User's Guide
10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If necessary, you can delete the base full backup from the chain. The program will create a new full backup
100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.3.6.4 Proxy settings If your computer is connected to the Internet using a proxy server, you can adjust
101 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.3.6.5 Backup priority Changing the priority of a backup process can make it run faster or slower (depen
102 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Enter the password in the Password field To specify additional notification settings, click the Additi
103 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 and/or the subject in the Subject field. If you leave the From field empty, the e-mail will be composed us
104 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Unselecting the Do not perform operations until the command's execution is complete box, selected by
105 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.4 Recovery from Online Storage In this section Recovering data from Online Storage ...
106 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Selecting data The main area displays the data backed up on the Online Storage. The area contains the fold
107 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In the File Versions dialog window that appears, select a version, and then click Recover, or simply dr
108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.5 Removing data from Online Storage Because the available space on Acronis Online Storage is limited, y
109 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.6 Viewing Log If you want to view the log of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup operations, cli
11 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 New Backup Explorer – Now you can use the Acronis Backup Explorer's time line for exploring not onl
110 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6 Useful information In this section Protecting your system and data ...
111 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Start Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition and then click Disk and partition backup in the mai
112 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Click Back up now. Additional recommendations 1) Many IT professionals recommend that you have at leas
113 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Home file server, NAS or NDAS If you have a Gigabit Ethernet home network and a dedicated file server or N
114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The firewall settings of the source computer should have Ports 20 and 21 opened for the TPC and UDP protoc
115 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 you should also safeguard your personal data using file and folder backups. This is true even if your imag
116 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Data backups You can run your file backups manually or on a schedule. In this case the frequency of backup
117 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 drives are shown under My Computer. Having checked the drives, click Cancel to close Backup Wizard. 4) If
118 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. When the command line appears, type "vga=ask" (without quotes) and click OK. 3. Select Acr
119 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To test another video mode, close Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition and repeat the above proced
12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Windows XP Professional SP3 x86 (32 Bit) Windows Vista SP2 x86 (32 Bit) Windows 7 Starter Windo
120 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.5 Scheduling The Scheduler window allows you to specify the backup and validation schedule settings. Y
121 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 check box will let you perform a missed operation when the USB flash drive is attached if it was disconnec
122 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you select On, choose the date(s) for operation execution (example: you may want the operation to be
123 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook E
124 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.6.2 Windows Search and Google Desktop integration Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition has plug
125 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Click OK to start plug-in installation. One more confirmation window may appear. In this case click OK
126 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After for example an hour, check whether Google Desktop has indexed the Acronis backups by entering in its
127 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Clicking in the browser window on a line related to the desired file version opens a small dialog with jus
128 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. You can verify that the tib files indexing support is enabled. Right-click on the Windows Search icon
129 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. Click Advanced, select the File Types tab and then make sure that the tib extension is selected and &q
13 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Z520 Z510 Z500 N270 N280 N450 N470 D625 300 Series 200 Series VIA C7-M Nano AMD V105 Athlon II Neo K125 1.
130 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Click OK and while the Indexing Options window is open, check that the disks where you store your back
131 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Give Windows Search some time for indexing Acronis backups on your computer's hard disks and adding t
132 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.7 Choosing columns for viewing in wizards You can change the way the columns are represented in various
133 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7 Tools & Utilities Acronis Tools & Utilities include Protection tools, Conversion tools, Disk ma
134 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Backup settings transfer tools: Import backup settings Allows you to get backup settings from another c
135 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Rescue media contents selection ... 135 Bootable me
136 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition (Full version) - includes support of USB, PC Card (formerl
137 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Additional parameters that can be applied prior to booting Linux kernel Description The following paramet
138 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 the interrupt routing table. Try this option, if the kernel is unable to allocate IRQs or discover seconda
139 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Click Proceed to start the bootable media creation process. Use the sidebar on the left to navigate throug
14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Click Activate if you have already purchased the full version and have a valid product serial number. 1.2
140 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Follow the File shredder wizard steps. 7.3.1.1 Select files/folders Select the files and/or folders
141 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Note that after you click the Proceed button, the selected files and folders will be destroyed permanently
142 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After you run the wizard by selecting Tools & Utilities System Clean-up in the main program menu, it
143 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Temporary files Hard disk free space Find Computer list Find File list Recently Use
144 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Data destruction method System Clean-up utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction methods. He
145 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 All files with names corresponding to at least one of the search strings will be cleaned. Upon entering th
146 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After entering the Computers setting value, you can browse the search strings found by the System Clean-up
147 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To select/unselect a component Expand the System Components item in the System Clean-up tree and make s
148 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.3.3.1 Functioning principles of Information wiping methods Physically, the complete wiping of informati
149 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 No. Algorithm (writing method) Passes Record cryptographically secure pseudo-random sequence. 8. Fast 1 Lo
15 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Acronis True Image Backup Archive Explorer). Do not disable or uninstall this device, as it is necessary fo
150 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you selected a backup containing incremental images, you can select one of the successive incremental i
151 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can also select a letter to be assigned to the virtual disk from the Mount letter drop-down list. If y
152 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you have mounted several partitions, by default all of them will be selected for unmounting. You can di
153 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Click Convert Acronis backup to Windows backup on the Tools & Utilities screen. 2. Select the di
154 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Click Convert Windows backup to Acronis backup on the Tools & Utilities screen. 2. Select the vh
155 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Even if the required vhd backup is shown on the screen, after you choose it Acronis True Image Home 2011 N
156 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 paging file (Pagefile.sys), as the paging file is created on the host partition outside the virtual one. M
157 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 backup options backup location schedule backup scheme automatic clean-up rules backup ve
158 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8 Troubleshooting In this section General recommendations ...
