Table Of Contents - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.0 - HOME User Manual

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction...........................................................................................7
1.1 What is Acronis True Image Home? .................................................................................... 7
1.2 New in Acronis True Image 9.0 Home................................................................................. 7
1.4 System requirements and supported media ......................................................................... 8
1.4.1 Minimum system requirements .................................................................................... 8
1.4.2 Suppor ed operating systems....................................................................................... 8 t
1.4.3 Suppor ed file systems ................................................................................................ 8 t
1.4.4 Suppor ed storage media ............................................................................................ 8 t
1.5 Technical support.............................................................................................................. 9
Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Home installation and starting ...........................10
2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Home ................................................................................. 10
2.2 Extracting Acronis True Image Home ................................................................................ 11
2.3 Running Acronis True Image Home .................................................................................. 11
2.4 Upgrading Acronis True Image Home .............................................................................. 11
2.5 Removing Acronis True Image Home ................................................................................ 11
Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ................12
3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ........................................... 12
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups.......................................................................... 12
3.3 Acronis Secure Zone........................................................................................................ 13
3.4 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ................................................................................... 14
3.4.1 How it works ............................................................................................................ 14
3.4.2 How o use .............................................................................................................. 14 t
3.5 Acronis Snap Restore....................................................................................................... 14
3.5.1 How it works ............................................................................................................ 14
3.5.2 How o use .............................................................................................................. 15 t
3.6 Viewing disk and partition information .............................................................................. 15
Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Home .........................................................17
4.1 Main program window ..................................................................................................... 17
4.2 Available operations ........................................................................................................ 18
Chapter 5. Creating backup archives ....................................................................20
5.1 Backing up files and folders (file backup) .......................................................................... 20
5.2 Backing up disks and partitions (image backup)................................................................. 24
5.3 Setting backup options .................................................................................................... 25
5.3.1 Archive protection..................................................................................................... 26
5.3.2 Source files exclusion ................................................................................................ 26
5.3.3 Pre/post commands .................................................................................................. 26
5.3.4 Compression level..................................................................................................... 27
5.3.5 Backup priority ......................................................................................................... 27
5.3.6 Archive splitting........................................................................................................ 27
5.3.7 File-level security se ings.......................................................................................... 28
5.3.8 Media components.................................................................................................... 28
5.3.9 Additional settings .................................................................................................... 29
Chapter 6. Restoring the backup data ..................................................................30
6.1 Restore under Windows or boot from CD?......................................................................... 30
6.1.1 Ne work settings in rescue mode ............................................................................... 30 t
6.2 Restoring files and folders from file archives...................................................................... 30
6.3 Restoring disks/partitions or files from images ................................................................... 33
6.3.1 Starting the Restore Data Wizard ............................................................................... 33
6.3.2 Archive selection....................................................................................................... 34
6.3.3 Res oration type selection ......................................................................................... 34 t
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