ACRONIS True Image Home 2011, Win, Mini Box, 1PC, EN Guía de usuario

User's Guide

10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Once the program starts the partition backup process, it temporarily freezes all the operations on the part

100 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 b

101 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 on

102 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Options - click to open the Options menu where you can specify all Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online

103 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Click Options  Schedule in the main window and set up scheduling for the online backup task. For more

104 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  To include particular items in a folder, click the folder's name in the folders pane, and then sel

105 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.3.5.2 Excluding items from online backup Excluding unnecessary files from online backup may be useful a

106 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To delete a criterion, for example, added by mistake, click the Delete icon to the right of the criterion.

107 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Every () hours. Choose backup periodicity from the dropdown list (for, example, every 2 hours). This se

108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Select the days on which to execute the task by clicking on their names.  Start: either at a certain tim

109 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 s

11 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Consolidation Consolidation allows you to delete backups which are no longer needed from a backup chain.

110 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 i

111 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Select the Limit transfer rate to check box and specify an optimal value and an appropriate measure (ki

112 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

113 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

114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Enter the password in the Password field To specify additional notification settings, click the Additi

115 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

116 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Unselecting the Do not perform operations until the command's execution is complete box, selected by

117 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.4 Recovery from Online Storage In this section Recovering data from Online Storage ...

118 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Selecting data The main area displays the data backed up on the Online Storage. The area contains the fold

119 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  In the File Versions dialog window that appears, select a version, and then click Recover, or simply dr

12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  USB 3.0 support – Acronis True Image Home 2011 supports the new USB 3.0 standard. If your motherboard ca

120 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5.5 Removing data from Online Storage Because the available space on Acronis Online Storage is limited, y

121 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

122 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6 Useful information In this section Protecting your system and data ...

123 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Start Acronis True Image Home 2011 and then click Disk and partition backup in the main window. 2. T

124 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you use Windows 7, the program will also select the System Reserved partition. Do not clear its check b

125 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.2 Preparing for backups If you would like to create your own backup strategy, you will need to consider

126 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Due to the necessity of swapping discs, it is strongly recommended to avoid backing up to DVDs if the numb

127 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you clear the Use NT authentication check box, the computer will try to log on automatically with the c

128 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.2.3 Deciding how often to back up Disk and partition backups Let's first discuss backing up your s

129 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 their native format by copying them using Windows Explorer. If those files are important to you, Acronis T

13 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The minimum screen resolution is 800 x 600. 1.1.5.2 Supported operating systems Acronis True Image Home

130 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To check the drives, start Backup Wizard by clicking My Disks below Back Up on the Welcome screen. Select

131 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. When the command line appears, type "vga=ask" (without quotes) and click OK. 3. Select Acr

132 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To test another video mode, close Acronis True Image Home 2011 and repeat the above procedure. After you f

133 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.5 Trying system changes safely In this section What is Try&Decide ...

134 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After starting Try mode you can safely install any system updates, drivers and applications without worryi

135 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When your computer reboots for whatever reason while working in the Try mode, before booting of the operat

136 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Try&Decide and Nonstop Backup cannot work simultaneously. Starting the Try mode suspends Nonstop Backu

137 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Protected partitions: specify the partitions you want to protect from unauthorized changes during a Try

138 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Having specified the alert settings, click OK. 6.5.5 Try&Decide: typical use cases The Try&Decid

139 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Install the software application you want to evaluate.  Try using the application.  When you want t

14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Recovery of a dynamic volume as a dynamic volume with manual resizing is not supported  GPT disks can

140 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Daily (p. 140) - the operation will be executed once a day or more frequently.  Weekly (p. 141) - the

141 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  If you select At, set the operation's start time. Enter hours and minutes manually, or set the des

142 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 6.7 Searching backups and their content In this section Searching ...

