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10 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Furthermore, recovering a backup of a dual boot machine to different hardware requires using A

100 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 In case you create Win PE 4.0 ISO, specify the path to the folder WinPE\media (for example c:

101 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 7. Check your settings in the summary screen and click Proceed. 8. Burn the .ISO to a CD u

102 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2. Specify the path to the source WINPE.WIM file. The standard path to this file for x86 har

103 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 1. In the Start menu, click Microsoft Windows AIK, then right-click Deployment Tools Command

104 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Based on the size, we can assume that in the above example the USB memory stick is disk 2. Ta

105 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 If there are any partitions on the new disk, they must be deleted first. If the added disk co

106 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 5.2.2 Selecting initialization method Acronis Small Office Backup supports both MBR and GPT

107 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  partition letter and label. If you allocate all unallocated space on the disk to the new

108 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 File System Choose the file system type for the partition being created. Different partitions

109 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 When you finish to specify the settings for the partition being created, click Accept to cont

11 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  VMware vSphere / ESX / ESXi and Workstation  Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual PC  Red Hat

110 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2. Click the Activate button. Attention When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activate

111 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Please keep in mind that, though both file backups and disk/partition images have a default &

112 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 If the backup was password-protected, Acronis Small Office Backup will ask for the password i

113 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 You can also select a letter to be assigned to the virtual disk from the Mount letter drop-do

114 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 If you have mounted several partitions, by default all of them will be selected for unmountin

115 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 6 Useful information In this section Protecting your system ...

116 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2. This opens the Disk Backup window with your system partition (usually C:) selected by def

117 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Home file server If you have a Gigabit Ethernet home network and a dedicated file server, you

118 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 The firewall settings of the source computer should have Ports 20 and 21 opened for the TPC a

119 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 If you do not have a spare mouse or keyboard, contact Acronis Support. They will build a cust

12 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Small Office Backup provides full support of SSDs. It keeps the proper offset of SSD during su

120 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3. At the Recovery Method step, select Recover chosen files and folders. 4. When recovering

121 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 7. Select several files for recovery by selecting their check boxes and then click Next. 8.

122 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2. When the command line appears, type "vga=ask" (without quotes) and click OK. 3

123 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 6.4 Testing that your backups can be used for recovery Here are some recommendations: Even i

124 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 SSD alignment Another question concerns the alignment of SSDs. To get the optimum performance

125 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2. Select Tools & Utilities -> Add New Disk in the main menu and the Disk selection s

126 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  Disable Indexing Service.  Turn off the hibernation mode. 6.5.1.3 Checking SSD partiti

127 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 7. Validate the backup to make sure that it can be used for recovery. 8. Click the Recovery

128 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 6.6 Scheduling To open the Scheduler window, click the Turn on link to the right of Schedule

129 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  If the computer is switched off when the scheduled time comes, the operation won't be

13 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Activation will be performed automatically if the following conditions are met:  Your comput

130 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  Week days Select the days on which to execute the operation by clicking on their names. 

131 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 6.9 Timeout settings Sometimes when the program performs an operation, an error message or a

132 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 7 Troubleshooting In this section Acronis System Report ...

133 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2. Change the current directory to the Small Office Backup installation folder. To do so, en

134 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 This will open a confirmation window that lists the information to be sent via Internet to th

135 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 If Small Office Backup crashes, please provide the following information: 1. A description

136 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 code displayed in the error box to search for a solution in the entire KB. For more informati

137 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 You can also open the log for viewing by selecting View log in the Operations menu of a backu

138 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  Etc. The three buttons to the left filter the following events: successful completion stat

139 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Copyright Statement Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013. All rights reserved. “

14 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 To get a full subscription: 1. Start Small Office Backup. 2. In the login window, enter the

8 Glossary of Terms B Backup 1. The same as Backup operation (p. 140). 2. A set of backup versions created and managed by using backup settings.

141 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Differential backup version A differential backup version stores changes to the data against

142 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 any) of backup versions to the selected incremental backup version. If the chain contains one

15 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Advantages of installing Acronis Hotfixes:  Hotfix installation does not require much time a

16 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 1.2.1 Main window The main window provides quick access to all of the program functionality.

17 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Operations menu Clicking the gear icon in the box of a selected backup or right-clicking in t

18 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  Consolidate versions - you can delete the backup versions you no longer need while maintain

19 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Browse for backup Click this item to browse for backups on your computer and add them to the b

2 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Table of contents 1 Getting started ...

20 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Not-backed-up-yet boxes This command removes all "empty" backup boxes from the ba

21 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 allows you to explore and recover backed up data (both partitions and individual files and eve

22 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Right-clicking on a backup version opens the shortcut menu with other available operations: 

23 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Selecting a disk, partition, file or folder to make it the current item in a list does not mea

24 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 The picture below shows various states of a time line. The states vary depending on the number

25 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 The "Older" interval shows backup versions created from earlier than the beginning o

26 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Viewing additional information on the time line You can also set up the time line to show addi

27 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  Customer Experience Program - allows joining or leaving Acronis Customer Experience Program

28 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2 Backing up data In this section What is a disk/partition image? ...

29 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 "Incremental" - These are most useful when you need frequent backups and the ability

3 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2.10 Consolidating backup versions ...

30 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 then select the disk's check box. To return to the partition selection, click Switch to p

31 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2.4 Making reserve copies of your backups You can create reserve copies of your backups and s

32 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 This may be a viable option if your backup is not very large. For example, we strongly recomme

33 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2.6 Adding an existing backup to the list If you have backups that are not shown in the backu

34 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 After you have installed the application, all options are set to the initial values. You can c

35 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2.8.1 Backup schemes Backup schemes along with the scheduler help you to set up your backup s

36 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2.8.3 Version chain scheme At first the program creates the 1st full backup version. The ver

37 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  Create a full version after every [n] incremental versions - select this item to create sev

38 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 After creating a custom backup scheme, you can use it as any other existing backup scheme whil

39 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3. Click Turn on for the Schedule item. In the Scheduler window click Monthly, and specify, f

4 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 4.5.5 Operation priority ...

