USER'S GUIDE
Table of contents 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................4 1.1 What is Acronis® True Image™ 2016? .......................................................................................4 1.2 New in this version ....................................................................................................................4 1.3 System requirements.............................................................
6.3 Archiving your data ..................................................................................................................29 6.4 Accessing your archived files ...................................................................................................
1 Introduction In this section What is Acronis® True Image™ 2016? ....................................................... 4 New in this version..................................................................................... 4 System requirements ................................................................................. 5 Install, update or remove Acronis True Image 2016.................................. 5 Trial version information..................................................................
Recover data from any backup located in Acronis Cloud, including backups from PCs, Macs, and devices running iOS and Android. Resolve some product-related issues. Data archiving—This feature allows you to easily transfer big and rarely used files to Acronis Cloud. This operation saves the free space on your hard drives and helps keep your data in perfect order.
3. Double-click the Acronis True Image 2016 setup file (the file has a .dmg extension). 4. Drag the Acronis True Image 2016 icon to the Applications folder. When you start Acronis True Image 2016 for the first time, you must enter the serial number or start the trial version of the product. Update Acronis True Image 2016 notifies you automatically when an update is available from the Acronis website. You can download it, and then install it over your version of Acronis True Image 2016.
Installing the trial version To start using the trial version, install the product, and then click Start Trial. Refer to Install, update or remove Acronis True Image 2016 (p. 5) for details. Upgrading to the full version To upgrade to the full version of the product: 1. Purchase the full version at the Acronis website: www.acronis.com/redirector/products/timac2014/getfullversion/. 2. Open Acronis True Image 2016. 3. On the menu bar, click Acronis True Image 2016, and then click Enter Serial Number. 4.
To send a feedback to Acronis: 1. In the Acronis True Image 2016 menu, click Send feedback. The feedback form opens. 2. 3. 4. 5. Choose a feedback reason from the list. Type your message. Provide your name and email. [Optional step] You can also attach a file and Acronis system report. An Acronis system report contains various technical information, including information about your hardware configuration, OS X version, system log, event log of Acronis True Image 2016, and your backup settings.
2 Backup In this section Basic concepts ............................................................................................ 9 What you can and cannot back up...........................................................10 Backing up to local or network storage ...................................................10 Backing up to Acronis Cloud ....................................................................11 Scheduling .................................................................................
This rule applies to both Acronis Cloud and local or network folders. When you create the eleventh version, Acronis True Image 2016 automatically deletes the oldest version of the backup. As a result, you always have the ten most recent backup versions. Note: In the case of a local or network backup location, you can create more than 10 versions by setting a new destination for the backup. The versions stored in the previous location will not be deleted. 2.
Files and folders 4. Click the backup destination icon, select where you want to save the backup file to, and then click OK. If the location is not listed, click Select Other Destination, and then select a location. 5. [Optional step] Configure additional settings. You can: Exclude files and folders manually at Settings —> Exclusions. Refer to Excluding items from backups (p. 14) for details. Configure the backup schedule at Settings —> Schedule. Refer to Scheduling (p. 13) for details.
If this is your first backup, skip this step. If you already have a backup and you want to create a new one, click the plus sign at the bottom of the backup list. Note: To delete a backup, right-click it, and then click Delete. The backup will be removed from the list, and the backup files will be deleted from the backup storage. 3. Click the backup source icon, and then select what you want to back up: Disks Files and folders 4.
Select a preferred data center at Settings —> Advanced. Refer to Selecting Acronis Cloud data center (p. 16) for details. 6. After you have configured all settings and you are ready to start a backup, click Start Backup. The first online backup may take a considerable amount of time to complete. Future backup processes will likely be much faster, because only changes to files will be transferred. To recover your Mac from a Acronis True Image backup, you must have an Acronis bootable media.
If your Mac is switched off or it is in the sleep mode when the scheduled time comes, the backup will run the next time the Mac starts or when it wakes up. 2.6 Excluding items from backups Before you start a backup, you can reduce the backup size by excluding data that does not need to be backed up. You can exclude files and folders the following ways: Manually, from any backup To exclude an item, specify it explicitly or use a mask.
??name.ext - all files with an .ext extension, having six letters in their names starting with any two symbols (??) and ending with name, will be excluded. 3. Click OK. Excluding recoverable data from online backups Acronis True Image 2016 allows you to exclude your local data that is uploaded or synchronized with third-party Cloud services, such as Google Drive or Dropbox. This data is already reliably protected and can be easily downloaded to your computer.
2.7 Selecting Acronis Cloud data center When you create a backup to Acronis Cloud, your data is uploaded to one of the Acronis data centers located in different countries. Initially, the data center is defined as the one closest to your location when you create your Acronis account. Afterwards, your online backups and synced files are stored in the same data center, by default.