143 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 "my". It should be noted that search is case-insensitive, i.e. "Backup" and "back

144 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. To install the plug-in, click the down arrow to the right of the Search field at the upper right corne

145 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Right-click on the Google Desktop icon in your system tray once more and select Indexing  Re-Index. C

146 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

147 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 following window appears. Make sure that the "tib://..." item is present in the Included Locatio

148 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

149 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Give Windows Search some time for indexing Acronis backups on your computer's hard disks and adding t

15 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1.2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Home 2011 To install Acronis True Image Home 2011:  Run the Acronis

150 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Windows Vista Search results 6.8 Choosing columns for viewing in wizards You can change the way the colu

151 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7 Tools & Utilities Acronis Tools & Utilities include Protection tools, Conversion tools, Disk ma

152 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Mounting tools:  Mount image With this tool you can explore a previously created image. You will be able

153 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated, it ove

154 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Acronis True Image Home 2011 installat

155 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Acronis System Report - the component allows you to generate a system report that is used for collectin

156 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Description The following parameters can be used to load Linux kernel in a special mode:  acpi=off Disab

157 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Gets the list of the video modes available for your video card and allows selecting a video mode most suit

158 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To cancel operation and quit Acronis Media Builder, click Cancel. After you create a boot disc, mark it an

159 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Go to the Acronis True Image Home 2011 installation folder. (The default folder is C:\Program Files\Acroni

16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Recovering or updating the existing Acronis True Image Home 2011 installation with using the .msi file must

160 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Close the Plugins window and click the Build button to start the building process. If you want the image t

161 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Install Microsoft Core XML (MSXML) 6.0 Parser from this kit. 5. Install Windows AIK from this kit. It

162 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Specify the path to the folder WinPE\ISO, e.g. c:\winpe_x86\ISO. 5. On the next screen choose the Ad

163 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7. Check your settings in the summary screen and click Proceed. 8. Burn the .ISO to a CD using a third-

164 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Specify the path to the source WINPE.WIM file. The standard path to this file for x86 hardware is \Pro

165 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In the Acronis True Image Home 2011, the zone is listed along with all locations available for storing bac

166 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can back up data automatically on a schedule (see Scheduling (p. 139)). In order to not worry about zo

167 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To select a partition:  Select the appropriate partition check box and click Next. 7.3.4 Size of Acr

168 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.3.5 Managing Acronis Secure Zone You can manage the Acronis Secure Zone.  Increase size (p. 168) - c

169 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.3.5.3 Acronis Secure Zone protection Here, you can set up password protection for the Acronis Secure Zo

17 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you have Acronis Secure Zone on your computer, remove it before removing the program itself because remo

170 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.3.5.4 Convert file system to NTFS When you upgrade from a previous version of Acronis True Image Home 2

171 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Click the Proceed button to start the listed operations. Click the Options button if you want to protect A

172 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.4.2 Security Please note the following: if the power goes off or you accidentally press RESET during th

173 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.4.4 Selecting a source disk You can determine the source and destination using the information provided

174 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.4.5 Selecting a destination disk After you select the source disk, you have to select the destination w

175 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Manual - you will specify a new size and other parameters yourself If you elect to transfer informatio

176 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Along with the hard disk number, you can see disk capacity, the label, volume and file system information.

177 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the cursor turns into two vertical lines with left and right arrows, it is pointed at the partition bor

178 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Cloning a non-system disk or a disk containing an operating system, but one that is not currently active,

179 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.5.1 Selecting a hard disk Select the disk that you have added to the computer. If you have added severa

18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Back up my critical data Select this item to use the Acronis One-Click Backup tool that allows you to be

180 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  partition letter and label. If you allocate all unallocated space on the disk to the new partition, th

181 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 one then no unallocated space will be reserved for system needs. Later, you may convert this unallocated a

182 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Partition letter Select a letter to be assigned to the partition being created from the drop-down list. If

183 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.6 Security and Privacy Tools Acronis True Image Home 2011 contains utilities for secure destruction of

184 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Click Tools & Utilities on the toolbar, and select Acronis DriveCleanser.  Follow the Acronis Dri

185 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If the disks and/or partitions you have selected include the system disk or partition, you will see a warn

186 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Acronis DriveCleanser offers you another useful capability — to estimate the results of executing a data d

187 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The window has the following legend: The first column of the list contains the type of operation on a disk

188 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In the same way, you can create any data destruction algorithm to match your security requirements. Savin

189 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Click the Options button to perform the optional steps. Click the Cancel button to exit the wizard without

19 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After the selected items are backed up, you can change the default settings for My computer backup and pers

190 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Click OK to begin searching. After the search process is finished, the current position will be moved t

191 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Having selected the contents for shredding, click Next to continue. 7.6.2.2 Data destruction method

192 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In some cases, the operation may take a long time to be completed. If this is the case, select the Shutdow

193 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After you run the wizard by selecting Tools & Utilities  System Clean-up in the main program menu, it

