User's Guide
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Table of contents 1 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................6 1.1 What is Acronis® True Image OEM Quick Backup? ...................................................................6 1.2 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup basic concepts ............................................................6 1.3 New in Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup ..................................................................
7 Online backup......................................................................................................................32 7.1 Creating an Online backup account .........................................................................................32 7.2 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage......................................................................................33 7.3 Recovering data from Online Storage .......................................................................
11 Creating bootable media ......................................................................................................66 11.1 Creating Linux-based rescue media .........................................................................................66 12 Exploring archives and mounting images ..............................................................................69 12.1 Mounting an image....................................................................................................
1 Introduction 1.1 What is Acronis® True Image OEM Quick Backup? Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup is an integrated software suite that ensures security of all information on your PC. It can backup the operating system, applications, settings and all of your data, while also securely destroying any confidential data you no longer need. With this software, you can back up the entire disk drive or selected partitions.
Backup archive components Archive - Known as archive chain or archive group, it is the whole set of backup files managed by a single backup task. The archive can consist of one or several slices. Slice - It is a set of files created during each cycle of the task execution. The amount of slices created is always equal to the amount of times the task is executed. A slice represents a point in time, to which the system or data can be recovered. Volume - It is a tib file associated with the slice.
the tib file into a VHD used for actual booting. So if you can boot from the converted vhd file, you will be able to boot after recovering this backup to your disk. Disaster recovery Recovering from a disaster usually requires a rescue media, because such disaster often means that your operating system does not boot either due to system data corruption (e.g. caused by a virus or malware) or a hard disk failure.
Processor Pentium 1 GHz or faster The recommended minimum screen resolution is 1152 x 864. 1.4.
2 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup installation and startup 2.1 Installing Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup To install Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup: Run the Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup setup file. In the Install Menu, select the program to install: Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup. Follow the install wizard instructions on the screen. Typical, Custom and Complete installation is available. Having pressed Custom, you can choose not to install Rescue Media Builder.
2.3 Activating Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup On the first launch of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup you will have to enter an Activation Key to be able to run the product. Click Get Key! button to get to the Acronis website, where you can register and enter your Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup serial number. Enter the received activation key in the respective field in the Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup product activation window and click Activate!.
Notifications. Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions, so if you roll back True Image OEM to an older version, you likely will have to re-create the archives using the older version. We strongly recommend that you create new bootable media after each True Image OEM upgrade. 2.
3 General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 3.1 Disk/partition images A backup archive is a file or a group of files (also called "backups" in this guide), that contains a copy of all information stored on selected disks/partitions.
Why incremental? In an incremental backup, only the files changed or added since the last time the backup ran are added to the archive. When recovering from an incremental backup, the program must copy the entire initial backup and then step through each of the previous backups to retrieve all the updated files. An incremental backup created after a disk is defragmented might be considerably larger than usual.
If you select in Windows Explorer several files in the same folder and then choose Back Up in the shortcut menu, the backup file gets the name of the folder with appended date, e.g. My Documents_mm_dd_yyyy.tib. If you select in Windows Explorer two or more folders and then choose Back Up in the shortcut menu, the backup file gets the name of the parent folder or disk letter (when you selected folders in the root directory) with appended date, e.g. My Documents_mm_dd_yyyy.tib or C_mm_dd_yyyy.tib.
4 Preparing for disaster recovery 4.1 How to best prepare for a disaster Let us remind you of Murphy's Law: "Whatever can go wrong will go wrong" (and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way). And some people say that Murphy was an incurable optimist. So be warned – your computer may crash and will eventually crash (and maybe just at the worst possible moment).
2) It may also be useful to complete all the steps in the Recovery Wizard right up to the Summary screen, but not click the Proceed button. This will allow you to simulate the recovery process and to make sure that Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup recognizes both the drive containing your backups and the target drive. After completing all the Recovery Wizard's steps click Cancel on the Summary screen. You may repeat this until you feel sure of your settings and choices.
you must attach the external drive(s) before booting from the rescue media, otherwise the recovery environment might not detect the drive(s). 3) If you store your backups on the network, you should also check that you can access the network in the recovery environment. When booted from the rescue media, Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup might not detect the network.
