ws 1 Arrange the boot sequence in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device CD DVD or USB stick the first boot device See Arranging boot sequence in BIOS p 185 Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image Home Full version After Acronis True Image Home starts click the My Disks link under Recover on the Welcome screen and the Restore Wizard will start 4 Choose the vhd backup file to be used for recovery by its creation date if you have not added descriptions to vhd archives using the Edit Comments feature of Acronis True Image Home 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 Even if the required vhd backup is shown on the screen after you choose it Acronis True Image Home may display the following message Acronis True Image Home 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 may differ from those in Windows and the path to this backup stored in the metadata information database will point to the wrong location In such case also 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 partitio
331. y copies all of the contents of one hard disk drive onto another hard disk drive The operation allows you to transfer all the information including the operating system and installed programs from one hard disk drive to another without having to reinstall and reconfigure all of your software If you decide to use cloning the best chance of success is to remove the existing drive from the computer and install the new drive in its place It should be connected in exactly the same way as the old drive Acronis True Image Home does not provide for cloning a single partition You can clone only an entire drive By the way you can also transfer all the information from your hard disk drive to another one by backing up the entire old hard disk and then recovering the backup to the new disk Backup archive components Archive Known as archive chain or archive group it is the whole set of backup files managed by a single backup task The archive can consist of one or several slices Slice It is a set of files created during each cycle of the task execution The amount of slices created is always equal to the amount of times the task is executed A slice represents a point in time to which the system or data can be recovered Volume It is a tib file associated with the slice Usually there is only one volume per slice however each slice may consist of several volumes If you have set archive splitting in the task options the resulting slice w
332. you need to recover them on the original hard disk drive or a new one e g after your hard drive failed Incidentally if your system disk contains several partitions an entire disk backup also provides for recovery of any individual partition Because system disk backups are the most important for disaster recovery it is advisable to check both the system disk and the hard disk to be used as the backup storage for errors with the help of Microsoft s Chkdsk utility which is part of Windows The utility can repair errors and locate bad sectors You can back up the system disk both in Windows and in the recovery environment Before starting a system disk backup in Windows it is advisable to close such applications as MS Outlook and DBMS programs Though the program locks the system partition while making a so called snapshot see Acronis True Image Home basic concepts p 10 some users still prefer backing up the system disk when Windows is not running The subsequent description is made under the assumption that you boot from your bootable rescue media and the program sees all your hard drives and other storage devices in the recovery environment See Testing bootable rescue media p 27 Attach the external drive if it is to be used for backup storage and make sure that the drive is powered on This must be done before booting from Acronis rescue media 1 Arrange the boot sequence in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device
333. ystem disk backup it might make sense to assign such names and create a new backup of the entire disk This will allow identifying the partitions by their names and not by the letters which may differ when booting from the rescue media If you are recovering from a system disk drive failure assign names now anyway The names will help you find the drive containing your backups as well as the target new drive The information on partition sizes drive capacities their manufacturers and model numbers can also help in correctly identifying the drives One more recommendation it is highly recommended to install the new hard drive to the same position in the computer and use the same cable and the same connector as for the original drive though this is not always possible e g the old drive may be an IDE and the new drive may be a SATA In any case install the new drive to where it will be used 10 2 1 Recovering a disk without a hidden partition At first let s consider recovery of a system disk containing two partitions none of them hidden using a disk backup In addition we assume that 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 as this approach usually gives the best recovery results Attach the external drive if it contains the backup archive to be used for reco
334. ystem partition This will allow testing the bootability of the backed up system without actual recovery If the operating system boots from the tib file then it will definitely boot after recovery from that tib file When you choose a tib file to boot from Acronis True Image Home creates a temporary vhd file by converting this tib file so your hard disk must have enough free space for storing it Then the program adds a new item to the Windows boot loader list When you select the tib file in the boot loader list your computer will actually boot from that temporary vhd file 1 4 System requirements and supported media 1 4 1 Minimum system requirements The hardware requirements of Acronis True Image Home correspond to the minimum requirements for the operating system installed on the computer to be used for running Acronis True Image Home In addition Acronis True Image Home requires the following hardware CD RW DVD RW drive for bootable media creation Mouse or other pointing device recommended Using Acronis Nonstop Backup requires at least 1 GB RAM Acronis True Image Home rescue media has the following hardware requirements 256 MB RAM Processor Pentium 1 GHz or faster The recommended minimum screen resolution is 1152 x 864 1 4 2 Supported operating systems Acronis True Image Home has been tested on the following operating systems Windows XP SP3 Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2 Windows

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