Acronis True Image 2015 - User Guide User Manual

10 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 If you use Windows 8, click the Settings icon, then select Control Panel -> Uninstall a prog

100 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Partition type (available only for MBR disks)  Partition letter and label Refer to Partit

101 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  ??name.ext - all files with a .ext extension, having six letters in their names (starting w

102 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 If the BIOS of your computer does show the SSD, you can try the following procedure: For Windo

103 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 One more option is to request a custom rescue media from Acronis Support. For more information

104 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 8 Tools Acronis Tools and utilities include protection tools, mounting tools, clone disk util

105 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 8.1 Creating bootable rescue media You can run Acronis True Image 2015 from an emergency boo

106 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Acronis Media Builder supports only x86 WinPE 3.0, WinPE 4.0 and WinPE 5.0. This WinPE dist

107 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 hardware compatibility problems while testing boot from the rescue media, it may be best to co

108 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  pci=nobios Disallows use of PCI BIOS; only direct hardware access methods are allowed. For

109 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To create a PE image (.iso file) from the resulting .wim file: 1. Select Microsoft Windows AI

11 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 activation code by using the installation code. Save the obtained activation code to a file on

110 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 If you do not have a spare mouse or keyboard, contact Acronis Support. They will build a custo

111 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2. Select a backup at the Archive location step and then click Next. 3. When recovering fil

112 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5. Select the destination for the files and then click Next. 6. Select several files for r

113 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2. When the command line appears, type "vga=ask" (without quotes) and click OK. 3.

114 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Factory bootable media is a special type of rescue bootable media that includes a backup of a

115 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2. In the opened window, click Activate. How to use If a failure occurs, turn on the compute

116 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Removing Acronis Secure Zone ... 11

117 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1. Click the Start button —> Acronis (product folder) —> True Image —> Tools and Uti

118 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1. Select the partitions from which space will be used to increase the size of the Acronis Se

119 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The program will ask for the password at any operation relating to the Acronis Secure Zone suc

12 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1.7 Upgrading Acronis True Image 2015 Trial version upgrade To upgrade to the full version of

120 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To add a new hard disk: 1. Shut down your computer, and then install the new disk. 2. Turn o

121 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 8.4.2 Selecting initialization method Acronis True Image 2015 supports both MBR and GPT parti

122 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3. Click Accept. 8.4.3.1 Partition settings Size To resize the partition, perform one of

123 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Ext3 – officially introduced with Red hat Linux version 7.2, Ext3 is a Linux journaling fil

124 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Why do I need it? When you format your old hard drive before throwing it away, the information

125 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  To select an entire hard disk, click the disk icon ( ). Acronis DriveCleanser cannot wipe

126 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Creating custom algorithm Algorithm definition The Algorithm definition step shows you a tem

127 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To edit an existing pass: 1. Select the corresponding line, and then click Edit. The Wiping P

128 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Clean the recently used documents list  Clean the Windows Run list  Clean the opened/sa

129 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Expand the System Components item in the tree and select the component clean-up settings wh

13 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1.8 Technical Support Maintenance and Support Program If you need assistance with your Acronis

130 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 8.5.2.3 Specific clean-up options You can customize the following clean-up options:  Data d

131 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  *.* – to clean all files with any file names and extensions.  *.doc – to clean all files

132 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 The Computers setting is similar to the Files setting. It is a string that can contain any num

133 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Click Show network places to view the list of network places that you visited using the creden

134 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Information wiping methods used by Acronis The detailed theory of guaranteed information wipin

135 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Note that you cannot mount an image of the entire disk except in the case when the disk consis

136 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 8.8.1 What is Acronis Universal Restore The Acronis Universal Restore tool is designed to hel

137 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 system. Use the CD or DVD supplied by the hardware vendor or download the drivers from the ven

138 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 If Universal Restore cannot find a compatible driver in the specified locations, it will displ

139 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 9 Troubleshooting In this section Acronis System Report ...

14 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2 Getting started In this section Protecting your system ...

