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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 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.
2. Select the check box of your system partition on the Source selection screen.
3. 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 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. At the next step you may exclude certain files and folders from backup, e.g. temporary ones.
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