User's Guide
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Table of contents 1 Getting started ......................................................................................................................7 1.1 Introduction ...............................................................................................................................7 1.1.1 1.1.2 1.1.3 1.1.4 1.1.5 1.1.6 1.1.7 1.2 Acronis True Image Home 2011 installation and startup ........................................................14 1.2.1 1.2.2 1.2.3 1.2.4 1.2.5 1.
3.11.7 3.11.8 3.11.9 3.11.10 3.11.11 3.11.12 3.11.13 3.11.14 Backup reserve copy ..................................................................................................................................... 59 Removable media settings ........................................................................................................................... 60 Screenshot settings .........................................................................................................................
.3 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage......................................................................................96 5.3.1 5.3.2 5.3.3 5.3.4 5.3.5 5.3.6 5.4 Recovery from Online Storage ...............................................................................................117 5.4.1 5.4.2 5.4.3 6 Recovering data from Online Storage ....................................................................................................... 117 Selecting a version to recover .............
7.3.4 7.3.5 7.3.6 7.4 Cloning a hard disk.................................................................................................................171 7.4.1 7.4.2 7.4.3 7.4.4 7.4.5 7.4.6 7.4.7 7.4.8 7.5 General information.................................................................................................................................... 171 Security.....................................................................................................................................
1 Getting started 1.1 Introduction In this section What is Acronis® True Image Home 2011?................................................ 7 What is Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack? .................................. 8 Acronis True Image Home 2011 basic concepts ........................................ 8 New in Acronis True Image Home 2011 ..................................................11 System requirements and supported media ...........................................12 Technical Support .....
Windows-style interface and wizards will make your work easier. Just perform a few simple steps and let Acronis True Image Home 2011 take care of everything else! When a system problem occurs, the software will get you up and running in no time. 1.1.2 What is Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack? Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack is an add-on to Acronis True Image Home 2011. It is purchased separately, has a separate license, and is installed from its own setup file.
By default, Acronis True Image Home 2011 stores an image of those hard disk sections that contain data (for supported file systems). However, you can select an option that lets you include an image of all of the sectors of a hard disk (a sector-by-sector backup). When you back up files and folders, only the data, and folder tree, are is compressed and stored. If the need arises, you will be able to recover both your system disk state and individual files.
Once the program starts the partition backup process, it temporarily freezes all the operations on the partition and creates its "snapshot". Snapshot creation usually takes just several seconds. After that, the operating system continues working as the imaging process is under way. The Acronis driver also continues to keep the point-in-time view of the partition. Whenever the driver sees a write operation directed at the partition, it checks whether these sectors are already backed up.
Consolidation Consolidation allows you to delete backups which are no longer needed from a backup chain. A chain to be consolidated can be comprised of a full backup and one or more incremental backups. If necessary, you can delete the base full backup from the chain. The program will create a new full backup in place of the oldest remaining backup. Consolidation keeps whichever backups you choose and deletes any backups that are not selected.
USB 3.0 support – Acronis True Image Home 2011 supports the new USB 3.0 standard. If your motherboard can work with USB 3.0 hard disk drives, you can use the high data transfer speed offered by the new standard to make your backups run much faster. Enhanced Acronis Nonstop Backup – Now you can use Acronis Nonstop Backup for protecting both partitions and individual files and folders. Protection of individual folders by Acronis Nonstop Backup usually requires much less storage space.
The minimum screen resolution is 800 x 600. 1.1.5.2 Supported operating systems Acronis True Image Home 2011 has been tested on the following operating systems: Windows XP SP3 Windows XP Professional x64 Edition SP2 Windows Vista SP2 (all editions) Windows 7 (all editions) Acronis True Image Home 2011 also lets you create a bootable CD-R/DVD-R that can back up and recover a disk/partition on a computer running any Intel- or AMD- based PC operating system, including Linux®.
Recovery of a dynamic volume as a dynamic volume with manual resizing is not supported GPT disks can be recovered only "volume-to-volume" without the possibility of resizing Try&Decide cannot be used for protecting dynamic and GPT disks "Clone disk" operation is not supported for dynamic and GPT disks ** An FTP server must allow passive mode file transfers. For data to be recovered directly from an FTP server, the backup must consist of files no greater than 2GB each.
1.2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Home 2011 To install Acronis True Image Home 2011: Run the Acronis True Image Home 2011 setup file. In the Install Menu, select the program to install: Acronis True Image Home 2011. Before installation, you can check for a newer Acronis True Image Home 2011 build on the Acronis Web site. If available, the newer version will be offered for installation. Follow the install wizard instructions on the screen.
Recovering or updating the existing Acronis True Image Home 2011 installation with using the .msi file must be done from the command line as follows: 1. Choose Start Run 2. Type cmd. 3. When the command-line interpreter window opens, type the following command: msiexec /i path_to_msi_file\msi_file_name.msi REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vomus After the install wizard window opens, choose Typical, Custom or Complete installation for repairing or changing the program's components. 1.2.
If you have Acronis Secure Zone on your computer, remove it before removing the program itself because removing Acronis True Image Home 2011 will not remove the zone. 1.3 Getting to know Acronis True Image Home 2011 In this section Welcome screen.......................................................................................17 Main screen..............................................................................................21 Tools & Utilities screen ........................................
Back up my critical data Select this item to use the Acronis One-Click Backup tool that allows you to begin protecting your computer as soon as you install Acronis True Image Home 2011. The default settings provide regularly updated backup of your system partition, and nonstop protection of your personal data. The tool will also analyze your storage devices and choose the optimum place for the backups.
After the selected items are backed up, you can change the default settings for My computer backup and personal data backup. To do this, select the appropriate backup on the main screen and then click Edit backup settings in the Operations menu. If you choose a removable media as the backup destination (for instance, an USB hard drive), it will be made bootable by default.
Documents Desktop Downloads Favorites Here "User" is the username of the account under which you have logged on. 1.3.1.2 Backup assistant If you want to protect your data, but you are not sure what data to protect and how to do this, the backup assistant will help you to make an optimum choice. In a few simple steps, you will create a backup of your data. The backup will allow you to recover your data to a known good state in case of corruption.
the backup progress. When the process is complete, the backup is created. Now your data is protected and can be recovered in case of disaster. The Acronis True Image Home 2011 2011 Online Backup application will start if you select a backup to online storage. After the application starts, login to your Online Backup account or register a new account. To register the account, click the Subscribe to Online Backup service link. 1.3.
Online Backup File backup E-mail backup Browse for backup Click this item to browse for backups on your computer and add them to the backup list. This may be useful when you have backups created by a previous Acronis True Image Home 2011 version which are not shown in the backup list. If the added backup was created by a previous Acronis True Image Home 2011 version or copied from another computer, you will be unable to perform some operations.
Clicking Operations in the box of a selected backup opens an Operations menu containing the following items: Open backup location - opens the folder containing the backup files. Validate backup - starts backup validation. More - opens the following additional items: Edit backup settings - allows editing of the current backup settings.
To turn on or change the schedule for the selected backup, click the link to the right of Schedule:. For more information see Scheduling (p. 139). Search To search for a backed up file you need to recover, type the filename or part of its name, in the search field on the main menu bar. If the search is successful, the program will open Acronis Backup Explorer and show the found file and backup(s) containing the file.
1.3.3 Tools & Utilities screen This screen allows you to select the tools and utilities provided by Acronis True Image Home 2011. To go to the screen, click Tools & Utilities in the main menu. Launch the required tool or utility by clicking the appropriate link. For more information see Tools & Utilities (p. 151). To return to the main screen, click the "Back to" button in the navigation field at the top of the screen or Home in the same field. 1.3.
Wizards have a sidebar listing all the steps (both required and optional) needed for completing the operation. For example, see the Manage Acronis Secure Zone wizard screen shot below. The completed steps are marked with green checkmarks. The green arrow shows the current step. After you complete all the required steps and come to the Finish step, the program displays the Summary screen. Check the summary of the operation to be performed and then click Proceed to start the operation.