140 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 If you want to create the report file with a custom name, type the new name instead of <fil

141 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 9.3 How to collect crash dumps Because a crash of Acronis True Image 2015 or Windows can be c

142 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5. After the report is generated, click Save and in the opened window specify a location for

143 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Copyright Statement Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014. All rights reserved. &q

10 Glossary of Terms A Acronis Secure Zone A secure partition for storing backups (p. 144) on a hard disk. Advantages:  enables recovery of a disk

145 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Bootable media A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or other media supported by a machin

146 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 N Nonstop backup Nonstop backup actually is a disk/partition or file backup that is created us

15 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Result: A new backup box appears in the My backups list. To create a new version of the backup

16 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2. Arrange the boot order in BIOS so that your rescue media device (CD or USB drive) is the fi

17 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To use Acronis Cloud, you must have an Acronis account and a subscription to the Acronis Cloud

18 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3. On the Source Disk step, select the disk that you want to clone. 4. On the Destination Di

19 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5. In the opened window, select the backup version (the data state from a specific date and ti

2 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Table of contents 1 Introduction ...

20 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2.7 Getting started with Acronis Cloud Acronis Cloud might be unavailable in your region. For

21 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4. An email message will be sent to the address you specified. Open this message and confirm y

22 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3 Basic concepts In this section Basic concepts ...

23 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Back up your old disk drive, and then recover it to the new one. Backup file format True Ima

24 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3. File system data, including operating system (system files, registry, drivers), user data a

25 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1.tib, 2.tib, 3.tib, 4.tib - full backup versions. Additional information A full backup versio

26 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 On the other hand, incremental versions require more work for the program to provide recovery.

27 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 backup, the program copies both used and unused hard disk sectors and the backup file will usua

28 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3.5 Deciding where to store your backups Acronis True Image 2015 supports quite a few of stora

29 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3.5.1 FTP connection Acronis True Image 2015 allows you to store your backups on FTP servers

3 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4 Backing up data ...

30 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 How it works Once you start Acronis Nonstop Backup, the program will perform an initial full ba

31 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 When an external hard disk or NAS is unavailable, the Nonstop Backup destination can be an inte

32 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 considerable amount of data modified, the process may load CPU for some time. After the check i

33 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Windows Start menu The Start menu displays Acronis commands, tools and utilities. They give you

34 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 For example, see the screen shot below. A wizard window usually consists of the following area

35 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4 Backing up data In this section Backing up disks and partitions ...

36 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 If you do not have an Acronis account, click Create account, type your email address, password,

37 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5. In the opened window, select the check boxes next to the files and folders that you want to

38 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 After you have installed the application, all options are set to the initial values. You can ch

39 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.3.1 Scheduling The Schedule tab allows you to specify the backup and validation schedule set

4 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6 Synchronizing data ...

40 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  If you schedule a backup to a USB flash drive or validation of a backup that is located on a

41 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Set the operation's start time. Enter hours and minutes manually, or set the desired start

42 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Version cleanup rules Acronis True Image 2015 allows you to choose from the following backu

43 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 At first the program creates the 1st full backup version. The version will be kept until you de

44 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Create a full version after every [n] differential versions - select this item to create sev

45 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  You can overwrite existing custom schemes.  You cannot overwrite existing pre-defined ba

46 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3. Click Options, open Schedule tab, then click Monthly and specify, for example, the 1st and

47 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 This option cannot be enabled for FTP servers and CD/DVD drives. Email notification You can spe

48 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 How to use the default exclusion settings After you have installed the application, all the exc

49 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.3.4.1 Excluding online data Before you start a backup, you can reduce the backup size by exc

5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 8.8 Acronis Universal Restore ...

50 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4. Having specified the backup settings, click OK. How to get access to a password-protected b

51 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.3.8 Backup splitting Acronis True Image 2015 cannot split already existing backups. Backups

52 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.3.10 Backup reserve copy Backup reserve copy is an independent full backup version created i

53 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.3.12 Backup comment This option allows you to add comments to the backup. Backup comments ma

54 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To eliminate this kind of problem, you can disable preserving file security settings in backups

55 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Select the Store no more than … recent versions check box and enter a value that limits the

56 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Note: You cannot change the data center for an already existing backup. To select a data center

57 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.4 Operations with backups In this section Backup operations menu ...

