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Acronis True Image 2013 manuale d’uso

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Che cosa è il manuale d’uso?

La parola deriva dal latino "instructio", cioè organizzare. Così, il manuale d’uso Acronis True Image 2013 descrive le fasi del procedimento. Lo scopo del manuale d’uso è istruire, facilitare lo avviamento, l'uso di attrezzature o l’esecuzione di determinate azioni. Il manuale è una raccolta di informazioni sull'oggetto/servizio, un suggerimento.

Purtroppo, pochi utenti prendono il tempo di leggere il manuale d’uso, e un buono manuale non solo permette di conoscere una serie di funzionalità aggiuntive del dispositivo acquistato, ma anche evitare la maggioranza dei guasti.

Quindi cosa dovrebbe contenere il manuale perfetto?

Innanzitutto, il manuale d’uso Acronis True Image 2013 dovrebbe contenere:
- informazioni sui dati tecnici del dispositivo Acronis True Image 2013
- nome del fabbricante e anno di fabbricazione Acronis True Image 2013
- istruzioni per l'uso, la regolazione e la manutenzione delle attrezzature Acronis True Image 2013
- segnaletica di sicurezza e certificati che confermano la conformità con le norme pertinenti

Perché non leggiamo i manuali d’uso?

Generalmente questo è dovuto alla mancanza di tempo e certezza per quanto riguarda la funzionalità specifica delle attrezzature acquistate. Purtroppo, la connessione e l’avvio Acronis True Image 2013 non sono sufficienti. Questo manuale contiene una serie di linee guida per funzionalità specifiche, la sicurezza, metodi di manutenzione (anche i mezzi che dovrebbero essere usati), eventuali difetti Acronis True Image 2013 e modi per risolvere i problemi più comuni durante l'uso. Infine, il manuale contiene le coordinate del servizio Acronis in assenza dell'efficacia delle soluzioni proposte. Attualmente, i manuali d’uso sotto forma di animazioni interessanti e video didattici che sono migliori che la brochure suscitano un interesse considerevole. Questo tipo di manuale permette all'utente di visualizzare tutto il video didattico senza saltare le specifiche e complicate descrizioni tecniche Acronis True Image 2013, come nel caso della versione cartacea.

Perché leggere il manuale d’uso?

Prima di tutto, contiene la risposta sulla struttura, le possibilità del dispositivo Acronis True Image 2013, l'uso di vari accessori ed una serie di informazioni per sfruttare totalmente tutte le caratteristiche e servizi.

Dopo l'acquisto di successo di attrezzature/dispositivo, prendere un momento per familiarizzare con tutte le parti del manuale d'uso Acronis True Image 2013. Attualmente, sono preparati con cura e tradotti per essere comprensibili non solo per gli utenti, ma per svolgere la loro funzione di base di informazioni e di aiuto.

Sommario del manuale d’uso

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    RTM User's Guide[...]

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    2 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Table of contents 1 Getting started ...................................................................................................................... 7 1.1 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................[...]

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    3 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3. 1 3. 14 Er ror ha nd l in g ................................................................................................................................................ 70 3. 1 3. 15 C om pu ter s h ut dow n .................................................................................[...]

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    4 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 5 Synchronizing data ............................................................................................................. 1 11 5.1 About the Sync featu re .......................................................................................................... 1 11 5.2 How we ensure s [...]

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    5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 7. 2 .1 FT P c o nne cti o n ............................................................................................................................................ 1 41 7. 2 .2 Au the nti ca t io n se tti ng s ................................................................................[...]

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    6 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8. 5. 3 S el e ct i ng c l on e m od e ................................ .................................................................................................. 190 8. 5 .4 Se lec ti ng a s ourc e d is k ..................................................................................[...]

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    7 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 1 G et ti n g st art ed 1. 1 In tr o du c ti on I n t hi s s e ct i on What is True Image ™ 2013 by A cronis® ? ................................ ................... 7 What is True Imag e 2013 Plus Pack b y Acronis? .................................... 8 True Image 2013 basi c concepts .......[...]

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    8 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 1 . 1 . 2 W h a t i s T ru e I m a g e 2 01 3 P l u s P a c k by A c r o n i s ? True Image 2013 Plus Pack is an add-on t o True Image 20 13. It is purchased sep arately, has a separate license, and is install ed from its own setup file. True Image 2013 must b e installed on your computer before[...]

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    9 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The backup versions ar e similar to fil e versions. The fi le versions c oncept is famili ar to those who use a Windows Vista and Windows 7 feature called "Previ ous versions of files". This f eature allows you t o restore a file as it existed on a particular dat e and tim e. A backup [...]

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    10 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 those values wi th the stored ones. If all compared valu es match, the backup file is not corrupt ed and there is a high probabil ity that the bac kup can be succ essfully used for data r ecovery. Consolidation Consolidation all ows you to delete backup s which you no longer need from a backup [...]

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    11 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Synchronization with mobi le devices - Now you can sy nc your data not only between your PCs, but with your m obile devices as well. Su ch devices inc lude phones and tabl et PCs with the iOS and Android platfor ms. Simply go to App Store or G oogle Play, install the fr ee Acronis app and g[...]

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    12 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 were cases wh en users chose the wr ong disk as the ta rget and thus wiped their s ystem disk. In addition, you can make more than one backup t o create redundancy and increase securi ty.  What should I back up: a pa rtition or the who le disk? - In most cases, it is better to back up the wh[...]

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    13 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Using Acronis Nonstop Ba ckup requires at least 1 GB RA M. True Image 2013 rescue medi a has the following hard ware require m ents:  512 MB RAM  Processor Pentiu m 1 GHz or faster  1.5 GB of free spac e on a hard disk The recommended s creen resoluti on is 1280 x 1024. The minimum scr[...]

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    14 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3. 0, FireWire (IEEE-13 94) and PC card s torage devices * True Image 2013 does not support the following d ynamic volume types : Mirrored and RAI D-5 . There are so me additional limitati ons on operations wi th dynamic and GPT dis ks:  To perform opera tions with dynami[...]

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    15 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Disk cloning is disabl ed;  True Image 2013 Plus Pack is not available;  Only recovering is available when b ooting from an Acr onis Bootable Media. Data synchronization is available with out any limitati ons, but after the trial period expires :  Your computer will b e excluded fr[...]

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    16 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 bootable Windows CD/DVD created fr om the original Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 installation/setup CD. Applications are installed into BartPE in the form of plu g-ins and the True Image 2013 plu g-in can be inclu ded into the BartPE plu g-in tab. Booting from the BartPE CD/DVD with the inc[...]

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    17 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Activation on a compu ter connected to the Internet If your computer is c onnected to th e Internet, you ca n activate the pr oduct either aut omatically or from within the pr ogram. To activate the product auto matically: 1. Start the installati on procedure. See de tails in True Image 201 3 i[...]

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    18 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 move the license to your new co mputer from an other one on which the product is alread y activated. If you want to mo ve the license, perfor m the following steps. To move the l icense from ano ther computer: 1. In the window with th e error messag e, click Move licen se from another computer [...]

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    19 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The Get started tab will h elp you to begin using the main True Im age 2 013 features, nam ely backup, recovery and synchronization. Th e program leads y ou through the a ctions required f or performing those operations. If you have not used pr evious versi ons of Acronis True Imag e Home, we r[...]

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    20 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Back up now - adds a n ew backup version to the existin g backup or replaces the existing backup version, depending on the backup scheme being used.  Start (available f or a nonstop backup only) - starts nonstop bac kup protecti on.  Stop (available f or a nonstop backup only) - suspe[...]

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    21 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Create shortcut - crea tes a shortcut on the Desktop. With the shortcut you can run a backup without starting True I mage 201 3.  Consolidate versions - you can delet e the backup versions you no longer n eed while maintaining the consistency of the backup.  Clone settings - clones th[...]

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    22 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Create bootab le media If your computer can not start, use bo otable rescue media to run the s tandalone version of True Image 2013, and recov er your system fro m a previously created syste m partition backup. Browse for ba ckup Click this item to br owse for backu ps on your computer and add [...]

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    23 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Remove from the list All backups This command rem oves all b ackup boxes from the backup list. The re moved backup s can be returned to the list by using th e Browse for ba ckup tool. Not-backe d- up -yet boxes This command rem oves all "emp ty" backup boxes from the backup list. Be c[...]