159 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8.2 Acronis System Report When you contact the Acronis support team, they will usually need information a
16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions. If
160 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can view more detailed information about the error by clicking the More details link in the message bo
161 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 More information about this error and an applicable solution may be available online in the Acronis Knowle
162 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you want to view the log of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition operations, click Help View
163 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Choose No, I do not accept if you do not want to join the program
9 Glossary of Terms A Acronis Startup Recovery Manager A protection tool that allows to start standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Ne
Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 165 C Consolidation Combining two or more subsequent backup versions (p. 164) belonging to the same backup (p.
166 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To begin to use the Online storage a user should subscribe to the service. R Recovery Recovery is a proce
17 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you have a large number of preexisting backups or if the overall performance of your system is low, t
18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When you choose to protect your critical data, the program will offer to back up the system partition to a
19 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1.3.1.2 Backup assistant If you want to protect your data, but you are not sure what data to protect and
Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010. All rights reserved. "Acronis", "Acronis Compute with Confidence", "Acronis Recovery
20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you have not created any backups yet, the program will offer to create a new backup with Acronis One-Cli
21 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 My backups area The area shows the backups you already have. It provides access to all operations with the
22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Consolidate versions - allows you to delete the backup versions you no longer need while maintaining the
23 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1.3.3 Tools & Utilities screen This screen allows you to select the tools and utilities provided by Ac
24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Wizards have a sidebar listing all the steps (both required and optional) needed for completing the operati
25 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can switch between the backup versions by using the time line at the bottom of the screen. For more inf
26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Validate - select to check the integrity of the backup version data. Convert to Windows backup (for i
27 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Selecting a disk, partition, file or folder to make it the current item in a list does not mean selecting i
28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The picture below shows various states of a time line. Its states vary depending on the number of backups a
29 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The "Older" interval shows backup versions created from earlier than the beginning of the current
Table of contents 1 Getting started ...
30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Online backup version: Explore and recover Delete version Backup version packs and time blocks: Right
31 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The most significant changes occur in the System and Security category of Windows 7 Control Panel. Acronis
32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010
33 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2 How to Due to the size of this User's Guide, it is sometimes not so easy to find how to perform a p
34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3 Backing up data Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition includes a wealth of sophisticated backup c
35 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A disk image includes images of all disk partitions and the zero track with the master boot record (MBR). B
36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A "differential" backup scenario uses the same weekly full system backup with the backup of files
37 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you delete an incremental backup version or a differential backup version - the program will also del
38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. You may exclude certain files and folders from backup. For example, you transferred some movies from yo
39 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.4 Backing up files and folders To back up files and/or folders, click File backup on the main screen. Th
3.10.12 File-level security settings for backup ...
40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 add task name - the name of the task that includes the backup will be added add task run number - the
41 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To add a custom data category, click Add category. To change the default name of a custom category, double-
42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition gives the zip format most of the functionality available for t
43 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 News Folders User Settings Address Book For Microsoft Outlook Express Mail Folders Address B
44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.6 Making reserve copies of your backups You can create reserve copies of your backups and save them on t
45 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Choose how to duplicate the project file(s) on the USB stick. If you need to save space, choose duplica
46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To complete the backup, you may either try to free up some space on the disk and click Retry or select anot
47 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can exclude hidden and system files from a backup by selecting the corresponding check boxes. In add
48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 settings as default check box to apply the modified settings to all further backup operations by default.
