User's Manual

Table of Contents
1. Introduction .............................................................................................................. 7
1.1. What is Acronis® True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition? .............................................. 7
1.2. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition basic concepts ...................................... 8
1.3. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition advantages ......................................... 10
1.4. System requirements and supported media .................................................................... 10
1.4.1. Minimum system requirements ............................................................................................................ 10
1.4.2. Supported operating systems ................................................................................................................ 11
1.4.3. Supported file systems ........................................................................................................................... 11
1.4.4. Supported storage media ...................................................................................................................... 11
1.4.5. Compatible CPUs .................................................................................................................................... 12
1.5. Customer technical support .............................................................................................. 13
2. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition installation and startup ............... 14
2.1. Installing Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition ............................................. 14
2.2. Extracting Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition ........................................... 15
2.3. Running Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition .............................................. 15
2.4. Upgrading Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition ........................................... 15
2.5. Removing Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition ............................................ 16
3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ..................................... 17
3.1. The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ..................................... 17
3.2. Full, incremental and differential backups ....................................................................... 17
3.3. Backup file naming conventions ....................................................................................... 18
3.4. Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .................................................................................. 19
3.4.1. How it works ........................................................................................................................................... 19
3.4.2. How to use ............................................................................................................................................. 19
3.5. Viewing disk and partition information ............................................................................ 20
3.6. File Shredder and System Clean-up .................................................................................. 20
3.7. Support for Zip format ...................................................................................................... 20
3.8. Booting from system image tib files ................................................................................. 21
4. Preparing for disaster recovery ............................................................................... 22
4.1. How to prepare for disaster as best as you can ................................................................ 22
4.1.1. Recommendations for testing that your backups can be used for recovery ....................................... 22
4.1.2. Additional recommendations ................................................................................................................ 23
4.2. Testing bootable rescue media ......................................................................................... 23
4.3. Creating a custom rescue CD ............................................................................................ 26
5. Getting to know Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition .......................... 27
5.1. Program workspace .......................................................................................................... 27
5.2. Acronis One-click Backup .................................................................................................. 28
5.3. Main screens ..................................................................................................................... 30
5.4. Options screen .................................................................................................................. 33