4. Choose a video mode you think best suitable for your monitor and type its number in the command line. For instance, typing 338 selects video mode 1600x1200x16 (see the below figure). Incidentally, when there is a digit or letter before a three-digit number, you can also select such video mode by typing the corresponding single digit or letter ("v" in our instance). 5.
with your computer hardware and send you an iso file. Burn this file to a CD/DVD using a program that can handle iso files such as Nero. Incidentally, this report may also be useful when you request the Acronis Customer Service Department to help you with a problem. After burning your custom rescue CD, test it to make sure that your hard disk drives and network adapter are now detected in the recovery environment. 20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
5 Getting to know Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup 5.1 Program workspace Starting Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup takes you to the Welcome screen. This screen provides quick access to backup and recovery features, as well as highlights any issues with your system's protection. Your system is considered fully protected when it is backed up and a bootable rescue media is created.
Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup uses wizards, which guide you through many operations. Like the main program window, wizards also have the sidebar listing all the steps (both required and optional) needed for completing the operation. For example, see the Backup Wizard screen shot below. The completed steps are marked with green checkmarks. The green arrow shows the current step. After you complete all the required steps and come to the Finish step, the program displays the Summary screen.
To go to one more screen of interest, click Recovery on the sidebar. The Data recovery and backup management screen gives detailed information on your backup archives and provides for quickly performing operations on these archives – Recover, Validate, Move, Remove, Explore backup archives, as well as Mount image backups by right-clicking on an archive and choosing the required operation. This starts the appropriate wizard or performs the appropriate action.
Another useful screen shows the log of program operations. A calendar provides quick access to the logs (for past dates). You just click on a desired date. For more information see Viewing Tasks and Logs. We will not bore you with a description of other screens, because many of them are self-explanatory and some are described in the appropriate chapters of this guide. In addition, you can always open contextual help by clicking the corresponding button.
5.3 Options screen Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup has options related to its appearance and various program functions. To view or edit the default options, choose Tools & Utilities→ Options in the main program menu. The Backup options item provides for making settings to be used by default in any backup task. You can modify the settings depending on your backup needs. For detailed information on the backup options and possible settings see Fine-tuning your backups.
Yes, I want to participate in the program radio button. If you want to know more about the Customer Experience Program, click the Learn more link. If modifying the default options does not provide the desired results or if you just want to restore the default options values set during Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup installation, click Reset all to default on the toolbar. When you need to set the default values only for a selected option, click Reset the current to default on the toolbar.
6 Creating backup archives 6.1 Preparing for your first backup First of all you should decide where to store your backups. Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup supports quite a lot of storage devices. For more information see Supported storage media. Since hard disk drives are now quite inexpensive, in most cases purchasing an external hard drive for storing your backups will be an optimal solution.
You might think it would take a while to make a copy of your entire hard disk, but the proprietary technologies used in Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup ensure that image creation is quite fast. You should create images of your primary disk and any other partition you normally use. If you have multiple partitions on a drive, it is advisable to include all of them in the image, because failure of the hard drive in most cases will mean that all the partitions it contains also fail.
The subsequent description is made under the assumption that you boot from your bootable rescue media and the program "sees" all your hard drives and other storage devices in the recovery environment. See Testing bootable rescue media. Attach the external drive if it is to be used for backup storage and make sure that the drive is powered on. This must be done before booting from Acronis rescue media. 1.
case validation of a system disk backup is best performed in the recovery environment, as you will use the recovery environment when recovering the system partition or disk. 9. If you wish, provide comments to the backup. You will also be able to add comments later. 10. Click Proceed to start the backup.
and folders or entire disks. One more consideration is the data transfer rate provided by your network. For example, a Gigabit Ethernet network has a bandwidth sufficient for all amounts of data to be backed up. However backing up over Wi-Fi connection may be time-consuming when you need to back up a hundred gigabytes. Files and folders or data partitions can be backed up and recovered in Windows.
7 Online backup Acronis Online Backup might be unavailable in your region. To find more information, click here: https://www.acronis.com/my/online-backup/ The main reason for using Acronis Online Backup is that you will be able to keep your data secure by storing off-site. Because your files are stored elsewhere, they are protected even if your computer gets stolen or your house burns down. So the risk of data loss as a result of theft, fire, or other natural disasters is practically eliminated.
7.2 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage To perform an online backup, log on to your Online Backup service account by clicking Backup → Online Backup on the sidebar and entering your e-mail address used for opening the account and the password. In order to not enter the password during subsequent logons, you may want to select the Remember the password check box. Make these settings and click Log In.
