User's Guide
Table of contents 1 General information ..............................................................................................................3 1.1 What is Acronis True Image Online? .........................................................................................3 1.2 System requirements.................................................................................................................3 1.3 Acronis True Image Online installation and startup ...............................
1 General information 1.1 What is Acronis True Image Online? Acronis True Image Online is an application that allows you to use Acronis Online service for safeguarding your most important files. Acronis True Image Online allows you to save important files to a secure remote location and recover them when the need arises. Because files are stored on a remote storage, they are protected even if your computer gets stolen or your house burns down.
Run the setup file. Before starting the setup process, Acronis True Image Online will check for the newer build on the Web site. If there is one, the newer version will be offered for installation. In the Install Menu, click on the Install Acronis True Image Online to launch the installation procedure. Read and accept the terms of the license agreement in the License Agreement window. In the Custom Setup window, click the Browse... button and specify a folder to install the product to.
4. Removing Acronis True Image Online Select Start -> Settings -> Control panel -> Add or remove programs -> Acronis True Image Online -> Remove. Then follow the instructions on the screen. If you use Windows Vista, select Start -> Control panel -> Programs and Features -> Acronis True Image Online -> Remove. Then follow the instructions on the screen. You may have to reboot your computer afterwards to complete the task. 5.
If you do not have an Acronis account, fill in the appropriate fields, and the account will be created for you. Provide your first and last names and e-mail address. You will be offered a country selected on the basis of the IP address of your computer, though you can select another country, if you wish. Then provide a password for your new account and confirm the password by retyping it once more in the appropriate field.
After the report is generated: To save the generated system report to file, click Save and in the opened window specify a location for the created file. Then you will be able to send the report to Acronis support team. To save the generated system report to file and send it to Acronis support team right away, click Save and Send and specify a location for the created file. In addition, the program will open your e-mail client and will attach the report file to a message for Acronis support team.
Toolbar The toolbar contains the following buttons: Back Up Now - click to run the online backup task now (present only for the current computer). Recover - click to recover desired files and folders from the Online Storage Options - click to open the Options menu where you can specify all Acronis True Image Online options and settings, as well as remove a computer from the Online Storage.
3 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage 3.1 Log in to the online storage To use the Acronis Online Storage, you must first subscribe to the Acronis True Image Online service. To do this: Click Subscribe to Acronis True Image Online service When the Web page opens, follow the instructions on the page. For more details see Subscription information (p. 5).
3.2 Computer selection If this is the first time that you are logging on to the online storage, you will be prompted to register your computer on the online storage. To register a computer on the online storage: Type a name for the computer (for example, My home PC) in the appropriate field and then select an icon for the computer. You can type any name, not necessarily the computer's network name.
Click the Continue button. Removing a computer This screen allows you to remove a computer from the registered computers list. Removing a computer results in deleting all data that was backed up from that computer, so such an operation must be carried out with caution. To remove a computer, select it by its name and click the Remove button, then click Yes in the confirmation window. 3.2.
To start backup immediately, click Back Up Now. You can also delay online backup start for up to 6 hours by clicking the down arrow to the right of this button and selecting a delay interval from the dropdown list. 3.4 Online backup task creation The online backup task allows you to schedule the backup to the online storage. You can create one online backup task only. The task will be run even after you log off the online storage.
You can include both file categories and individual files and folders. When selecting the file category(ies) to back up, you can include the following default categories: Documents, Finance, Images, Video, and Music. Each category represents all files of associated types found on the computer's hard drives. Furthermore, you can add any number of custom categories containing files and folders. The new categories will be saved and displayed along with the above.
3.4.1.1 Creating a custom data category To add a custom data category, click the Add category icon in the Categories pane and provide a name for the category. Select the data source (e.g. a folder) for the new category by clicking the link to the right of Category source: in the right pane, and then clicking the Browse button.
You can exclude hidden and system files from online backup by selecting the corresponding check boxes. In addition, you can exclude files meeting the criteria you specify. To do this, select the Files matching the following criteria check box, enter the exclusion criterion, and then click Add. By default, the program excludes from backups files with the following extensions: .~, .tmp, and .tib. You can enter explicit file names for exclusion from the backup: file.
3.4.3 Scheduling The Scheduler window allows you to specify the online backup task execution settings. Choose one of the following backup frequencies: Daily (p. 17) - the task will be executed once a day or more frequently Monthly (p. 18) - the task will be executed once a month or several times a month on the selected dates Weekly (p. 17) - the task will be executed once a week or several times a week on the selected days Next choose when to start online backup: At a specified time.
