ACRONIS True Image 2013 User's Guide

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10 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 those values with the stored ones. If all compared values match, the backup file is not corrup

100 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4.9 Acronis Universal Restore 4.9.1 Purpose of Acronis Universal Restore Universal Restore

101 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4.9.2 General principles of Acronis Universal Restore 1. Automatic selection of HAL and mass

102 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 GRUB), you might consider installing them to a Linux root (or boot) partition boot record ins

103 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 My source disk is MBR and my OS supports UEFI The operation will not affect neither partition

104 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Among other things, the BIOS menu allows you to adjust the boot order. Computer BIOS allows b

105 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4.14.1 Disk recovery mode With this option you can select the disk recovery mode for image b

106 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Having recovered a partition from an image, True Image 2013 can check the integrity of the

107 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  To disable overwriting of specific files, click the Add... button to create an exclusion c

108 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Select the Show notification message on insufficient free disk space check box  In the S

109 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  When booting into Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.  When booting from factory bootable

11 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Synchronization with mobile devices - Now you can sync your data not only between your PCs,

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111 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5 Synchronizing data In this section About the Sync feature ...

112 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5.3 Acronis server login To start using the data synchronization feature or online backup, y

113 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 You cannot synchronize the following data:  Disks and partitions  System files and folder

114 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The notification area Sync state icons: The last synchronization completed successfully. (r

115 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5.7.1 How to sync data between your computers Let's see how to sync data between two or

116 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  One of the synced folders can reside on a remote SMB (Server Message Block) share. It does

117 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4. On the created sync box, click the Settings icon ( ) and then select Share... 5. Type

118 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 For example, you and your friend work with the same file located in your sync folders. Both o

119 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5. Follow the standard installation procedure. The procedure to find and install the Android

12 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 were cases when users chose the wrong disk as the target and thus wiped their system disk. In

120 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To view or change the cleanup options for a sync: 1. Start True Image 2013 and click the Syn

121 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4. Clicking Advanced cleanup allows you to select more cleanup rules. You can apply the cle

122 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5. Select the Show deleted check box and then select the deleted file you want to recover.

123 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 By creating a public link, you can share any folder in your system irrespective of whether it

124 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 2. Click Synchronization in the left-hand side of the screen. The Computers tab in the Manag

125 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5. Click under the Mine heading the "+" icon next to the synchronization from whic

126 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4. Click the Shared synchronizations tab in the Manage synchronization area. 5. Select und

127 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 6 Using online backup In this section What is Acronis Cloud? ...

128 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To keep your personal data secure, choose a strong password for your online backups, guard it

129 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3. Logging in opens a window, where you can configure online backup settings. 4. Specify i

13 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Using Acronis Nonstop Backup requires at least 1 GB RAM. True Image 2013 rescue media has the

130 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 recovery tab and displays at the bottom of the screen a notification about the online backups

131 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 In case of any network problems, if the first connection attempt fails, the program will repe

132 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Select the Store no more than … recent versions check box and enter a value that limits th

133 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 6.5.5 Operation priority Changing the priority of an operation process can make it run faste

134 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Select the Limit transfer rate to check box and specify an optimal value and an appropriat

135 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Enter the password in the Password field. To specify additional notification settings, cl

136 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1. Click the Recover button on the box of the online backup from which you want to recover d

137 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3. Select the version to which you want to rollback. The version's exact date and time

138 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7 Useful information In this section Protecting your system ...

139 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1. Start True Image 2013, select the Backup and recovery tab and then click Disk and part

14 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0, FireWire (IEEE-1394) and PC card storage devices * True Image 2013

140 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 the other (preferably on other premises – for example, at work or at a friend's home, if

141 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Online backup True Image 2013 allows you to use the Acronis Cloud service for safeguarding yo

142 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 user name and password for the selected network share. To repeat the connection attempt, clic

143 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4. When the program starts, we recommend you try recovering some files from your backup. A t

144 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If the Computers Near Me icon is not available under My Computer, there may be problems eithe

145 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7.3.1 Selecting video mode when booting from the rescue media When booting from the rescue m

146 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 After you find the optimal video mode for your hardware, you can create a new bootable rescue

147 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7.5.1 Preparing for migration Solid state disks have become quite common. Many users decide

148 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 diskpart list disk The screen will show the disks connected to your computer. Find out the di

149 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7.5.3 Checking SSD partition alignment If you installed Windows Vista/Windows 7 from the ins

15 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Disk cloning is disabled;  True Image 2013 Plus Pack is not available;  Only recovering

150 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 diskpart select disk N where N is the number of your SSD clean create partition primary align

151 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 6. Boot from your Acronis rescue media. 7. Validate the backup to make sure that it can be

152 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Stopping the Try mode ...