194 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Temporary files  Hard disk free space  Find Computer list  Find File list  Recently Use

195 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Data destruction method System Clean-up utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction methods. He

196 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 All files with names corresponding to at least one of the search strings will be cleaned. Upon entering th

197 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 After entering the Computers setting value, you can browse the search strings found by the System Clean-up

198 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To select/unselect a component  Expand the System Components item in the System Clean-up tree and make s

199 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 7.6.4.1 Functioning principles of Information wiping methods Physically, the complete wiping of informati

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010. All rights reserved. "Acronis", "Acronis Compute with Confidence", "Acronis Recovery

20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Documents  Desktop  Downloads  Favorites Here "User" is the username of the account unde

200 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 No. Algorithm (writing method) Passes Record cryptographically secure pseudo-random sequence. 8. Fast 1 Lo

201 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you selected a backup containing incremental images, you can select one of the successive incremental i

202 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

203 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you have mounted several partitions, by default all of them will be selected for unmounting. You can di

204 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Click Convert Acronis backup to Windows backup on the Tools & Utilities screen. 2. Select the di

205 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Click Convert Windows backup to Acronis backup on the Tools & Utilities screen. 2. Select the vh

206 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4. Choose the vhd backup file to be used for recovery by its creation date. When the required vhd backup

207 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 into a tib file. When you boot from a dynamic vhd file, the VHD is automatically expanded to the maximum s

208 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  list of items for backup  backup options  backup location  schedule  backup scheme  automatic

209 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8 Troubleshooting In this section General recommendations ...

21 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 the backup progress. When the process is complete, the backup is created. Now your data is protected and ca

210 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 System report Acronis Support personnel may request you to provide the system report. To create the report

211 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can view more detailed information about the error by clicking the More details link in the message bo

212 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 More information about this error and an applicable solution may be available online in the Acronis Knowle

213 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 If you want to view the log of Acronis True Image Home 2011 operations, click Help  View log in the upper

214 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 Secure Zone A secure partition for storing backups (p. 215) on a hard disk. Advantages:  enables recovery of a disk

216 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Bootable media A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine BIOS as a

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 217 Incremental backup 1. A backup method used for saving data changes that occurred since the last backup ve

22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Online Backup  File backup  E-mail backup  Browse for backup Click this item to browse for backups

23 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Clicking Operations in the box of a selected backup opens an Operations menu containing the following items

24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To turn on or change the schedule for the selected backup, click the link to the right of Schedule:. For mo

25 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1.3.3 Tools & Utilities screen This screen allows you to select the tools and utilities provided by Ac

26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Wizards have a sidebar listing all the steps (both required and optional) needed for completing the operati

27 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The tab shows the disks and partitions state of when the current backup version was created. You can swit

28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Right-clicking on a backup version opens the shortcut menu with other available operations:  Recover - se

29 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Mixed (filled square) - this state is available for folders only and indicates that some items in the fo

Table of contents 1 Getting started ...

30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The squares that represent backup versions have colored stripes at the bottom. The color of the stripes dep

31 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 When today is any date from the 16th to 31st day of the month, the "month" interval is named &quo

32 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Delete version File backup version:  Validate  Delete version Nonstop backup version and online back

33 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The most significant changes occur in the System and Security category of Windows 7 Control Panel. Acronis

34 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

35 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3 Backing up data Acronis True Image Home 2011 includes a wealth of sophisticated backup capabilities that

36 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

37 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 A "differential" backup scenario uses the same weekly full system backup with the backup of files

38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  If you delete an incremental backup version or a differential backup version - the program will also del

39 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. You may exclude certain files and folders from backup. For example, you transferred some movies from yo

3.11.7 Backup reserve copy ...

40 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

41 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  add task run number - the sequence number of the task run will be added 4. Click the Back up now button

42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 To add a custom data category, click Add category. To change the default name of a custom category, double-

43 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Acronis True Image Home 2011 gives the zip format most of the functionality available for the tib format. Y

44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  User Settings  Address Book For Microsoft Outlook Express  Mail Folders  Address Book (select Wind

45 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 How it works Once you start Acronis Nonstop Backup, the program will perform an initial full backup of the

46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.6.1 Protecting your data continuously Let's consider how you can use Nonstop Backup for protecting

47 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 changed the Nonstop Backup destination, the program will create a new full backup of the data to be protect

48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can exclude from protection files that match the criteria you specify. To add exclusion criteria, click

49 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 In addition to enhancing the backed up data security with replication, this feature allows you to copy a se

5.3 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage...96 5.3.1 Log in to t

50 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

51 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

52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can exclude hidden and system files from a backup by selecting the corresponding check boxes. In add

53 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 settings as default check box to apply the modified settings to all further backup operations by default.

