User's Guide
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Table of contents 1 Acronis: Copyright Statement Consumer ................................................................................. 2 2 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 4 2.1 What is Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup? .........................................................4 2.2 System requirements ...................................................................................
2 Introduction 2.1 What is Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup? Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup is an application that allows you to use Acronis Online Backup service for safeguarding your most important files. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup allows you to save important files to a secure remote location and recover them when the need arises. Because files are stored on a remote storage, they are protected even if your computer gets stolen or your house burns down.
Run the setup file. Before starting the setup process, Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup will check for the newer build on the Web site. If there is one, the newer version will be offered for installation. In the Install Menu, click on the Install Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup to launch the installation procedure. Read and accept the terms of the license agreement in the License Agreement window. In the Custom Setup window, click the Browse...
If you use Windows Vista, select Start -> Control panel -> Programs and Features -> Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup -> Remove. Then follow the instructions on the screen. You may have to reboot your computer afterwards to complete the task. 5. Extracting Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup When installing Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup, you can save the setup (.msi) file on a local or network drive. This will help when recovering the existing component installation.
Then provide a password for your new account and confirm the password by retyping it once more in the appropriate field. When you have performed all actions necessary for account registration, please wait for an e-mail message that will confirm opening of the account. To keep your personal data secure, choose a strong password for your online backups, guard it from getting into the wrong hands, and change it from time to time.
On the main program window click the Help arrow, and select Generate System Report After the report is generated: To save the generated system report to file, click Save and in the opened window specify a location for the created file. Then you will be able to send the report to Acronis support team/ To save the generated system report to file and send it to Acronis support team right away, click Save and Send and specify a location for the created file.
Every time you back up the same file, Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup creates versions of the file on the Online Storage. When recovering the file you will be able to select the version that you need. For all other computers you can only browse and recover the backed up data that is stored on the Online Storage. Toolbar The toolbar contains the following buttons: Back Up Now - click to run the online backup task now (present only for the current computer).
4 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage 4.1 Log in to the online storage To use the Acronis Online Storage, you must first subscribe to the Online Backup service. To do this: Click Subscribe to Online Backup service When the Web page opens, follow the instructions on the page. For more details see Subscription information (p. 6). Connecting to the online storage To access the online storage: Enter the E-mail address and password of your Acronis account, and then click the Log In button.
4.2 Computer selection If this is the first time that you are logging on to the online storage, you will be prompted to register your computer on the online storage. To register a computer on the online storage: Type a name for the computer (for example, My home PC) in the appropriate field and then select an icon for the computer. You can type any name, not necessarily the computer's network name.
Type the encryption key, if necessary. Click the Continue button. Removing a computer This screen allows you to remove a computer from the registered computers list. Removing a computer results in deleting all data that was backed up from that computer, so such an operation must be carried out with caution. To remove a computer, select it by its name and click the Remove button, then click Yes in the confirmation window. 4.2.
To start backup immediately, click Back Up Now. You can also delay online backup start for up to 6 hours by clicking the down arrow to the right of this button and selecting a delay interval from the dropdown list. 4.4 Online backup task creation The online backup task allows you to schedule the backup to the online storage. You can create one online backup task only. The task will be run even after you log off the online storage.
When selecting the file category(ies) to back up, you can include the following default categories: Documents, Finance, Images, Video, and Music. Each category represents all files of associated types found on the computer's hard drives. Furthermore, you can add any number of custom categories containing files and folders. The new categories will be saved and displayed along with the above. You can change the contents of any custom or default file category (edit the category) or delete it.
new category will contain All data from the source in the data source, but you can apply filters to select the specific types of files that you wish or do not wish to back up. To set a filter, select its type: Only the following file types or All data except the following file types. You can add file types for the selected filter by entering their extensions in the appropriate field one at a time and then clicking Add. The added file types appear in the window below. 4.4.
You can exclude hidden and system files from online backup by selecting the corresponding check boxes. In addition, you can exclude files meeting the criteria you specify. To do this, select the Files matching the following criteria check box, enter the exclusion criterion, and then click Add. You can enter explicit file names for exclusion from the backup: file.ext - all such files will be excluded from the backup. C:\file.ext- the file.ext file on the C: disk will be excluded.
4.4.3 Scheduling The Scheduler window allows you to specify the online backup task execution settings. You have to specify the credentials (the name and password of the user who owns the task being scheduled); otherwise no scheduled execution will be available. To specify the credentials: Enter the user name in the appropriate field. By default this field displays the current user name. Enter the password in the appropriate field.
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. To postpone a scheduled task until the next time the computer is not in use (screen saver is displayed or computer is locked), select the Run the task only when the computer is idle check box.
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. If you select Every, choose daily backup periodicity from the dropdown list (for, example, every 2 hours).
The progress bar indicates the level of completion of the online backup. In some cases, the online backup operation may take a long time to be completed. If this is the case, select the Shut down the computer after the backup is complete check box. When the backup finishes, Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup will turn the computer off. You can also close the progress window by clicking Hide. The backup will continue, but you will be able to close the main program window.
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. 5.2 Storage connection speed You can reduce the influence of the online storage connection on other network connections of your computer.
5.3 Storage cleanup You can configure the cleanup settings for the Online storage to optimize usage of its space. To set the limits for the amount of versions in the Online storage: Select the Delete versions that are older than check box and enter a value that limits the maximum age of the older versions. All other versions will be automatically deleted except the most recent versions.
To test the proxy server settings, click the Test Connection button. If you do not know your proxy server settings, contact your network administrator or Internet service provider for assistance. Alternatively, you can try to take these settings from your browser's configuration. Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
5.5 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.
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.
5.8 Acronis Customer Experience Program Acronis Customer Experience Program (CEP) is a new way to allow Acronis customers to contribute to the features, design and development of Acronis products. This program enables our customers to provide us with various information, including information about the hardware configuration of your host computer, the features you use most (and least), and the nature of the problems you face.
6 Recovery from Online Storage 6.1 Recovering data from Online Storage Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup allows you to browse and recover data that was backed up on Online Storage. If you have backed up data from several computers, select the computer from which you backed up the data you want to recover. If the data from the selected computer is stored on the Online Storage in encrypted form, you will be asked to enter the encryption key which has been used for encryption.
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. 6.3 Recovery operation progress Once you start recovery of the selected files, the recovery progress window appears.
7 Viewing Log If you want to view the log of Acronis True Image Home 2010 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.
O 8 Index Online Backup settings • 20 Online backup task creation • 13 A Acronis Copyright Statement Consumer • 2 Acronis Customer Experience Program • 20, 27 Acronis True Image Home 2010 Online Backup installation and startup • 4 B Backing up to Acronis Online Storage • 10 P Pre/Post commands • 20, 26 Proxy settings • 10, 20, 22 R Recovering data from Online Storage • 28 Recovery from Online Storage • 28 Recovery operation progress • 30 Backup operation progress • 19 S Backup priority • 20, 24 Sc