153 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 One of the best features of Try&Decide is that it isolates your "real" operatin

154 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 layout. In addition, you must not use the Try&Decide and disk defragmentation or disk err

155 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If you have chosen Discard Changes and rebooted the computer with multiple operating systems

156 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7.6.4.3 Alert settings Specify whether Try&Decide should alert you when it uses up all t

157 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  But now you can just discard the changes made in the Try mode and make one more attempt to

158 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Here you can specify the backup and validation schedule settings. You can choose and set up

159 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  If you schedule a backup to a USB flash drive or validation of a backup that is located on

16 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 bootable Windows CD/DVD created from the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installati

160 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7.7.3 Monthly execution parameters You can set up the following parameters for monthly opera

161 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the True Image 2013 window. Y

162 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=23. Double-click on the downloaded file

163 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3. Click Advanced, select the File Types tab and then make sure that the tib extension is se

164 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4. Click OK and while the Indexing Options window is open, check that the disks where you st

165 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Give Windows Search some time for indexing Acronis backups on your computer's hard disks

166 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7.9 Choosing columns for viewing in wizards You can change the way the columns are represent

167 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8 Tools and utilities Acronis Tools and utilities include Try&Decide, protection tools,

168 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 With the File Shredder you can quickly select unnecessary files and folders and destroy them

169 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 2. Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is acti

17 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Activation on a computer connected to the Internet If your computer is connected to the Intern

170 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during True Image 2013 ins

171 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 installed on your computer, you can also include standalone versions of these programs into t

172 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Disables FireWire (IEEE1394) support.  nopcmcia Disables PCMCIA hardware detection.  nomo

173 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If you use non-optical media, the media must have a FAT file system. This limitation is not a

174 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.2.1.6 How to create a bootable USB flash drive You can create a bootable USB flash drive c

175 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Run the PE builder, put in the necessary paths (the online help is available at http://nu2.nu

176 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 After the image is created, burn it to CD or DVD. (If you did not check the Burn to CD option

177 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the help documentation supplied with Win

178 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4. Specify the path to the folder WinPE\ISO, e.g. c:\winpe_x86\ISO. 5. On the next screen

179 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7. Check your settings in the summary screen and click Proceed. 8. Burn the .ISO to a CD u

18 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 move the license to your new computer from another one on which the product is already activat

180 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3. Specify the full path to the resulting WIM file, including the filename or leave the defa

181 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5. Repeat Step 4 for all other drivers you need to add. 6. Commit the changes using the Dis

182 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 12. Type exit to exit Windows DiskPart utility. 8.3 Creating factory bootable media This fu

183 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Acronis Secure Zone location ...

184 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If the Acronis Secure Zone is used as the Nonstop Backup data destination, the program does n

185 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.4.3 Selecting partitions Select the partitions from which space will be used to create Acr

186 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The minimum size is about 50 MB, depending on the geometry of the hard disk. The maximum size

187 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.4.5.3 Acronis Secure Zone protection Here, you can set up password protection for the Acro

188 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To select a partition:  Select the appropriate partition's check box, then click Next.

189 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Move method...

19 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The Get started tab will help you to begin using the main True Image 2013 features, namely

190 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.5.3 Selecting clone mode There are two transfer modes available:  Automatic (recommende

191 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.5.4 Selecting a source disk You can determine the source and destination using the informa

192 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.5.5 Selecting a destination disk After you select the source disk, you have to select the

193 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Manual - you will specify a new size and other parameters yourself If you elect to transf

194 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Along with the hard disk number, you can see disk capacity, the label, volume and file system

195 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If the cursor turns into two vertical lines with left and right arrows, it is pointed at the

196 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Cloning a non-system disk or a disk containing an operating system, but one that is not curre

197 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If there are any partitions on the new disk, they must be deleted first. If the added disk co

198 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.6.2 Selecting initialization method True Image 2013 supports both MBR and GPT partitioni

199 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  partition letter and label. If you allocate all unallocated space on the disk to the new

2 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Table of contents 1 Getting started ...

20 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Back up now - adds a new backup version to the existing backup or replaces the existing bac

200 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 File System Choose the file system type for the partition being created. Different partitions

201 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 When you finish to specify the settings for the partition being created, click Accept to cont

202 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The space beyond 2 TB is displayed as Extended Capacity. You can enable Extended Capacity Dis

203 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 After allocating the space, you can temporarily switch off the Extended Capacity Disks by cli

204 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The File Shredder provides the same capabilities for individual files and folders. Finally, t

205 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.8.1.1 Data selection First, you must select the hard disk partitions where you want to des

206 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If the disks and/or partitions you have selected include the system disk or partition, you wi

207 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Acronis DriveCleanser offers you another useful capability — to estimate the results of execu

208 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The window has the following legend: The first column of the list contains the type of operat

