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Table Of Contents
- END-USER LICENSE AGREEMENT
- Introduction
- Installation and operation
- General program information
- Creating a partition (disk) image
- Restoring a disk (partition) from an image
- Browsing and restoring individual files
- Transferring the system to a new disk
- Adding a new hard disk
- Scheduled tasks
- Other operations
- Troubleshooting
- Partitions and file systems
- Hard disks and BIOS setup
Acronis True Image User’s Guide
Copyright © SWsoft, 2000–2003
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Image mode selection
A complete image contains all hard disk data, so it takes a lot of space.
An incremental image contains data only from parts that changed after the previous
complete or incremental image was created, so it's usually smaller and takes less
time to create.
Therefore, if you create the first disk (partition) image, you should select the
complete mode.
If you already have a complete image, it is recommended that you create
incremental images.
(Having a policy for creating full and incremental images is recommended. For
example, you might consider creating a full image monthly and incremental images
weekly.)
Selecting the previous image
If you select incremental image, you must also provide the previous one (complete
or incremental) for the new image to be created. Together with the initial complete
image, incremental images make the single file set that must be stored on the same
device and in the same folder. If you use removable media, you can still place one
image file set on several CDs or DVDs.
Previous image selection