The tab shows the disks and partitions state of when the current backup version was created. You can switch between the backup versions by using the time line at the bottom of the screen. For more information see Time line (p. 29). To recover disks and/or partitions: 1. On the time line, select the backup version from which you want to recover your disks/partitions. The version's exact date and time will be displayed near the backup name.
Right-clicking on a backup version opens the shortcut menu with other available operations: Recover - select to recover the current backup version. Mount (for image backups) - select to mount the backup version as a disk. Validate - select to check the integrity of the backup version data. Convert to Windows backup (for image backups) - select to convert the backup version's TIB file to VHD file. Delete version - select to delete the backup version (the backup chain will not be corrupted).
Mixed (filled square) - this state is available for folders only and indicates that some items in the folder are selected and the others are not. Note that you cannot set the state by clicking the check box, but you can change it to a cleared or selected state. Selecting a disk, partition, file or folder to make it the current item in a list does not mean selecting it for recovery! The majority of user interface elements located on this tab are described in the Disks and partitions tab (p. 26) section.
The squares that represent backup versions have colored stripes at the bottom. The color of the stripes depends on the backup types (violet for disk backups, turquoise for file backups, green for Nonstop Backup, and brown for other backups, e.g. created by a previous Acronis True Image Home 2011 version). The picture below shows various states of a time line. Its states vary depending on the number of backups and the time interval through which you are navigating.
When today is any date from the 16th to 31st day of the month, the "month" interval is named "This month". In that case the time line shows backup versions created from the beginning of the current month to the "week" interval. The "This year" interval shows backup versions created from the beginning of the current year to the “month” interval. The "Older" interval shows backup versions created from earlier than the beginning of the current year.
Delete version File backup version: Validate Delete version Nonstop backup version and online backup version: Explore and recover Delete version Backup version packs and time blocks: Right-clicking on a folded version pack or time interval's block opens the shortcut menu with a single item: Expand Viewing additional information on the time line You can also set up the time line to show additional information. The appropriate commands are available in the View submenu.
The most significant changes occur in the System and Security category of Windows 7 Control Panel. Acronis True Image Home 2011 replaces Windows Backup in the Backup and Restore item. If you first installed Acronis True Image Home 2011 without performing backups, the Backup and Restore window allows you to create a backup using Acronis One-Click Backup tool. When you have created backups, the Backup and Restore window will show the Nonstop Backup box and the box of your oldest disk or partition backup.
2 How to Due to the size of this User's Guide, it is sometimes not so easy to find how to perform a particular task. This section lists some frequently used tasks and provides links to the appropriate parts of the User's Guide. Click the corresponding page number (or the link, if you are viewing the Help), if you need information on how to: protect your entire system from a disaster (p. 122) clone your disk drive (p.
3 Backing up data Acronis True Image Home 2011 includes a wealth of sophisticated backup capabilities that would please even an IT professional. They allow you to back up your disks (partitions), files, and e-mail. You can choose a backup feature that suits you most or use them all. The below sections describe the backup features in more detail. In this section The difference between file backups and disk/partition images ............35 Full, incremental and differential backups ...........................
A disk image includes images of all disk partitions and the zero track with the master boot record (MBR). By default, files in all Acronis True Image Home 2011 backups have a ".tib" extension. This extension should not be changed. It is important to note that you can recover files and folders from both file backups and from disk/partition images. To do so, mount the image as a virtual disk (see Mounting an image (p.
A "differential" backup scenario uses the same weekly full system backup with the backup of files that have changed since the last full backup on a daily basis. While this scheme takes up progressively more storage space as each new day of the week passes, a recovery would only involve two backups - the last FULL backup followed by the previous day's differential backup. Many users prefer this method as it simplifies recovery and most backups are done overnight.
If you delete an incremental backup version or a differential backup version - the program will also delete all subsequent incremental versions till the next full or differential version. 3.3 Backing up partitions and disks The image backup is made as easy as ABC. a) Select a partition to back up by selecting its check box. If the disk has several partitions and you want to back up the whole disk, click Switch to disk mode and then select the disk's check box.
2. You may exclude certain files and folders from backup. For example, you transferred some movies from your DVDs to a folder on the data partition. They occupy quite a lot of space and it doesn't make sense to back them up because you have the DVDs. To exclude the folder, click the Add link to the right of Exclusions and add the folder to the excluded items list. 3.
3.4 Backing up files and folders To back up files and/or folders, click File backup on the main screen. This will open the File Backup window. Let's consider how to use this backup type for backing up a folder. 1. Select the folder on the directory tree in the What to back up area. The right side will show the folder contents with all the files and subfolders selected. There you can unselect the files you do not need to back up, if any. 2.
add task run number - the sequence number of the task run will be added 4. Click the Back up now button if you want to run backup immediately. You can also delay the start of backup 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. When you need to change the default backup options, click File backup options and set the options you require. You can also change the default backup scheme by clicking on the appropriate link.
To add a custom data category, click Add category. To change the default name of a custom category, double-click the name and enter a new one. Select the data source (e.g. a folder) for the new category by clicking the Browse... button. By default the new category will contain All data from the source, but you can apply filters to select the specific types of files that you wish or do not wish to back up.
Acronis True Image Home 2011 gives the zip format most of the functionality available for the tib format. You can schedule backups, validate zip backups, recover files and folders from zip backups, make incremental and differential backups, etc. However, it does not provide password protection and encryption. Acronis True Image Home 2011 can recover and validate only its own zip backups.
User Settings Address Book For Microsoft Outlook Express Mail Folders Address Book (select Windows Address Book). Acronis True Image Home 2011 provides backup of IMAP (Internet Messages Access Protocol) mail folders for Microsoft Outlook. This means that you can back up folders stored on a mail server. For Microsoft Outlook Express and Windows Mail only backup of local e-mail folders is available.
How it works Once you start Acronis Nonstop Backup, the program will perform an initial full backup of the data selected for protection. Acronis Nonstop Backup will then save changes in the protected files (including open ones) every five minutes, so that you will be able to recover your system to an exact point in time. Usually the different states of the protected data will be backed up at 5-minute intervals for 24 hours.
3.6.1 Protecting your data continuously Let's consider how you can use Nonstop Backup for protecting your data. To protect your data continuously: 1. Click Nonstop Backup on the main screen. This will open the Nonstop Backup window. 2. Select on the directory tree in the What to back up area an item to be protected by Nonstop Backup. The right side will show the item contents with all the files and subfolders selected. There you can unselect the files you do not need to protect.
changed the Nonstop Backup destination, the program will create a new full backup of the data to be protected on the new Nonstop Backup storage. You can also include files and folders into Nonstop Backup by selecting them in Windows Explorer and choosing Storages Include in Nonstop Backup in the shortcut menu that opens by right-clicking on the selected item. 3.6.2 Protecting your system continuously You can use Acronis Nonstop Backup for protecting entire system partition as well.
You can exclude from protection files that match the criteria you specify. To add exclusion criteria, click the Add link to the right of Exclusions. While adding criteria, you can use the common Windows wildcard characters. For more information see Excluding items from backup (p. 51). 3.6.3 Acronis Nonstop Backup data storage Acronis Nonstop Backup data storage can be created only on NTFS formatted local hard disk drives (both internal and external).
In addition to enhancing the backed up data security with replication, this feature allows you to copy a set of documents, for example, to a USB stick for working on them at home. So now you can perform a normal backup and copy the same files to a USB stick or any local hard drive. You have the choice of making a reserve copy in the form of regular files in their native format, a zip compressed file, or a tib file (optionally with password protection and encryption).
2. Choose how to duplicate the project file(s) on the USB stick. If you need to save space, choose duplicating as a zip file. Click on the Set location... link, select the drive letter of the USB stick and create a folder for a reserve copy by clicking on the Make New Folder button. 3. Finish configuring your backup as usual. 4. Click Back up now and do not forget to take the USB stick home.
To complete the backup, you may either try to free up some space on the disk and click Retry or select another storage device. To choose the latter option, click Browse... in the confirmation window. The Browse for Destination window appears. The left pane shows the storage locations available on your computer. After you select a suitable location, assign a name for the file that will contain the remaining data being backed up. You can enter the name manually (for example, "tail_end.