When the computer connects to the online storage, the Online storage screen with your storage space quota appears. If you have performed backup on this computer before, you will see how much Online storage space is occupied by the backed up files and folders. The screen also shows the space occupied by the data backed up from other computers (if any) and the remaining free space on the Online storage in accordance with your quota.
Scheduling tasks. When you finish scheduling and click OK, the schedule information will be shown above the Edit schedule... link. By default Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup schedules daily backups to the Online Storage with randomly selected backup start time. You can quickly start updating the files and folders backed up on the Online storage without creating a backup schedule. To do so, click Update Backup Now.
2. This window also allows choosing the computer from which you backed up the files and folders you need to recover. Select the computer by its name on the directory tree under Online Storage in the left pane. 3. By default the state of the Online Storage after the latest backup is displayed, so the latest versions of the files and folders will be recovered. If you need to recover earlier versions, select the date and time on which you want to recover the state of the files and folders. 4.
You can also manage Acronis Online Storage by deleting individual files or even some of their versions. 1. Click Browse on the Online storage screen. Acronis Time Explorer will be opened with the Online Storage tab selected. 2. Select the computer from which you backed up the files you need to manage by its name on the directory tree under Online Storage in the left pane. 3. Select the folder containing the files you want to manage in the left pane. The right pane lists the files in that folder. 4.
7.5.1 Connection attempts This page allows you to optimize the settings Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup uses when establishing connection to the Online Storage. Here you can specify how many connection attempts will be made if the first attempt fails (the default number is 10). In addition you can specify a time interval between connection attempts (30 seconds by default). 7.5.
To back up your data to the Online storage at the maximum speed your Internet connection can provide, unselect the Limit transfer rate to: check box. 7.5.3 Storage cleanup The Storage cleanup page is intended for setting the options that enable automatic cleanup of obsolete file versions from the online storage to keep the storage from overfilling. You can: Delete versions that are older than the specified time period - 6 months by default.
Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will keep 10 versions of your files, though you can specify any other number. 7.5.4 Proxy settings If your computer is connected to the Internet using a proxy server, enable use of the proxy server and enter its settings. Acronis Online Backup supports only http and https proxy servers. In the Host name box, type the name or IP address of the proxy server, such as proxy.example.com or 192.168.0.1. In the Port box, type the proxy server's port, such as 8080.
8 Additional backup features 8.1 Archive to various places Now Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup offers much greater flexibility. You can save full and incremental backups to different places including a network share, CD/DVD, USB stick, as well as any local internal or external hard drive. One more useful aspect of this feature is its ability to split backups "on-the-fly".
To complete the backup, you may either try to free some space on the disk and click Retry or select another storage device. To choose the latter option, click Browse in the information window. The Browse for Location window appears. The left pane shows the storage locations available on your computer. After you select a disk in the left pane, the program shows the free space on that disk in the right pane.
After a while you chose to upgrade to Windows Vista. To be on the safe side, you made an incremental backup before the upgrade and named it "DiskCBeforeUpgrading". Upon upgrading you made sure that the new system and all your applications operate normally and made one more incremental backup naming it "DiskCWindowsVista". After working under Windows Vista for some time you decided that you would like to try Linux as well.
network share. If you have saved backups belonging to the same backup "chain" to various places, Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup may prompt you for the locations of previous backups during data recovery, in the case when the selected backup archive does not contain the files you want to recover (or contains only a part of them). 8.
the archive already has incremental backups, you can select any of the target archive files. It doesn't matter which one you select, as the program recognizes them as a single archive. If you want to change the location of added backup files, browse for a new backup location after clicking the Browse button, otherwise leave the location the same as that of the existing archive. The "farther" you store the archive from the original folders, the safer it will be in case of disaster.
If you choose (1) by selecting the Full method, you can also choose what to do with the previous full backup when creating a new one. By default Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup overwrites the previous full backup, but you can choose to keep it by unselecting the A new full backup overwrites the previous one box. 8.2.4 Selecting the backup options Select the backup options (that is, backup file-splitting, compression level, etc.).
8.2.5 Providing a comment Providing a comment for the archive can help identify the backup and prevent you from recovering the wrong data. However, you can choose not to make any notes. The backup file size and creation date are automatically appended, so you do not need to enter this information. In addition, you can provide or edit a comment after the backup has been executed.
you are not sure about the compression ratio of a file type, try to back up a couple of files and compare the sizes of the original files and backup archive file. A couple of additional tips: generally, you can use the Normal compression level, because in most cases it provides an optimal balance between backup file size and backup duration. If you select None, the data will be copied without any compression, which may significantly increase the backup file size, while making the fastest backup. 8.3.1.
