Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition manual

User's Guide[...]

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Table of contents 1 Getting started ...................................................................................................................... 7 1.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 7 1. 1. 1 Wh at i s Ac ro ni s® T ru e Im ag e [...]

3. 10 .12 Fi le -le ve l se cu ri ty s et ti ngs fo r ba ck up ................................................................................................ .......... 57 3. 10 .13 Pe rf or m anc e of b ack up op er atio n ............................................................................................................... 57 3. 10 .14[...]

5.5 Removing data fr om Online Storage ..................................................................................... 108 5.6 Viewing Log ............................................................................................................................ 109 6 Useful information .......................................................[...]

8.2 Acronis System Repor t ........................................................................................................... 159 8.3 Acronis Smart Error Reporting ............................................................................................... 159 8.4 Creating a custom r escue CD ............................................[...]

7 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1 G ett ing st art ed 1. 1 In tr o duc tio n I n th is s e cti on What is Acronis® Tru e Image Home 201 1 Netbook Edition? .................... 7 Acronis True I mage Home 2011 Netbo ok Edition basic conc epts ............. 8 New in Acronis Tru e Image Home 20 11 Netbook Editio n ....................... 10 [...]

8 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1 . 1 . 2 A c r o n i s T r u e I m a g e H o m e 2 0 1 1 N e t b o o k E d i t i o n b a s i c c o n c e pt s This section provid es general infor mation about basic concept s which could be useful for understanding how the program wor ks. Backup and recovery Backup refers to the making copies of data so t[...]

9 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Once the progra m starts the partiti on backup process, it te mporarily freezes all the operations on the partition and creat es its "snapshot". Snapsho t creation usuall y takes just several seconds. After that, the operating syste m continues w orking as the imaging proces s is under way. The Ac[...]

10 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If necessary, y ou can delete the base full bac kup from the chain. Th e program wil l create a new full backup in place of the oldest remaining backup. Consolidation keeps whichever backups you choose and deletes any ba ckups that are not sele cted. Since consolidati on may require signifi cant time and s[...]

11 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  New Backup Exp lorer – Now you can us e the Acronis Backup Expl orer's time line for explorin g not only Acronis Onl ine Backup contents, bu t contents of all other bac kups as well. Clicking My backups in the main window will show all your backups on th e time line. In additi on, you can start [...]

12 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Windows XP Prof essional SP3 x86 ( 32 Bit)  Windows Vista SP2 x86 (32 Bit)  Windows 7 Starter  Windows 7 x86 ( 32 Bit) 1. 1. 4. 3 S up po r te d fi le s ys tem s  FAT16/32  NTFS  exFAT  Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 *  ReiserFS *  Linux SWAP * If a file system is n ot supported or is corrup[...]

13 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Z520 Z510 Z500 N270 N280 N450 N470 D625 300 Series 200 Series VIA C7 -M Nano AMD V105 Athlon II Neo K12 5 1 . 1 . 5 T e c h n ic a l Su p p o rt Maintenance and Sup port Program If you need assistanc e with your Acronis product , please go to http://w ww.acronis.com/supp ort/ Product Updates You can downlo[...]

14 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Click Activate if y ou have already purchas ed the full version and hav e a valid produ ct serial number. 1. 2 Ac ro nis T rue I ma ge Ho me 201 1 Net boo k Ed iti o n i ns ta ll at io n a nd st ar t up I n th is s e cti on Installing Acronis True Image Home 2 011 Netbook Edition .................... 14 Ex[...]

15 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Acronis True Image Backup Archive Exp lorer ). Do not disable or uninstall this d evice, as it is necessary for connec ting image backups as virtual disks (see Mounting an image (p. 149) ). 1 . 2 . 2 E xt r a c t i n g Ac r o n i s T r u e I m ag e H o m e 2 0 1 1 N e t b o o k E d i t i o n When installin[...]

16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The backups created by the later progra m version ma y be incompatible with th e previous progra m versions. If you roll bac k Acronis True Image H ome 2011 Netbook Edition to an older version, you likely will ha ve to re-create the backup s using the older version. We strongly recommend that you create ne[...]

17 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  If you have a large number of pre existing backups or if the overall performance of your system is low, the search f or backups may ta ke a long time. In th is case, the Welcome screen may als o appear. Welcome screen offers you to cho ose the following ite ms:  Back up my crit ical data Select this[...]

18 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 When you choose to protect your critical da ta, the program will offer to back up the system partition to a destination it c onsiders the opti mum place for backups (see th e destination selection alg orithm later). You can cho ose another destinati on for backups by clickin g the down arrow to the right o[...]

19 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1. 3. 1. 2 Ba ck up a ssi sta nt If you want to prot ect your data, but you are not sure what data to protect and h ow to do this, the backup assistant will h elp you to make an optimum choice. In a fe w simple steps, you will cr eate a backup of your data. Th e backup will all ow you to recover your data [...]

20 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If you have not crea ted any backups y et, the program will offer to create a new backup with Acronis One-Click Backup t ool or manually. If y ou have at least one backup, the screen will display the list of your backups. Add backups area To create a new or add an existing backup to the backup list, you ca[...]

21 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 My backups area The area shows the bac kups you already hav e. It provides access to all operations with th e existing backups and allows you to start recover y of your data. To start recovery of the latest backup , select the back up containing the data you need t o recover and then click Recover . When a[...]

22 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Consolidate versions - allows you to delet e the backup versions you no longer need while maintaining the consistency of the backup.  Clone backup sett ings - clones the current ba ckup settings when you need to create s everal similar backups. Clon e the backup set tings and then introduce the requ[...]