You can exclude hidden and system files from a 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.
settings as default check box to apply the modified settings to all further backup operations by default. Note that disk backup options, file backup options and e-mail backup options are fully independent, and you should configure them separately. If you want to reset all the modified options to their initial values that were set after the product installation, click the Reset to initial settings button. In this section Backup schemes .......................................................................
Backup methods that will be used to create backup versions (full, differential or incremental) Sequence of the backup versions created using different methods Version cleanup rules Acronis True Image Home 2011 allows you to choose the following backup schemes: Single version (p. 54) - select this scheme if you want to use the smallest backup storage, or if you back up data that changes insignificantly. Version chain (p. 55) - this is the most recommended and optimal scheme. Custom (p.
Result: you have a single up-to-date full backup version Required storage space: minimal. 3.11.1.2 Version chain scheme This backup scheme differs for disk backup and file backup types. Disk backup version chain At first the program creates the 1st full backup version. The version will be kept until you delete it manually.
You can configure the scheme by using one of the following options: Create only differential versions after the initial full version - select this item to create only one backup version chain. Automatic cleanup is not available for this option. Create a full version after every [n] differential versions - select this item to create several backup version chains. This is a more reliable but more space-consuming backup scheme. Incremental (p.
3.11.2 Image creation mode You can use these parameters to create an exact copy of your whole partitions or hard disks, and not only the sectors that contain data. Note that the Back up unallocated space check box is available only when the Back up sector-by-sector check box is selected. To make a sector-by-sector backup, check the Back up sector-by-sector parameter. By default the program copies only the hard disk sectors that contain data.
3.11.4 Pre/Post commands for backup You can specify commands (or even batch files) that will be automatically executed before and after the backup procedure. For example, you may want to start/stop certain Windows processes, or check your data before starting backup. To specify commands (batch files): Select a command to be executed before the backup process starts in the Before backup process field. To create a new command or select a new batch file click the Edit button.
Acronis True Image Home 2011 will ask you to insert a new disk when the previous one is full. Alternatively, you may select the desired file size from the drop-down list. The backup will then be split into multiple files of the specified size. That comes in handy when backing up to a hard disk with the view to burning the backup to CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW or BD-R/RE later on.
make reserve copies as zip archives copy the files and/or folders to a specified location "as is" If you choose reserve copies to be made in the tib format, all backup options (such as backup compression, backup splitting, etc.) will be inherited from the source backup. You can also protect the tib backup reserve copy with a password. To do so, click Set password and specify a password for the reserve copy.
should disable the prompt when scheduling a backup to removable media. Then, if the removable media is available (for example, CD-R/RW inserted) the backup can run unattended. If you have other Acronis products installed on your computer, the bootable versions of these programs' components will be offered as well. 3.11.9 Screenshot settings Along with backup comments, screenshots help you to recognize a previous data state you need to recover.
3.11.11 Computer shutdown If you know that the backup process you are configuring may take a long time, you may select the Shut down the computer after the backup is complete check box. In this case, you will not have to wait until the operation completion. The program will perform the backup and turn off your computer automatically. This option is also useful when you schedule your backups. For example, you may want to perform backups every weekday in the evening to save all your work.
The optimal data compression level depends on the type of files stored in the backup. For example, even maximum compression will not significantly reduce the backup size, if the backup contains essentially compressed files, like .jpg, .pdf or .mp3. Operation priority Changing the priority of a backup or recovery 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.
If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup is being run, the program will display the same message and you will have to make the same decisions.
3.12 Validating backups The validation procedure checks whether you will be able to recover data from a particular backup version, so when you select for validation on the time line… a full backup version, the program validates the full backup version only. an incremental backup version, the program validates the initial full backup, the selected incremental backup version, and the whole chain (if any) of backup versions to the selected incremental backup version.
Follow the wizard's steps You cannot choose another location when consolidating backup versions located in the Acronis Secure Zone. 3.13.1 Archive to consolidate protection The archive you chose is password-protected in order to prevent it from unauthorized access. You need to specify the previously entered password to obtain access to the archive. To specify the password: Type-in the password in the Password field.
3.13.4 Consolidation summary The summary window contains a list of briefly described operations that Acronis True Image Home 2011 will perform after clicking Proceed. If some parameters need to be changed, choose the necessary step in the left part of the window and correct the parameter. Click the Proceed button to start the listed operations. Click the Options button to perform the optional steps. Click the Cancel button to exit the wizard without performing any operations. 3.
4 Recovering data The purpose of data backup is to recover backed up data when the original is lost due to hardware failure, fire, theft or accidental deletion of files. We hope that you backed up your system and data using the backup features provided by Acronis True Image Home 2011. If so, nothing will have been lost. The following sections describe how to recover disks, partitions, files and folders. In most cases, you will use Acronis Backup Explorer to recover files and folders.
with the required key combination is displayed during the startup test. Pressing this combination takes you to the setup menu. Go to the hard disk autodetection utility which usually comes under "Standard CMOS Setup" or "Advanced CMOS setup". If the utility does not detect the system drive, it has failed and you need to replace the drive. If the utility correctly detects your system hard disk drive, then the cause of the crash is probably a virus, malware or corruption of a system file required for booting.
3. Select My disks below Recover on the Welcome screen. 4. Select the system disk or partition backup image to be used for recovery. Right-click on the backup and choose Recover in the shortcut menu.
Click Browse and show the path to the backup. 5. Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step. 71 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
6. Select the system partition (usually C) on the What to recover screen. If the system partition has a different letter, select the partition using the Flags column. It must have the Pri, Act flags. 7. At the "Settings of partition C" (or the letter of the system partition, if it is different) step check the default settings and click Next if they are correct. Otherwise, change the settings as required before clicking Next.
8. Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step. If you have not resized the partition, the sizes in the Deleting partition and Recovering partition items must match. Having checked the summary click Proceed. 9. When the operation finishes, exit the standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011, remove the rescue media and boot from the recovered system partition. After making sure that you have recovered Windows to the state you need, restore the original boot order. 4.
If you want to recover the partition to the state it was at an earlier date, click Explore and recover under the Recover last version button. This will open Backup Explorer which allows you to select the image backup version created on that date. Clicking Recover after selecting the required version will open the Disk Recovery window. a) Select the corresponding check boxes of the partition(s) to recover.
We recommend that you clear the Recover disk signature check box when: You use an image backup not for disaster recovery but for cloning your Windows hard drive to another one. In this case, Acronis True Image Home 2011 generates a new disk signature for the recovered hard drive, even if you recover to the same drive. Disk recovery options - click to set up additional parameters for the disk recovery process.
2. Select a partition to recover in the Disk Recovery window. This will open the Choose recovery destination field below the partition label. 3. Click the down arrow to the right of the field and select the destination hard disk. The partition to be recovered will then be placed on the selected hard disk. It occupies all the available disk space. To change the partition properties, click the Partition properties link below the recovery destination field. 4.
Complete the preparations described in Preparing for recovery (p. 69). If you have not already done so, assign unique names (labels) to the partitions of your computer's disks. This will allow for identification of the partitions by their names and not by the disk letters. Disk letters may differ when booting from the rescue media. The names will help you find the drive containing your backups, as well as the target (new) drive.
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. This step allows you to find out whether the disk you are going to recover contains a hidden partition. Hidden partitions do not have disk letters and they go first in the "Settings of partition ..." steps. If you find a hidden partition, see Recovering a disk with a hidden partition (p. 78). You can specify the following partition settings: location, type, and size. Most likely, you will first specify the settings of the system partition as it usually has the letter C.
partitions that existed on the old drive. In addition, you should place the hidden partition in the same location - usually at the start or the end of the disk space. To minimize the risk of possible problems, it is better to recover the hidden partition without resizing. Attach the external drive if it contains the backup to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is powered on. This must be done before booting from Acronis rescue media. 1.
9. 10. 11. 12. (Partition size, Free space before, Free space after). Click Accept when the partition has the required size and location and then click Next. Specify the settings for the second partition which in this case is your system partition. Click New location, and then select unallocated space on the destination disk that will receive the partition. Click Accept, check the partition type (change, if necessary). You should remember that the system partition must be primary and marked as active.