Some of these options might be disabled depending on the operating system. Having finished scheduling of online backups, click OK to return to the main window. 3.4.3.1 Daily execution parameters You can set up the following parameters for daily task execution: Frequency: Daily Start: at a certain time, upon a certain event or every certain number of hours If you select At, set the task's start time. Enter hours and minutes manually, or set the desired start time using the up and down buttons.
If the computer is switched off when the scheduled time comes, the backup won't be performed, but you can force the missed task to run at the next system start-up. To do so, select the If missed, run the task at startup check box. If there is no Internet connection when the scheduled time comes, you can force the missed backup to run when an Internet connection is established. To do so, select the Run when the connection is established check box. 3.4.3.
In this window Acronis True Image Online shows the approximate backup time and data transfer speed. The progress bar indicates the level of completion of the online backup. In some cases, the online backup operation may take a long time to be completed. If this is the case, select the Shut down the computer after the backup is complete check box. When the backup finishes, Acronis True Image Online will turn the computer off. You can also close the progress window by clicking Hide.
In case of any network problems, if the first connection attempt fails, the program will repeat the attempts till a connection is successfully established. You can set the number of connection attempts and the time interval between the attempts in seconds. To do so, type or select the values in the appropriate boxes. 4.2 Storage connection speed You can reduce the influence of the online storage connection on other network connections of your computer.
4.3 Storage cleanup You can configure the cleanup settings for the Online storage to optimize usage of its space. To set the limits for the amount of versions in the Online storage: Select the Delete versions that are older than check box and enter a value that limits the maximum age of the older versions. All other versions will be automatically deleted except the most recent versions.
To test the proxy server settings, click the Test Connection button. If you do not know your proxy server settings, contact your network administrator or Internet service provider for assistance. Alternatively, you can try to take these settings from your browser's configuration. 22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
4.5 Backup priority Changing the priority of a backup process can make it run faster or slower (depending on whether you raise or lower the priority), but it can also adversely affect the performance of other running programs. The priority of any process running in a system, determines the amount of CPU usage and system resources allocated to that process. Decreasing the backup priority will free up more resources for other CPU tasks.
Enter the password in the Password field To specify additional notification settings, click the Additional e-mail parameters... link.
and/or the subject in the Subject field. If you leave the From field empty, the e-mail will be composed using the name from the outgoing account. To send notification concerning process completion, select the Send notification upon operation's successful completion check box. To send notification concerning process failure, select the Send notification upon operation failure check box.
Unselecting the Do not perform operations until the command's execution is complete box, selected by default, will permit the backup process to run concurrently with your command execution. If you want the backup to be performed even if your command fails, unselect the Abort the operation if the user command fails box (selected by default). You can test execution of the command you created by clicking Test command. 4.
5 Recovery from Online Storage 5.1 Recovering data from Online Storage Acronis True Image Online allows you to browse and recover data that was backed up on Online Storage. If you have backed up data from several computers, select the computer from which you backed up the data you want to recover. If the data from the selected computer is stored on the Online Storage in encrypted form, you will be asked to enter the encryption key which has been used for encryption.
Open - opens a folder or recovers the file to a temporary folder and then opens the file using the associated application Recover - recovers the selected file or folder View Versions - opens the window that contains the list of the selected file's versions.
In the File Versions dialog window that appears, select a version, and then click Recover, or simply drag the version to a destination in Windows Explorer To remove a file version from the storage, select the version and click the Remove icon (cross) to the right of the version number. To exit the window without recovering, click Cancel. 5.3 Recovery operation progress Once you start recovery of the selected files, the recovery progress window appears.
6 Removing data from Online Storage Because the available space on Acronis Online Storage is limited, you need to manage your Online Storage space by cleaning up the obsolete data or the data you do not need anymore. Cleanup can be done in a variety of ways. The most "drastic" one is removing a computer registered on the Online Storage. Removing a computer results in deleting all data that was backed up from that computer. Therefore, such an operation must be carried out with caution.
7 Viewing Log If you want to view the log of Acronis True Image Online operations, click Help → Event Log in the upper right corner of the main window. To view the logs for a specific period, select the period from the drop-down list. You can select Today, Week, and Month. To view all logs, select Show all. To delete a log entry, select it, right-click and select Delete in the shortcut menu. To delete all log entries, select Delete all. You can also save a log entry to file by selecting Save.