23 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1 . 3 . 3 T o o l s & U t i l i t i e s s c r e e n This screen all ows you to select the tools and utilities provided b y Acronis T rue Image Home 20 11 Netbook Edition. To g o to the screen, clic k Tools & Utilit ies in the main menu. La unch the required tool or utility by clicking the appropria[...]

24 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Wizards have a sidebar listing all the st eps (both required and opti onal) needed for co mpleting the operation. For ex ample, see the Mount Wizard screen shot below. The completed steps are marked with gr een checkmarks. The gr een arrow shows the current step. After you complet e all the required steps [...]

25 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 You can switch bet ween the backup versions by using the time lin e at the bottom of the screen. For more information see Time line (p. 27 ). To recover disk s and/or partitio ns: 1. On the time line, select the backup v ersion from whic h you want to recover your disks/partitions. The version's exa c[...]

26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Validate - select to check the integrit y of the backup version da ta.  Convert to Windo ws backup (for image ba ckups) - select to con vert the backup versi on's TIB file to VHD file.  Mount (for i mage backups) - select to m ount the backup versi on as a disk.  Delete version - sele ct [...]

27 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 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 elements l ocated on this tab are described in the Disks and partiti ons tab (p. 24 ) section. Here w e describe the items specifi c for the tab. Whe[...]

28 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The picture bel ow shows various states of a time line. Its sta tes vary depending on the numb er of backups and the tim e interval throug h which you are navigatin g. The "Now" inter val shows backup ver sions created du ring the last hour. The "Today" interval shows backup v ersions c[...]

29 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The "Older" int erval shows backup versions created from earli er than the beginni ng of the current year. Working with time int ervals and backup versions Time intervals ma y be expanded (when th e number of backup versions fits onto the ti me line) or folded into a square "bl ock". Wh[...]

30 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Online backup ve rsion:  Explore and reco ver  Delete version Backup version packs and time b locks: Right-clicking on a folded version pack or ti me interval's block opens the shortcut menu with a single item:  Expand Viewing additional info rmation on the time lin e You can also set up the [...]

31 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The most significant changes occur in the Sys tem and Security categ ory of Windows 7 Con trol Panel. Acronis True I mage Home 2011 Netbo ok Edition replaces Windows Backu p in the Backup and Restore item. If you first installed Acronis Tru e Image Home 20 11 Netbook Editio n witho ut performing backups, t[...]

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33 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2 H ow to Due to the size of this User's Guide, it is sometimes no t so easy to find how to perform a particular task. This section lists s ome frequently used task s and provides links t o the appropriate parts of the User's Guide. Click the corresp onding page number (or the link, if you are vi[...]

34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3 B ack ing up d ata Acronis True I mage Home 2011 Netbo ok Edition includes a wealth of sophisticated backup capabilities that w ould please even an IT professional. They all ow you to back up your disks (partitions), files , and e-mail. You can cho ose a backup feature that suits you most or use th em al[...]

35 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 A disk image includ es images of all disk partiti ons and the zero tra ck with the mas ter boot record (MBR). By default, files in all Acronis True Image Home 2011 N etbook Edition backups have a ".tib" extension. This ext ension should not be chan ged. It is important t o note that you can reco [...]

36 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 A "differential" backup scenario uses the same weekly full sy stem backup with t he backup of files that have changed sinc e the last full backup on a daily basis. While this sche me takes up progressi vely more storag e space as each new day of the week passes, a recovery would only involve two [...]

37 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  If you delete an incremental backup version or a diffe rential backup version - the progra m will also delete all subsequ ent incremental versions till the next full or differential ver sion. 3. 3 Ba cki ng up p arti tio ns and d is ks The image backup is made as easy as ABC. a) Select a partition to b[...]

38 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2. You may exclude c ertain files and f olders from backup. For e xample, you transfer red some movies from y our DVDs to a folder on the data partition. The y occupy quite a lot of spa ce and it doesn't make s ense to back them up be cause you have the DVDs. To exclude the folder, click the Add link [...]

39 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. 4 Ba cki ng up f il es a nd fo l de rs To back up files and /or folders, click File ba ckup on the main scre en. This will open the File Backup window. Let's consider ho w to use this backup typ e for backing up a folder. 1. Select the folder on the directory tree in the What to ba ck up area. The [...]

40 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  add task name - the name of the task that incl udes the backup will b e added  add task run nu mber - the sequence number of the task run will be add ed 4. Click the Back up now button if you want to run backup immediatel y. You can al so delay the start of backup for up to 6 h ours by clicking the [...]

41 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To add a custom data category, click Add cate gory. To change the def ault name of a custom category, double-clic k the name and enter a new one. Select the data source (e. g. a folder) for the new category b y clicking the Browse... butt on. By default the new ca tegory will contain All da ta from the sou[...]

42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Acronis True I mage Home 2011 Netbo ok Edition gives the zip f ormat most of the fu nctionality av ailable for the tib f ormat. You can schedule backups, validat e zip backups, reco ver files and folders from zip backups, make incremental and differ ential backups, e tc. However, it does not provide passw [...]

43 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  News Folders  User Settings  Address Book For Microsoft Outl ook Express  Mail Folders  Address Book (sel ect Windows Add ress Book ). Acronis True I mage Home 2011 Netbo ok Edition provides backup of IMAP (Internet Messag es Access Protocol) mail fold ers for Microsoft Outl ook. This means[...]