1. Select in the Backup Explorer the files and folders you want to recover. For more information on selection in the Backup Explorer see Files and folders tab (p. 28). Click Recover to start recovery. This will open the File Recovery window. 2. Select a destination on your computer to where you want to recover selected files/folders. You can recover data to its original location or choose a new one, if necessary. To choose a new location, click the Browse... button. 3.
3. To start the recovery process, click the Recover now button. 4. The recovery progress will be shown in a special window. You can stop the recovery by clicking Cancel. Please keep in mind that the aborted recovery may still cause changes in the original location. 4.7 Recovering file versions If you need to recover a specific version of a file, select the file in the Backup Explorer. When you select the file, the View versions link appears below the file size information.
in the system you originally backed up. This may be useful, for example, after replacing a failed motherboard or when deciding to migrate the system from a desktop to a laptop. You can use Acronis Universal Restore for recovering your system disk both from tib and vhd files. Acronis Universal Restore is unavailable when recovering the system partition from an Acronis Nonstop Backup.
During the first booting, Windows will display numerous "Found new hardware" pop-up messages and will then ask you to reboot the computer. If you use Acronis Universal Restore for recovering a backup of multiboot configuration with two or more editions of Windows, the most critical drivers will be replaced for all Windows installations. Recovering your system with the help of Acronis Universal Restore under rescue media In most cases it is preferable to use your bootable media for system recovery.
5. If the target hardware has a specific mass storage controller (such as an SCSI, RAID, or Fibre Channel adapter) for the hard disk(s), specify where to find the driver(s) for the specific hardware at the Drivers manager step. If the driver(s) is stored on a diskette or CD, select the Search removable media for device drivers box. If some drivers are stored on a local hard disk or a network share, select the Search for device drivers in the following locations box (when it is not selected by default).
4.9 4.9.1 Acronis Universal Restore Purpose of Acronis Universal Restore Universal Restore is part of the Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack which must be purchased separately. Acronis True Image Home 2011 Plus Pack has its own license and is installed from its own setup file. You need to re-create bootable media in order to make the newly installed Universal Restore add-on operational in the bootable recovery environment.
4.9.2 General principles of Acronis Universal Restore 1. Automatic selection of HAL and mass storage drivers Acronis Universal Restore searches the Windows default driver storage folders (in the image being restored) for HAL and mass storage device drivers and installs drivers that best fit the target hardware. You can specify a custom driver repository (a folder or folders on a network drive or CD) which will also be used to search for drivers.
GRUB), you might consider installing them to a Linux root (or boot) partition boot record instead of an MBR before activating Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. If a failure occurs, turn on the computer and press F11 when you see the "Press F11 for Acronis Startup Recovery Manager" message. This will start a standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 that differs only slightly from the complete version. Browse for a backup containing an image of your system partition and recover your system.
When recovering a basic volume to an unallocated space of the dynamic group, the recovered volume becomes dynamic When recovering a basic disk to an unallocated space of a disk in the dynamic group, the disk becomes basic When recovering a basic disk to a dynamic disk of a dynamic group consisting of two disks, the recovered disk remains basic and the second disk of a spanned/striped dynamic volume becomes "missing" 4.
Some motherboards have a so called boot menu opened by pressing a certain key or key combination, for instance, F12. The boot menu allows selecting the boot device from a list of bootable devices without changing the BIOS setup. 4.14 Recovery options In the Disk Recovery Options, File Recovery Options and E-mail Recovery Options windows you can configure options for a disk/partition, file and e-mail recovery processes respectively.
In the Arguments field enter or select command execution arguments from the list. Disabling the Do not perform operations until the command execution is complete parameter (enabled by default), will permit the recovery process to run concurrently with your command execution. The Abort the operation if the user command fails (enabled by default) parameter will abort the operation if any errors occur in command execution. You can test the command you entered by clicking the Test command button. 4.14.
4.14.5 Overwrite file options Choose what to do if the program finds a file in the target folder with the same name as in the backup. By default, the program will not overwrite any files and folders, thus assigning the files on the hard disk unconditional priority over the files from the backup.
4.14.7 Notifications for recovery operation Sometimes a backup or recovery procedure can last an hour or longer. Acronis True Image Home 2011 can notify you when it is finished via e-mail. The program can also duplicate messages issued during the operation or send you the full operation log after operation completion. By default all notifications are disabled. Free disk space threshold You may want to be notified when the free space on the backup storage becomes less than the specified threshold value.
If your Internet service provider requires authorization on the incoming mail server before sending e-mails, select the Log on to incoming mail server check box, then enter the name of the POP3 server and set the port of the incoming mail server. To check whether your settings are correct, click the Send test message button. Additional notification settings: To send a notification concerning process completion, select the Send notification upon operation's successful completion check box.
5 Using Acronis Online Backup In this section What is Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup? .......................95 Subscription information .........................................................................95 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage ......................................................96 Recovery from Online Storage ...............................................................117 Removing data from Online Storage......................................................
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.
have forgotten your password, click Forgot password? and follow the instructions on the opened Web page. A new password will be sent to you by e-mail. have forgotten which e-mail address you used for opening your Acronis account, click Forgot Registration E-mail? and follow the instructions on the opened Web page. connect to the Internet via a proxy server, click Proxy settings and then provide the settings for your proxy server. For more information see Proxy settings (p. 112). 5.3.
After the computer connects to the Online Backup Server, set up an online backup task for this computer. For more information see Setting up online backup for a new computer (p. 99). What is an encryption key To protect your data on the online storage from unauthorized access, you can use encryption. In this case your files will be encrypted before transmission over the Internet and your data will be stored on the online storage in encrypted form.
5.3.2.1 Data encryption in Online Backup To protect your data on the online storage from unauthorized access, you can use encryption. In this case your data will be stored on the online storage in encrypted form. To encrypt and decrypt your data, the program needs the encryption key, that you should specify when you register your computer. An encryption key is a unique alphanumeric code, like a password. You can specify any set of characters you like. Note that the key is case-sensitive.
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. 100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
5.3.4 Main window This window shows the current state of your space on the Acronis Online Storage. The online storage space is presented as a stripe. All your registered computers are displayed as tabs that share the stripe. You can see the amount of storage space that every computer has used, as well as the amount of free space left on the Online Storage in accordance with your quota. If you want to increase the Online Storage space quota, click the "+" icon to the right of free space stripe.
Options - click to open the Options menu where you can specify all Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup options and settings, as well as remove a computer from the Online Storage. The Options menu includes the following items: What to Back Up - select to open the dialog box where you can specify the data to back up and the data you want to exclude from the backup. Your selection will be stored in the online backup task.
Click Options Schedule in the main window and set up scheduling for the online backup task. For more information see Scheduling (p. 106) Click the Back Up Now button if you want to start the first online backup immediately The first online backup may take a considerable amount of time to complete. Further backup processes will likely be much faster, because only changes to files will be transferred over the Internet. 5.3.5.
To include particular items in a folder, click the folder's name in the folders pane, and then select the items' check boxes in the folder contents pane. Excluding items File filtering can be applied to manually added folders by specifying which files to exclude from backup. For more information see Excluding items from online backup (p. 105).
5.3.5.2 Excluding items from online backup Excluding unnecessary files from online backup may be useful as the data transfer rate and available storage space are limited. To exclude files, click the corresponding link at the bottom of the What to back up window. 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 delete a criterion, for example, added by mistake, click the Delete icon to the right of the criterion. To cancel changes in the items to be excluded, click Cancel. After you make changes in the items to be excluded, click OK to confirm the changes and exit from the What to exclude window. 5.3.5.3 Scheduling The Scheduler window allows you to specify the online backup task execution settings. Choose one of the following backup frequencies: Daily (p.
Every () hours. Choose backup periodicity from the dropdown list (for, example, every 2 hours). This setting is available only for daily backups. Clicking the Do Not Schedule button turns off the scheduler and online backup will be performed only when you click Back Up Now in the main window. Advanced settings Clicking Advanced Settings allows you to specify the following additional settings for online backup scheduling.