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    24 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Expand all syncs (ic on) - expands all collaps ed sync boxes.  Collapse all syncs (ic on) - collapses all expanded sync boxes into narro w stripes.  Sort by  Name - sorts all s yncs in alphabetical ord er.  Type - sorts all syncs a ccord ing to their types. Sync list area The ar[...]

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    25 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Resume all syncs - restar ts all synchr onization process es if they have been pau sed.  Show notifi cations - toggles the displa y of notification s at the taskbar.  Acronis Web site - opens in your defaul t browser the page with infor mation about synchronization on Acronis Web si t[...]

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    26 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Wizards have a sidebar listing all the steps (both requ ired and optional) n eeded for completing th e operation. For ex ample, see the Manage Acronis Secu re Zone wizard scre en shot below. The completed steps are marked wi th green chec kmarks. The green arr ow shows the current step. After y[...]

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    27 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The tab shows the disks and partitions stat e of when th e current backup versi on was created. You can switch bet ween the backup versions by usin g the time lin e at the botto m of the screen. F or more information see Time line (p. 29 ). To recover disk s and/or pa rtitions: 1. On the time l[...]

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    28 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Convert to Windo ws backup (for i mage backups) - select t o convert the ba ckup version's TIB fil e to VHD file.  Mount (for i mage backups) - select t o mount the back up version as a disk.  Delete version - sele ct to delete the ba ckup version (t he backup chain will n ot be [...]

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    29 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Selecting a disk, p artition, file or folder to make it th e current item in a list does n ot mean selecting it for recovery! The majority of us er interface el ements located on this tab are described in the Disks and partiti ons tab section. Here we describe the i tems specific f or the tab. [...]

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    30 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The picture bel ow shows various states of a time line. The states var y depending on the number of backups and the tim e interval thr ough which you are navigating. The "Now" inter val shows backup versions created du ring the last hour. When us ing Nonstop Backup, backup versi ons m[...]

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    31 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The "This year" int erval shows backup versions cr eated from the begin ning of th e current year to the “month” interval. The "Older" int erval shows backup versions created fr om earlier than th e beginni ng of the current year. Working with time int ervals and backup [...]

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    32 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Validate  Delete version Nonstop backup version:  Explore and reco ver  Delete version Backup version packs and time b locks: Right-clicking on a folded version pack or time interval 's block opens the shortcut menu with a single item:  Expand Viewing additional information[...]

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    33 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The most significant changes occur in th e System and Security category of Wind ows 7 Control Panel. True Image 2013 replaces Wind ows Backup in the Ba ckup and Restore it em. If you first installed True Image 2013 without perfor ming backups, the B ackup and Rest ore window allows you to creat[...]

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    34 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Furthermore, the Star t menu acquires the following True Image 2013 ite ms: These menu ite ms allow you to us e the main progra m features, t ools, and utilities without star ting True Image 2013. The True Image 20 13 button on the Windows taskb ar becomes much more informative an d functional.[...]

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    35 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 1. 1. 9.8 L og i n me nu Clicking Login opens a window for l ogging in to your A cronis account. After you log in, the Login item is replaced by th e e-mail address of y our account. Clicking the e-mail address of your account opens a m enu with the follo wing items:  My account - clic k to [...]

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    36 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 1. 1. 9.1 1 In sta ll i ng A cr oni s Hot fi x es What is an Acronis Hotfix ? Acronis Hotfix is a s mall update for Acr onis products. I t makes changes to one or more ap plication files or registry keys but do es not change an app lication version. A h otfix targets only a specific True Image [...]

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    37 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 2 H ow to Due to the size of this User's Guid e, it is someti mes not so easy t o find how to per form a particular task. This section lists s ome frequ ently used tasks and pro vides links to the app ropriate parts of the Us er's Guide. Click the corresp onding page number (or the li[...]

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    38 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3 B ac k in g up d ata True Image 2013 inclu des a weal th of sophisticated backup capabilities that would please even an IT professional. They all ow you to bac k up your disks (pa rtitions), files, and e-mail. You can choose a backup feature that suits you mos t or use them all. The sections [...]

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    39 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3. 2 Fu ll , i ncr e me ntal a n d di ffe re nti al b ack up s True Image 2013 offers you three bac kup methods: 1) Full : contains all of the data at the moment of th e backup crea tion. It forms a b ase for further incremental or differ ential backups. It can also be use d as a standalone bac[...]

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    40 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  number of volu me, if applicable (in th e form of v#)  macros, if applicab le (can be in any par t of a name, for example,in the begi nning or in th e end) If part of a name i s not used (the bac kup has only one volume), this part is n ot added, for example, if the bac kup does not have[...]

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    41 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 backup_ful l_b1_s1.ti b backup_in c_b1_s2.ti b backup_in c_b1_s3.ti b backup_fu ll_b2_s1.t ib backup_in c_b2_s2.ti b backup_in c_b2_s3.ti b You decided to del ete the first chain, na mely b1. You will h ave the following fil es left: backup_fu ll_b2_s1.t ib backup_in c_b2_s2.tib backup_in c_b2_[...]

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    42 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3. 4 Ba c ki ng up p ar ti tio ns a nd d isk s To back up partitions or disks, click Disk and partition backup on the Backup and recovery tab. This opens the Disk Backup window. The steps below d escribe how to c onfigure a backup usin g most of the availab le image backup settings. 1. Select a[...]

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    43 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 If possible, avoid sto ring your system partition b ackups on dynamic d isks, because the system partition is recovered in the L inux environment. Linux an d Windows work with dynamic d isks differently. This may result in problems during rec overy. 3. If you need the backup to run on a schedul[...]

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    44 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3. 5 Ba c ki ng up fi les a nd fol der s To back up files and /or folders, clic k Other backups on the Backup and recovery ta b and then select File backup . This opens the File Backup window. Let's consider ho w to use this backup type for backing up a folder. 1. Select the folder on the [...]

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    45 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. Click the Back up now button if you want to run back up immediately. Y ou can also dela y the start of backup for up to 6 hours by clickin g the down arro w to the right of this button and selecting a delay interval fro m the drop down list. When you need t o change the default ba ckup optio[...]

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    46 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 To add a custom data category, click Add cate gory. To change the default na me of a custom category, double-clic k the name and enter a new one. Select the da ta source (e.g. a folder) for the new category b y clicking th e Browse... button. By defau lt the new categ ory will contain Only the [...]

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    47 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The Zip format is available when b acking up files, f olders or wh en making reserv e copies of your backups. True Image 2013 gi ves the zip format most of the functionality a vailable for the tib format. You can schedule backups, validate zip backup s, recover files an d folders from zip backu[...]

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    48 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Tasks  Notes  Signatures  News Folders  User Settings  Address Book For Microsoft Outl ook Express:  Mail Folders  Address Book (sel ect Windows Address Book ). True Image 2013 provides backup of I MAP (Internet Messages Access Pr otocol) mail folders f or Microsoft Out[...]

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    49 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The main purpose of Acronis Nonstop Bac kup is contin uous protection of your da ta (files, folders, contacts, etc.), though you can use it t o protect partitions as well. If you ch oose to protect an entire partition, you will be able to reco ver the partition as a whole using the imag e recov[...]

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    50 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3 . 7 . 1 P r o t e c t in g y o u r da t a c o n t i nu o u sl y Let's consider ho w you can use Nonst op Backup f or protecting your data. To protect your data c ontinuously: 1. Click Other ba ckups on the Backup and recovery tab an d then select Nonstop Ba ckup . This opens the Nonsto p[...]

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    51 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 settings. If you have changed the N onstop Backup destination, the pr ogram will c reate a new full backup of the data t o be protected on th e new Nonstop Backup storage. You can also in clude files and folders into Nonstop Bac kup by selecting them in Windows Explorer and cho osing Include in[...]

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    52 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Nonstop Bac kup and Try&Decide cann ot work simultaneously. If you click the Start now button when the Try mode is turned o n, the program will display a message that Nonstop Backup ca nnot sta rt while you a re working in the Try mode. To sta rt Nonstop Backup , you will need to finish a T[...]

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    53 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 You can also comple tely cle an up the Acronis N onstop Backup st orage by selectin g Delete in the Operations menu of a Nonstop Ba ckup box. If you sel ect the activ e Nonstop Bac kup box, the deletion stops operation of A cronis Nonstop Backup. 3 . 7 . 4 N o n s t o p B a c k u p - F r e q u [...]

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    54 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Can I set up Acroni s Nonstop Backup storage on a n etwork share or NAS? - Yes, Acronis Nonst op Backup supports net work shares, mapp ed drives, NAS and other network att ached devices wi th one limitation - they mus t use the SMB pr otocol. How does manua l clean up of Acronis Nonstop Ba ckup[...]