44 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. 6 Ma ki ng res er ve c op ie s o f you r b ac ku ps You can create reser ve copies of your bac kups and save them on th e file system, a network drive, or a USB flash drive. In addition to enhancin g the backed up data s ecurity with replica tion, this featur e allows you to copy a set of documents , fo[...]

45 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2. Choose how to du plicate the project fil e(s) on the USB stick. If you ne ed to save space, choose duplicating as a zip file. Cli ck on the Set location ... link, select the driv e letter of th e USB stick and create a folder f or a reserve copy b y clicking on the Make New Folder button. 3. Finish conf[...]

46 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To complete the backup , you may either try to free up some space on the disk an d click Retry or select another s torage device. T o choose the latter op tion, click Browse... in the confir mation window. The Bro wse for Destination wind ow appears. The left pane sh ows the storage loca tions available on[...]

47 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 You can exclude hid den and system files fr om a backup by selecting the correspon ding check boxes. In addition, you can exclude files meeting th e criteria you sp ecify. To do this, sele ct the Files matching the fol lowing criteria check b ox, enter the exclusion crit erion, and then click Add . By defa[...]

48 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 settings as defa ult check box to apply the modified setting s to all further backup operati ons by default. Note that disk backup options, file backup options and e-mail backup options are fully ind ependent, and you should c onfigure them separately. If you want to res et all the modified opti ons to the[...]

49 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Backup methods that will be used to creat e backup versions (full, diff erential or incremental)  Sequence of the backup versions created using different methods  Version cleanup rul es Acronis True I mage Home 2011 Netbo ok Edition allows you to choose the f ollowing backup schemes:  Single v[...]

50 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Result: you have a single up- to -date ful l backup version Required storage space: minimal. 3. 10 .1 . 2 Ve r si on ch ai n sc h em e This backup schem e differs for disk backup and file backup typ es. Disk backup ver sion chain At first the program creates the 1st full backup version. The versi on will b[...]

51 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 You can configure the scheme by using one of the following options:  Create only different ial versions after the initial ful l version - select this item to creat e only one backup version chain. Automatic cleanup is not available f or this option.  Create a full version after every [n] diffe rentia[...]

52 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3 . 1 0 . 2 I m a ge c r e a t i o n m o d e You can use these par ameters to creat e an exact copy of your whole partitions or hard disks, and not only the sectors tha t contain data. Note that the Back up un allocated space check box is a vailable only when the Ba ck up sector- by -sector check b ox is s[...]

53 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3 . 1 0 . 4 P r e / P o st c o mm a n d s f o r b a c k u p You can specify c ommands (or ev en batch files) that will be automaticall y executed before and after the backup procedure. For example, you may want to start/s top certain Wind ows processes, or check your data before starting backup. To specify[...]

54 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  If you do not have enough space to stor e the image on your hard disk, the progr am will warn you and wait for your d ecision as to how you plan to fix the proble m. You can try to free s ome additional space and continue or click Back and select another disk. When backing up to a CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW , D[...]

55 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3 . 1 0 . 7 B a c k u p r e s e r v e c op y You can create r eserve copies of your bac kups and save them on the file system, a network drive, or a USB flash drive. To make a reserve copy:  Select the Create a re serve copy of my ba ckups check box  Click Set location ... and specify a locati on for[...]

56 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Acronis One-Click Resto re can be adde d to the media only when creating a full b ackup of an en tire hard disk. It cannot be ad ded when creating an incremen tal or differential backup, as well as backup of a partition. In such case the Place Acronis One-Click Resto re on media check box will not be prese[...]

57 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3 . 1 0 . 1 1 C o m p u t e r s h u t d o w n If you know that the backup process you ar e configuring may tak e a long time, y ou may select the Shut down th e computer after the backu p is complete check box. In thi s case, you will n ot have to wait until the operati on completion. The program will perf[...]

58 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The optimal data c ompression level depend s on the type of files s tored in the backup . For example, even maximum c ompression will not sign ificantly reduce the backup size, if the b ackup contains essentially co mpressed files, like .jpg, .pdf or .mp3. Operation priority Changing the priorit y of a bac[...]

59 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If the free space be comes less than the specified valu e while the backup is being run, the program will display the sa me message and you will have to make th e same decisions. To set the free di sk space thresho ld:  Select the Show not ification message on insufficient f ree disk space check box [...]

60 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. 11 Va l id ati ng b acku p s The validation pr ocedure checks whether you will be able to rec over data from a particular backup version, so when y ou select for validation on the time line…  a full backup versi on, the program validates the full backup version only.  a differential backup v ers[...]

61 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Follow the wizard's st eps 3 . 1 2 . 1 A r c h i v e t o c o n s o l id a t e pr o t e c t i o n The archive you chose is password-protected in order to prevent it fr om unauthoriz ed access. You need to specify the pre viously entered pas sword to obtain acce ss to the archive. To specify the pa [...]

62 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Click the Cancel butt on to exit the wizard with out performing an y operations. 3. 13 C lo ni ng ba ck up s et ti ngs When you already ha ve a backup and you need to cre ate a new backup of the same type (disk, file or e-mail backup), th ere is no need to configu re the backup process fro m scratch. The p[...]

63 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4 R ec ove ri ng d at a The purpose of data ba ckup is to reco ver backed up data when the original is los t due to hardware failure, fire, theft or accidental deleti on of files. We hope that you bac ked up your syste m and data using the backup f eatures provided by Acronis True Image Hom e 2011 Netbook [...]

64 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If the utility corre ctly detects your syste m hard disk drive, then th e cause of the crash is probably a virus, malware or corruption of a syste m file required for booting. If the system drive is healthy, tr y to recover the syste m using a backup of y our system disk or s ystem partition. Because Windo[...]