58 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Move - click to move all the backup files to another location. The subsequent backup version

59 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Splitting backups on-the-fly When free space on the destination storage is insufficient to comp

6 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1 Introduction In this section What is Acronis® True Image™ 2015? ...

60 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4.4.6 Removing data from Acronis Cloud Because the available space on Acronis Cloud is limited

61 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5 Recovering data For information on how to recover to dissimilar hardware, refer to Acronis U

62 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5.1.1.2 Preparing for recovery We recommend that you perform the following actions before reco

63 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4. On the Home screen, select My disks below Recover. 5. Select the system disk or partition

64 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 In case of Windows 7 the System Reserved partition will have the Pri, Act flags. You will need

65 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 10. When the operation finishes, exit the standalone version of Acronis True Image 2015, remove

66 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 9. On the What to recover step, select the boxes of the partitions to be recovered. Do not sel

67 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Type. Check the partition type and change it, if necessary. Ensure that the System Reserved

68 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Specify the partition size, which by default equals the original size. Usually there is no f

69 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1. Start Acronis True Image 2015. 2. If you want to recover your data from Acronis Cloud, mak

7 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1.2.1 Alternatives to the removed features After a detailed review, it was decided to remove a

70 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2. In the Backup section, select the backup which contains the partitions you want to recover,

71 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Remember that you need to leave as much unallocated (free) space after having resized the parti

72 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 9. Click the Partition properties link and make the settings for the partition. Select a disk

73 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 dynamic, the target disks should be prepared as dynamic (partitioned and formatted). This can b

74 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To create this backup, switch to disk mode, and then select the hard drive that contains your s

75 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 3. Press the key combination (such as, Del, F1, Ctrl+Alt+Esc, Ctrl+Esc). BIOS setup utility wi

76 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6. Select the files and folders that you want to recover, and then click Next. 7. Select a d

77 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 5.3.1 Recovering data from online backups With Acronis True Image 2015 you can browse and reco

78 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 2. In the window that appears, select the required version and then click Recover. 3. Select

79 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Internet connection has been lost.  Connection to Acronis Cloud has been lost.  You canc

8 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Acronis True Image 2015 also lets you create a bootable CD-R/DVD-R that can back up and recover

80 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4. To add the online backup of the system disk or system partition to the list of available ba

81 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 9. On the What to recover step, select the system partition (usually C) and the System Reserve

82 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Overwrite file options ...

83 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Check the file system after recovery—Enable this option to check the file system integrity o

84 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 To delete a criterion, for example, added by mistake, click the Delete icon to the right of the

85 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  USB cards and drives  Network shares (SMB/NFS) The message will not be displayed if the Do

86 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Caution: Restoration will erase all personal data and programs on the computer including all yo

87 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 1. Boot up the computer using the factory bootable media. 2. Select Recover. 3. Confirm the

88 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6 Synchronizing data In this section About the Sync feature ...

89 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 Storage types A synchronization process may be established between:  Two or more folders on t

9 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  Solid State Drives (SSD)  Networked storage devices  FTP servers**  CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW,

90 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 An error occurred during the last synchronization. Windows Explorer Sync state icons for files

91 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014  The default sync always syncs with the Acronis Cloud. You cannot unsync the storage.  It a

92 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6.6.1 How to install True Image app on your mobile device To sync with your mobile device, you

93 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6.7.1 Reverting to a previous file version If you store sync history on the Acronis Cloud, you

94 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 4. Clicking Advanced cleanup allows you to select more cleanup rules. You can apply the clean

95 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 6.10 How to unlink a device from your account Sometimes you may need to unlink one of your com

96 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 7 Disk cloning and migration This operation copies the entire contents of one disk drive to an

97 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 If the program finds two disks, one partitioned and another unpartitioned, it will automaticall

98 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 8. On the Finish step, ensure that the configured settings suit your needs, and then click Pro

99 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2014 7.1.2 Manual partitioning The manual transfer method enables you to resize partitions on the n