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    55 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Also remember that the operation will take more time, because nor mal backup a nd reserve copying are performed one after another an d not simultane ously. Furthermore, you will need mor e storage space or an additi onal storage device. For example, t o make a reserve copy of some fil es on a U[...]

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    56 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 If you select an internal or external hard disk as the d estination, this option will be d isabled. 5. Click Back up no w . If the backup does no t fit one disc (f or example, DVD), the file will b e split into se veral volumes. The first disc will be the bootable one. If you plan to perf orm t[...]

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    57 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 You cannot use Acronis Secure Zone as o ne of the places for storing a part of ba ckup versions belonging to the same backu p "chain", because such bac kup versions may be autom atically deleted during automa tic backup consolidation in Acronis Secure Zone. As a result, the backup cha[...]

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    58 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3. 11 Ad d in g a n e xi sti ng b ack u p to th e l i st If you have backups that are not shown in the backups list on the Backup and re covery tab (for example, backup s created by a pre vious Acronis True Image Ho me version), you can add them to the list. Click Browse for backup on the Ba ck[...]

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    59 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Save the sett ings as defaul t check box to apply the m odified settings to all further backup operations by default. Note that opti ons of each backup type are fully indepen dent, and you should conf igure them separately. If you want to res et all the modified opti ons to the val ues that wer[...]

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    60 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3 . 1 3 . 1 B ac k u p s c h e m e s Backup schemes al ong with the sch eduler help you to set up your backup s trategy. The sche mes allow you to optimiz e backup storage space usage, im prove data storage r eliability, and automatically del ete the obsolet e backup versions. Backup scheme def[...]

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    61 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Backup scheduler setting for file backup: daily. Result: you have a single up- to -date full backup versi on. Required storage space: min imal. 3 . 1 3 . 3 V e r s i o n c h a in s c h e m e This backup schem e differs for disk backup and fil e backup types. Disk backup ver sion chain At first [...]

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    62 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 So first of all select one of the backup methods in th e appropriate b ox.  Full (p. 39 ) Select this meth od if you want to crea te only full back up versions.  Differential (p. 39 ) Select this meth od if you want to crea te backup chain s containing only full and differential backup ve[...]

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    63 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Do not delete the first version of the backup - Select th is check box to keep th e initial data sta te. The program will creat e two initial full ba ckup versions. Th e first version will b e excluded fro m the automatic cleanup, and will be stored until you delete it manually. If you select i[...]

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    64 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 must be violated s o that the progra m can detect the violati on. Therefore, to be a ble to consolidate the files, the progra m needs some space on the disk in e xcess of th e backup quot a. The extra amount of space can be es timated as the siz e of the largest ba ckup v ersion in the backup. [...]

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    65 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. Click Incrementa l next to the Backup scheme item ( In cremental is the default backup scheme). 5. In the Disk Backup Op tions window , make sure that the Backup scheme tab is sel ected. 6. Choose Custom sche me instead of In cremental schem e . 7. In the Backup metho d box, select D ifferen[...]

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    66 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  To increase the securit y of your confidential data, you can encrypt the backup with strong industry-standard AES (Ad vanced Encryption Standard) crypt ographic algorith m. AES is avail able with three key leng ths – 128, 19 2 and 256 bits to bala nce performance and pr otection as desir [...]

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    67 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Disabling the Do no t perform op erations until the command' s execution is com plete parameter (enabled for Pre c ommands by default ), will permit the backup process to run c oncurrently with your command executi on. The Abort the op eration if th e user command fail s (enabled by defaul[...]

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    68 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Regular valida tion You can also schedule validation of your backups to ensure that they remain "healthy". B y default regular validation is turned on with the following setti ngs:  Frequency: once a month  Day: the date when the backup was start ed  Time: the mom ent of back[...]

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    69 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 True Image - includ es support of USB , PC Card (former ly PCMCIA) and SCSI in terfaces along with the storage devi ces connec ted via them, and theref ore is strongly recommended .  Place Acronis Syste m Report on media Acronis System Rep ort - the comp onent allows you to generate system r[...]

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    70 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3 . 1 3 . 1 4 E r r o r h a n d l i n g When the progra m encountered an error while perf orming backup, i t stops the b ackup process and displays a messag e, waiting for a response on h ow to handle the error. If you set an error handling policy, the progra m will not stop the backup process [...]

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    71 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3 . 1 3 . 1 6 F i l e - l e v e l s e c u r i t y s e t t i n g s f o r b a c k u p You can specify se curity settings for ba cked up files (these s ettings relate onl y to file/folder bac kups):  Preserve file secur ity settings in backups - selecting th is option will preser ve all the se [...]

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    72 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Maximum - maxi mum backup compressi on, but tak es a long time t o create a backup . The optimal da ta compression level depend s on the type of files stored in the ba ckup. For example, even maximum co mpression will not significantly reduce the backup size, if the ba ckup contains essenti[...]

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    73 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 To set the free di sk space th reshold:  Select the Show not ification message on insuffi cient free disk space check box  In the Size box, type or select a thr eshold value and sel ect a unit of measure True Image 2013 can monitor free spa ce on the f ollowing storage de vices:  Local[...]

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    74 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 by default. If you want to reset all the modified settin gs to the values that they were originally set t o when the product was installed, click the Reset to init ial settings button. What you can exclude and how 1. You can exclude hid den and system files from a bac kup by selecting the corre[...]

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    75 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3. 14 Va li dat i ng b ac ku p s The validation pr ocedure checks whether you will be able to recover da ta from a particu lar backu p version, so when y ou select for validati on on the ti me line…  a full backup versi on, the program valida tes the full backup version only.  a differe[...]

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    76 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Click the gear icon on the select ed backup's box, p oint to More and then click Co nsolidate versions  Follow the wizard's st eps You cannot cho ose another location when conso lidating backup versions loc ated in the Acronis Secure Zone . 3 . 1 5 . 1 A r c h i v e t o c o n s[...]

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    77 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3 . 1 5 . 4 C o n s o l i da t i o n s u mm a r y The summary window contain s a list of briefly de scribed operations that True I mage 2013 will perform after cli cking Proceed . If some parameters n eed to be changed, ch oose the necessar y step in the left part of the win dow and corr ect th[...]

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    78 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4 R ec ov er in g d ata The purpose of data ba ckup is to rec over backed up d ata when the origin al is lost due t o hardware failure, fire, theft or accidental deleti on of files. We hope that you bac ked up your syst em and data usin g the backup features provided by True Image 2013. If s o,[...]

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    79 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Ctrl+Esc , or some other, depend ing on your BIOS) durin g the POST sequence. Usually the message with the required key combination is disp layed during the startup test. Pre ssing t his combinati on takes you to th e setup menu . Go to the hard disk aut odetection utilit y which usu ally comes[...]

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    80 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3. Select My disks belo w Recover on the Welc ome scre en. 4. Select the system disk or partition ba ckup to be used for recovery. Right-click on the backup and choose Recove r in the shortcut m enu. 5. Select Recover whole disks an d partitions at the Recover y method step. 6. Select the syste[...]

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    81 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 In case of Wind ows 7 the System Reserved pa rtition will have the Pri , Act flags . You will need to select for recovery both the System Reserved partition and th e System partition. 7. At the "Settings of par tition C" ( or the letter of the sy stem partition, if i t is different) s[...]

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    82 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8. Carefully read the summary of operati ons at the Finish step. If you have not resiz ed the partition, the sizes in the Deletin g partit ion and Recovering par tition items must mat ch. Having chec ked the summary cli ck Proceed . 9. When the operation finishes, exit the stand alone vers ion [...]

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    83 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 If you want to rec over the partition to the state it was at an earlier dat e, click the gear ic on to open the Operations m enu and then click Reco ver files . This opens A cronis Backup Expl o rer and y ou can select the imag e backup version cr eated on that dat e. Clicking Recover after sel[...]

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    84 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 In this case, True Image 2013 generat es a new dis k signature for the recovered hard drive, even if you recover to th e same drive. Disk recovery op tions - click to set up additional para meters for the disk recovery pro cess. Use Acronis Univer sal Restore - click to use Acronis U niversal R[...]

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    85 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 1. Click Recover on the bac kup box of a disk containing s everal partitions. Th e Disk Recovery window appears. 2. Click the down arr ow next to Version: and then select the bac kup version y ou want to recover b y its backup date and ti me. 3. Select a partition t o recover. This opens the re[...]