Select the days on which to execute the task by clicking on their names. Start: either at a certain time or upon a certain event If you select At, set the task's start time. Enter hours and minutes manually, or set the desired start time, by using the up and down buttons. If you select Upon event, choose the event you need: At user logon, At user logoff, At system startup or At system shutdown. To run a backup only at the first occurrence of the event, select the Once a day only box.
5.3.5.4 Credentials In some cases when you plan an operation to be performed in the future, you have to specify the credentials (Windows account name and password of the user). For example, this is required when you schedule a backup or specify Pre/Post commands for backup operation. If you do not enter the credentials, scheduled execution will be impossible. To specify the credentials: Enter the user name in the appropriate field. By default this field displays the current user name.
5.3.6.1 Connection attempts On this page you can specify the number of connection attempts and the time interval between the attempts. 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. 5.3.6.
Select the Limit transfer rate to check box and specify an optimal value and an appropriate measure (kilobits or megabits per second) 5.3.6.3 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.
5.3.6.4 Proxy settings If your computer is connected to the Internet using a proxy server, you can adjust the proxy server settings. To use the proxy server, select the Use proxy check box. Acronis Online Backup supports only http and https proxy servers. To set up proxy server settings: In the Host name box, type the name or IP address of the proxy server, such as proxy.example.com or 192.168.0.
5.3.6.5 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. 5.3.6.
5.4 Recovery from Online Storage In this section Recovering data from Online Storage ....................................................117 Selecting a version to recover ................................................................118 Recovery operation progress .................................................................119 5.4.1 Recovering data from Online Storage Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup allows you to browse and recover data that was backed up on Online Storage.
Selecting data The main area displays the data backed up on the Online Storage. The area contains the folder tree (on the left) and the folder contents pane (on the right). You can select the items using both panes. To select multiple files/folders, you can use the Ctrl and Shift keys like in Windows Explorer. After you finish selection, right-click and select the required action in the shortcut menu.
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. 5.4.3 Recovery operation progress Once you start recovery of the selected files, the recovery progress window appears.
5.5 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.
5.6 Viewing Log If you want to view the log of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Online Backup 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.
6 Useful information In this section Protecting your system and data ...........................................................122 Preparing for backups ............................................................................125 Testing bootable rescue media ..............................................................129 Testing that your backups can be used for recovery .............................132 Trying system changes safely .................................................................
1. Start Acronis True Image Home 2011 and then click Disk and partition backup in the main window. 2. This opens the Disk Backup window with your system partition (usually C:) selected by default. 123 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
If you use Windows 7, the program will also select the System Reserved partition. Do not clear its check box, because you may need to recover that partition if your system crashes. 3. Select a destination for backup (you can leave the default destination or browse for a destination after clicking the down arrow to the right of the current destination and selecting Browse...). 4. Click Back up now.
6.2 Preparing for backups If you would like to create your own backup strategy, you will need to consider at least the following issues: where to store your backups, what data to back up and how often. The below sections will discuss these issues in detail. Incidentally, it would be a good idea to make some additional preparations before carrying out any backup, especially image backups. It is advisable to scan the system for viruses and malware to ensure that the backup does not contain any "surprises".
Due to the necessity of swapping discs, it is strongly recommended to avoid backing up to DVDs if the number of discs is more than three. When there is no alternative to backing up to DVDs, we recommend to copy all DVDs to a folder on a hard disk and then to recover from that folder. Acronis Online Backup Acronis True Image Home 2011 allows you to use Acronis Online Backup service for safeguarding your most important files by saving them to a secure remote location.
If you clear the Use NT authentication check box, the computer will try to log on automatically with the credentials used for logging on to Windows. Having provided the required information, click Connect. 6.2.2 Deciding what data to back up Operating systems and application software become ever larger (for example, Windows Vista x64 requires 15GB of free space on a hard disk).
6.2.3 Deciding how often to back up Disk and partition backups Let's first discuss backing up your system disk. Since it is impossible to know when it may crash, you must create the first system disk backup as soon as possible. Then you can decide how often to "refresh" that backup. You may also want to add new backups without deleting the old one, if you have available space on the storage device used for backups.
their native format by copying them using Windows Explorer. If those files are important to you, Acronis True Image Home 2011 has the Reserve backup copy feature. It can back up the same data files both in tib format and in native format to two different backup locations. You can schedule such backups as needed, for instance, on weekly basis if you regularly download new music files.
To check the drives, start Backup Wizard by clicking My Disks below Back Up on the Welcome screen. Select a disk to back up at the What to back up step and click Next. Click the Browse button to the right of the Backup location field. When the Browse for location window opens, check that all your drives are shown under My Computer. Having checked the drives, click Cancel to close Backup Wizard.
2. When the command line appears, type "vga=ask" (without quotes) and click OK. 3. Select Acronis True Image Home 2011 (Full version) in the boot menu to continue booting from the rescue media. To see the available video modes, press the Enter key when the appropriate message appears. 4. Choose a video mode you think best suitable for your monitor and type its number in the command line. For instance, typing 338 selects video mode 1600x1200x16 (see the below figure).
To test another video mode, close Acronis True Image Home 2011 and repeat the above procedure. After you find the optimal video mode for your hardware, you can create a new bootable rescue media that will automatically select that video mode. To do this, start Acronis Media Builder, select the required media components, and type the mode number with the "0x" prefix (0x338 in our instance) in the command line at the "Bootable media startup parameters" step, then create the media as usual. 6.
6.5 Trying system changes safely In this section What is Try&Decide ...............................................................................133 Starting the Try mode ............................................................................136 Stopping the Try mode...........................................................................136 Try&Decide options and notifications ...................................................136 Try&Decide: typical use cases ...................................
After starting Try mode you can safely install any system updates, drivers and applications without worrying about what might happen to your system. If anything goes wrong, you can simply discard the changes made in the Try mode. One of the best features of Try&Decide is that it isolates your "real" operating system from changes to the temporary operating system duplicate made by updates.
When your computer reboots for whatever reason while working in the Try mode, before booting of the operating system starts, you will be shown a dialog offering you two choices – stop the mode and discard changes or continue working in the mode. This will allow you to discard the changes that have resulted in a system crash. On the other hand, if you reboot, for example, after installing an application, you can continue working in the Try mode after starting Windows.
Try&Decide and Nonstop Backup cannot work simultaneously. Starting the Try mode suspends Nonstop Backup. Nonstop Backup will resume after you stop the Try mode. 6.5.2 Starting the Try mode To start the Try mode: Click Try & Decide in the main program menu. Set up the Try&Decide options: Protected partitions (p. 137) Storage for virtual changes (p. 137) Alert settings (p. 137) Start the Try mode by clicking the Try & Decide icon.
Protected partitions: specify the partitions you want to protect from unauthorized changes during a Try&Decide session. By default, T&D protects the system partition (Disk C), though you may add other partitions or disks in your system. Storage for virtual changes: specify where Try&Decide will store information about virtual changes to your system. By default, T&D saves the information to a free space on Disk C.
Having specified the alert settings, click OK. 6.5.5 Try&Decide: typical use cases The Try&Decide feature can help you in various circumstances, for example: Software testing There are known cases when installation of antivirus software cripples functionality of some applications or they may even refuse to launch after antivirus installation. The Try&Decide utility can help you to avoid such a problem.
Install the software application you want to evaluate. Try using the application. When you want to uninstall it, just discard all the changes made to your computer in the Try mode. This may come in handy not only for those who, for example, like to play a lot of games but for professional software testers as well – to use on their testing machines. Web privacy Suppose you do not want anybody to know, which Web sites you have visited or which pages you have opened - we all have the right to privacy.
Daily (p. 140) - the operation will be executed once a day or more frequently. Monthly (p. 141) - the operation will be executed once a month or several times a month on the selected dates. Upon event (p. 141) - the operation will be executed upon an event. Weekly (p. 141) - the operation will be executed once a week or several times a week on the selected days. Clicking the Do not schedule button turns off the scheduler for the current operation.
If you select At, set the operation's start time. Enter hours and minutes manually, or set the desired start time using the up and down buttons. You can specify several start times by clicking Add. If you select Every, choose daily operation periodicity from the dropdown list (for example, every 2 hours). Description of the Advanced settings see in Scheduling (p. 139). 6.6.