Start the Trial version of Acronis True Image (p. 6) or purchase Acronis True Image Cloud at the Acronis website: www.acronis.com/redirector/products/timac2016/getfullversion/. Web application On the other hand, Acronis Cloud is a web application that allows you to recover and manage the data that you store on Acronis Cloud. To work with the application you can use any Mac or PC that is connected to the Internet. To access the application, go to https://www.acronis.
How does Acronis True Image 2016 handle Parallels Desktop virtual machines? Acronis True Image 2016 provides complete support of your virtual machines created with Parallels Desktop 9 and Parallels Desktop 10. When you back up your Mac, the virtual machines are backed up as well. When you recover your Mac, the virtual machines are reverted to the state they were in when the backup started. After recovery, all your virtual machines remain consistent and bootable.
Backup state icons The last backup failed. The backup is in progress. The last backup was paused by user. The last backup was stopped by user. 3 Creating bootable rescue media Bootable rescue media is a removable drive containing boot files. When your Mac does not start, you use the drive to boot the Acronis recovery environment and recover your Mac from a previously created backup. If you do not have a backup yet, please create it. Refer to Backing up to local or network storage (p.
5. Click Create Media. If the drive is not empty, Acronis True Image 2016 will ask you to confirm deleting all the data stored on the drive. To confirm, click Erase. 6. When the progress is complete, disconnect the media and keep it in a safe place. You can store your own data on the media, but make sure that you do not delete or modify the Acronis boot files. We recommend that you create a new rescue media every time you upgrade your Mac OS X to a newer version.
4.2 Recovering your Mac Follow the instructions below to recover your Mac when it cannot start or when it is working incorrectly. To recover your Mac: 1. Make sure that you have: A previously created Acronis True Image backup. Without the backup recovery is impossible. Refer to Backing up to local or network storage (p. 10) and Backing up to Acronis Cloud (p. 11) for details. Acronis bootable rescue media.
8. Select the check boxes next to the partitions that you want to recover. 9. Select a destination for each partition. 10. To start recovery, click Recover, and then confirm that you want to erase all data on the destination partitions. 11. When recovery is complete, restart your Mac. 4.3 FAQ about Boot Camp partition How do I back up my Boot Camp partition? Back up the hard drive where Boot Camp is installed.
1. Back up your hard drive to an external storage media, such as Acronis Cloud, USB drive, or a network share. 2. Turn off your Mac, and then replace your old hard drive with a new one. 3. Boot your Mac by using Acronis bootable rescue media. 4. Recover your Mac from the backup to the new hard drive. 4.4 Recovering files from local backups Follow the instructions below when you need to recover specific files and folders from a backup.
2. On the left pane, select the backup that contains files and folders to recover. 3. On the right pane, click Browse Files. – On any Mac with an Internet connection: 1. In your web browser, go to https://www.acronis.com/my/online-backup/. 2. Log in to your Acronis account. 3. Click Recover my data now. The web application opens in your web browser. Recovering the latest versions of files and folders To recover files and folders: 1.
3. In the window that appears, select the desired version by its creation date. Your current version will be reverted to the state it was in at that point in time. 4. Click Recover to proceed. The selected version will become the latest version on Acronis Cloud. 5. After the process finishes, refresh the Files page in your web browser. 6. Select the file once more, and then click Download. The file will be downloaded to the Downloads folder.
Recover data from any backup located in Acronis Cloud, including backups from PCs, Macs, and devices running iOS and Android. Resolve some product-related issues. 5.2 Adding a new device With Online Dashboard, you can add a new device to the device list. To add a new device to the device list: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. On the device that you want to add, open Online Dashboard at: https://cloud.acronis.com. Sign in with your Acronis account. On the Devices tab, click Add device.
4. 5. 6. 7. Click Recover. On the left panel, select the backup version by the backup date and time. On the right panel, select the check boxes next to the files and folders that you want to recover. Click Download. 6 Archiving data In this section What is data archiving? ............................................................................27 Data archiving vs. Online backup .............................................................28 Archiving your data .........................................
6.2 Data archiving vs. Online backup The data archiving feature is similar to backup to Acronis Cloud, but there are a number of differences. Online backup Data archiving Feature purpose Data protection from operating system corruption, hardware failures, and loss of separate files. Cleanup of local storage device and moving data to Acronis Cloud. Data protection Overall protection of all data on a Protection of rarely used and old files, mostly your personal documents, photographs, and so on.
6.3 Archiving your data Data archiving helps you free up your storage space by moving your old or rarely used files to Acronis Cloud. Refer to What is data archiving for details. To archive your data: 1. Start Acronis True Image 2016, and then go to the Archive section. 2. [Optional step] To learn basics of the data archiving feature, view the Getting Started slides. 3. To select files to archive, do one of the following: 29 Drag the files to the Archive screen (for example, from Finder).
Click Browse in Finder, and then select the files to archive. 4. Click Start Archiving. 6.4 Accessing your archived files When your files are successfully archived, you can access them in: Finder Open Finder, and then click Acronis Archive under Favorites. You can work with the files as if they were stored on an ordinary hard drive.
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