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    86 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. Click the down arr ow to the righ t of the field and s elect the destinati on hard disk. The p artition to be recovered is then placed on the selec ted hard di sk. It occupies all the availab le disk space. To reduce the parti tion size so as t o leave enough disk space for the remaining pa [...]

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    87 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Remember that y ou need to leave as much unallocate d (free) space after having resized the partition as will b e needed for th e remaining partiti on. Select a disk letter and par tition type. When you finish th e settings, click OK to c onfirm them and r eturn to the main Disk Recovery window[...]

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    88 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8. Click the Partition prop erties link and make the settin gs for the partition. Sel ect a disk le tter and partition type. When you finish the se ttings, click OK to confirm them and return to the main Disk Recovery windo w. If the image c ontains more than two partitions, le ave enough unall[...]

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    89 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Disk letters may differ when bootin g from the rescue media. The names will help you find the drive containing your bac kups, as well as the target (new) d rive. Information on parti tion sizes, drive capa cities, their manufacturers, and model numbers can also help to correctl y identify the d[...]

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    90 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. Select Recover whole disks an d partitions at the Recover y method step. 5. At the What to reco ver step, select the boxes of the p artitions to be rec overed. Do not sele ct the MBR and Track 0 b ox, because this will resul t in selecti ng the entire disk f or recovery. Rec overing the enti[...]

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    91 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 6. You can specify the following partition setting s: location, t ype, and size. You first need to spe cify the settings of the hidden partition (S ystem Reserv ed partition in our case) as it usually does not have a disk letter. Because you ar e recovering to the new disk, clic k New location [...]

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    92 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8. Proceed to specif ying the partition siz e by clicking Change de fault in the Partition size area. By default the partiti on occupies the entir e new disk. You need t o keep the hidden p artitio n siz e unchanged and pla ce it in the same l ocation on the dis k (at the start or the end of di[...]

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    93 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Click Accept , che ck the partition type (change, if nec essary). The s ystem partitio n must be primary. Specify the partiti on size which by defaul t equals the original size. Usuall y there is no fr ee space after the partition, s o allocate all the un allocated spac e on the new disk to the[...]

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    94 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. 6 Re co ver i ng da ta fr o m fil e- le ve l bac ku ps You will usually start recovering files and folders from Acronis Backup Expl orer. When rec overing a specific file version, you will start rec overy from the View Vers ions window. In eit her case, startin g recovery opens the File Reco[...]

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    95 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 1. Select a required ba ckup version in the Acr onis Backup Explorer and click Recove r to start recovery. This will open the File Recover y window. 2. Such data can only b e recovered to the original locati on. Therefore you can only chang e the recovery opti ons. To change the r ecovery optio[...]

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    96 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 To choose the corr ect version, y ou can open the version in the ass ociated applic ation and view the file contents. Cho ose the version b y its backup time, an d then click the Open butt on. True Image 2013 will recover the file v ersion to a temp orary folder. Then it will open the file usin[...]

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    97 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 7. When a warning app ears that you need to reboot the computer to continue th e operation, cli ck Reboot to continue. During recovery, the program may be unable to fin d some dri ver in the specified sources and will display an error message. In this case , you can click Ignore to continue rec[...]

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    98 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. Choose Recover whole disks and pa rtitions and select the Use Acronis Universal Restore check box.[...]

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    99 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 5. If the target hardw are has a specific mass storage con troller (such as an SCS I, RAID, or Fibre Channel adapter) for the hard disks, spe cify where to find the driver or drivers for the spe cific hardware at the Drivers ma nager step. If the driver is stored on a diskette or CD, select the[...]

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    100 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. 9 Ac ro nis Un ive rsa l R e st or e 4 . 9 . 1 P u rp o s e o f A c r o n i s U n i v e r s al R e s t o r e Universal Restor e is part of the True Image 2013 Plus Pac k which must be purc hased separately. True Image 2013 Plus Pack has its own license and is installed from its own setup fi[...]

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    101 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4 . 9 . 2 G e n e r a l p r i n c i p l e s o f Ac r o n i s U n i v e r s a l R e s t o r e 1. Automatic selecti on of HAL and mass storage driv ers Acronis Universal Restore searches the Windows defa ult driver storage f olders (in the image being restored) for HA L and mass storage de vice [...]

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    102 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 GRUB), you might consider installi ng them to a Linu x root (or boot) partiti on boot rec ord instead of an MBR before ac tivating Acronis Startup Recovery M anager. If a failure occurs, turn on the comput er and press F1 1 when you see the "Press F11 for A cronis Startup Recover y Manage[...]

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    103 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 My so urc e di sk is MB R an d m y O S s up po rts U EF I The operation will n ot affect neith er partition layout nor bootability of the disk: partition st yle will remain MBR, the destinati on disk will be bootable in BIOS. The destination par tition will be converted to G PT style that will[...]

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    104 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Among other thing s, the BIOS menu allows you to adj ust the boot order . Computer BIOS allo ws booting operatin g systems not only from hard disks, but also fr om CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, and other devices. Changin g the boot ord er may be required , for example, to make your rescue media (C D, DVD[...]

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    105 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4 . 1 4 . 1 D i s k r e co v e r y m o d e With this option y ou can select the disk recovery m ode for image backup s.  Recover sector- by -secto r - select this check b ox if you want to r ecover both used and unused sectors of disks or partiti o ns. This op tion will be effe ctive only w[...]

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    1 06 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Having recovered a partition fro m an image, True Im age 2013 can check the integri ty of the file system. To do so, enable this opti on. Limitations on use of this option:  Check of the file system is available only when rec overing partitions usin g FAT16/32 and NTFS file systems.  Th[...]

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    107 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  To disable overwritin g of specific files , click the Add... bu tton to create an exclusi on criterion.  While specifying the criteri a, you can use the c ommon Wind ows wildcard charact ers. For example, to preser ve all fil es with extension .exe , you can add *.exe . Adding My???.exe[...]

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    108 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Select the Show not ification message on insuffi cient free disk space check box  In the Size box, type or select a thr eshold value and sel ect a unit of measure True Image 2013 can monitor free space on the following storage devices:  Local hard drives  USB cards and dri ves [...]

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    109 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  When booting int o Acronis Startup Reco very Manager.  When booting fro m factory bootable media. Recovery of the original config uration under Wind ows or by using Acr onis Startup Recovery Manager is possible if the c omputer has an Acronis Secure Zon e that has a backup of the comput[...]

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    110 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012[...]

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    111 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 5 S yn c hr oni z i ng d at a I n t hi s s e ct i on About the Sync featu re .......................................................................... 111 How we ensure s ecurity of your da ta .................................................... 111 Acronis server l ogin .....................[...]

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    112 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 5. 3 Ac ro nis se r ve r lo gin To start using the data synchronization f eature or onli ne backup, you must enter the e-mail address and password of y our Acronis account. Also we reco mmend that you na me your co mputer. You may type any name you like, not necessari ly the name assigned for [...]

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    113 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 You cannot syn chronize th e following data:  Disks and partiti ons  System files and f olders  Hidden files and fold ers  Temporary files and folders  System registry  Databases  Data of e-mail progra ms (includin g Microsoft Outlook and others)  Other data that cann o[...]

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    114 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The notification area Sync state icons : The last synchroniz ation completed succ essfully. (rotating) The sync is in pr ogress at th e moment. (static) All syncs are paused or each sync has only one partici pant. An error occurred d uring the last s ynchronization. 5. 6 De fa u lt sy nc When [...]

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    115 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 5 . 7 . 1 H o w t o s y n c d a t a b e t w e e n y o u r c o m p u t e r s Let's see how t o sync data betwe en two or more c omputers which belong to the same Acr onis account. For exa mple, you need t o sync data bet ween your home co mputers or betw een your home computer and work c o[...]

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    116 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  One of the synced fold ers can reside on a remote S MB (Server Messag e Block) sh are. It does not matter if the shar e is mapped or n ot. Hin t : By using a shared folder, yo u can sync two comp uters without necessity to insta ll True Image 2013 on the computer where th e shared folder r[...]

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    117 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. On the created sync box, click the Setting s icon ( ) and then select Share... . 5. Type the e-mail ad dress of the user or us ers who you want to invite. Use commas as separ ators if you invite several us ers. Optionally y ou can type a message to the invited p erson. 6. Select the I agree[...]

