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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction...........................................................................................7
1.1 What is Acronis True Image Home? .................................................................................... 7 1.2 New in Acronis True Image 9.0 Home................................................................................. 7 1.4 System requirements and supported media ......................................................................... 8
1.5 Technical support.............................................................................................................. 9 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4
1.4.1 1.4.2 1.4.3 1.4.4
Minimum system requirements .................................................................................... 8 Supported operating systems....................................................................................... 8 Supported file systems ................................................................................................ 8 Supported storage media ............................................................................................ 8
Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Home installation and starting ...........................10
Installing Acronis True Image Home ................................................................................. 10 Extracting Acronis True Image Home ................................................................................ 11 Running Acronis True Image Home .................................................................................. 11 Upgrading Acronis True Image Home .............................................................................. 11 Removing Acronis True Image Home ................................................................................ 11 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ........................................... 12 Full, incremental and differential backups.......................................................................... 12 Acronis Secure Zone........................................................................................................ 13 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ................................................................................... 14
Chapter 3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ................12
3.5 Acronis Snap Restore....................................................................................................... 14 3.6 Viewing disk and partition information .............................................................................. 15
3.4.1 How it works ............................................................................................................ 14 3.4.2 How to use .............................................................................................................. 14 3.5.1 How it works ............................................................................................................ 14 3.5.2 How to use .............................................................................................................. 15
Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Home .........................................................17
4.1 Main program window ..................................................................................................... 17 4.2 Available operations ........................................................................................................ 18
Chapter 5. Creating backup archives ....................................................................20
5.1 Backing up files and folders (file backup) .......................................................................... 20 5.2 Backing up disks and partitions (image backup)................................................................. 24 5.3 Setting backup options .................................................................................................... 25
5.3.1 5.3.2 5.3.3 5.3.4 5.3.5 5.3.6 5.3.7 5.3.8 5.3.9
Archive protection..................................................................................................... 26 Source files exclusion ................................................................................................ 26 Pre/post commands .................................................................................................. 26 Compression level..................................................................................................... 27 Backup priority ......................................................................................................... 27 Archive splitting........................................................................................................ 27 File-level security settings.......................................................................................... 28 Media components.................................................................................................... 28 Additional settings .................................................................................................... 29
Chapter 6. Restoring the backup data ..................................................................30
6.1 Restore under Windows or boot from CD?......................................................................... 30 6.2 Restoring files and folders from file archives...................................................................... 30 6.3 Restoring disks/partitions or files from images ................................................................... 33
6.1.1 Network settings in rescue mode ............................................................................... 30
6.3.1 Starting the Restore Data Wizard ............................................................................... 33 6.3.2 Archive selection....................................................................................................... 34 6.3.3 Restoration type selection ......................................................................................... 34
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6.4 Setting restore options .................................................................................................... 39
6.3.4 Selecting a disk/partition to restore ............................................................................ 36 6.3.5 Selecting a target disk/partition.................................................................................. 36 6.3.6 Changing the restored partition type .......................................................................... 37 6.3.7 Changing the restored partition file system ................................................................. 38 6.3.8 Changing the restored partition size and location......................................................... 38 6.3.9 Assigning a letter to the restored partition .................................................................. 39 6.3.10 Restoring several disks or partitions at once .............................................................. 39 6.3.11 Setting restore options ............................................................................................ 39 6.3.12 Restoration summary and executing restoration ........................................................ 39 6.4.1 6.4.2 6.4.3 6.4.4 6.4.5 Files overwriting mode .............................................................................................. 40 Pre/post commands .................................................................................................. 40 Restoration priority ................................................................................................... 40 File-level security settings.......................................................................................... 41 Additional settings .................................................................................................... 41
Chapter 7. Scheduling tasks ..................................................................................42
7.1 Creating scheduled tasks ................................................................................................. 42
7.2 Managing scheduled tasks ............................................................................................... 46
7.1.1 7.1.2 7.1.3 7.1.4
Setting up daily execution ......................................................................................... 43 Setting up weekly execution ...................................................................................... 44 Setting up monthly execution..................................................................................... 45 Setting ...