209 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 In the same way, you can create any data destruction algorithm to match your security require

21 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Create shortcut - creates a shortcut on the Desktop. With the shortcut you can run a backup

210 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.8.1.5 Disk Editor (read-only mode) Acronis DriveCleanser offers you another useful capabil

211 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Go to sector You can go to the necessary sector according to its absolute offset by selecting

212 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Having selected the contents for shredding, click Next to continue. 8.8.2.2 Data destru

213 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 In some cases, the operation may take a long time to be completed. If this is the case, selec

214 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 After you start the wizard by selecting the Tools and utilities tab and then clicking System

215 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Find Computer list  Find File list  Recently Used Documents list  Windows Run

216 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Use common method - if you leave this parameter selected, the program will use the default

217 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Upon entering the Files setting value, you can browse the files matching the search strings.

218 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 "Commands" setting Here you can select the commands to remove during Windows Run Li

219 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Expand the System Components item in the System Clean-up tree and make sure that the compo

22 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Create bootable media If your computer cannot start, use bootable rescue media to run the stan

220 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.8.4.1 Functioning principles of Information wiping methods Physically, the complete wiping

221 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 No. Algorithm (writing method) Passes Record 0xFF, 2nd pass – 0x00, and then five times with

222 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If you selected a backup containing incremental images, you can select one of the successive

223 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 You can also select a letter to be assigned to the virtual disk from the Mount letter drop-do

224 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If you have mounted several partitions, by default all of them will be selected for unmountin

225 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1. Click Acronis backup conversion on the Tools and utilities tab. 2. Select the disk imag

226 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1. Click Windows backup conversion on the Tools and utilities tab. 2. Select the vhd file

227 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Even if the required vhd backup is shown on the screen, after you choose it True Image 2013 m

228 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 maximum size of the vhd file. So the estimated free space is the size of your system partitio

229 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  schedule  backup scheme  automatic clean-up rules  backup version naming rules The s

23 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Remove from the list All backups This command removes all backup boxes from the backup list.

230 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 9 Troubleshooting In this section Acronis System Report ...

231 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 9.2 Acronis Smart Error Reporting To help users with troubleshooting, the new releases of Ac

232 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 establish Internet connection or if you can use another computer where Internet connection is

233 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 This information will speed up the process of finding a solution. 9.4 General recommendatio

234 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Before making a request, collect the information about your system. Select Generate system re

235 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 By default all logs are selected for viewing. The right pane shows all major log entries in t

236 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 problems you face. Based on this information, we will be able to improve the Acronis products

237 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Copyright Statement Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012. All rights reserved. &

10 Glossary of Terms A Acronis Secure Zone A secure partition for storing backups (p. 238) on a hard disk. Advantages:  enables recovery of a disk

239 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Bootable media A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or other media supported by a machi

24 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Expand all syncs (icon) - expands all collapsed sync boxes.  Collapse all syncs (icon) -

240 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Full backup version A self-sufficient backup version (p. 238) containing all data chosen for

241 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 version and the selected differential backup version.  an incremental backup version (p. 24

25 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Resume all syncs - restarts all synchronization processes if they have been paused.  Show

26 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Wizards have a sidebar listing all the steps (both required and optional) needed for completin

27 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The tab shows the disks and partitions state of when the current backup version was created.

28 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Convert to Windows backup (for image backups) - select to convert the backup version's

29 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Selecting a disk, partition, file or folder to make it the current item in a list does not mea

3 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3.13.14 Error handling ...

30 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The picture below shows various states of a time line. The states vary depending on the number

31 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The "This year" interval shows backup versions created from the beginning of the cur

32 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Validate  Delete version Nonstop backup version:  Explore and recover  Delete version

33 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The most significant changes occur in the System and Security category of Windows 7 Control Pa

34 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Furthermore, the Start menu acquires the following True Image 2013 items: These menu items

35 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1.1.9.8 Login menu Clicking Login opens a window for logging in to your Acronis account. Afte

36 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1.1.9.11 Installing Acronis Hotfixes What is an Acronis Hotfix? Acronis Hotfix is a small upd

37 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 2 How to Due to the size of this User's Guide, it is sometimes not so easy to find how t

38 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3 Backing up data True Image 2013 includes a wealth of sophisticated backup capabilities th

39 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups True Image 2013 offers you three backup meth

4 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 5 Synchronizing data ...