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    118 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 For example, you and your fri end work with the sa me file located in your sync folders. Bo th of you have changed it and si multaneously saved the change s. This is a sync conflic t because True Imag e 2013 must process two changes of the fil e (yo urs and your friend’s) within on e sync op[...]

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    119 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 5. Follow the standard install atio n pr ocedure. The procedure to fin d and install the And roid app is si milar. 5. 9 Ver sio ns of sy nc hr o ni zed fi les True Image 2013 gives you an oppor tunity to und o the changes that were made to your fil es as a result of synchronizati on. If you fi[...]

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    120 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 To view or change the cleanu p options for a sync: 1. Start True Image 2013 and click the Synch ronization tab . 2. Click the Setting s icon ( ) on the right-hand side of the required sync and then sel ect Cleanup options . 3. Change the opti ons and click OK , otherwise click Cancel . How to [...]

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    121 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. Clicking Advan ced cleanup allows y ou to select mor e cleanup rules. You can apply th e cleanup rules for:  individual syncs and online backups  all syncs and online ba ckups y ou have on Acronis Clou d 5. Choose the desir ed rules and click Clean up now!. One more way to clean up is[...]

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    122 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 5. Select the Show de leted check b ox and then select the deleted file you want to recover. 6. Click the Recover button to recover the dele ted file to its folder. 5. 12 Ho w to s ha re fo ld er s You can share a fold er with any person whose e-mail address you kn ow. To get ac cess to the sh[...]

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    123 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 By creating a publi c link, you can share any folder in your system irr espective of whether it participates in a s ync or not. Please n ote that all files and folders y ou share with other peopl e use your quota of space on Acronis Cloud. For more infor mation see How to create public links t[...]

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    124 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 2. Click Synchronizat ion in the left-hand side of the scre en. The Computers tab in t he Manage synchronization are a is displayed by defau lt. 3. Click Unlink to th e right of the nam e of the compu ter you want to unlink. 4. Click OK in the confir mation message. Unlinking the c omputer: ?[...]

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    125 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 5. Click under the Mine headi ng the "+" icon next to the synchronization fr om which you want to remove a participan t. This opens th e list of the p ersons you invited t o the sync. 6. Click Remove to the right of the na me of the participa nt you want to remove. If you invited sev[...]

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    126 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. Click the Shared synchronization s tab in the Manage synchronization are a. 5. Select under the Joine d heading the synchr onization you want to leave and cli ck Leave to the right of the sync na me. 6. Click OK in the confir mation message.[...]

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    127 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 6 U sin g on li n e bac k u p I n t hi s s e ct i on What is Acronis Cloud ? .......................................................................... 127 Subscription informati on ....................................................................... 127 Backing up to Acr onis Cloud .......[...]

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    128 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 To keep your persona l data secure, choose a strong p assword for your online bac kups , guard it from ge tting into the wrong hand s, and change it from time to time. After opening an Acr onis account, l og in to your acco unt page, subscribe to the Acronis Cl oud service, and then wait for a[...]

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    129 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3. Logging in opens a window, wher e you can configure online backup s ettings. 4. Specify items to inclu de by selecting the correspondin g check boxes. You can includ e both file categories and indi vidual files and f olders. For more in formation on categ ories see Data categories (p. 45 ).[...]

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    130 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 recovery tab and displays at the bott om of the screen a notification about the onl ine backups it has found. You can select an y one of the existin g online backups and then make it ac tive by clicking the Continue backup here button. It does n ot matter from which computer you backed up data[...]

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    131 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 In case of any net work problems, if the first connec tion attempt fails, the program will repea t the attempts until a c onnection is succes sfully establishe d. You can set the nu mber of connection attempts and the ti me interval betwe en the attempts in seconds. To do so, type or select th[...]

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    132 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Select the Store no more tha n … recent versions check box and enter a value that limits th e maximum number of all versions in th e storage. 6 . 5 . 3 E n c r y p t i o n k e y To protect your data on Acronis Cl oud from unauthori zed access, you can use encryption. In this cas e your d[...]

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    133 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 6 . 5 . 5 O p e r a t i o n p r i o r i t y Changing the priorit y of an operati on process can mak e it run faster or slower (dep ending on whether you raise or lower the pri ority), but it can als o adversely aff ect the perform ance of other running programs. Th e priority of any proc ess r[...]

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    134 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Select the Limit transfer ra te to check box and specify an optimal value and an appropria te measurement unit (kilobits or megabit s per second ) 6 . 5 . 7 N o t i f i c a t i o n s You can specify an e- mail account that will be used for notification of the bac kup process. To specify th[...]

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    135 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Enter the password in the Password field. To specify additional n otification settings, click the Ad ditional notificat ion settin gs link.  To send notificati on concerning process completion, s elect the Send notificat ion upon operation' s successful com pletion check box.  T[...]

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    136 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 1. Click the Recover button on the box of the online backup from which you wan t to recover data. You will be taken to Acronis Cloud Web sit e. If the data from t he selected computer is stored on the Cloud in encrypted form, you will be asked to enter the encryption key which has been used fo[...]

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    137 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3. Select the version t o which you want to rollback. Th e version's exact da te and ti me will be displayed. Your current version will be reverted to the state it was a t that point in time. 4. Click Recover to pro ceed. The sele cted version will b ecome the latest version on Acr onis C[...]

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    138 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 7 U sef ul in for mat i on I n t hi s s e ct i on Protecting your sy stem .......................................................................... 1 38 Deciding where to store your backu ps .................................................. 140 Making sure that y our rescue m edia can be use[...]

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    139 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 1. Start True Image 20 13, select th e Backup and reco very tab and then click Di sk and pa rtition backup . 2. This opens the Disk Ba ckup window with y our system partition (usuall y C:) selec ted by defaul t. 3. Select a destination f or backup (you can l eave the defau lt destination or br[...]

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    140 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 the other (preferabl y on oth er premises – for example , at work or at a friend's ho me, if you use the backed up computer a t home). One more argu ment in favor of sever al backups: wh en starting re covery, True Image 2013 deletes the target parti tion (or disk). If y ou have just a [...]

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    141 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Online backup True Image 2013 allows you to use the Acr o nis Cloud service for saf eguarding your most i mportant files by saving th em to a secur e remote location. Because files are s tored on a remote storage, they are protected even if your computer g ets stolen. So t he risk of data lo s[...]

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    142 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 user name and pass word for the sel ected network sh are. To repeat the connection atte mpt, click the Test again button. Having provided the required infor mation, click Conn ect . 7. 3 Mak in g sur e t hat y o ur re scu e m ed ia ca n b e use d w he n n eed ed To maximize the chances of your[...]

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    143 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. When the progra m starts, we r ecommend you try recovering som e files from y our backup. A tes t recovery allows you to make sure that your rescue CD can be used for r ecovery. In addition, you will check that the pr ogram detec ts all the hard dri ves you ha ve in your system. If you have[...]

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    144 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 If the Computers Near Me icon is n ot available under My Computer , th ere may be problems eith er with your network card or with th e card driver provided with Tru e Image 2013. 5. Select the destinati on for the files and then click Next. 6. Select several fil es for recovery by sele cting t[...]

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    145 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 7 . 3 . 1 S e l e ct i n g v i d e o m o d e w h e n b o o t i n g f r o m t h e r e s c u e m e d i a When booting fro m the rescue media th e optimal video mod e is selected aut omatically depend ing on the specifications of your vide o card and monit or. However, s ometimes the p rogram can[...]

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    146 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 After you find the optimal video mode for your hardw are, you can create a new bootable re scue media that will aut omatically sel ect that video mode. To do this, start Acr onis Media Bui lder, select the required media components, a nd type the mod e number with the "0 x" prefix (0[...]

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    147 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 7 . 5 . 1 P r e p a r i n g f o r m i g r a t i o n Solid state disks hav e become quit e common. Many u sers decide to r eplace their syst em hard disk with an SSD to enhance the disk syst em performance . Such a replacem ent may raise a nu mber of questions. Because SSDs are still som ewhat [...]

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    148 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 diskpart list disk The screen wil l show the dis ks connected to your computer. Fin d out the disk number for your SSD. Use its siz e as the refe rence. select di sk N Here N is the disk number of your SS D . clean This operati on removes all inf ormation from the SSD and overwri tes the MBR w[...]

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    149 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 7 . 5 . 3 C h e c k i n g S SD p a r t i t i o n a l i g n m en t If you installed Win dows Vista/Windows 7 from the in stallation DVD to a new hard disk, the operating system automaticall y aligns the hard disk during installation to a multip le of 4096 and usually to 1.024 MB. In any case, i[...]

