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Acronis True Image 2015 manual

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    USER'S GUIDE[...]

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    2 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 2014 Table of contents 1 Introduction .................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 What is Acronis ® True Image™ 2015? ........................................................................................ 3 1.2 New in[...]

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    3 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002 - 201 4 1 I n tr odu cti on I n thi s s ect ion What is Acronis® True Image™ 20 15 ? ....................................................... 3 New in this version ..................................................................................... 3 System requirem ents ...........................[...]

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    4 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 201 4 1. 3 Sy st em re qui rem e nt s Suppo rted operating systems:  OS X Mountain Li on 10.8  OS X Mavericks 1 0.9  OS X Yosemite 10. 10 Suppo rted file systems:  Mac OS Extended f ormat (case-insensiti v e)  FAT32  exFAT  NTFS (read-only) You cannot back up data to a disk with [...]

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    5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002 - 201 4 3. Double-click the Acr onis True Image 2015 setup file (the file has a .d mg extension ). 4. Drag the Acronis Tru e Image 201 5 icon to the Appli cations folder. When you start Acr onis True Imag e 2015 for the first time, y ou must enter the s erial number or start the trial version of the p[...]

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    6 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 201 4 Installing the trial versi on To start using the trial version, install the product, and then click Start Trial . Refer to Install, up date or remove Acronis Tru e Im age 2015 (p. 4) for details. Upgrading to the full v ersion To upgrade to the ful l version of the product: 1. Purchase the full[...]

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    7 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002 - 201 4 2 B ack up I n thi s s ect ion Basic concepts ............................................................................................ 7 What you can and can not back up ............................................................. 8 Backing up to l ocal or network stor age ...............[...]

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    8 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 201 4 version, Acronis Tru e Image 2015 aut omatically dele tes the oldest versi on of the backup . As a result, you always have the ten most recen t backup versi ons. Note: In the case of a local or net work backup lo cation, you can create more than 10 versions b y setting a new d estination for th[...]

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    9 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002 - 201 4 3. Click the backup s ource icon, select the disks that you want to back up, and then click OK . 4. Click the backup des tination icon, select where you want t o save the backup file to, and then click OK . If the location is n ot listed, click Select Other Dest ination , and then s elect a lo[...]

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    10 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 201 4 3. Click the backup s ource icon, select the disks that you want to back up, and then click OK . 4. Click the backup des tination icon, select Acronis Cl o ud, and then clic k OK . If you are not sign ed in yet, enter the email address an d password of your Acronis acc ount, and then click Sig[...]

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    11 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002 - 201 4 2. 5 Sc he du l i ng For your backups t o be really helpfu l, they should be a s up- to -date as possible. Schedule your backups to run on a r egular basis. By default, your Ma c is backed up weekly. To schedule the ba ckup: 1. Click Settings , cho ose backup frequ ency, and then sp ecify the[...]

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    12 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 201 4 2. Clear the check bo xes next to the it ems that you wan t to exclude, and then click OK . 2. 7 Se lec ti ng Ac ron i s C lou d d ata ce nt e r When you create a backup to Acronis Cloud, your data is uploaded to one of the Acronis data centers located in differen t countries. Ini tially, the [...]

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    13 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002 - 201 4 To keep your persona l data secure, choose a strong p assword for your account, guard it from falling into the wrong ha nds, and change it from time to time. 5. Click Create Ac count . 6. A message will be s ent to th e email address that you specified. Open this messag e and confirm that you[...]

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    14 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 201 4 4. Select the drive tha t you wan t to make bootable. 5. Click Create Media . If the drive is not e mpty, Acronis T rue Image 201 5 will ask yo u to confirm deleting all the data s tored on th e drive. To confir m , click Erase . 6. When the progres s is complete, disc onnect the media and kee[...]

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    15 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002 - 201 4 When the failure caus e is a virus, malwar e or corrupti on of system fil es, recover the system fr om the backup. Refer to Recovering your Mac (p. 15 ) for details. To determine sour ce of the pro blem: 1. Check the cable s, connectors, po wer of external devi ces, etc. 2. Restart your Mac. [...]

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    16 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 201 4 4. Choose Acronis Media a s a device t o boot from. The OS X Utilities list is disp layed. 5. Select Recover f rom Acronis True Image Backu p , and then click Continue . 6. In the window that opens, choose the location of your backup:  Local or network storage — select your backu p, and t[...]

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    17 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002 - 201 4 Recovery from a back up stored in local o r network storage To recover file s and folders: 1. Open Acronis True Image 2015. 2. On the left pane, select the backup that contains th e files and folders to rec over. 3. Click Recover File s . The window with the backup cont ents opens. 4. In the [...]

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    18 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002- 201 4 Recovering the latest versions of files and folders To recover file s and folders: 1. On the Files tab of the Acronis Cloud web application, browse to the file or folder that you want to recover. You can als o use the Search field . 2. To start recovery, click Download . The selected data will[...]

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    19 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002 - 201 4 Copyright Statement Copyright © Acr oni s International G mbH, 2002-20 14. All rights reser ved. "Acronis", "Acr onis Compute with C onfidence", "Acr onis Recovery Manager", "A cronis Secure Z one", Acronis True I mage, Acronis Try &Decide, and the[...]