40 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 This option becomes available if you have selected the previous parameter, Back up sector-by-s

41 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Please do not try to execute interactive commands, i.e. commands that require user input (for

42 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Creating images directly on CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R/RE might take considerably more

43 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Also remember that you will pay for the enhanced convenience and increased security of your da

44 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Note that by default the comment will be assigned to all versions of the backup. You can edit

45 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2.8.15 Windows account When you create a backup, you can specify a Windows account under whic

46 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Network connection speed limit If you frequently back up data to network drives or FTP, think

47 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  Set the port of the outgoing mail server. By default the port is set to 25.  If the mail

48 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 How to use the default exclusion settings After you have installed the application, all the ex

49 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2.9 Validating backups The validation procedure checks whether you will be able to recover

5 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 7.5 Creating a custom rescue CD ...

50 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  On the box of the backup you want to consolidate, click the gear icon, point to More and th

51 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Click the Proceed button to start the listed operations. Click the Options button to perform t

52 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3 Recovering data The purpose of data backup is to recover backed up data when the original i

53 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 If the utility correctly detects your system hard disk drive, then the cause of the crash is p

54 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3. Select My disks below Recover on the Welcome screen. 4. Select the system disk or partit

55 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 In case of Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012 the System Rese

56 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 8. Carefully read the summary of operations at the Finish step. If you have not resized the p

57 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 To start the recovery in Acronis Backup Explorer, click the gear icon and select Recover files

58 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 We recommend that you clear the Recover disk signature check box when:  You use an image bac

59 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3. Select a partition to recover. This opens the recovery destination field below the partiti

6 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 1 Getting started 1.1 Introduction In this section What is Acronis Small Office: Server Cloud

60 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Remember that you need to leave as much unallocated (free) space after having resized the part

61 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 8. Click the Partition properties link and make the settings for the partition. Select a disk

62 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Disk letters may differ when booting from the rescue media. The names will help you find the d

63 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 4. Select Recover whole disks and partitions at the Recovery method step. 5. At the What to

64 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 6. You can specify the following partition settings: location, type, and size. You first need

65 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 8. Proceed to specifying the partition size by clicking Change default in the Partition size

66 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Click Accept, check the partition type (change, if necessary). The system partition must be pr

67 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3.5 Recovering specific files and folders You will usually start recovering files and folders

68 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Until you select a file version, the Open and Recover... buttons remain disabled. Selecting a

69 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Acronis Universal Restore is applicable for:  Instant recovery of a failed system on differe

7 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 In any event, some functions are available to you without Internet (offline mode).  All the p

70 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 4. Select the Use Universal Restore check box. Then click Settings to open the Drivers manage

71 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 the path to the backup file. In such a case click Browse and select the disk and folder that s

72 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 5. If the target hardware has a specific mass storage controller (such as an SCSI, RAID, or F

73 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3.6.3 Limitations in using Acronis Universal Restore 1. The system recovered by Acronis Unive

74 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 My source disk is MBR and my OS supports UEFI The operation will not affect neither partition

75 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Among other things, the BIOS menu allows you to adjust the boot order. Computer BIOS allows bo

76 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3.10.1 Disk recovery mode With this option you can select the disk recovery mode for image ba

77 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Having recovered a partition from an image, Acronis Small Office Backup can check the integrit

78 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 To delete a criterion, for example, added by mistake, click the Delete icon to the right of th

79 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  Local hard drives  USB cards and drives  Network shares (SMB/NFS) The message will not

8 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Backup file format Acronis Small Office Backup usually saves backup data in the proprietary tib

80 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 4 Using online backup In this section What is Acronis Cloud? ...

81 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 immediately start uploading your data to Acronis Cloud. See details in Backing up to Acronis C

82 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 the schedule, click the down arrow to the right of the Back up now button and select Later in

83 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Advanced settings Clicking Advanced settings allows you to specify the following additional se

84 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  If you select Every, choose a numeral and the day of the week from the dropdown lists (exam

85 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 In case of any network problems, if the first connection attempt fails, the program will repea

86 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  Select the Store no more than … recent versions check box and enter a value that limits the

87 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 2. Type the account name and password in the appropriate fields. 4.5.5 Operation priority C

88 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  Select the Limit transfer rate to check box and specify an optimal value and an appropriate

89 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  To check whether your settings are correct, click the Send test message button. Additional

9 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 1.1.3 FAQ about backup and recovery  I have a 150GB system partition, but the occupied space

90 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 4.5.8 Exclusions You can exclude from online backup hidden or system files and folders, as we

91 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 3. After the File Download window opens, click Save to start download. 4. By default the

92 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Note, that this command deletes all the backup versions from Acronis Cloud. The backup box wil

93 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 5 Tools Acronis Tools include protection tools, image mounting tools, and the Add new disk ut

94 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 Please note, you cannot boot Windows operating system from a bootable media created on a USB f

95 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 To select a component:  Select the check box of the program you want to include into the boo

96 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013  nodma Disables DMA for all IDE disk drives. Prevents kernel from freezing on some hardware.

97 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 If you use non-optical media, the media must have a FAT file system. This limitation is not ap

98 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 You will need a USB flash drive with a capacity of 256 MB or more. The drive must be formatted

99 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2013 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30652 2. [optional] Burn the Windows