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    150 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 diskpart select di sk N where N is the nu m ber of your SS D clean create pa rtition pr imary al ign=1024 active format fs =ntfs quic k exit exit 5. Shut down the c omputer and then bo ot to Acronis rescue media. 6. Validate the backup t o make sur e that it can be used for recovery. 7. Click [...]

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    151 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 6. Boot from your Acr onis rescue media. 7. Validate the backup t o make sur e that it can be used for recovery. T o do this, click Recovery on the left pane and s elect the backup. Rig ht-click, select Valida te Archive in the shortcut menu and then click Procee d . 8. After the valida tion f[...]

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    152 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Stopping the Try mode ........................................................................... 154 Try&Decide options and notifications ................................ ................... 1 55 Try&Decide: typical use cases ...........................................................[...]

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    153 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 One of the best featur es of Try &Decide is that it is olates your "real" operating syste m from changes to the temporar y operating syste m duplicate mad e by updates. Because of this, you can saf ely install system updates when they appear. When Windows Up date informs you that[...]

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    154 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 layout. In addition, you must not use the Try&Decide an d disk defragmentation or disk error checking utilities at the sa me time, b ecause this can irrepar ably corrupt the file system, as well as make the system disk unbo otable. When the Try mode is started, y ou won't be able to u[...]

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    155 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 If you have c hosen Discard Changes and rebooted the computer with multiple ope rating systems installed, you won’t be able to boot other operating systems except the one used for working in th e Try mode. A seco nd reboot will recover the o riginal MBR and make o ther operating systems boot[...]

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    156 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 7. 6. 4.3 A le r t s ett ing s Specify whether Try&Decide should al ert you when i t uses up all th e space allotted for saving virtual changes and after a sp ecified ti me period has elapsed . By default the Alert is On. The following opti ons are available:  On free disk space remaini[...]

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    157 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  But now you can ju st discard the changes made in the Try mode and make one more a ttempt to recover the files af ter turning on the Try mode again. Such attempts may be repeated until you are sure that you have done your bes t in trying to re cover the files. Software uninstalling It is w[...]

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    158 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Here you can specif y the backup and validation sched ule settings. You can choose and set up one of th e following backu p or validation frequ encies:  Daily (p. 159 ) - the operation will b e executed once a day or mor e frequently.  Weekly (p. 159) - the operation will be executed onc[...]

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    159 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  If you schedule a backup to a USB flash dri ve or validat ion of a backup that is located on a USB flash drive, one m ore check box appears: Run when the current destination device is atta ched . Selecting the che ck box will let you perform a missed operation when the USB flas h drive is [...]

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    160 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 7 . 7 . 3 M o n t h l y e x e c u t i o n pa r a m e t e r s You can set up the f ollowing para meters for monthly operation e xecution:  Periodicity or da tes  If you select Ever y , choose a numeral and the day of the week fr om the dropd own lists (example: First Monday - the operatio[...]

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    161 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Enter a search string into the Search fi eld at the top ri ght of the True I mage 2013 window. You will be taken to the Acronis B ackup Explor er screen. The program sh ows search result s. By default True I mage 2013 perfor ms the search in all the sources whe re it can search in formation. T[...]

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    162 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 http://www.micr osoft.com/download /en/details.aspx ?id=23. Double-click on the downl oaded file and follow the instructi ons for installa tion. True Image 2013 has a plug-in for Windo ws Search. To sp eed up searches in y our backups, you can install the plug-in fo r indexing the backup s. Af[...]

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    163 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3. Click Advanced , s elect the File Types tab and then ma ke sure that the tib extensi on is selected and ".tib IFilter" i s shown in the Filter Description fiel d. Select Index Properties and File Contents .[...]

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    164 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. Click OK and while the Indexing Options window is open, chec k that the dis ks where you store your backups are sho wn in the "Included Locations" lis t. If the list does not contain those disks, the backups will not be indexed. To include the disks, click Mod ify and select the m[...]

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    165 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Give Windows Sear ch some time f or indexing Acronis backups on y our computer's hard disks and adding the indexin g information to i ts index database. The required ti me depends on the numb er of backups and the nu mber of files they contain. After c ompleting the indexing, th e Windows[...]

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    166 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 7. 9 Ch oo sin g c o lu mn s f or vie w in g i n wi zar ds You can change th e way the columns are r epresented in various wizards. To sort items by a par ticular colu mn, click the header (another click will switch the ite ms to the opposite order). To select columns to view, right-click in t[...]

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    167 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8 T ool s an d u ti lit ie s Acronis Tools and utiliti es include Try &Decide, protec tion tools, mountin g tools, backup conversion tools, clone disk utilit y, security and pri vacy utilities, disk managem ent utilities, a nd backup settings transfer tools. Try&Decide Try any unsafe o[...]

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    168 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 With the File Shredd er you can qu ickly select unnec essary files and fold ers and destroy the m permanently.  System Clean- up With the Syste m Clean-up utility, you can clean up co mponents (folders, files, registry s ections, etc.), related t o general system tas ks. These Windows compo[...]

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    169 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 2. Activate Acronis Star tup Recovery Manag er. When Acronis Sta rtup Recovery Manager is activated, it overwrites the master boot r ecord (MBR) with its own boot code. If you have any third-party boot managers installed, you will need to reactivate them after the Startup Reco very Manager has[...]

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    170 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  If you have chosen n ot to install the B ootable Media Builder during True Image 2013 installation, you will n ot be abl e to use this feature.  When booting fro m the Rescue Media, you cannot pe rform backups to disks or partitions with Ext2/Ext3/Ext4, Reis erFS, and Linu x SWAP file s[...]

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    171 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 installed on your c omputer, you can als o include stand alone versions of th ese programs int o the same bootable medi a.  If automatic start o f the program is ne cessary, select t he Starts automatica lly after check box. The Start automat ically aft er parameter specifies the timeout in[...]

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    172 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Disables FireWire (IEEE1394) suppor t.  nopcmcia Disables PCMCIA hard ware detection.  nomouse Disables mouse sup port.  [module name]=off Disables the m odule (e.g. sata_sis=o ff ).  pci=bios Forces to use PCI BIOS, and not to acc ess the hardwar e device directl y. For instance, [...]

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    173 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 If you use non-optical media, the media must have a F AT file system. This limitation is n ot applicable for an ISO image. 8. 2. 1.4 D es ti na ti on fi le s el ec ti on If you chose to c reate a bootable dis k ISO image , specify the ISO file name and the fold er where to place it:  Select[...]

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    174 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8. 2. 1.6 Ho w t o c re a te a b oot ab le U SB f las h d ri ve You can create a bootable USB flash drive containin g a standalone True Image 2013. This may be handy, for example, if your noteb ook does not have an internal CD/ DVD -dri ve. You will need a USB flash drive with a capacity of 25[...]

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    175 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Run the PE builder, put in the necessary paths (the onlin e help is available at http://nu2.nu/pebuild er/help/), and click the Plugins button: Make sure you hav e the True Image 20 13 plug-in enabled on th e Plugins screen: Close the Plugin s window and click the Build button t o start the bu[...]

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    176 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 After the image is created, bu rn it to CD or DVD. (If you did not ch eck the Burn to CD option at the previous step.) After booting fro m the CD/DVD, y ou can find the True Image 2013 plug-in in Go/Syste m/Storage. Adding drivers BartPE supports add ing two types of dri vers: storage drivers [...]

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    177 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 It is recommended that you familiarize yourself with t he help documentati on supplied with Wind o ws AIK. A good starting point is the "Creat e an image" sec tion of "Getting St arted for IT Prof essionals" white paper. To acc ess the document, s elect Microsoft Win dows A[...]

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    178 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 4. Specify the path to the folder Win PEISO, e.g. c:winp e_x86ISO. 5. On the next screen choose the Add components and bu ild an ISO option and click Next . 6. Specify the full path to the resulting image file inclu ding the filename or leave the default pa th and filename (Acr onisMedia.i [...]

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    179 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 7. Check your settin gs in the summar y screen and click Proceed . 8. Burn the .ISO to a CD using a third-party tool (for exam ple, Nero) and you will have a bootab le Windows PE disc with True Image 2013. Once a machine bo ots into WinPE, True Image 2 013 starts aut omatically. Be awar e that[...]

