ACRONIS True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition Guida Utente

User's Guide

1.3. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition advantages • Online backup – you can make your critically important data much more secure by stori

100 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 With this in mind, let's consider a more complex backup strategy scenario requested by a real Acronis

12. Creating bootable media 12.1. Creating Linux-based rescue media You can run Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition from an emergency boot

2. Select which components of the Acronis programs you want to place on the bootable media. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition offers the

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 103 When using 3.5" diskettes, you will only be able to write one component at a time (for example, the f

13. Working with vhd files 13.1. Converting tib images into vhd virtual disks and vice versa Conversion operations are not supported in standalone

The converted file will be saved to the default location, but you can select another one by clicking Browse. The file can be directed to any local st

13.2. Recovery using vhd files created by Windows Backup If you used Windows Backup utility included into Windows Vista (except Home editions) and

1. Open Acronis Boot Sequence Manager by selecting Tools & Utilities → Acronis Boot Sequence Manager in the main program menu. 2. Click Add on

108 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 When you no longer need an entry in the list, you can remove it by clicking Remove on the toolbar. The Re

14. Exploring archives and mounting images Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition offers two kinds of archive contents management: mounting fo

Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition rescue media has the following hardware requirements: • 256 MB RAM • Processor 1 GHz or faster 1.4.2.

2. Select the archive for mounting. If you selected an archive containing incremental images, you can select one of the successive incremental ima

3. Select a partition to mount as a virtual disk. (Note that you cannot mount an image of the entire disk except in the case when the disk consists

112 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 It is strongly recommended that you list the forthcoming changes in the Comments section to this file. For

15. Searching backup archives and their content 15.1. Searching In addition to the ability to explore backup archives, Acronis True Image Home 2010

114 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 backup for vhd archives), Edit Comments, and Details buttons for tib archives, or Recover, Validate, Mov

16. Windows Search and Google Desktop integration Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition has plug-ins for Google Desktop and Windows Search (W

1. To install the plug-in, choose Tools & Utilities on the sidebar. Then click Search settings on the right pane and select the appropriate chec

After for example an hour, check whether Google Desktop has indexed the tib archives by entering in its query field the name of a file which you know

Clicking in the browser window on a line related to the desired file version opens a small dialog with just two options: View and Recover. Choosing

successful registration of the plug-in Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition will display the "Plug-in registration succeeded" infor

the source computer firewall settings to open Ports 20 and 21 for both TCP and UDP protocols and disable the Routing and Remote Access Windows servic

4. Click OK and while the Indexing Options window is open, check that the disks where you store your tib backup archives are shown in the "Incl

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 121 Give Windows Search some time for indexing all tib files on your computer's hard disks and adding the

17. Other operations 17.1. Validating backup archives The validation procedure checks whether you will be able to recover data from a particular ba

3. After entering the correct password you will be taken to the Scheduling step, where you can schedule validation of the backup or leave the defaul

17.2.1. E-mail notification To set up e-mail notification, select Tools & Utilities → Options → Notifications → E-mail: Provide the e-mail addr

• when the operation is completed successfully (check Add full log to the notification to add the full operation log to the message) • if the opera

The logs contain only partial information on operation of Acronis Online Backup. The remaining information on operation of those features is written

When the Log tab is selected, the upper pane shows the calendar, while the lower one shows logs' contents. To view the logs for a specific peri

Clicking a day marked with a scheduled task takes you to the Scheduled tasks tab with the task details shown. Clicking any day in the future also tak

• Consolidate - see Consolidating backups • Edit Comments - editing comments made during backup creation or adding comments for a scheduled backup

1.5. Customer technical support Users of legally purchased and registered copies of Acronis True Image Home are entitled to free technical support.

