User's Manual

10. Additional recovery information ............................................................................. 84
10.1. Recovery Wizard - detailed information ........................................................................... 84
10.1.1. Starting the Recovery Wizard ................................................................................................................ 84
10.1.2. Archive selection .................................................................................................................................... 84
10.1.3. Recovery method selection ................................................................................................................... 85
10.1.4. Selecting a disk/partition to recover ..................................................................................................... 86
10.1.5. Selecting a target disk/partition ............................................................................................................ 87
10.1.6. Changing the recovered partition type ................................................................................................. 88
10.1.7. Changing the recovered partition size and location ............................................................................. 88
10.1.8. Assigning a letter to the recovered partition ........................................................................................ 89
10.1.9. Setting recovery options ........................................................................................................................ 89
10.1.10. Executing recovery ................................................................................................................................. 89
10.2. Setting default recovery options ....................................................................................... 90
10.2.1. File recovery options .............................................................................................................................. 90
10.2.2. Overwrite file options ............................................................................................................................ 90
10.2.3. Pre/post commands ............................................................................................................................... 91
10.2.4. Recovery priority .................................................................................................................................... 91
11. Scheduling tasks ..................................................................................................... 92
11.1. Creating scheduled tasks .................................................................................................. 92
11.1.1. Setting up once only execution ............................................................................................................. 93
11.1.2. Setting up upon event execution .......................................................................................................... 93
11.1.3. Setting up periodical execution ............................................................................................................. 94
11.1.4. Setting up daily execution ...................................................................................................................... 95
11.1.5. Setting up weekly execution .................................................................................................................. 96
11.1.6. Setting up monthly execution ............................................................................................................... 96
11.2. Importing scheduled tasks when upgrading ..................................................................... 97
11.3. Managing scheduled tasks ................................................................................................ 98
11.4. Examples of backup scheduling scenarios ........................................................................ 98
11.4.1. Full backups with automatic deletion on quota violation .................................................................... 98
11.4.2. Full backups with automatic deletion when backup storage is filled ................................................... 99
11.4.3. Full + incremental/differential backups with automatic rotation ........................................................ 99
12. Creating bootable media ....................................................................................... 101
12.1. Creating Linux-based rescue media ................................................................................ 101
13. Working with vhd files .......................................................................................... 104
13.1. Converting tib images into vhd virtual disks and vice versa ........................................... 104
13.1.1. Converting to Windows backup .......................................................................................................... 104
13.1.2. Converting to Acronis backup .............................................................................................................. 105
13.2. Recovery using vhd files created by Windows Backup ................................................... 106
13.3. Booting from a tib image of your Windows 7 system partition ...................................... 106
13.4. Acronis Boot Sequence Manager .................................................................................... 107
14. Exploring archives and mounting images ............................................................... 109
14.1. Mounting an image ......................................................................................................... 109
14.2. Unmounting an image ..................................................................................................... 112
15. Searching backup archives and their content ........................................................ 113
15.1. Searching ......................................................................................................................... 113