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    180 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 3. Specify the full path to the resulting WIM file, includ ing the filename or leave the d efault path and filename (Acr onisMedia.wim). 4. Check your settin gs in the summar y screen and click Proceed . To cr ea te a PE im age (I SO fi le ) fr om the re s ul tin g WI M fi le: 1. Select Micros[...]

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    181 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 5. Repeat Step 4 f or all other drivers you need to add . 6. Commit the chan ges using the Dism command with th e /Unmount-Wim /Com mit option. Dism /Unmount -Wim /MountDir:C:win pe_x86mount /Commit Do not exit th e command prompt. Af ter t he cus to m W IM is c rea ted , p r oc e ed t o a d[...]

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    182 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 12. Type exit to exit Windo ws DiskPart utili ty. 8. 3 Cr ea t i ng f act o ry b oot abl e me di a This functionality is available only if the comp uter has an Acronis Secure Zone tha t has a backup of the computer's factory co nfiguration. This backup is no rmally created in Acronis Secu[...]

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    183 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Acronis Secure Z one location ................................................................ . 184 Selecting partitions ................................................................................ 185 Size of Acronis S ecure Zone ..........................................................[...]

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    184 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 If the Acronis Secur e Zone is used as the N onstop Back up data destination, the program does not clean up such data aut omatically. You can clean up Non stop Backup data manuall y . For more information see Acronis Nonstop Backup data storage (p. 52 ). In order to not w orry about zone o ver[...]

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    185 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8 . 4 . 3 S e l e ct i n g p a r t i t i o ns Select the partitions from which space will be used to creat e Acronis Secur e Zone. You can als o select an unallocated space to create th e zone. To select a par tition:  Select the appropria te partition che ck box and click Ne xt . 8 . 4 . 4[...]

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    186 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The minimum size is about 50 MB, depending on the geometry of the hard disk. Th e maximum size is equal to the disk’s un allocated space plus the total fr ee space on all partitions sel ected at t he previous step. When creating/enlarg ing the Acronis Secure Zone, th e program will first use[...]

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    187 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8. 4. 5.3 A cr on is S ec u re Z on e p ro tec ti on Here, you can set up password pro tection for the Acr onis Secure Zone in order to prevent it from unauthorized acc ess. The program will as k for the password a t any operation relatin g to the Acr onis Secure Zone such a s data backup and [...]

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    188 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 To select a par tition:  Select the appropria te partition's che ck box, then clic k Next . Acronis Secure Z one can be also re moved while uninst alling the program. You will have a ch oice between uninstallati on of the progra m without rem oving Acronis Secur e Zone and remo ving so[...]

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    189 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Move method ......................................................................................... 192 Data migration ....................................................................................... 193 Manual partitioni ng ............................................................[...]

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    190 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8 . 5 . 3 S e l e ct i n g c l o n e mo d e There are two transf er modes availabl e:  Automatic (recom mended in most cases). In automati c mode, you will only have to take several simple actions t o transfer all the data, including partiti ons, files and f olders, to a newer dis k, making[...]

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    191 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8 . 5 . 4 S e l e ct i n g a s o u r c e d i s k You can determine the source and des tination using the informati on provided in this windo w (disk number, capacity, label, partition and fil e system inf ormation). If the progra m find s several partitioned disks, i t will ask you which is th[...]

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    192 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8 . 5 . 5 S e l e ct i n g a d e s t i n a t i o n d i s k After you select the source disk, you hav e to select th e destination wh ere the disk infor mation will be copied to. The pre viously selected s ource becomes gr ayed-out and disabled for s election.  Select the destinati on disk a[...]

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    193 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Manual - you will specify a new size and other para meters yourself If you elect to transfer informati on "as is," a new parti tio n will be cr eated for eve ry old one with the same size and type, file system and label. The unused space will becom e unallocated. After wards, you[...]

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    194 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Along with the hard disk number, you can s ee disk cap acity, the label, volume and file syste m information. Differ ent volume type s, including primar y, logical and unallo cated space are marked with different c olors. To resize, chang e the volume type , change the label of the existing v [...]

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    195 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 If the cursor turn s into two vertical lin es with left and r ight arrows, it is poin ted at the partiti on border and you can drag it to enlarge or reduce the pa rtition's size. If the cursor turns into f our arrows, it is point ed at the partition, so you can move it to the left or righ[...]

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    196 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Cloning a non-syst em disk or a disk contain ing an operatin g system, but one that is not currentl y active, will proc eed without the n eed to reboot. Af ter you click Proceed , True Image 20 13 will start cloning the old disk to the new disk, indicating the progress in a spe cial w ind ow. [...]

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    197 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 If there are any pa rtitions on the new disk, t hey must be deleted first. If the added d isk contains partitions, True Image 2013 will wa rn you by displaying the warning message. Click OK to delet e the existing partitions on the added disk. You can also see the properties of all the hard di[...]

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    198 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8 . 6 . 2 S e l e ct i n g i n i t i a l i z at i o n me t h o d True Image 2013 supports both MBR and GPT partitio ning. GUID Partiti on Table (GPT) is a n ew hard disk partitioning method providing advan tages over th e old MBR partiti oning method. If y our operating system supports GPT dis[...]

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    199 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  partition letter and label. If you allocate all unallocated space on the disk t o the new partiti on, the Create new partitio n button disappears. 8. 6. 3.1 P ar ti ti on s et ti ng s Specify the setting s for the p artition being created. Size You can resize and relocate the parti tio n b[...]

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    200 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 File System Choose the file sys tem typ e for the partiti on be ing cr eated. Different partiti ons may have diff erent type of file syste m. You can either lea ve the partition unf ormatted, or cho ose between the f ollowing file sys tem types:  NTFS is a Wind ows NT, Windows 200 0, Window[...]

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    201 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 When you finish to sp ecify the se ttings for the partiti on being creat ed, click Accept to continue. 8 . 6 . 4 A d d n e w d i s k s u m m a r y The Add new disk su mmary graphically (as rectangles ) illustrates informa tion about the ne w disk layout before and af ter partitioning.  Clic[...]

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    202 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The space beyond 2 TB is displ ayed as Extended Capaci ty. You can enable E xtended Capacity Dis ks, and once it is done, this space beco mes visible t o the operating syst em and ready for disk management oper ations. 1. To start Acronis Ext ended Capacity Manager, select the Tools and utilit[...]

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    203 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 After allocating th e space, you can temporarily swit ch off the Extended Capacity Disks b y clicking Temporary switch off Extend ed Capacity Disks . This makes the Extended Capa city Disks invisib le for disk management t ools, though the dis k space will re main allocated and you will be abl[...]

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    204 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The File Shredder pro vides the sa me capabilities for in dividual files and f olders. Finally, the Syst em Clean-up wizard ensur es eliminatio n of all of the traces of your computer activities When w orking on a PC, y ou leave thousan ds of bytes of evid ence showing your actions. You may no[...]

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    205 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8. 8. 1.1 D a ta se lec ti on First, you must selec t the hard disk partitions where you want to des troy data. To select a partition, click the corr esponding rectang le. You will see a r ed mark in the upper right corner indicating that the partition i s selected. You can select an entire ha[...]

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    206 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 If the disks and/or parti tions you hav e selected include the system disk or partition, you will see a warning window. Be careful, becaus e clicking OK in this warn ing window and then Proceed in the Su mmary window will result in wiping the system partiti on containing y our Windows operatin[...]

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    207 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Acronis DriveCleans er offers you ano ther useful capab ility — to estimate th e results of ex ecuting a data destruction alg orithm on a hard disk or partition. It features an int egrated Disk Edit or (hard disk browsing tool ). The aforementi oned algorithms offer various lev els of confid[...]

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    208 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 The window has the f ollowing legend : The first colu mn of the list contains the ty pe of operation on a disk (there are just two: to write a symbol to disk , "writing"; and t o verify written, "verification"); the second column c ontains the pattern of data to be writ ten[...]

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    209 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 In the same wa y, you can create any data destruction algorithm t o match your secur ity requirements. S a vi n g cu st om al go rit h m In the next Saving Cus tom Algorithm wind ow, you will be able to save th e algorithm y ou have created. This will be useful if you are going to use it again[...]

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    210 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8. 8. 1.5 D is k Ed ito r (r ead -o nl y mod e) Acronis DriveCleans er offers you ano ther useful capab ility — to estimate th e results of ex ecuting a data destruction m ethod on a hard disk or partition. To view the state of your cl eaned up disks or partitions, click the Tools & Uti [...]