6.7 Searching backups and their content In this section Searching ................................................................................................142 Windows Search and Google Desktop integration ................................143 6.7.1 Searching In addition to the ability to explore backups, Acronis True Image Home 2011 provides search for files in your backups. Enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the Acronis True Image Home 2011 window.
"my". It should be noted that search is case-insensitive, i.e. "Backup" and "backup" is the same search string. When a file is included in several backups and it has been modified, the search results will show the number of file versions in the appropriate column. Clicking on the number in this column opens the View Versions window where you can select the version you want to recover.
1. To install the plug-in, click the down arrow to the right of the Search field at the upper right corner of the main program window. Then choose Search options in the drop-down menu and select the Google Desktop check box. The following window appears: 2. Click OK to start plug-in installation. One more confirmation window may appear. In this case click OK to finish the installation. 3. Verify that the plug-in is installed.
4. Right-click on the Google Desktop icon in your system tray once more and select Indexing Re-Index. Click Yes in the confirmation window that appears. Google Desktop will add all the new content to the existing index. Give Google Desktop some time for indexing all Acronis backups on your computer's hard disks and adding the indexing information to its index database. The required time depends on the number of Acronis backups and the number of files they contain.
Clicking in the browser window on a line related to the desired file version opens a small dialog with just two options: View and Recover. Choosing View starts the application associated with this file type and opens the file. Choosing Recover starts Acronis True Image Home 2011 and you can then recover the file to a desired location.
following window appears. Make sure that the "tib://..." item is present in the Included Locations list. To open the Indexing Options window in Windows Vista or Windows 7, open the Control Panel and then double-click the Indexing Options icon. The Windows Vista and Windows 7 indexing options have some differences in content and appearance, though most of the following information is applicable to those operating systems as well. 3.
4. Click OK and while the Indexing Options window is open, check that the disks where you store your backups are shown in the "Included Locations" list. If the list does not contain those disks, the backups will not be indexed. To include the disks, click Modify and select them in the window that appears. If you store backups on a network share, Windows Search can index them too.
Give Windows Search some time for indexing Acronis backups on your computer's hard disks and adding the indexing information to its index database. The required time depends on the number of backups and the number of files they contain. After completing the indexing, the Windows Search will be able to search files in tib backups.
Windows Vista Search results 6.8 Choosing columns for viewing in wizards You can change the way the columns are represented in various wizards. To sort items by a particular column, click the header (another click will switch the items to the opposite order). To select columns to view, right-click in the right pane and select Choose Columns in the shortcut menu. Then flag the columns you want to display. You can also change the display order of columns using the Move Up and Move Down buttons.
7 Tools & Utilities Acronis Tools & Utilities include Protection tools, Conversion tools, Disk management utilities, Security and privacy utilities, Mounting tools and Backup settings transfer tools. Protection tools: Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Allows you to start Acronis True Image Home 2011 without loading the operating system by pressing F11 at boot time before the operating system starts.
Mounting tools: Mount image With this tool you can explore a previously created image. You will be able to assign temporary drive letters to the partition images and easily access these images as ordinary, logical drives. Unmount image With this tool you can unmount the temporary logical drives you have created to explore an image. Conversion tools: Convert Acronis backup to Windows backup Use the feature to convert a backup file format from tib to vhd.
2. Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated, it overwrites the master boot record (MBR) with its own boot code. If you have any third-party boot managers installed, you will need to reactivate them after the Startup Recovery Manager has been activated. For Linux loaders (e.g. LiLo and GRUB), you might consider installing them to a Linux root (or boot) partition boot record instead of MBR before activating Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.
If you have chosen not to install the Bootable Media Builder during Acronis True Image Home 2011 installation, you will not be able to use this feature. When booting from the Rescue Media, you cannot perform backups to disks or partitions with Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, ReiserFS, and Linux SWAP file systems. To create bootable media: Run the Acronis Media Builder wizard.
Acronis System Report - the component allows you to generate a system report that is used for collecting information about your system in case of any program problem. Report generation will be available before you start Acronis True Image Home 2011 from the bootable media. The generated system report can be saved to a USB flash drive. To select a component: Select the check box of the program you want to include into the bootable media.
Description The following parameters can be used to load Linux kernel in a special mode: acpi=off Disables ACPI and may help with a particular hardware configuration. noapic Disables APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) and may help with a particular hardware configuration. nousb Disables loading of USB modules. nousb2 Disables USB 2.0 support. USB 1.1 devices still work with this option. This option allows using some USB drives in USB 1.1 mode, if they do not work in USB 2.
Gets the list of the video modes available for your video card and allows selecting a video mode most suitable for the video card and monitor. Try this option, if the automatically selected video mode is unsuitable for your hardware. 7.2.1.3 Bootable media selection Select a destination for bootable media creation: CD-R/RW - if you are creating CD, insert a blank disc so that the program can determine its capacity.
To cancel operation and quit Acronis Media Builder, click Cancel. After you create a boot disc, mark it and keep it in a safe place. Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions. Due to this reason, we strongly recommend that you create a new bootable media after each Acronis True Image Home 2011 upgrade.
Go to the Acronis True Image Home 2011 installation folder. (The default folder is C:\Program Files\Acronis or C:\Program Files\Acronis\Media Add-ons). Rename the BartPE folder to Acronis. Copy this folder into the Plugin folder in the BartPE builder installation directory.
Close the Plugins window and click the Build button to start the building process. If you want the image to be burned to CD, select the Burn to CD option and choose the necessary burner in the Device menu; After the image is created, burn it to CD or DVD. (If you did not check the Burn to CD option at the previous step.) After booting from the CD/DVD, you can find the Acronis True Image Home 2011 plug-in in Go/System/Storage.
4. Install Microsoft Core XML (MSXML) 6.0 Parser from this kit. 5. Install Windows AIK from this kit. It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with the help documentation supplied with Windows AIK. A good starting point is the "Create an image" section of "Getting Started for IT Professionals" white paper. To access the document, select Microsoft Windows AIK Documentation Getting Started for IT Professionals from the Start menu.
4. Specify the path to the folder WinPE\ISO, e.g. c:\winpe_x86\ISO. 5. On the next screen choose the Add components and build an ISO option and click Next. 6. Specify the full path to the resulting image file including the filename or leave the default path and filename (AcronisMedia.iso). 162 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
7. Check your settings in the summary screen and click Proceed. 8. Burn the .ISO to a CD using a third-party tool (for example, Nero) and you will have a bootable Windows PE disc with Acronis True Image Home 2011. Once a machine boots into WinPE, Acronis True Image Home 2011 starts automatically. Be aware that startup may take a considerable amount of time. 7.2.3.2 Adding the Acronis Plug-in to the existing WinPE 2.x or 3.
2. Specify the path to the source WINPE.WIM file. The standard path to this file for x86 hardware is \Program Files\Windows AIK\Tools\PETools\X86\winpe.wim. 3. Specify the full path to the resulting WIM file, including the filename or leave the default path and filename (AcronisMedia.wim). 4. Check your settings in the summary screen and click Proceed. To create a PE image (ISO file) from the resulting WIM file: 1. Select Microsoft Windows AIK Windows PE Tools Command Prompt from the Start menu. 2.
In the Acronis True Image Home 2011, the zone is listed along with all locations available for storing backups. Certain Windows applications, such as Acronis disk management tools, can access the Acronis Secure Zone. When you create an Acronis Secure Zone, an icon appears under My Computer in the Other section. Double-clicking on the Acronis Secure Zone icon opens the Secure Zone and you can view all the backups it contains.
You can back up data automatically on a schedule (see Scheduling (p. 139)). In order to not worry about zone overflow during a scheduled backup, it is recommended to select the When not enough space in ASZ, delete the oldest backup box in the scheduled backup options (Error handling). 7.3.2 Acronis Secure Zone location If you are creating the Acronis Secure Zone, select a disk and its partition whose space will be used to create Acronis Secure Zone.