65 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. Select My disks belo w Recover on the Welc ome screen. 4. Select the system disk or partition backup image to be used for recover y. Right-click on the backup and choose Recove r in the shortcut menu. If Windows and the recovery environ ment assign different disk l etters, the progra m will display the [...]

66 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Click Browse and sh ow the path to the backup . 5. Select Recover whole disks and pa rtitions at the Recovery meth od step.[...]

67 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6. Select the system partition (usually C) on the What to recover screen. If th e system partition has a different letter, s elect the partiti on using the Flags column. It mus t have the Pri , Act flags. In case of Wind ows 7 the System Reserved pa rtition will have the Pri , Act flags . You will need to [...]

68 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 8. Carefully read the summary of operati ons at the Finish step. If you have not resized the par tition, the sizes in the Deletin g partition and Re covering partition ite ms must match. H aving checked the summary cli ck Proceed . 9. When the operation finishes, exit the standal one version of Acron is Tr[...]

69 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If you want to rec over the partition to the s tate it was at an earlier date, click Explore and recover under the Recover las t version button. This will open Backup Expl orer which allows y ou to select the image backup versi on created on that dat e. Clicking Recover after selecting the re quired versio[...]

70 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 We recommend that you clear the Rec o ver disk signat ure check box when:  You use an image bac kup not for disas ter recovery but for clonin g your Windows hard drive to another one. In this case, Acr onis True Image Ho me 2011 Netbook Edi tion gen erates a new disk sign ature for the recovered hard dr[...]

71 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 8. Make the setting s for the second parti tion. Leave enoug h unallocated space for other par titions to be recovered. 9. Select the next par tition, etc. 10. Repeat the above actions until you handle all partition s in the backup. 11. Click Recover now to recover all partiti ons to the desti nation hard [...]

72 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5. At the What to reco ver step, select the box es which indicate the partiti ons to be rec overed. Do not select the MBR and Track 0 box, as this will result in selecting the entire disk for re covery. Recovering the entire disk does not all ow you to resiz e partitions manually. In such an e vent, the ne[...]

73 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Boot the comput er to Windows. It m ay report that ne w hardware (the hard driv e) has been found and that Wind ows needs to rebo ot. After making sure that the system operates normally, restore the original boot order. 4 . 4 . 2 R e c o v e r i n g a d i s k wi t h a h i d d e n p a r t i t i o n A hidden[...]

74 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 8. Proceed to specif ying the partition size by clicking Change defau lt in the Partition size area. By default the partiti on will occupy the entire new disk. You need to ke ep the hidden partition siz e unchanged and pla ce it in the same l ocation on the disk (at the start or the end of disk spac e). To[...]

75 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1. Select in the Backup Explorer the files and f olders you want to r ecover. For more i nformation on selection in the Bac kup Explorer see Files and f olders tab (p. 26 ). Click Recover to start r ecovery. This will open the Fi le Recovery window. 2. Select a destination on your computer to wh ere you wa[...]

76 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. To start the recove ry process, click the Reco ver now button. 4. The recovery progr ess will be shown in a special window. You can stop the recov ery by clicking Cancel . Please k eep in mind that the aborted recovery may still cause changes in the original location. 4. 6 Re co ver in g fil e ve r si o[...]

77 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If Windows won’t l oad, this feature allo ws you to run Acronis Tru e Image Home 20 11 Netbook Edition by itself t o recover damaged parti tions. To be able to use Acronis Startup Reco very Manager at bo ot time:  Click Tools & Ut ilities on the menu bar an d select Acronis Startup Recovery Man ag[...]

78 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4. 9 Ar ra ngi ng bo ot o rd er in B IO S BIOS has a built-in s etup utility for initial computer config uration. To enter it, yo u have to press a certain key combinati on ( Del, F1, Ctrl+Alt+Es c, Ctrl+Esc , or some other, depen ding on your BIOS) during the POST (p ower-on self test) sequenc e that star[...]

79 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 I n th is s e cti on Pre/Post command s for recovery ............................................................ 79 Validation option ...................................................................................... 79 Computer restart .................................................................[...]

80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Check the file sy stem after recovery The preset is disabled . Having recovered a partition from an i mage, Acronis True Imag e Home 2011 Net book Edition can check the integri ty of the file system. To d o so, enable this op tion. Limitations on use of this option:  Check of the file system is avai[...]

81 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Click Add specif ic files and folde rs to manage the list of custom file s and folders that you d o not want to overwri te.  To disable overwritin g of specific files, clic k the Add... button to crea te an exclusion criterion.  While specifying the criteria, you can us e the common Windows wildc[...]

82 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If the free space be comes less than the specified valu e while the backup is being run, the program will display the sa me message and you will have to make th e same decisions. To set the free di sk space threshold:  Select the Show not ification message on insufficient f ree disk space check box  [...]

83 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5 U si n g Acr oni s O nl ine B ack up I n th is s e cti on What is Acronis True I mage Home 2011 Online Backup? ....................... 83 Subscription informati on ......................................................................... 83 Backing up to Acr onis Online Storage ..........................[...]

84 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If you do not have an Acronis account, fill in th e appropriate fields, and the accoun t will be created for you. Provide your first and last names and e-mail address. Y ou will be offered a countr y selected on the basis of the IP address of your c omputer, though you can select another c ountry, if you w[...]

