User's Manual

15. Searching backup archives and their content

15.1. Searching

In addition to the ability to explore backup archives, Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition

provides a search facility for tib and zip archives themselves, for files in tib archives only, as well as

offering full-text search in the comments to archives. This facilitates searching for the information

you need for using Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition and for recovering files from your

backup archives. Here's how you can search for the data you need.

1. Enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the Acronis True Image Home 2010

Netbook Edition window and then click the magnifying glass icon. You will be taken to the Data

recovery and backup management screen. The search results are output in the corresponding

tab of the window.

2. By default the search is performed in all the sources where Acronis True Image Home 2010

Netbook Edition can search information. You can select an information source of interest by

choosing the appropriate area among Backup names and Backup contents.

Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition cannot perform search on network shares, Acronis Online

Storage, and devices that are recognized by Windows as Devices with removable storage.

• The Backup names area shows the results of the search for tib and zip archives by archive

filename. Double-clicking on a filename opens the corresponding archive in Windows Explorer

where you can explore the archive contents. You can validate or recover the archive by right-

clicking on its filename and choosing the appropriate item in the shortcut menu. The shortcut

menu contains the following items: Recover, Update, Mount (for image backups), Validate,

Move, Remove, Consolidate, Explore backup, Convert Acronis backup (or Convert Windows