To select a partition: Select the appropriate partition check box and click Next. 7.3.4 Size of Acronis Secure Zone You can specify the size of the Acronis Secure Zone. The minimum size is about 50 MB, depending on the geometry of the hard disk. The maximum size is equal to the disk’s unallocated space plus the total free space on all partitions selected at the previous step. When creating/enlarging the Acronis Secure Zone, the program will first use the unallocated space.
7.3.5 Managing Acronis Secure Zone You can manage the Acronis Secure Zone. Increase size (p. 168) - choose this item if you want to increase the size of the Acronis Secure Zone. Decrease size (p. 168) - choose this item if you want to decrease the size of the Acronis Secure Zone. Remove (p. 170) - choose this item if you want to remove the Acronis Secure Zone from your hard disk. Convert file system to NTFS (p.
7.3.5.3 Acronis Secure Zone protection Here, you can set up password protection for the Acronis Secure Zone in order to prevent it from unauthorized access. The program will ask for the password at any operation relating to the Acronis Secure Zone such as data backup and recovery, mounting images or validating backups in the Acronis Secure Zone, resizing and deleting the Acronis Secure Zone.
7.3.5.4 Convert file system to NTFS When you upgrade from a previous version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 and the Acronis Secure Zone exists in your system, you can convert the zone file system from FAT32 to NTFS. Such a conversion will not result in the loss of backups you already have in the Acronis Secure Zone. It is recommended to convert the zone file system if you plan to use the Acronis Secure Zone as the Acronis Nonstop Backup data storage.
Click the Proceed button to start the listed operations. Click the Options button if you want to protect Acronis Secure Zone with a password. Click the Cancel button to exit the wizard without performing any operations. 7.4 Cloning a hard disk In this section General information...............................................................................171 Security ..................................................................................................172 Selecting clone mode ...............
7.4.2 Security Please note the following: if the power goes off or you accidentally press RESET during the transfer, the procedure will be incomplete and you will have to partition and format or clone the hard disk again. No data will be lost because the original disk is only being read (no partitions are changed or resized). The system transfer procedure does not alter the original disk at all. After the procedure finishes, you might want to format the old disk or securely wipe the data it contains.
7.4.4 Selecting a source disk You can determine the source and destination using the information provided in this window (disk number, capacity, label, partition and file system information). If the program finds several partitioned disks, it will ask you which is the source (i.e. the older data disk). The current Acronis True Image Home 2011 version does not support cloning of dynamic and GPT disks. Select the source disk and click Next to continue.
7.4.5 Selecting a destination disk After you select the source disk, you have to select the destination where the disk information will be copied to. The previously selected source becomes grayed-out and disabled for selection. Select the destination disk and click Next to continue. At this point, the program checks to see if the destination disk is free. If not, you will be prompted by the Conformation window stating that the destination disk contains partitions, perhaps with useful data.
Manual - you will specify a new size and other parameters yourself If you elect to transfer information "as is," a new partition will be created for every old one with the same size and type, file system and label. The unused space will become unallocated. Afterwards, you will be able to use the unallocated space to create new partitions or to enlarge the existing partitions with special tools, such as Acronis Disk Director Suite.
Along with the hard disk number, you can see disk capacity, the label, volume and file system information. Different volume types, including primary, logical and unallocated space are marked with different colors. To resize, change the volume type, change the label of the existing volume, right click on it, and select Edit in the shortcut menu. This will open the Partition Settings window.
If the cursor turns into two vertical lines with left and right arrows, it is pointed at the partition border and you can drag it to enlarge or reduce the partition's size. If the cursor turns into four arrows, it is pointed at the partition, so you can move it to the left or right (if there's unallocated space near it). Having provided the new location and size, click Accept. You will be taken back to the Change disk layout window.
Cloning a non-system disk or a disk containing an operating system, but one that is not currently active, will proceed without the need to reboot. After you click Proceed, Acronis True Image Home will start cloning the old disk to the new disk, indicating the progress in a special window. You can stop this procedure by clicking Cancel. In that case, you will have to repartition and format the new disk or repeat the cloning procedure. After the cloning operation is complete, you will see the results message.
7.5.1 Selecting a hard disk Select the disk that you have added to the computer. If you have added several disks, select one of them and click Next to continue. You can add the other disks later by restarting the Add New Disk Wizard. You can also see the properties of all the hard disks installed in your system, e.g. the name and the model of the selected disk drive, its capacity, file system and its interface. 7.5.
partition letter and label. If you allocate all unallocated space on the disk to the new partition, the Create new partition button disappears. 7.5.2.1 Partition settings Specify the settings for the partition being created. Size You can resize and relocate the partition being created. If you want to resize the partition: Point the cursor at the partition border. If the cursor is pointed exactly at the partition border, it will change into two vertical lines with arrows on each side.
one then no unallocated space will be reserved for system needs. Later, you may convert this unallocated area into a primary disk if there is any need for it. File System Choose the file system type for partition being created and click Next to continue. Different partitions may have different type of file system.
Partition letter Select a letter to be assigned to the partition being created from the drop-down list. If Auto is selected, the program assigns the first unused drive letter in alphabetical order. Partition label Partition label is a name, assigned to a partition so that you can easily recognize it. For example, one could be called System — a partition with an operating system, Program — an application partition, Data — a data partition, etc. Partition label is an optional attribute.
7.6 Security and Privacy Tools Acronis True Image Home 2011 contains utilities for secure destruction of data on an entire hard disk drive, and individual partitions. It can also erase individual files and eliminate traces of user system activity. When replacing your old hard drive with a new, higher-capacity one, you may accidentally leave personal and confidential information on the old disk. This information could be retrieved even if you have reformatted the disk.
Click Tools & Utilities on the toolbar, and select Acronis DriveCleanser. Follow the Acronis DriveCleanser wizard steps. 7.6.1.1 Data selection First, you must select the hard disk partitions where you want to destroy data. To select a partition, click the corresponding rectangle. You will see a red mark in the upper right corner indicating that the partition is selected. You can select an entire hard disk or several disks for data destruction.
If the disks and/or partitions you have selected include the system disk or partition, you will see a warning window. Be careful, because clicking OK in this warning window and then Proceed in the Summary window will result in wiping the system partition containing your Windows operating system. 7.6.1.2 Algorithm selection Acronis DriveCleanser utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction algorithms. Select the desired algorithm from the drop-down list.
Acronis DriveCleanser offers you another useful capability — to estimate the results of executing a data destruction algorithm on a hard disk or partition. It features an integrated Disk Editor (hard disk browsing tool). The aforementioned algorithms offer various levels of confidential data destruction. Thus the picture you might see on a disk or partition depends on the data destruction algorithm. But what you actually see are disk sectors filled with either zeros or random symbols.
The window has the following legend: The first column of the list contains the type of operation on a disk (there are just two: to write a symbol to disk, "writing"; and to verify written, "verification"); the second column contains the pattern of data to be written to disk. The pattern to be written is always a hexadecimal value, for example, a value of this kind: 0x00, 0xAA, or 0xCD, etc. These values are 1 byte long, but they may be up to 512 bytes long.
In the same way, you can create any data destruction algorithm to match your security requirements. Saving custom algorithm In the next Saving Custom Algorithm window, you will be able to save the algorithm you have created. This will be useful if you are going to use it again. In order to save your algorithm, you need to give it a filename and define the path in the Select file field or locate an existing file on the disk. Each custom algorithm is stored in a separate file with its own name.
Click the Options button to perform the optional steps. Click the Cancel button to exit the wizard without performing any operations. 7.6.1.5 Disk Editor (read-only mode) Acronis DriveCleanser offers you another useful capability — to estimate the results of executing a data destruction method on a hard disk or partition. To view the state of your cleaned up disks or partitions, click Tools & Utilities on the toolbar.
Click OK to begin searching. After the search process is finished, the current position will be moved to where a line was found, or will remain the same if no lines were found. You can search for the next line from the current position by selecting the Search again item in the Search menu or by pressing the F3 key. Go to sector You can go to the necessary sector according to its absolute offset by selecting the Go to… line in the Search menu (or by pressing the Alt+P key combination).