85 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  have forgotten y our password, click Forgot pa ssword? and follow the instructions on the op ened Web page. A new pas sword will be sent t o you by e-mail.  have forgotten which e-mail address you us ed for opening your Acronis ac count, click Forgo t Registration E-mai l? and follow the instruction[...]

86 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  After the comput er connects to the Onlin e Backup Server, set up an online backup task f or this computer. For mor e information see Setting up online backup for a new computer (p. 87 ). What is an enc ryption key To protect your data on the online storage fr om unauthorized ac cess, you can use encry[...]

87 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5. 3. 2. 1 D at a enc ryp tio n i n O n li ne B ac ku p To protect your data on the online storage fr om unauthorized ac cess, you can use encr yption. In this case your data will be stored on the online storage in e ncrypted form. To encrypt and decrypt y our data, the progra m needs the encryption key, t[...]

88 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To start backup i mmediately, click Back Up Now . You can also delay online backup start for up t o 6 hours by clicking th e down arrow to the right of this button and s electing a delay interval from the dropdown list.[...]

89 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5 . 3 . 4 M a i n w i n d o w This window shows the current state of your space on the Acronis Online Storag e. The online st orage space is present ed as a stripe. All your regist ered computers are displayed as tabs that shar e the stripe. You can see the amount of storage space that every computer has u[...]

90 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Options - click t o open the Options menu where you can specify all Acronis True Image H ome 2011 Online Bac kup options and settings, as well as remove a co mputer from the Online St orage. The Options menu includes the following items:  What to Back Up - select to open the dialog b ox where you ca[...]

91 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Click Options  S chedule in the main window and set up sch eduling for the online backup task. For more informa tion see Scheduling (p. 94 )  Click the Back Up Now button if you want to start the first online backup immedia tely The first online ba ckup may take a conside rable amount of time to [...]

92 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  To include particular it ems in a folder, click the folder's name in the folders pane, and then sel ect the items' check boxes in the folder contents pane. Excluding items File filtering can b e applied to manuall y added folders by specif ying which files to exclude from backup. For more inf[...]

93 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5. 3. 5. 2 Ex clu din g it em s f r om o nl in e ba c ku p Excluding unnecessar y files from online backup may b e useful as the data transf er rate and available storage space are li mited. To exclude files, click the corresponding lin k at the bottom of the Wha t to back up wind ow. You can exclude hid d[...]

94 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To delete a criteri on, for example, added by mistake, c lick the Delete icon t o the right of the criterion . To cancel changes in the items to be excluded, click Cancel . After you make chan ges in the items to be excluded, c lick OK to c onfirm the chan ges and exit from the What to exclud e window. 5. [...]

95 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Every () hours. Ch oose backup periodicit y from the dropdown list (for, example, ever y 2 hours). This setting is a vailable only for daily ba ckups. Clicking the Do Not S chedule button turns off the scheduler and online bac kup will be perf ormed only when you click Back Up Now in the main window. A[...]

96 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Select the days on which to execute the task b y clicking on their nam es.  Start: either at a certain time or up on a certain event If you select At , s et the task's start time. Enter hours and minutes manuall y, or set the desired start time, by usin g the up and down buttons. If you select Upon[...]

97 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5. 3. 5. 4 C re de n ti a ls In some cases when you plan an operation to be performed in the future, you have to specif y the credentials (Windo ws account name and passw ord of the user). For exa mple, this is required when you schedule a backup or specify Pre/ Post commands for backup operation. If you d[...]

98 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5. 3. 6. 1 C on n ec ti on at tem pts On this page you can spe cify the number of connection attempts and the time in terval between the attempts. In case of any net work problems, if the first connection atte mpt fails, the progra m will repeat the attempts till a conn ection is successfully e stablished.[...]

99 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Select the Limit transfer rate to check bo x and specify an optimal value and an ap propriate measure (kilobits or megabits per second ) 5. 3. 6. 3 S to ra ge cle an up You can configure the cleanup settings f or the Online storage t o optimize usage of its space. To set the limits fo r the amoun t of [...]

100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5. 3. 6. 4 P ro xy s ett in gs If your computer is c onnected to the Interne t using a proxy ser ver, you can adjust the pr oxy server settings. To use the proxy server, select the Use pro xy check box. Acronis Online Backu p supports only http a nd https proxy servers. To set up prox y server settings: I[...]

101 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5. 3. 6. 5 Ba ck up p r io ri ty Changing the priorit y of a backup process can make it run faster or slower (depen ding on whether you raise or low er the priority), but it can also adversely affect th e performance o f other running programs. The pri ority of any process run ning in a system, deter mine[...]

102 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Enter the password in the Password field To specify additional n otification settings, click the Additional e-mai l parameters... link.  If your Internet ser vice provider requ ires authorization on the inco ming mail ser ver before sending e-mails, chec k the Log on to in coming mail se rver box ?[...]

103 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 and/or the subject in the Subject field. If y ou leave the From field e mpty, the e-mail will b e composed using the na me from the outgoing account.  To send notificati on concerning process co mpletion, select the Send notification up on operation' s successful completio n check box.  To send[...]

104 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Unselecting the Do no t perform operation s until the comma nd's execution is complete box, selected by default, will permit the bac kup process to ru n concurrently with your c ommand execution. If you want the bac kup to be performed e ven if your command fails , unselect the Abort the operation if[...]

105 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5. 4 Re co ver y fr om O nl i ne St ora ge I n th is s e cti on Recovering data fr om Online Storage .................................................... 105 Selecting a version to recover ................................................................ 106 Recovery operation pr ogress ...................[...]

