User's Manual

1.3. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition

advantages

• Online backup – you can make your critically important data much more secure by storing it off-

site. Because files are stored on a remote storage, they are protected even if your computer gets

stolen or your house burns down. So the risk of data loss as a result of fire, theft, or other natural

disasters is practically eliminated. And you can safely recover any corrupted, lost or deleted files

on your computer. Integrating Online backup into Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook

Edition provides a single solution for all your data backup needs.

• Powerful scheduler - The scheduler became more powerful and flexible. We expanded the set of

already existing scheduling options. The new scheduler allows you to specify the date when a

scheduled task should run for the first time. While scheduling a monthly task, you can use a

month calendar for specifying the date (e.g. 1st day of the month) or dates for running the task

(e.g. on 10th, 20th, Last day of the month). If you do not need to run a scheduled task for some

time, but intend to use it again in the future, you can disable the task for the time being and then

re-enable it when required. So it is not necessary to recreate the task from scratch. You can clone

a scheduled task and then introduce some minor changes into the duplicate. This may be useful

when creating several similar tasks. In combination with a selected backup method and

automatic consolidation rules, the scheduler allows implementing various backup strategies.

• Selective validation – Earlier versions of Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition could

validate only a whole backup archive. Sometimes this may be inconvenient. Suppose, you have a

full backup archive with a size of 20GB and a longish chain of differential backups having sizes of

several gigabytes each and amounting to 100GB. In this case Acronis True Image Home 2010

Netbook Edition validated the whole 120GB archive and this could take quite a long time. Now

the program will validate just a single selected differential backup and the full one.

• VHD format support – Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) is a file format containing the complete contents

and structure representing a hard disk drive. Furthermore, Windows Backup utility included into

Windows Vista (except Home editions) and Windows 7 operating systems now uses this format

for backing up an image of the system hard drive when users select the "Complete PC Backup"

option. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition can convert vhd files into tib files and

vice versa, recover operating system from vhd files, and even boot from vhd images of Windows

• Booting from tib images containing Windows 7 – Users of the Windows 7 Enterprise and

Windows 7 Ultimate can boot from a tib image containing a backup of their system partition. This

will allow testing the bootability of the backed up system without actual recovery. If the

operating system boots from the tib file, then it will definitely boot after recovery from that tib

file.

1.4. System requirements and supported media

1.4.1. Minimum system requirements

The hardware requirements of Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition correspond to the

minimum requirements for the operating system installed on the computer to be used for running

Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition. In addition Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook

Edition requires the following hardware:

• USB drive for bootable media creation

• Mouse or other pointing device (recommended).