Having selected the contents for shredding, click Next to continue. 7.6.2.2 Data destruction method selection File Shredder utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction methods. Here, you need to select the desired data destruction method. The data destruction methods are described in detail in Hard Disk Wiping Methods (p. 198) of this guide.
In some cases, the operation may take a long time to be completed. If this is the case, select the Shutdown the computer after completion check box. When the operation finishes, Acronis True Image Home 2011 will turn the computer off. 7.6.3 System Clean-up The System Clean-up wizard enables you to securely remove all traces of your PC actions stored by Windows.
After you run the wizard by selecting Tools & Utilities System Clean-up in the main program menu, it will search for any traces of user actions stored by Windows. When the search is finished, its results will be available at the top of the wizard window. You can view the search results and manually select the items you wish to remove. If you want to change the default system clean-up settings, click the corresponding link in the first window of the System Clean-up wizard.
Temporary files Hard disk free space Find Computer list Find File list Recently Used Documents list Windows Run List Opened/saved files history User Credentials Windows Prefetch Directory 7.6.3.2 Default clean-up options The default clean-up options are available by clicking the Click to change this setting… link on the Data Destruction Method option page. To change the default clean-up options: Choose on the tree the component clean-up settings which you need to change.
Data destruction method System Clean-up utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction methods. Here, you need to select the desired data destruction method. Use common method - if you leave this parameter selected, the program will use the default method (the initial setting is Fast method). If you need another destruction method to be set as a default, click on the corresponding link.
All files with names corresponding to at least one of the search strings will be cleaned. Upon entering the Files setting value, you can browse the files matching the search strings. To do this, click Show Files. You will see a window with the names of the found files. These files will be cleaned. Drive free space Here you can manually specify physical and/or logical drives to clean up free space on. By default, System Clean-up cleans up free space on all available drives.
After entering the Computers setting value, you can browse the search strings found by the System Clean-up Wizard in the registry. To do so, click Show Computers. You will see the window with full and partial computer names searched for in the network. These items will be deleted. "Commands" setting Here you can select the commands to remove during Windows Run List clean-up. This template can contain any command names or their parts separated by semicolons, e.g.
To select/unselect a component Expand the System Components item in the System Clean-up tree and make sure that the component you wish to clean up is selected. If you do not want to clean up a component, simply clear its check box. If required, you can dig deeper by expanding a component and selecting/unselecting its contents. Having specified the components for clean-up, click the Clean-up button to continue. Windows Vista and Windows 7 do not keep information on file and computer searches.
7.6.4.1 Functioning principles of Information wiping methods Physically, the complete wiping of information from a hard disk involves the switching of every elementary magnetic area of the recording material as many times as possible by writing specially selected sequences of logical 1's and 0's (also known as samples).
No. Algorithm (writing method) Passes Record cryptographically secure pseudo-random sequence. 8. Fast 7.7 1 Logical zeros (0x00 numbers) to all sectors to wipe. Mounting an image Acronis True Image Home 2011 offers mounting for images and exploring for both images and file-level backups. Exploring images and file-level backups lets you view their contents and copy the selected files to a hard disk. To explore a backup in Windows Explorer, double-click on the corresponding tib file.
If you selected a backup containing incremental images, you can select one of the successive incremental images (also called "backup versions") by its creation date/time. Thus, you can explore the data state at a certain moment. To mount an incremental image, you must have all previous backup versions and the initial full backup. If any of the successive backups are missing, mounting is not possible. To mount a differential image, you must have the initial full image as well.
You can also select a letter to be assigned to the virtual disk from the Mount letter drop-down list. If you do not want to mount a partition, select Do not mount in the list or clear the partition's check box. 4. If you select the Mount the partitions in the read-write mode box, the program assumes that the mounted image will be modified and creates an incremental backup file to capture the changes. It is strongly recommended that you list the forthcoming changes in the Comments section to this file.
If you have mounted several partitions, by default all of them will be selected for unmounting. You can disconnect all mounted drives together or disconnect only those you do not need mounted anymore. You can also do this in Windows Explorer by right-clicking on the disk icon and choosing Unmount. 7.9 Working with vhd files In this section Converting tib images into vhd virtual disks and vice versa ..................203 Recovery using vhd files created by Windows Backup ..........................
1. Click Convert Acronis backup to Windows backup on the Tools & Utilities screen. 2. Select the disk image to convert. If the backup is password-protected, Acronis True Image Home 2011 will ask for it. Note that the resulting vhd file will lose password protection. Converting an incremental backup requires all the previous incremental backups and the original full backup. Converting a differential backup requires the original full backup. The result of conversion will always be a full backup. 3.
1. Click Convert Windows backup to Acronis backup on the Tools & Utilities screen. 2. Select the vhd file to convert. 3. Specify the path to the tib file to be created. By default, the converted file will be created in the same location as the file to be converted. However, you can select another location by clicking Browse. The file can be directed to any storage supported by Acronis True Image Home 2011, except for Acronis Secure Zone. 4.
4. Choose the vhd backup file to be used for recovery by its creation date. When the required vhd backup is not shown, click Browse, choose Windows Backup Archives (*.vhd) in the "Files of type" field and locate the backup for recovery. Even if the required vhd backup is shown on the screen, after you choose it Acronis True Image Home 2011 may display the following message: "Acronis True Image Home 2011 cannot detect volume 1 of "Backup_Name" archive", where Backup_Name is the name of the chosen backup.
into a tib file. When you boot from a dynamic vhd file, the VHD is automatically expanded to the maximum size. If the physical host partition of the vhd file does not have enough free disk space for the maximum size of the dynamic VHD, the boot process will fail. Furthermore, you need to have additional space for the paging file (Pagefile.sys), as the paging file is created on the host partition outside the virtual one.
list of items for backup backup options backup location schedule backup scheme automatic clean-up rules backup version naming rules The settings of Nonstop Backup are as follows: list of items for nonstop protection Nonstop Backup data storage location (a list of locations, if there are several) You cannot import Online Backup settings from one computer to another. To export the settings of your existing backups, click Tools & Utilities on the menu bar.
8 Troubleshooting In this section General recommendations ....................................................................209 Acronis System Report ...........................................................................210 Acronis Smart Error Reporting ...............................................................210 Creating a custom rescue CD .................................................................212 Viewing Log ...........................................................................
System report Acronis Support personnel may request you to provide the system report. To create the report, select Generate system report in the Help menu, then save the report and send it to Acronis Customer Central. For more information see Acronis System Report (p. 210). 8.2 Acronis System Report When you contact the Acronis support team, they will usually need information about your system in order to resolve your problem.
You can view more detailed information about the error by clicking the More details link in the message box. The detailed information may look like as is shown on the following screen shot: To view the Acronis Knowledge Base article suggesting a solution(s) for correcting the error, click the Knowledge Base button. This will open a confirmation window that lists the information to be sent via Internet to the Acronis Knowledge Base. Click OK to permit sending the information.
More information about this error and an applicable solution may be available online in the Acronis Knowledge base. To access the online resource manually, enter the event code at: http://kb.acronis.com/errorcode/ Event code: 0x00970007+0x00970016+0x00970002" The event codes from different modules are combined with "+" symbols. When manually entering such event codes into the appropriate field to search in the Knowledge Base, enter the event code components without spaces around the "+" symbols.
If you want to view the log of Acronis True Image Home 2011 operations, click Help View 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 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.
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9 Glossary of Terms A Acronis Secure Zone A secure partition for storing backups (p. 215) on a hard disk.
Bootable media A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or other media supported by a machine BIOS as a boot device) that contains stanalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011. Bootable media is most often used to: D Differential backup 1. A backup method used for saving data changes that occurred since the last full backup version (p. 216) within a backup. 2. A backup process that creates a differential backup version (p. 216).
Incremental backup 1. A backup method used for saving data changes that occurred since the last backup version (p. 215) (of any type) within a backup. 2. A backup process that creates an incremental backup version (p. 217). Incremental backup version R Recovery Recovery is a process of returning of a corrupted data to a previous normal state from a backup (p. 215). V A backup version (p. 215) that stores changes to the data against the latest backup version.
