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Acronis True Image HD? User's Guide Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011. All rights reserved. “Acronis” and “Acronis Secure Zone” are registered trademarks of Acronis, Inc. "Acronis Compute with Confidence", “Acronis Startup Recovery Manager”, “Acronis Active Restore” and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. VMware and VMware Ready are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. Distribution of this work or derivative work in any standard (paper) book form for commercial purposes is prohibited unless prior permission is obtained from the copyright holder. DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ALL EXPRESS OR IMPLIED CONDITIONS, REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT, ARE DISCLAIMED, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT THAT SUCH DISCLAIMERS ARE HELD TO BE LEGALLY INVALID. Third party code may be provided with the Software and/or Service. The license terms for such third- parties are detailed in the license.txt file located in the root installation directory. You can always find the latest up-to-date list of the third party code and the associated license terms used with the Software and/or Service at http://kb.acronis.com/content/7696 2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 Table of contents 1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 8 1.1 What is Acronis True Image HD? ............................................................................................... 8 1.2 Acronis True Image HD basic concepts ...................................................................................... 9 1.3 New in Acronis True Image HD ................................................................................................10 1.4 System requirements and supported media ...........................................................................11 2 Acronis True Image HD installation and startup ..................................................................... 13 2.1 Installing Acronis True Image HD .............................................................................................13 2.2 Running Acronis True Image HD ..............................................................................................14 2.3 Activating Acronis True Image HD ...........................................................................................14 2.4 Upgrading Acronis True Image HD ..........................................................................................14 2.5 Removing Acronis True Image HD ...........................................................................................15 3 General information and proprietary Acronis technologies .................................................... 16 3.1 Disk/partition images ...............................................................................................................16 3.2 Full backup ...............................................................................................................................16 3.3 Backup file naming conventions ..............................................................................................16 3.4 Viewing disk and partition information ...................................................................................17 3.5 Acronis DriveCleanser ..............................................................................................................18 4 If you have a new large hard drive (> 2TB) in your system ...................................................... 18 4.1 Adding and managing large drives (typical scenarios) ............................................................19 4.1.1 Adding a new large drive as non-system ...................................................................................................19 4.1.2 Migrating an operating system to a large disk ..........................................................................................20 4.1.3 Installing an operating system on a large disk ...........................................................................................20 4.1.4 Recovering a GPT disk to Extended Capacity Disk .....................................................................................20 4.1.5 Recovering an MBR partition to a large disk .............................................................................................20 4.1.6 Converting Extended Capacity Disks to a GPT style ..................................................................................21 4.1.7 Correcting a large disk size .........................................................................................................................21 4.1.8 Removing Acronis True Image HD from a system with Extended Capacity Disks ....................................21 4.1.9 Updating .....................................................................................................................................................21 4.2 What you need to know about your system before deployment ...........................................21 4.3 Adding a large hard drive .........................................................................................................22 4.4 Migrating to a disk larger than 2 TB ........................................................................................23 4.5 Acronis Extended Capacity Manager .......................................................................................26 5 Preparing for disaster recovery .............................................................................................. 27 5.1 How to best prepare for a disaster ..........................................................................................27 5.1.1 Recommendations for testing that your backups can be used for recovery ...........................................27 3 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2011 5.1.2 Additional recommendations ....................................................................................................................28 5.2 Testing bootable rescue media ...............................................................................................28 5.3 Creating a custom rescue CD ...................................................................................................30 6 Getting to know Acronis True Image HD ................................................................................ 32 6.1 Program workspace .................................................................................................................32 6.2 Main screens ............................................................................................................................33 6.3 Options screen .........................................................................................................................36 7 Creating backup archives ....................................................................................................... 38 7.1 Preparing for your first backup ................................................................................................38 7.2 Deciding what data to back up ................................................................................................38 7.3 Some typical backup scenarios ................................................................................................39 7.3.1 Backing up a system partition ....................................................................................................................39 7.3.2 Backing up an entire system disk ...............................................................................................................39 7.3.3 Backing up a data partition or disk ............................................................................................................40 7.3.4 Backing up to a network share ...................................................................................................................42 8 Online backup ....................................................................................................................... 43 8.1 Creating an Online backup account .........................................................................................43 8.2 Backing up to Acronis Online Storage .....................................................................................44 8.3 Recovering data from Online Storage .....................................................................................46 8.4 Managing Online Storage ........................................................................................................47 8.5 Setting online backup options .................................................................................................48 8.5.1 Connection attempts ..................................................................................................................................49 8.5.2 Storage connection speed ..........................................................................................................................49
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