49 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Backup methods that will be used to create backup versions (full, differential or incremental) Sequen
5.5 Removing data from Online Storage ...108 5.6 Viewing Log ...
50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Result: you have a single up-to-date full backup version Required storage space: minimal. 3.10.1.2 Versio
51 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can configure the scheme by using one of the following options: Create only differential versions af
52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.10.2 Image creation mode You can use these parameters to create an exact copy of your whole partitions o
53 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.10.4 Pre/Post commands for backup You can specify commands (or even batch files) that will be automatica
54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you do not have enough space to store the image on your hard disk, the program will warn you and wait
55 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.10.7 Backup reserve copy You can create reserve copies of your backups and save them on the file system,
56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Acronis One-Click Restore can be added to the media only when creating a full backup of an entire hard disk
57 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.10.11 Computer shutdown If you know that the backup process you are configuring may take a long time, you
58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The optimal data compression level depends on the type of files stored in the backup. For example, even max
59 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup is being run, the program will dis
8.2 Acronis System Report ...159 8.3 Acron
60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.11 Validating backups The validation procedure checks whether you will be able to recover data from a pa
61 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Follow the wizard's steps 3.12.1 Archive to consolidate protection The archive you chose is passw
62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Click the Cancel button to exit the wizard without performing any operations. 3.13 Cloning backup settin
63 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4 Recovering data The purpose of data backup is to recover backed up data when the original is lost due to
64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the utility correctly detects your system hard disk drive, then the cause of the crash is probably a vir
65 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. Select My disks below Recover on the Welcome screen. 4. Select the system disk or partition backup im
66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Click Browse and show the path to the backup. 5. Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recover
67 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6. Select the system partition (usually C) on the What to recover screen. If the system partition has a di
68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8. Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step. If you have not resized the partition, the
69 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you want to recover the partition to the state it was at an earlier date, click Explore and recover unde
7 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1 Getting started 1.1 Introduction In this section What is Acronis® True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition?
70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 We recommend that you clear the Recover disk signature check box when: You use an image backup not for
71 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8. Make the settings for the second partition. Leave enough unallocated space for other partitions to be r
72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5. At the What to recover step, select the boxes which indicate the partitions to be recovered. Do not sel
73 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Boot the computer to Windows. It may report that new hardware (the hard drive) has been found and that Wind
74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8. Proceed to specifying the partition size by clicking Change default in the Partition size area. By defa
75 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Select in the Backup Explorer the files and folders you want to recover. For more information on select
76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. To start the recovery process, click the Recover now button. 4. The recovery progress will be shown
77 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If Windows won’t load, this feature allows you to run Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition by itsel
78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4.9 Arranging boot order in BIOS BIOS has a built-in setup utility for initial computer configuration. To
79 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In this section Pre/Post commands for recovery ...
8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1.1.2 Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition basic concepts This section provides general information
80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Check the file system after recovery The preset is disabled. Having recovered a partition from an image,
81 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Click Add specific files and folders to manage the list of custom files and folders that you do not want
82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup is being run, the program will dis
83 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5 Using Acronis Online Backup In this section What is Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup? ...
84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you do not have an Acronis account, fill in the appropriate fields, and the account will be created for
85 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 have forgotten your password, click Forgot password? and follow the instructions on the opened Web page.
86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After the computer connects to the Online Backup Server, set up an online backup task for this computer.
87 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.3.2.1 Data encryption in Online Backup To protect your data on the online storage from unauthorized acce
88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To start backup immediately, click Back Up Now. You can also delay online backup start for up to 6 hours by
89 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.3.4 Main window This window shows the current state of your space on the Acronis Online Storage. The onl
9 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Once the program starts the partition backup process, it temporarily freezes all the operations on the parti
90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Options - click to open the Options menu where you can specify all Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online B
91 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Click Options Schedule in the main window and set up scheduling for the online backup task. For more i
92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To include particular items in a folder, click the folder's name in the folders pane, and then sele
93 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.3.5.2 Excluding items from online backup Excluding unnecessary files from online backup may be useful as
94 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To delete a criterion, for example, added by mistake, click the Delete icon to the right of the criterion.
95 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Every () hours. Choose backup periodicity from the dropdown list (for, example, every 2 hours). This set
96 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Select the days on which to execute the task by clicking on their names. Start: either at a certain time
97 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.3.5.4 Credentials In some cases when you plan an operation to be performed in the future, you have to sp
98 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.3.6.1 Connection attempts On this page you can specify the number of connection attempts and the time in
99 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Select the Limit transfer rate to check box and specify an optimal value and an appropriate measure (kil
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