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    211 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Go to s ec tor You can go to the n ecessary se ctor according t o its absolute offs et by selecting the Go to… line in the Search menu (or by pr essing the Alt+ P key combinati on). Selecting thi s line opens the Go to… d ialog window. The transition is perf ormed by ent ering the absolut [...]

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    212 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Having selected the c ontents for shreddin g, click Next to contin ue. 8. 8. 2.2 D a ta de s t ru ct io n m et ho d se le c ti on File Shredder utilizes a number of the most popular data destruction methods. Here, you n eed to select the desired da ta destruction method. The data destructi[...]

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    213 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 In some cases, the operation may take a l ong time t o be completed. If this is the case, s elect the Shutdo wn the computer after co mpletion check box. When the operati on finishes, True Image 2013 will turn the c omputer off. 8 . 8 . 3 S y s t e m C l e a n - up The System Clean- up wizard [...]

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    214 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 After you start the wizard by sele cting the Tools and utilities tab and then clickin g System Clean- up , it will search for an y traces of user acti ons stored by Windows. When the search is fin ished, its results will be available a t the top of the wizard window. You can view the s earch r[...]

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    215 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Find Computer list  Find File list  Recently Used Documents list  Windows Run List  Opened/saved files hist ory  User Credentials  Windows Prefet ch Directory 8. 8. 3.2 D ef au lt cl ean -up op ti on s The default clean-up options are available b y clicking the Click to c[...]

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    216 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Use common metho d - if you leave thi s parameter sel ected, the pr ogram will use the default method (the initial setting is Fast me thod). If you need another destruction me thod to be set as a default, click on the correspond ing link.  Use custom metho d for this compone nt - select[...]

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    217 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Upon entering the Fil es setting value, you can br owse the files ma tching the search strin gs. To do this, click Sho w Files . You will see a window with the names of the found files. These files will b e cleaned. D ri ve f re e s pa c e Here you can manu ally specify physical an d/or logica[...]

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    218 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 "C om m an ds " set tin g Here you can sel ect the command s to remove during Windows Run Li st clean- up. This template can contain any command na m es or th eir parts separat ed by semi colons, e.g.: *help; cmd; reg* This will result in r emoving co mmands with names c orresponding[...]

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    219 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  Expand the System Componen ts item in the System Cl ean-up tree and make sure that the component you wish to clean up is selected. If you do not want to clean up a component, si mply clear its check bo x.  If required, you can dig deeper by expan ding a compo nent and selecting/uns elec[...]

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    220 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 8. 8. 4.1 Fu nc ti on in g pr inc ip les o f In f or mat ion w ip in g m et hod s Physically, the c omplete wipin g of information fro m a hard disk involves th e switchin g of every elementary magnetic area of the rec ording material as many ti mes as possible by wri ting speciall y selected [...]

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    221 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 No. Al gor it hm (wr it ing m e th o d) P as se s Re cor d 0x FF, 2 nd pass – 0x00, and then five times with a cryptographically secure ps eudo -random sequence. 8. Fast 1 Logical zeros (0x00 numb ers) to all sectors to wipe. 8. 9 Mo un tin g a n i mag e True Image 2013 offers mounting for i[...]

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    222 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 If you selected a backup containin g incremental image s, you can select one of the successi ve incremental images (also called "backup versions") by its creation date /time. Thus, you can explore the data s tate at a certain moment. To mount an incr emental image, y ou must have all[...]

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    223 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 You can also sel ect a letter to be assigned to the virtua l disk from the Mount lette r drop-down list. If you do not want to mount a parti tion, select Do no t mount in the list or cl ear the partition's check b ox. 4. If you select the Mo unt the pa rtitions in the rea d-write mode box[...]

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    224 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 If you have mounted several partitions , by default all of them will be selected for unmounting. You can disconnect all mounted drives tog ether or discon nect only those you d o not need mounted anymore. You can also do this in Win dows Explorer by right-clicking on th e disk icon and c hoosi[...]

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    225 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 1. Click Acronis backup conversion on the Tools and uti lities tab. 2. Select the disk imag e to convert. If the backup is passw ord-protected, True Image 201 3 will ask for it. Not e that the resulting vhd file will lose passw ord protecti on. Converting an incr emental backup requ ires all t[...]

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    226 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 1. Click Windows ba ckup conversion on the Tools and u tilities tab. 2. Select the vhd file to convert. 3. Specify the path to the tib file t o be created. By default, the con verted file will be created in the sa me location as the file to be conver ted. However, you can select another loca t[...]

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    227 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Even if the requ ired vhd backup is shown o n the screen, after you cho ose it True Image 2013 may display the following message : "True Image 2013 cann ot detect volume 1 of "Backup _Name" archive", where Backup_Name is the name of the chosen bac kup. This is because disk [...]

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    228 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 maximum size o f the vhd file. So the estimated free spa ce is the size of your system partiti on plus 5 GB. From the above , it follows that you cannot boo t from the vhd file if it is located on yo ur system partition. 6. Reboot the computer and select the new entry in the Acronis Boot Seque[...]

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    229 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012  schedule  backup scheme  automatic clean-up rul es  backup version na ming rules The settings of Nons top Backup are as foll ows:  list of items for n onstop protection  Nonstop Backup dat a storage location (a list of locatio ns, if there are se veral) You cannot import Onl[...]

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    230 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 9 T rou bl esh oot ing I n t hi s s e ct i on Acronis System Repor t ........................................................................... 230 Acronis Smart Error Reporting ............................................................... 231 How to collect crash dumps ....................[...]

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    231 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 9. 2 Ac ro nis Sm art E r ro r Rep ort i ng To help users with troubleshooting, the n ew releases of Acronis products empl oy the so called Acronis Smart Error Reporting . When an issue is caus ed by an error in the program's operati on, True Image 2013 displays an appropria te error mess[...]

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    232 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 establish Internet c onnection or if you can use an other computer where Intern et connection is available, use th e following URL to go to the Acronis Web site err or reporting form: http://kb.acronis.c om/errorcode/. Select the Acronis pr oduct version you us e and manually ent er the event [...]

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    233 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 This information will speed up the pr ocess of findin g a solution. 9. 4 Ge ne ral re co mme nd ati o ns The below infor mation may help you in troublesho oting issues enc ountered duri ng installation and use of True Image 2013. Quite often the cause of an issue may be trivial. For e xample, [...]

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    234 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Before making a r equest, collect the information ab out your syste m. Select Generate system report in the Help menu. True Image 2013 will automatica lly collect the required informati on and display a list of what is colle cted in the report. In the process of creating the report the p rogra[...]

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    235 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 By default all l ogs are selected fo r viewing. Th e right pane shows all major log en tries in the c ollapsed state. To expand a log entry for vi ewing individual l og items, double-click it. T o collapse the expand ed log entry, double-click it again. You can scroll the log entries using the[...]

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    236 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 problems you face. Bas ed on this inf ormation, we will be able to impr ove the Acronis produc ts and the features you use most often. If you choose t o participate, the t echnical infor mation will be aut omatically collected ever y 90 days. We will not c ollect any personal data, like your n[...]

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    237 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Copyright Statement Copyright © Acr onis International G mbH, 2002-2012. All rights res erved. "Acronis", "Acr onis Compute with C onfidence", "Acr onis Recovery Manager ", "Acronis Se cure Zone", Acronis True I mage, Acronis Try &Decide, and the A [...]

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    10 G lo ssa ry of Te rm s A A cr on is S ec u re Z on e A secure partiti on for storing backup s (p. 238) on a hard disk. Advantag es:  enables recovery of a disk to the sa me disk where the disk' s backup resides  offers a cost-effec tive and hand y method for protecting data fr om software malfunction, virus attack, operator error  [...]

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    239 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Bo ota bl e med ia A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash dri v e or other media support ed by a machine BIOS as a boot device) that contains standalone version of True Image 2 013. Bootable media is most often used t o:  recover an operating system tha t cannot start  access and back up t[...]

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    240 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 Fu ll b ac ku p ve rs io n A self-sufficient backup version (p. 23 8) containing all data chosen for backup. You do not need access to any other backup version to recover the data from a full backup version. I Im ag e The same as Disk bac kup (p. 239). In cr em en ta l b ack up 1. A backup met[...]

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    241 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2012 version and the sel ected differential backup version.  an incremental bac kup version (p. 24 0) - the program validat es the in itial full backup version, the s elected increm ental backup version, an d the whole chain (if any) of backup versi ons to the sel ected incremental bac kup versi[...]