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User's Guide
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Table of Contents 1. Introduction .............................................................................................................. 7 1.1. What is Acronis® True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition? .............................................. 7 1.2. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition basic concepts ...................................... 8 1.3. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition advantages ......................................... 10 1.4. System requirements
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6. Creating backup archives ........................................................................................ 35 6.1. Preparing for your first backup ......................................................................................... 35 6.2. Deciding what data to back up .......................................................................................... 35 6.3. Some typical backup scenarios .................................................................................
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10. Additional recovery information ............................................................................. 84 10.1. Recovery Wizard - detailed information ........................................................................... 84 10.1.1. Starting the Recovery Wizard ................................................................................................................ 84 10.1.2. Archive selection ...........................................................................
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16. Windows Search and Google Desktop integration ................................................. 115 16.1.1. Using Google Desktop with Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition ................................. 115 16.1.2. Using Windows Search with Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition ............................... 118 17. Other operations .................................................................................................. 122 17.1. Validating backup archives .
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1. Introduction 1.1. What is Acronis® True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition? Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition is an integrated software suite that ensures security of all information on your netbook. It can back up the operating system, applications, settings and all of your data, while also securely destroying any confidential data you no longer need. With this software, you can back up selected files and folders, Windows applications' settings, settings and messages of Micr
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1.2. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition basic concepts This section provides general information about basic concepts which could be useful for understanding how the program works. Backup According to Wikipedia, "backup refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to restore the original after a data loss event. Backups are useful primarily for two purposes. The first is to restore a state following a disaster (called disaster recovery). The seco
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Backup file format Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition saves backup data in the proprietary tib format using compression. This provides for reducing the storage space requirements, as well as for backward compatibility with the previous Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition version. While creating a tib file, the program calculates checksum values for data blocks and adds these values to the data being backed up. These checksum values allow verifying the backup data integr
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1.3. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition advantages • Online backup – you can make your critically important data much more secure by storing it off- site. Because files are stored on a remote storage, they are protected even if your computer gets stolen or your house burns down. So the risk of data loss as a result of fire, theft, or other natural disasters is practically eliminated. And you can safely recover any corrupted, lost or deleted files on your computer. Integrating On
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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. Supported operating systems Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition has been tested on the following operating systems: • Windows XP SP3 • Windows XP Professional x86 (32 Bit) • Windows Vista SP2 x86 (32 Bit) • Windows 7 x86 (32 Bit) Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition also enables creation of a bootable CD-R/DVD-R that ca
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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 service. *** Burned rewritable discs cannot be read in Linux without a kernel patch. 1.4.5. Compatible CPUs MANUFACTURER CPU MODELS and SERIES Z540 Z530 Z520 Z510 Intel Z500 N270 N280 300 Series 200 Series VIA C7-M
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1.5. Customer technical support Users of legally purchased and registered copies of Acronis True Image Home are entitled to free technical support. If you experience problems installing or using Acronis products that you can't solve yourself by using this guide, then please contact Acronis Technical Support. More information about contacting Acronis Technical Support is available at the following link: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/support/. In order to open a support trouble ti
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2. Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition installation and startup 2.1. Installing Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition To install Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition: • Run the Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition setup file. • Before installation, you can check for a newer Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition build on the Acronis Web site. If available, the newer version will be offered for installation. • In the Install Menu, select the program
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2.2. Extracting Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition When installing Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition, you can save the setup (.msi) file on a local or network drive. This will help when modifying or recovering the existing component installation. To save the setup file: • Run the Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition setup file. • In the Install Menu, right-click on the program name and select Extract. • Select a location for the setup file and click Save.
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Please keep in mind that the backups created by the later program version may be incompatible with the previous program versions, so if you roll back Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition to an older version, you likely will have to re-create the archives using the older version. We strongly recommend that you create new bootable media after each Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition upgrade. 2.5. Removing Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition Select Start → Setti
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3. General information and proprietary Acronis technologies 3.1. The difference between file archives and disk/partition images A backup archive is a file or a group of files (also called "backups" in this guide), that contains a copy of selected file/folder data or a copy of all information stored on selected disks/partitions. When you back up files and folders, only the data, along with the folder tree, is compressed and stored. Backing up disks and partitions is performed in a diffe
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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 backups. A standalone full backup might be an optimal solution if you often roll back the system to its initial state or if you do not like to manage multiple files. If you are interested in saving only the last data state to be able to recover it in case of system failure, consider the differential backup. It is particularly effective if your
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MyBackup1.tib…MyBackupN.tib, where N is the number of volumes Subsequent incremental or differential backups to this full backup will get the names as follows – MyBackup2.tib, MyBackup3.tib, etc. (if the full backup is not split) or MyBackupN+1.tib, MyBackupN+2.tib, etc. For instance, if N=8, incremental or differential backups will get the names MyBackup9.tib, MyBackup10.tib, etc. 3) When you set a backup policy for automatic rotation of a full backup and several incremental or differen
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Be careful! Drive letters in standalone Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition might sometimes differ from the way Windows identifies drives. For example, the D: drive identified in the standalone Acronis True Image Home 2010 Netbook Edition might correspond to the E: drive in Windows. 3.5. Viewing disk and partition information You can change the way data is represented in all schemes you see in various wizards. The header may have up to three icons: Columns, Arrange Icons by and