54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Backup methods that will be used to create backup versions (full, differential or incremental)  Sequen

55 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Result: you have a single up-to-date full backup version Required storage space: minimal. 3.11.1.2 Versio

56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 You can configure the scheme by using one of the following options:  Create only differential versions af

57 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.11.2 Image creation mode You can use these parameters to create an exact copy of your whole partitions o

58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.11.4 Pre/Post commands for backup You can specify commands (or even batch files) that will be automatica

59 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Acronis True Image Home 2011 will ask you to insert a new disk when the previous one is full. Alternat

7.3.4 Size of Acronis Secure Zone ...

60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  make reserve copies as zip archives  copy the files and/or folders to a specified location "as is

61 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 should disable the prompt when scheduling a backup to removable media. Then, if the removable media is avai

62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.11.11 Computer shutdown If you know that the backup process you are configuring may take a long time, you

63 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 The optimal data compression level depends on the type of files stored in the backup. For example, even max

64 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

65 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.12 Validating backups The validation procedure checks whether you will be able to recover data from a pa

66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  Follow the wizard's steps You cannot choose another location when consolidating backup versions loc

67 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3.13.4 Consolidation summary The summary window contains a list of briefly described operations that Acron

68 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

69 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 with the required key combination is displayed during the startup test. Pressing this combination takes you

7 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1 Getting started 1.1 Introduction In this section What is Acronis® True Image Home 2011? ...

70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. Select My disks below Recover on the Welcome screen. 4. Select the system disk or partition backup im

71 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Click Browse and show the path to the backup. 5. Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recover

72 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

73 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 8. Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step. If you have not resized the partition, the

74 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

75 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 We recommend that you clear the Recover disk signature check box when:  You use an image backup not for

76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 2. Select a partition to recover in the Disk Recovery window. This will open the Choose recovery destinati

77 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Complete the preparations described in Preparing for recovery (p. 69). If you have not already done so, a

78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 This step allows you to find out whether the disk you are going to recover contains a hidden partition. Hid

79 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 partitions that existed on the old drive. In addition, you should place the hidden partition in the same lo

8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Windows-style interface and wizards will make your work easier. Just perform a few simple steps and let Acro

80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 (Partition size, Free space before, Free space after). Click Accept when the partition has the required siz

81 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 1. Select in the Backup Explorer the files and folders you want to recover. For more information on select

82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 3. To start the recovery process, click the Recover now button. 4. The recovery progress will be shown

83 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 in the system you originally backed up. This may be useful, for example, after replacing a failed motherboa

84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 During the first booting, Windows will display numerous "Found new hardware" pop-up messages and

85 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5. If the target hardware has a specific mass storage controller (such as an SCSI, RAID, or Fibre Channel

86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4.9 Acronis Universal Restore 4.9.1 Purpose of Acronis Universal Restore Universal Restore is part of the

87 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4.9.2 General principles of Acronis Universal Restore 1. Automatic selection of HAL and mass storage drive

88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 GRUB), you might consider installing them to a Linux root (or boot) partition boot record instead of an MBR

89 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  When recovering a basic volume to an unallocated space of the dynamic group, the recovered volume become

9 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 By default, Acronis True Image Home 2011 stores an image of those hard disk sections that contain data (for

90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 Some motherboards have a so called boot menu opened by pressing a certain key or key combination, for insta

91 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  In the Arguments field enter or select command execution arguments from the list. Disabling the Do not

92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4.14.5 Overwrite file options Choose what to do if the program finds a file in the target folder with the

93 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 4.14.7 Notifications for recovery operation Sometimes a backup or recovery procedure can last an hour or

94 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  If your Internet service provider requires authorization on the incoming mail server before sending e-ma

95 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010 5 Using Acronis Online Backup In this section What is Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup? ...

96 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

97 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  have forgotten your password, click Forgot password? and follow the instructions on the opened Web page.

98 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2010  After the computer connects to the Online Backup Server, set up an online backup task for this computer.

99 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