Acronis System Report - the component allows you to generate system report that is used for collecting information about your system in case of any program problem. Report generation will be available before you start Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup from the bootable media. The generated system report can be saved to a USB flash drive.
Suppose you have a full backup of your PC on an external hard disk, but want to make one more backup copy of the system to keep it in a different location from the first one for added security. However, you do not have one more external hard disk, and a USB stick would not accommodate such a large backup. Using Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup you can make a reserve backup copy on blank DVD-R/DVD+R discs, which are very cheap nowadays.
9 Data recovery with Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup The ultimate purpose of data backup is recovery of the backed up data when the original is lost due to hardware failure, fire, theft or just erroneous deletion of some important files. There may be various reasons for recovering your system - from unstable operation after installing a new application, driver or Windows update to complete failure of the system hard drive or replacement of the old hard drive by a new larger one.
2. Boot from the rescue media and select Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup (Full version). 3. Select Recovery → Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu and then choose the image backup of your system partition (or entire system disk) that you want to use for recovery. Rightclick on the backup and choose Recover in the shortcut menu.
(though this is not always possible, e.g. the old drive may be an IDE and the new drive may be a SATA). In any case, install the new drive to where it will be used. 9.2.1 Recovering a disk without a hidden partition At first let's consider recovery of a system disk containing two partitions (none of them hidden) using a disk backup. In addition, we assume that the system disk does not contain a recovery partition which may not be hidden.
dragging it or its borders with a mouse on the horizontal bar on the screen or by entering corresponding values into the appropriate fields (Partition size, Free space before, Free space after). While specifying the partition size remember that you need to leave as much unallocated (free) space after the newly resized partition as will be needed for the second partition. Usually the free space before partitions is equal to zero.
3. Select Recovery → Disk and Partition Recovery in the main menu and then choose the image backup of your system disk that you want to use for recovery.
Windows should not "see" both the new and old drive during the first boot after recovery. If you upgrade the old drive to a larger capacity new one, disconnect the old drive before the first boot otherwise there may be problems booting Windows. Switch off the computer, if you need to disconnect the old drive, otherwise just reboot the computer after removing the rescue media. Boot the computer to Windows. It may report that new hardware (hard drive) is found and Windows needs to reboot.
9.4 Recovering files and folders Depending on the backup types you have used, there may be several methods of recovering files and folders. In most cases you recover files and folders in Windows. You can recover files and folders from a disk/partition image. To recover files/folders from an image, you can mount the image (see Mounting an image) and copy files/folders to a desired location using Windows Explorer.
the system, hidden files and folders from being overwritten by selecting the appropriate check boxes. In addition, you can protect the files that meet the criteria you specify in this window from being overwritten. Unselecting the Overwrite existing files checkbox will give the files on the hard disk unconditional priority over the archived files. 8. Select the options for the recovery process (that is, recovery process priority, file-level security settings, etc.).
10 Additional recovery information 10.1 Recovery Wizard - detailed information The below description of the Recovery Wizard refers to recovering partitions/disks from image backups. If you need to recover files and folders, see Recovering files and folders. 10.1.1 Starting the Recovery Wizard Start the Recovery Wizard by selecting Recovery → Disk and Partition Recovery in the main program menu. 10.1.2 Archive selection 1. Select the archive.
When recovering a backup of Windows Vista or Windows 7 system disk containing restore points, some of your restore points (or all of them) may be missing if you boot from the recovered system disk and open the System Restore tool. 2. If you are going to recover data from an archive containing incremental backups, Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will enable selecting one of the successive incremental backups by its creation date/time. Thus, you can roll back the disk/partition state to a certain date.
During a single session, you can recover several partitions or disks, one by one, by selecting one disk and setting its parameters first and then repeating these actions for every partition or disk to be recovered. Disk and partition images contain a copy of track 0 along with the MBR (master boot record). It appears in this window in a separate line. You can choose whether to recover the MBR and track 0 by selecting the corresponding box. Recover the MBR if it is critical to your system booting.
