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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