106 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Selecting data The main area disp lays the data backed up on the Online Storage. The area contai ns the folder tree (on the left) and the folder contents pane (on the right). You can select the items using both panes. To select multiple fil es/folders, you c an use the Ctrl and Shift ke ys like in Windows[...]

107 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  In the File Version s dialog window that appe ars, select a versi on, and then click Recover , or simply drag the versi on to a destination in Wind ows Explorer To remove a file version from the st orage, select the v ersion and click the Remove icon (cros s) to the right of the versi on number. To ex[...]

108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5. 5 Re mo vi ng dat a fr om O nli ne Stor ag e Because the available space on Acronis Onlin e Storage is li mited, you need to manage your Online Storage space by cl eaning up the obsolete da ta or the data you d o not need anymore. Cle anup can be done in a variet y of ways. The m ost "drastic"[...]

109 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 5. 6 Vi ew i ng L og If you want to vi ew the log of Acronis True I mage Home 2 011 Online Backup operations, click Help  Event Log in the up per right corner of the main window. To view the logs for a specific period, select the period from the drop-down list. You can s elect Today , Week , and Month.[...]

110 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6 U se fu l in f orm at ion I n th is s e cti on Protecting your sy stem and data ........................................................... 110 Preparing for backups ............................................................................ 112 Testing bootable re scue media ..........................[...]

111 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1. Start Acronis True I mage Home 2011 Netbook Edition and then click Disk and partition ba ckup in the main window. 2. This opens the Disk Ba ckup window with your s ystem partition (usually C :) selected by defaul t. If you use Windows 7, t he program will also select the System Reserved partition. Do n[...]

112 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4. Click Back up no w . Additional recommendations 1) Many IT professi onals recommend that you have at least tw o copies of your sy stem backup (three are even better). It is further reco mmended to keep one copy of a backup in a different l ocation from the other (preferabl y on other pre mises – for [...]

113 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Home file server, NA S or NDAS If you have a Gigabit Ethernet home net work and a dedicated fil e server or NAS, you can store backups on the file server or NAS practi cally like on an intern al drive. If you decide to use an external hard drive, NAS, NDAS, etc., you will need to check whe ther Acronis Tr[...]

114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 The firewall settings of the source compute r should have Ports 20 and 21 opened fo r the TPC and UDP protocols to function. The Routing and Remote Access Windows servi ce should be disabled. 6. 2. 1. 2 A ut hen t ica ti on s ett in gs If you are connectin g to a networked c omputer, in most cas es you wi[...]

115 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 you should also saf eguard your personal data using file and folder backup s. This is true even if your image backup c ontains that data. After the initial full bac kup, file backups usuall y take little ti me to run, making it easy to back up your data once (or ev en several times) a day. This ensures th[...]

116 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Data backups You can run your file ba ckups manually or on a schedule. In this cas e the frequenc y of backups will depend on how oft en you make changes in the files being backed up or add new files. For instance, when you are working on a project day after d ay, you will likel y need to schedule a backu[...]

1 17 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 drives are shown under M y Computer . Ha ving checked the driv es, click Cancel to close Backup Wizard. 4) If you store your backups on the net work, you should also ch eck that you can access the ne twork in the recovery en vironment. This is necessar y because when b ooted from the re scue media, Acron[...]

118 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2. When the command line appears, t ype "vga=ask" (with out quotes) and click OK . 3. Select Acronis True I mage Home 20 11 Netbook Editio n (Full version) in the boot menu to continue booting fro m the rescue media. To see the available video modes, press the En ter key when the appropriat e me[...]

119 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To test another video mode, close Acronis True I mage Home 2011 Netb ook Edition and repeat th e above procedure. After you find the optimal video mode for your hardware, you c an create a new bootable rescue media that will aut omatically select that video mode. To do this, start Acr onis Media Builder, [...]

120 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6. 5 Sc he d ul in g The Scheduler wind ow allows you to specify the backup and validation schedule settings. You can choose and set up one of the f ollowing backup or valid ation frequencies:  Daily (p. 121) - the operation will be e xecuted once a d ay or more frequently.  Weekly (p. 121) - the op[...]

121 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 check box will le t you perform a missed operation when the USB flash drive is attached if it was disconnected at the scheduled time.  Run the backup upon HDD alarm (availabl e when Acronis Drive Monit or is installed) – if enab led, the backup will run as s oon as there is an alarm on Acronis Drive [...]

122 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  If you select On , cho ose the date(s) for operation execution (exa mple: you may want the operation to be run on the 10th, 20th, and las t day of the month)  Start time Set the operati on's start time. Enter h ours and minutes manually, or set the desi red start time using the up and do wn bu[...]

123 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Enter a search string into the Search field at the top right of the Acronis Tru e Image Home 2011 Netbook Edition wind ow. You will be taken t o the Acronis Backup Expl orer screen. The progra m shows search results on the Files and fo lders tab. By default Acr onis True Image Home 201 1 Netbook Edition p[...]

124 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6 . 6 . 2 W i n d o w s S e a r c h a n d G o o gl e D e s k t o p i n t e g r at i o n Acronis True I mage Home 2011 Netbo ok Edition has plug-ins for Google Desktop and Windows Search. If you use any of these search engin es on your computer, y ou can install an app ropriate plug-in for indexing your ba[...]

125 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2. Click OK to start plug-in ins tallation. One more c onfirmation wind ow may appear. In this cas e click OK to finish the inst allation. 3. Verify that the plu g-in is installed. Right-click on the Google Desk top icon in your system tray and select Options in the shortcut menu. Google Desktop opens the[...]