10.1.5 Selecting a target disk/partition 1. Select a target disk or partition where you want to recover the selected image. You can recover data to its initial location, to another disk/partition or to an unallocated space. The target partition should be at least the same size as the uncompressed image data. All the data stored on the target partition will be replaced by the image data, so be careful and watch for non-backed-up data that you might need. 2.
Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup automatically corrects boot information during recovery of the system partition to make it bootable, even if it was not recovered to the original partition (or disk). If you recover a system partition to another hard disk with its own partitions and OS, most likely you will need only the data. In this case, you can recover the partition as Logical to access the data only. By default, the original partition type is selected.
10.1.9 Setting recovery options Clicking Options at the Finish step allows selecting the options for the recovery process (that is, recovery process priority, etc.). The settings will be applied only to the current recovery task. Or, you can edit the default options. See Setting default recovery options for more information. 10.1.10 Executing recovery Up to this point, you can make changes in the created task by choosing the step you want to change and editing its settings.
You can set default filters for the specific types of files you wish to preserve during archive recovery. For example, you may want hidden and system files and folders, newer files and folders, as well as files matching selected criteria not to be overwritten by the archive files. While specifying the criteria, you can use the common Windows wildcard characters. For example, to preserve all files with extension .exe, add *.exe. My???.exe will preserve all .
11 Creating bootable media 11.1 Creating Linux-based rescue media You can run Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup from an emergency boot disk on a bare-metal system or a crashed computer that cannot boot. You can even back up disks on a non-Windows computer, copying all its data into the backup archive by imaging the disk one sector at a time. To do so, you will need bootable media that has a copy of the standalone Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup version installed on it.
Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup full version Includes support of USB, PC Card (formerly PCMCIA) and SCSI interfaces along with the storage devices connected via them, and therefore is strongly recommended. Acronis System Report This component allows you to generate a system report after booting from the rescue media when both Windows and Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup full version cannot start.
bootable media after each Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup upgrade. One more thing you should remember – when booting from the rescue media and using a standalone version of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup, you cannot recover files and folders encrypted with use of the encryption feature available in Windows XP and later operating systems. On the other hand, backup archives encrypted using the Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup encryption feature can be recovered. 68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
12 Exploring archives and mounting images Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup offers two kinds of archive contents management: mounting and exploring. Exploring images lets you view their contents and copy the selected files to a hard disk. To explore a backup archive, double-click on the corresponding tib file. You can also right-click on the file and choose Explore in the shortcut menu. When you copy files from a backup being explored, the copied files lose the "Compressed" and "Encrypted" attribute.
2. Select the archive for mounting. If you selected an archive containing incremental images, you can select one of the successive incremental images (also called "slices") by its creation date/time. Thus, you can explore the data state at a certain moment. To mount an incremental image, you must have all previous images and the initial full image. If any of the successive images are missing, mounting is not possible. By default the program will mount the latest incremental image. 3.
You can also select a letter to be assigned to the virtual disk from the Mount letter drop-down list. If you do not want to mount a partition, select Do not mount in the list or unselect the partition's checkbox. 4. Having finished the settings, click Proceed to connect the selected partition images as virtual disks. 5. After the image is connected, the program will run Windows Explorer, showing its contents. Now you can work with files or folders as if they were located on a real disk. 12.
If you have mounted several partitions, by default all of them will be selected for unmounting. You can disconnect all mounted drives together or disconnect only those you do not need mounted anymore. You can also do this in Windows Explorer by right-clicking on the disk icon and choosing Unmount. 72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc.
13 Searching backup archives and their content 13.1 Searching In addition to the ability to explore backup archives, Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup provides a search facility for tib 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 OEM Quick Backup and for recovering files from your backup archives. Here's how you can search for the data you need. 1.
The Backup contents area shows results of searches for files and folders in tib archives. Doubleclicking on a filename opens the file. You can recover the file by right-clicking on its filename and choosing Recover in a shortcut menu. This shortcut menu also enables you to open the file or the parent folder that contains that file. To help you better understand the search results, here is some information on the algorithms used by the Search feature. 1.
Full-text indexing of files in backup archives is provided only for the file types recognizable by Google Desktop and Windows Search. They recognize text files, Microsoft Office files, all Microsoft Office Outlook and Microsoft Outlook Express items, and more. 13.2.1 Using Google Desktop with Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup If you do not have Google Desktop, it can be downloaded for free from Google's Web site. Click Google Desktop and follow the instructions for download and installation.