40 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  number of volume, if applicable (in the form of v#)  macros, if applicable (can be in any

41 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 backup_full_b1_s1.tib backup_inc_b1_s2.tib backup_inc_b1_s3.tib backup_full_b2_s1.tib backup_

42 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3.4 Backing up partitions and disks To back up partitions or disks, click Disk and partition

43 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If possible, avoid storing your system partition backups on dynamic disks, because the system

44 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3.5 Backing up files and folders To back up files and/or folders, click Other backups on the

45 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4. Click the Back up now button if you want to run backup immediately. You can also delay the

46 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To add a custom data category, click Add category. To change the default name of a custom cate

47 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The Zip format is available when backing up files, folders or when making reserve copies of yo

48 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Tasks  Notes  Signatures  News Folders  User Settings  Address Book For Microsoft

49 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The main purpose of Acronis Nonstop Backup is continuous protection of your data (files, folde

5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7.2.1 FTP connection ...

50 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3.7.1 Protecting your data continuously Let's consider how you can use Nonstop Backup fo

51 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 settings. If you have changed the Nonstop Backup destination, the program will create a new fu

52 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Nonstop Backup and Try&Decide cannot work simultaneously. If you click the Start now butto

53 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 You can also completely clean up the Acronis Nonstop Backup storage by selecting Delete in the

54 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Can I set up Acronis Nonstop Backup storage on a network share or NAS? - Yes, Acronis Nonstop

55 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Also remember that the operation will take more time, because normal backup and reserve copyin

56 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If you select an internal or external hard disk as the destination, this option will be disabl

57 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 You cannot use Acronis Secure Zone as one of the places for storing a part of backup versions

58 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3.11 Adding an existing backup to the list If you have backups that are not shown in the back

59 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Save the settings as default check box to apply the modified settings to all further backup op

6 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8.5.3 Selecting clone mode ...

60 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3.13.1 Backup schemes Backup schemes along with the scheduler help you to set up your backup

61 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Backup scheduler setting for file backup: daily. Result: you have a single up-to-date full bac

62 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 So first of all select one of the backup methods in the appropriate box.  Full (p. 39) Selec

63 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Do not delete the first version of the backup - Select this check box to keep the initial data

64 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 must be violated so that the program can detect the violation. Therefore, to be able to consol

65 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4. Click Incremental next to the Backup scheme item (Incremental is the default backup scheme

66 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  To increase the security of your confidential data, you can encrypt the backup with strong

67 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Disabling the Do not perform operations until the command's execution is complete paramet

68 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Regular validation You can also schedule validation of your backups to ensure that they remain

69 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 True Image - includes support of USB, PC Card (formerly PCMCIA) and SCSI interfaces along with

7 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1 Getting started 1.1 Introduction In this section What is True Image™ 2013 by Acronis®? ...

70 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3.13.14 Error handling When the program encountered an error while performing backup, it stops

71 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3.13.16 File-level security settings for backup You can specify security settings for backed u

72 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Maximum - maximum backup compression, but takes a long time to create a backup. The optimal

73 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To set the free disk space threshold:  Select the Show notification message on insufficient

74 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 by default. If you want to reset all the modified settings to the values that they were origin

75 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3.14 Validating backups The validation procedure checks whether you will be able to recover d

76 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012  Click the gear icon on the selected backup's box, point to More and then click Consoli

77 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3.15.4 Consolidation summary The summary window contains a list of briefly described operatio

78 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4 Recovering data The purpose of data backup is to recover backed up data when the original i

79 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Ctrl+Esc, or some other, depending on your BIOS) during the POST sequence. Usually the message

8 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1.1.2 What is True Image 2013 Plus Pack by Acronis? True Image 2013 Plus Pack is an add-on to

80 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 3. Select My disks below Recover on the Welcome screen. 4. Select the system disk or partit

81 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 In case of Windows 7 the System Reserved partition will have the Pri, Act flags . You will nee

82 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8. Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step. If you have not resized the p

83 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 If you want to recover the partition to the state it was at an earlier date, click the gear ic

84 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 In this case, True Image 2013 generates a new disk signature for the recovered hard drive, eve

85 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1. Click Recover on the backup box of a disk containing several partitions. The Disk Recovery

86 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4. Click the down arrow to the right of the field and select the destination hard disk. The p

87 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Remember that you need to leave as much unallocated (free) space after having resized the part

88 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8. Click the Partition properties link and make the settings for the partition. Select a disk

89 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Disk letters may differ when booting from the rescue media. The names will help you find the d

9 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 The backup versions are similar to file versions. The file versions concept is familiar to thos

90 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4. Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step. 5. At the What to

91 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 6. You can specify the following partition settings: location, type, and size. You first need

92 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 8. Proceed to specifying the partition size by clicking Change default in the Partition size

93 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 Click Accept, check the partition type (change, if necessary). The system partition must be pr

94 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 4.6 Recovering data from file-level backups You will usually start recovering files and folde

95 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 1. Select a required backup version in the Acronis Backup Explorer and click Recover to start

96 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 To choose the correct version, you can open the version in the associated application and view

97 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2012 7. When a warning appears that you need to reboot the computer to continue the operation, cli

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