126 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 After for exa mple an hour, check whethe r Google Desktop has indexed the Acronis backups by entering in its query field the name of a fil e which you know for sure that you backed up . If Google Desktop has co mpleted indexing, it will sh ow you the backups wher e it h as f ound the file. If you want to [...]

127 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Clicking in the br owser window on a line rela ted to the desired file version opens a s mall dialog with just two options: V iew and Recover . Choosing View starts the application ass ociated with this file t ype and opens the fil e. Choosing Recover starts Acr onis True Image Home 20 11 Netbook Edition [...]

128 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 2. You can verify that th e tib files indexing sup port is enabled . Right-click on the Windows S earch icon in your syste m tray and select Window s Deskto p Search Options… in the context m enu. The following window appear s. Make sure that the "tib://..." item is pr esent in the Inclu ded L[...]

129 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 3. Click Advanced , s elect the File Types tab and th en make sure that the tib extension is selec ted and ".tib IFilter" is sho wn in the Filter Descrip tion field. Select Index Prop erties and File Contents .[...]

130 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 4. Click OK and while the Indexing Options wind ow is open, check that the dis ks where you stor e your backups are sho wn in the "Included Locations" list. If the lis t does not contain those disks, the backups will not be indexed. To include the disks, click Modify and sel ect them in the wind[...]

131 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Give Windows Sear ch some time for inde xing Acronis backups on y our computer's hard disks and adding the indexin g information to its ind ex database. The requ ired time depends on the number of backups and the nu mber of files they contain. Af ter compl eting the indexing, th e Windows Search will[...]

132 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 6. 7 Ch oo sin g co l umn s for v ie wi ng in w iza rds You can change th e way the columns are r epresented in various wizards. To sort items by a par ticular column, clic k the header ( another click will switch the items to the opposite order). To select columns to view, rig ht-click in the right pane [...]

133 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 7 T oo ls & Ut il it ie s Acronis Tools & Utili ties include Protection tools, Conversion tools, Disk manage ment utilities, Security and privac y utilities, Mountin g tools and Back up settings transfer tools. Protection tools:  Acronis Startup Recovery Man ager Allows you to star t Acronis Tr[...]

134 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Backup settings transfer tools:  Import backup settings Allows you to get backup settings from ano ther computer.  Export backup sett ings Allows you to c opy the settings of your bac kups and move the m to another comp uter. 7. 1 Ac ro nis S ta r tup R eco ver y Ma nag er 7 . 1 . 1 H o w i t w o r [...]

135 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Rescue media c ontents selection .......................................................... 135 Bootable media startup parameters ...................................................... 136 Bootable media selection ...................................................................... 138 Destination file [...]

136 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netboo k Edition (Full version) - includes support of USB , PC Card (formerly PCMCIA) and SCSI in terfaces along with the st orage devices conn ected via them, and therefore is str ongly recommended.  Acronis System Rep ort - the component allows you to generat e a syst[...]

137 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Additional paramet ers that can be appli ed prior to booting Linu x kernel Description The following para meters can be used to l oad Linux kern el in a special mode:  acpi=off Disables ACPI and may help with a particul ar hardware configu ration.  noapic Disables APIC (Ad vanced Programmable Interr[...]

138 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 the interrupt routing table. Try this option, if the kernel is unab le to allocate IRQ s or discover secondary PCI buses on your motherboard.  vga=ask Gets the list of the video modes available for your video card and allo ws selecting a video mode most suitable for the vide o card and moni tor. Try th[...]

139 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Click Proceed t o start the bootable media creation pro cess. Use the sidebar on the left to navigate throug h the wizard' s steps for revision. To cancel operation and quit Acronis Media Bui lder, click Can cel . After you create a b oot disc, mark it and keep it in a safe place. Please keep in mind[...]

140 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Follow the File shr edder wizard steps. 7. 3. 1. 1 S el ec t f il es /f old ers Select the files and/ or folders you wish t o shred. To select file s and/or folders:  Expand the drives tree and select the fil es and/or folders y ou need to shred. You can select a random set of files, f olders and e[...]

141 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Note that after you click the Proceed button, the selected files and folders will be destr oyed permanently. S o the button is disabled un til you select the Destroy the selected files and folders irreversibly check b ox. Click the Proceed button to destroy the selec ted files and/or folders per manently.[...]

142 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 After you run the wizard by selecting T ool s & Utilities  System Clean- up in the main progra m menu, it will search f or any traces of user actions stored by Windows. When the search is fin ished, its results will be a vailable at the top of the wizard window. You can view the s earch results and[...]

143 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Temporary files  Hard disk free space  Find Computer list  Find File list  Recently Used Documents list  Windows Run List  Opened/saved files hist ory  User Credentials  Windows Prefet ch Directory 7. 3. 2. 2 D ef au lt cle an -up op ti ons The default clean-up options are avai[...]

144 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 D at a des tru ct io n me th od System Clean-up utili zes a number of the mos t popular data destruction methods. Here, you n eed to select the desired da ta destruction m ethod.  Use common metho d - if you leave this para meter selected, the program will use the default method (the initial setting is[...]

145 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 All files with nam es corresponding to at least one of th e search strings will be cleaned. Upon entering the Fil es setting value, you can browse the files matching the sear ch strings. To do this, click Sho w Files . You will see a wind ow with the names of the f ound files. These file s will be cleaned[...]

146 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 After entering the Computers setting valu e, you can browse the search strings fo und by the System Clean-up Wizard in the registry. To do so, click Show Compu ters . You will see the window with full and partial comput er names searched for in the network. Thes e items will be dele ted. "C om ma n d[...]