Give Google Desktop some time for indexing all tib files on your computer's hard disks and adding the indexing information to its index database. The required time depends on the number of tib archives and the number of files they contain. After for example an hour, check whether Google Desktop has indexed the tib archives by entering in its query field the name of a file which you know for sure that you backed up.
Clicking in the browser window on a line related to the desired file version opens a small dialog with just two options: View and Recover. Choosing View starts the application associated with this file type and opens the file. Choosing Recover starts Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup and you can then recover the file to a desired location. 13.2.
To open the Indexing Options window in Windows Vista, open the Control Panel and then double-click the Indexing Options icon. The Windows Vista indexing options have some differences in content and appearance, though most of the following information is applicable to Windows Vista as well. 3. Click Advanced, select the File Types tab and then make sure that the tib extension is selected and ".tib IFilter" is shown in the Filter Description field. Select Index Properties and File Contents.
4. Click OK and while the Indexing Options window is open, check that the disks where you store your tib backup archives are shown in the "Included Locations" list. If the list does not contain those disks, the tib files will not be indexed. To include the disks, click Modify and select them in the window that appears. If you store backups on a network share, Windows Search can index them too.
Give Windows Search some time for indexing all tib files on your computer's hard disks and adding the indexing information to its index database. The required time depends on the number of tib archives and the number of files they contain. After completing the indexing, the Desktop Search will be able to search files in tib backup archives.
14 Other operations 14.1 Validating backup archives The validation procedure checks whether you will be able to recover data from a particular backup, so when you select for validation: a full backup, the program validates the full backup only. an incremental backup, the program validates the initial full backup, the selected incremental backup, and the whole chain (if any) of backups to the selected incremental backup.
When the Log tab is selected, the upper pane shows the calendar, while the lower one shows logs' contents. To view the logs for a specific period, select the period by clicking the right arrow buttons in the From: and To: fields of the Show for the period area. Clicking the arrow in the From: field opens a pop-up calendar where you can set the start day of the period by double-clicking the appropriate day. Then set the end day using the same procedure for the To: field.
14.3 Managing backup archives After a while you may wish (or be forced) to manage your backup archives, for example, in order to free up some space for new backups by removing the oldest backups or those you no longer need. As now Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup stores information about the backup archives in a metadata information database, you must manage backup archives (e.g. delete or move some of them) by using the program's tools and not Windows Explorer.
14.4 Removing backup archives You may want to remove backups and backup archives you no longer need. Because Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup stores information on the backup archives in a metadata information database, deleting unneeded archive files using Windows Explorer will not delete information about these archives from the database and Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup will consider that they still exist.
15 Troubleshooting 15.1 General The below sections may help you in troubleshooting issues encountered during installation and use of Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup. Among other information the Troubleshooting chapter includes links to Acronis Support Knowledge Base (KB) articles intended for helping to solve issues with Acronis products.
a. Click Start → All Programs, then find and open the "Accessories" folder. b. Right-click on the "Command Prompt" item and select "Run as administrator". c. Type the following command line in to the opened window: net user administrator /active:yes Take note that there is a space between "Administrator" and "/active:yes". d. Log off the current account and log in to the “Administrator” account. e. Try to install the application again.
Backups to a mapped drive fail from time to time Explanation of why saving an image to a mapped drive may sometimes fail and how to prevent this can be found in the Acronis Support KB article "Saving an Image to a Mapped Drive from an Acronis True Image Task Fails Sporadically" through the following link: http://kb.acronis.com/content/1545. "Insert next volume" message when backing up to a USB flash drive Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup treats your USB flash drive as removable media.
Network share with a backup not found by standalone Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup There can be several reasons why you are not able to locate the desired network share when using a standalone version of Acronis True Image. See the Acronis Support KB article "Standalone Version of Acronis True Image Cannot Find Network Share with an Image Archive (http://kb.acronis.com/content/1550)".
Windows fails to boot with "NTLDR is missing" error message Solution: Instructions on how to make Windows XP bootable if it reports "NTLDR is missing" after being recovered with Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup, can by found in the Acronis Support KB article "Windows Fails to Boot With "NTLDR is missing" at http://kb.acronis.com/content/1759. 15.
You fail to mount an image spanned over several CD/DVDs For an explanation of the issue with mounting a spanned image see "Mounting an Image Spanned over Several CD or DVD Discs Fails" at http://kb.acronis.com/content/1546 (http://kb.acronis.com/content/1546).