3. The program displays a list of backups belonging to the selected archive with their creation date and time. The top backup is the full backup; th

In our example, when consolidation is complete, disk G will contain two new archives Disk1_backup2 and Disk1_backup4. Disk1_backup2 is a full backup

132 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 operations on the backups that no longer exist. So you must only remove obsolete backups and backup archiv

18. Security and Privacy Tools Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition includes tools for secure destruction of data on an entire hard disk dri

Clicking Proceed after you select the desired method will start the task execution (if the Proceed button is unselectable, click Finish on the sideba

18.3. System Clean-up The System Clean-up Wizard enables you to securely remove all traces of your PC actions stored by Windows. It can carry out th

18.4. System Clean-up Wizard settings If you want to change the default system clean-up settings, click the corresponding link in the first window o

• *.* – to clean all files with any file names and extensions • *.doc – to clean all files with a specific extension – Microsoft document files in

If you wish to add these drives to the list again, use the Add button. 18.4.5. "Commands" setting Here you can select the commands to re

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 139 18.4.6. "Network Places Filter" setting Here you can enter (separated by semicolons) any hostna

2. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition installation and startup 2.1. Installing Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition To install Acr

19. Troubleshooting 19.1. General The below sections may help you in troubleshooting issues encountered during installation and use of Acronis True

2. Launch the installation file in the following way: right-click on the file and select "Run as administrator". 3. Log in to Vista’s bui

- Open Control Panel → Administrative Tools → Services and check whether Acronis Scheduler2 Service is Started and its Startup Type is set to Automa

19.4. Recovery issues System and/or data recovery after a disaster is the most important operation performed with Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbo

Specifically when you recover Linux volume in a dual boot configuration, it is sometimes necessary to apply fixes or make booting changes so that Lin

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 145 You do not receive E-mail notifications How to work around the situation when the set up E-mail notificati

20. Hard Disks and Boot Sequence 20.1. Arranging boot sequence in BIOS BIOS has a built-in setup utility for initial computer configuration. To ent

The guaranteed wiping of information from magnetic media (e.g. a hard disk drive) means it is impossible to recover data by even a qualified special

148 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 No. Algorithm (writing method) Passes Record verification.2. United States: NAVSO P-5239-26 (RLL) 4 1s

21. Startup Parameters Additional parameters that can be applied prior to booting Linux kernel. 21.1. Description Additional parameters that can b

2.2. Extracting Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition When installing Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition, you can save the setup (.m

150 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Forces to use PCI BIOS, and not to access the hardware device directly. For instance, this parameter may b

Bootability after recovery issues • 144 22. Index Booting from a tib image of your Windows 7 system partition • 106 A Booting from system image tib

Examples of backup scheduling scenarios • 39, 42, 98 I Importing scheduled tasks when upgrading • 97 Executing recovery • 89 Exploring archives and m

Proxy settings • 51 Selecting archive location • 59 Selecting the backup options • 64 R Selecting what data to back up • 45, 57 Recommendations on s

154 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Upgrading Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition • 15 Using File Shredder • 134 Using Google Desktop

16 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the prev

3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 3.1. The difference between file archives and disk/partition images A backup archive is

Generally, a differential backup will be recovered faster than an incremental one, as it does not have to process through a long chain of previous ba

MyBackup1.tib…MyBackupN.tib, where N is the number of volumes Subsequent incremental or differential backups to this full backup will get the names a

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009. All rights reserved. “Acronis” and “Acronis Secure Zone” are registered trademarks of Acronis, Inc. "Acron

Be careful! Drive letters in standalone Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition might sometimes differ from the way Windows identifies drives. F

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 21 Please, be aware that built-in support of zip files in Windows does not cover operations with multivolume z

4. Preparing for disaster recovery 4.1. How to prepare for disaster as best as you can Let us remind you of Murphy's Law: "Whatever can go

spare drive, please, at least validate the image in the recovery environment. A backup that can be read during validation in Windows, may not always

2) If you purchased the program after downloading it, you absolutely must create a bootable rescue CD (or other rescue media, for example, a USB stic

2. When the command line appears, type "vga=ask" (without quotes) and click OK. 3. Select Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition (

26 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 After you find the optimal video mode for your hardware, you can create a new bootable rescue media that wi

5. Getting to know Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition 5.1. Program workspace Starting Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition takes y

Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition uses wizards, which guide you through many operations. Like the main program window, wizards also have t

By the way, later you will be able to refresh the system partition backup by double-clicking the shortcut again. If you choose to not use the One-Cl

