User`s guide

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Table of contents

1 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................9

1.1 What is Acronis® True Image Home? ........................................................................................ 9

1.2 Acronis True Image Home basic concepts ...............................................................................10

1.3 New in Acronis True Image Home 2010 ..................................................................................12

1.4 System requirements and supported media ...........................................................................13

1.4.1 Minimum system requirements .................................................................................................................. 13

1.4.2 Supported operating systems ...................................................................................................................... 13

1.4.3 Supported file systems .................................................................................................................................. 13

1.4.4 Supported storage media ............................................................................................................................. 14

1.5 Customer technical support ....................................................................................................14

2 Acronis True Image Home installation and startup ................................................................ 15

2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Home ........................................................................................15

2.2 Extracting Acronis True Image Home ......................................................................................15

2.3 Running Acronis True Image Home .........................................................................................16

2.4 Upgrading Acronis True Image Home ......................................................................................16

2.5 Removing Acronis True Image Home ......................................................................................16

3 General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ................................................... 17

3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ............................................17

3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................17

3.3 Backup file naming conventions ..............................................................................................18

3.4 Acronis Secure Zone™..............................................................................................................19

3.5 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .........................................................................................20

3.5.1 How it works .................................................................................................................................................. 20

3.5.2 How to use ..................................................................................................................................................... 20

3.6 Viewing disk and partition information ...................................................................................

3.7 What is Try&Decide™? ............................................................................................................21

3.8 Acronis DriveCleanser, File Shredder, and System Clean-up...................................................22

3.9 Support for Zip format .............................................................................................................22

3.10 Acronis Nonstop Backup ..........................................................................................................22

3.11 Booting from system image tib files ........................................................................................23

3.12 Acronis Universal Restore ........................................................................................................23

3.12.1 Purpose of Acronis Universal Restore ......................................................................................................... 23

3.12.2 General principles of Acronis Universal Restore ......................................................................................... 24

4 Preparing for disaster recovery ............................................................................................ 25

4.1 How to best prepare for a disaster ..........................................................................................25

4.1.1 Recommendations for testing that your backups can be used for recovery............................................ 25

4.1.2 Additional recommendations....................................................................................................................... 26

4.2 Testing bootable rescue media ...............................................................................................26

4.3 Creating a custom rescue CD ...................................................................................................28