User's Manual

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1 Introduction
1.1 What is Acronis® True Image™?
Acronis True Image 2021 is a complete data protection solution that ensures the security of all of the
information on your PC. It can back up your documents, photos, emails, and selected partitions, and
even the entire disk drive, including operating system, applications, settings, and all of your data.
One of its main features is Antivirus Protection consisting of Active Protection and Antivirus scan
which is a combination of data protection and security features.
Backups allow you to recover your computer system should a disaster occur, such as losing data,
accidentally deleting critical files or folders, or suffering a complete hard disk crash.
Online Backup allows you to store your files and disks on Acronis Cloud. Your data will be protected
even if your computer is lost, stolen, or destroyed, and your data can be entirely recovered onto a
new device, if needed.
Key features:
 Disk backup to a local storage and to Acronis Cloud (p. 45)
 File backup to a local storage and to Acronis Cloud (p. 47)
 Antivirus and antimalware Protection (p. 123)
 Acronis bootable media
 Hard disk cloning (p. 138)
 Data archiving (p. 115)
 Family data protection (p. 119)
 File synchronization (p. 132)
 Security and privacy tools (p. 146)
You cannot create backups to Acronis Cloud with Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and Acronis bootable
media.
Getting started
Learn how to protect your computer with two simple steps: "Protecting your system (p. 17)".
1.2 New in this version
 Improved functionality that integrates real-time malware protection and on-demand antivirus
scanning to defend your data, applications, and systems against all types of malicious software:
 Malware
 Ransomware
 Illicit cryptomining
 Real-time antimalware protection
 Signature-based analysis (Traditional AV)
 New generation behavioral analysis engine
 External device protection
 On-demand antimalware scanning