Table of Contents 1. Introduction ... 7

Clicking Proceed will start the backup task. But before proceeding with the backup, the program will ask you under whose user credentials the subsequ

To go to one more screen of interest, click Recovery on the sidebar. The Data recovery and backup management screen gives detailed information on

Another useful screen shows the log of program operations and scheduled tasks. A calendar provides quick access to the logs (for past dates) or tasks

5.4. Options screen Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition has options related to its appearance and various program functions. To view or edit

34 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 The Feedback option allows you to quit the Acronis Customer Experience Program, if you decided to join it d

6. Creating backup archives 6.1. Preparing for your first backup First of all you should decide where to store your backups. Acronis True Image Home

backing up large volumes of data (for details see The difference between file archives and disk/partition images (p. 17)). You might think it would t

make a basic system partition backup containing your operating system and main applications like MS Office and Outlook. Thereafter you will always be

Microsoft's Chkdsk utility, which is part of Windows. The utility can repair errors and locate bad sectors. You can back up the system disk both

5. Choose a target archive for the backup being configured – you can either add a new backup to an existing archive or create a new one. Choose the

6. Creating backup archives ... 35 6.1. Preparing for your firs

5. The first optional step offers to schedule the backup task. Scheduling together with a backup method and automatic consolidation rules allows imp

5. Select the Daily scheduling option. If you think that your work results will be safer being backed up more often, select Run the task every x hou

42 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 4. Carefully read the Summary of actions to be performed during backup and click Proceed if you are satisf

7. Online backup The main reason for using Acronis Online Backup is that you will be able to keep your data secure by storing off-site. Because your

theft, etc. Before proceeding with a backup, estimate how long it will take to back up your data. For instance, if your folders take up 10GB and your

When the computer connects to the online storage, the Online storage screen with your storage space quota appears. If you have performed backup on t

Having finished selecting files and folders for backing up to the Online storage and for excluding from backup click OK. If you do not unselect the R

Acronis Time Explorer will be opened with the Online Storage tab selected. 2. This window also allows choosing the computer from which you backed

of Time Explorer will show the times of backing up all its versions kept on the Online Storage. Choose a version by its backup time, then right-click

3. Select the folder containing the files you want to manage in the left pane. The right pane lists the files in that folder. 4. If you want to de

10. Additional recovery information ... 84 10.1. Recovery Wizard - detail

7.6.2. Storage connection speed One more option gives you the ability to "throttle" the bandwidth allocated for data transfer to the Onlin

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 51 You can: • Delete versions that are older than the specified time period - 3 months by default. • Specify

8. Additional backup features 8.1. Making reserve copies of your backups When you choose the My Data backup type for backing up selected files and f

1. When you come to the Backup options step while configuring a My Data backup task in the Backup Wizard (or select that step after completing all t

8.2. Archive to various places Now Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition offers much greater flexibility. You can save full, incremental and

To complete the backup, you may either try to free some space on the disk and click Retry or select another storage device. To choose the latter opti

After a while you chose to upgrade to Windows Vista. To be on the safe side, you made an incremental backup before the upgrade and named it "Dis

burn the subsequent incremental backups (or differential backups that are an even better choice) to CDs or DVDs. It is also possible to save such bac

full sector-by-sector backup. For example, perhaps you deleted some files by mistake and want to make a disk image before trying to undelete them bec

• Tasks • Notes • Signatures • News Folders • User Settings • Address Book For Microsoft Outlook Express • Mail Folders • Address Book (selec

16. Windows Search and Google Desktop integration ... 115 16.1.1. Using Google Desktop with Acronis

If you want to change the location of added backup files, browse for a new backup location after clicking the Browse button, otherwise leave the loca

8.3.3. Scheduling By default, the Do not schedule option is chosen so the task will run after completing the wizard and clicking Proceed. However, y

If you choose (2) or (3) by selecting the Create a new full backup after box, the next backups will be incremental (or differential) until the specif

8.3.5. Selecting what to exclude This step will be present only for the Disk and Partition Backup and My Data backup types. It enables you to exclud