147 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To select/unsele ct a compo nent  Expand the Sy stem Compo nents item in the Sys tem Clean-up tree and make sure that the component you wish to clean up is sele cted. If you do not want to clean up a co mponent, simply clear its check bo x.  If required, you can dig deeper by expandin g a component [...]

148 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 7. 3. 3. 1 Fu nc t ion in g pr in ci ple s o f In fo rm at ion wi pi n g me th od s Physically, the c omplete wiping of information from a hard disk involves the switc hing of every elementary magnetic area of the recording material as many ti mes as possible by wri ting specially selected sequen ces of l[...]

149 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 No. Al gor it hm ( wr it in g me th od) P as ses Re cor d cryptographically secure ps eudo -random sequence. 8. Fast 1 Logical zeros (0x00 numb ers) to all sectors to wipe. 7. 4 Mo un tin g an im ag e Acronis True I mage Home 2011 Netbook Edition offers mounting for images and exploring f or both images a[...]

150 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If you selected a backup containing increm ental images, you can s elect one of the successive incremental images (also called "backup versions") by its creati on date/time. Thus, y ou can explore the data s tate at a certain moment. To mount an incr emental image, you must ha ve all previous ba[...]

151 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 You can also sel ect a letter to be assigned to the virtual disk from the Moun t letter drop-down list. If you do not want to mount a partition, select Do not mount in the list or clear the partition's check b ox. 4. If you select the Mo unt the partit ions in the read-write mod e box, the program as[...]

152 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If you have mounted several partitions, by d efault all of them will be selected for un mounting. You can disconnect all mounted drives together or disconnect only those you do not n eed mount ed anymore. You can also do this in Win dows Explorer by right-clicking on the disk i con and choosing Unmo unt .[...]

153 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1. Click Convert Acron is backup to Wind ows backup on the Tools & Utilities screen. 2. Select the disk imag e to convert. If the backup is passw ord-protected, Acronis True Image Home 2 011 Netbook Edition will ask for it. Note that the r esulting vhd file will l ose password p rotection. Converting [...]

154 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 1. Click Convert W indows backup to Acroni s backup on the Tools & Utilities screen. 2. Select the vhd file to convert. 3. Specify the path to the tib file to be created. By default, the con verted file will be crea ted in the same l ocation as the file to be c onverted. However, you can select anothe[...]

155 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 Even if the requ ired vhd backup is shown o n the screen, after you cho ose it Acronis True Image Hom e 2011 Netbook Editio n may display the following m essage: "Acroni s True Image Home 2011 N etbook Ed ition cannot detec t volume 1 of "Backup_Name " archive", where Backup_Name is th[...]

156 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 paging file (Pag efile.sys), as the paging file is created on the host partition o utside the virtual one. Microsoft states that you should estimate ap proximately 5 GB of available space in addition to the maximum size o f the vhd file. So the estimated free spa ce is t he size of your system partiti on [...]

157 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  backup options  backup location  schedule  backup scheme  automatic clean-up rul es  backup version na ming rules You cannot import Online Backup settings from o ne computer to another. To export the se ttings of your existing bac kups, click Tools & Utilities on th e menu bar. Then[...]

158 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 8 T ro u bl esh oot in g I n th is s e cti on General recommendati ons .................................................................... 158 Acronis System Repor t ................................ ........................................... 159 Acronis Smart Error Reporting ............................[...]

159 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 8. 2 Ac ro nis S yst em R e po rt When you contact the Acronis support tea m, they will usua lly need information a bout your system in order to resolve y our problem. So metimes getting the information is an inc onvenient process an d may take a long ti me. The Generate s ystem report to ol simplifies th[...]

160 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 You can view m ore detailed information about the error by clicking the More details link in th e message box. Th e detailed informa tion may look like a s is shown on the foll owing screen shot: To view the Acr onis Knowledge Base articl e suggesting a soluti on(s) for correcting the error, click the Kno[...]

161 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 More information ab out this error and an app licable solution ma y be available online in the Acronis Knowledge base. To access the online resource manuall y, enter the eve nt code at: http://kb.acr onis.com/error code/ Event code: 0x00 970007+0x0097001 6+0x00970002" The event codes fr om different [...]

162 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 If you want to vi ew the log of Acronis True I mage Home 2 011 Netbook Edition operations , click Help  View log in th e upper right corner of the main wind ow. To view the logs for a specific period, select the period from the drop-down list. You can s elect Today , Week , and Month. To view all logs,[...]

163 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010  Choose No, I do no t accept if you do not want to join the progra m[...]

9 G los sa ry o f Ter ms A A cr on is St ar tu p Re co ve ry M an ag er A protection t ool that allows to start standalone version of Acronis True Image Home 2011 Netbo ok Edition at boot ti me when F11 is pressed. A cronis Startup Recover y Manager eliminat es the need for rescu e media. Acronis Startup Rec overy Manager is especially useful f or [...]

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 165 C C on s ol id at ion Combining tw o or more subsequent backup versions (p. 164) b elonging to the same backup (p. 164) into a sin gle backup versi on. The consolidation pr ocedure allows you to delete the backup versions you no l onger need from any bac kup chain while maintaining the consistency of chai[...]

166 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000 - 2010 To begin to use the Onlin e storage a use r should subscribe to the service. R Re co ver y Recovery is a pr ocess of returning of a corrupted data t o a previous normal sta te from a backup (p. 1 64). V Va li da t io n An operation tha t checks whether you will be able to recover da ta from a particular b[...]