16 Hard Disks and Boot Sequence 16.1 Arranging boot sequence in BIOS BIOS has a built-in setup utility for initial computer configuration. To enter it, you have to press a certain key combination (Del, F1, Ctrl+Alt+Esc, Ctrl+Esc, or some other, depending on your BIOS) during the POST (power-on self test) sequence that starts immediately after you turn your computer on. Usually the message with the required key combination is displayed during the startup test.
1. Configure the new hard disk as slave by properly installing jumpers on its controller board. Disk drives generally have a picture on the drive that shows the correct jumper settings. 2. Open your computer and insert the new hard disk into a 3.5'' or 5.25'' slot with special holders. Fasten down the disk with screws. 3. Plug the power cable into the hard disk (four-threaded: two black, yellow and red; there is only one way you can plug in this cable). 4.
the marked thread connected to pin #1 of the socket. A similar rule was used for connecting cables with the motherboard. Incorrect connection of the cable with either the hard disk or the motherboard does not necessarily damage the electronics of the disk or the motherboard. The hard disk is simply not detected or initialized by BIOS. There are some models of hard disks, especially the older ones, for which incorrect connection damaged the electronics of the drive.
16.2.4 Installing a SATA hard drive Most recently manufactured PCs use the SATA interface for hard drives. In general, installing a SATA hard drive is easier than an IDE drive, as it is not necessary to configure master-slave jumpers. SATA drives use a thin interface cable with seven-pin keyed connectors. This improves airflow through the PC case. Power is supplied to SATA drives through 15-pin connectors.
Backup. See Adding a new hard disk. Then configure your BIOS to boot from the SATA controller and boot from the SATA hard drive to ensure it works. 16.3 Hard Disk Wiping methods Information removed from a hard disk drive by non-secure means (for example, by simple Windows delete) can easily be recovered. Utilizing specialized equipment, it is possible to recover even repeatedly overwritten information. Therefore, guaranteed data wiping is more important now than ever before.
16.3.2 Information wiping methods used by Acronis The table below briefly describes information wiping methods used by Acronis. Each description features the number of hard disk sector passes along with the number(s) written to each sector byte. The description of built-in information wiping methods No. Algorithm (writing method) Passes Record 1. United States Department of Defense 5220.
17 Startup Parameters Additional parameters that can be applied prior to booting Linux kernel. 17.1 Description Additional parameters that can be applied prior to booting Linux kernel Description The following parameters can be used to load Linux kernel in a special mode: acpi=off Disables ACPI and may help with a particular hardware configuration. noapic Disables APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller) and may help with a particular hardware configuration.
Disallows use of PCI BIOS; only direct hardware access methods are allowed. For instance, this parameter may be used if you experience crashes upon boot-up, probably caused by the BIOS. pci=biosirq Uses PCI BIOS calls to get the interrupt routing table. These calls are known to be buggy on several machines and they hang the machine when used, but on other computers it is the only way to get the interrupt routing table.
Compression level • 47 18 Index Configuring hard disk drives, jumpers • 94 A Creating a custom rescue CD • 19 Connection attempts • 38 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup basic concepts • 6 Creating an Online backup account • 32 Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup installation and startup • 10 Creating bootable media • 10, 66 Activating Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup • 11 Additional backup features • 41 Creating backup archives • 27 Creating Linux-based rescue media • 66 D Additional recov
How to best prepare for a disaster • 16 Program workspace • 21 I Providing a comment • 47 Proxy settings • 40 Information wiping methods used by Acronis • 97 Installation issues • 86 Installing a SATA hard drive • 95 Installing Acronis True Image OEM Quick Backup • 10 Installing an IDE hard disk drive, general scheme • 92 Installing hard disk drives in computers • 92 Introduction • 6 L R Recommendations on selecting data for storing online • 40 Recovering a data partition or disk • 56 Recovering a dis
Setting online backup options • 37 Setting recovery options • 64 Some typical backup scenarios • 28 Starting the Recovery Wizard • 59 Startup Parameters • 67, 98 Steps for installing a new internal SATA drive • 95 Storage cleanup • 39 Storage connection speed • 38 Supported file systems • 9 Supported operating systems • 9 Supported storage media • 9 System requirements and supported media • 8 T Testing bootable rescue media • 17 The backup process • 47 Troubleshooting • 86 U Unmounting an image • 71, 83 U