8.3.6. Selecting the backup options Select the backup options (that is, backup file-splitting, compression level, password protection, etc.). The se

• a maximum archive size By default there are no limits set and automatic consolidation is not performed. To enable automatic consolidation, you mu

8.3.9. The backup process Clicking Proceed after completing all the optional steps you need for configuring the current backup task will start the t

8.4.1.2. Pre/post commands You can specify commands or batch files to be executed automatically before and/or after the backup procedure. For exampl

significantly slow down the backup process, though in the case being considered this will most likely not be an issue, because the files will not be

8.4.1.7. Removable media settings • Ask for first media while creating backup archives on removable media The preset is enabled. You can choose whe

1. Introduction 1.1. What is Acronis® True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition? Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition is an integrated software s

Do not show messages and dialogs while processing (silent mode) The preset is disabled. You can enable this setting to ignore errors during backup op

If the free space becomes less than the specified value while the backup task is being run, the program will display the same message and you will ha

To specify the location for storing reserve copies of your backups, click the Location link. Select a location – a local hard disk, USB stick, or a

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 73 To set a filter, select its type: Back up files of the following types only or Back up files of all types i

9. Data recovery with Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition The ultimate purpose of data backup is recovery of the backed up data when the or

1. Arrange the boot sequence in BIOS so as to make your rescue media device (CD, DVD or USB stick) the first boot device. See Arranging boot sequenc

The information on partition sizes, drive capacities, their manufacturers, and model numbers can also help in correctly identifying the drives. One m

If you have not assigned names to the disks and have any doubts when selecting the destination disk, you may abort the recovery by clicking Cancel an

system disk and click Details on the toolbar. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition will display information about the backed up disk, includi

(Partition size, Free space before, Free space after). Click Accept when the partition has the required size and location and then click Next. Specif

1.2. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition basic concepts This section provides general information about basic concepts which could be useful

partition to another location, select the new location and set the partition type you need (or leave the default setting). When the new location is a

local hard disk or a network share disk. See notes and recommendations for supporting FTP servers in Supported storage media. *** Please note that be

9. The task progress will be shown in a special window. You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel. Please keep in mind that the aborted procedur

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 83 10. The task progress will be shown in a special window. You can stop the procedure by clicking Cancel. Ple

10. Additional recovery information 10.1. Recovery Wizard - detailed information The below description of the Recovery Wizard refers to recovering

When recovering a backup of Windows Vista system disk containing restore points, some of your restore points (or all of them) may be missing if you b

swapping while recovering a partition when a backup archive spans several CD/DVDs. Selecting this box when you need to resize a partition or disk gre

1. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition creates scheduled tasks using the signature of the source hard disk. If you recover the same disk si

You will have to select between: • OK – all existing partitions will be deleted and all their data will be lost. • Cancel – no existing partition w

Using this feature, you can redistribute the disk space among partitions being recovered. In this case, you will have to recover the partition to be

Backup file format Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition saves backup data in the proprietary tib format using compression. This provides for

same result you will get if the recovery is unsuccessful. To recover the "lost" partition, you will have to recover it from the image again

Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2009 91 You can set default filters for the specific types of files you wish to preserve during archive recovery. F

11. Scheduling tasks 11.1. Creating scheduled tasks You can schedule a new task in the Backup Wizard or Validate Wizard in the Scheduling step. It

If the computer is off when the scheduled time comes, the task won't be performed, but you can force the missed task to run at the next system s

• User logon – the task will be executed each time the current user logs on to the OS • User logoff – the task will be executed each time the curre

11.1.4. Setting up daily execution If you choose daily execution, set the Start time and days on which you want to execute the task: • Every day •

11.1.5. Setting up weekly execution If you choose weekly execution, set the Start time, specify the task execution periodicity in the Run the task e

You can also specify the task Start date. 11.2. Importing scheduled tasks when upgrading When you upgrade from a previous Acronis True Image Home

11.3. Managing scheduled tasks To manage the scheduled tasks, click Tasks and Log on the sidebar and you will go to the Tasks management screen with

a) When you come to the "Scheduling" step while configuring a backup task, it is necessary to select the "Weekly" option, leave t