Acronis True Image 2018 USER GUIDE Table of contents 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................4 1.1 What is Acronis® True Image™? ................................................................................................ 4 1.2 System requirements ................................................................................................................. 4 1.3 Install, update, or remove Acronis True Image 2018 ................................................................ 5 1.4 Activating Acronis True Image 2018 .......................................................................................... 6 1.5 Trial version information ........................................................................................................... 8 1.6 Acronis Customer Experience Program ..................................................................................... 8 1.7 Sending feedback to Acronis ..................................................................................................... 9 1.8 Application preferences ...........................................................................................................10 1.9 Keyboard shortcuts ..................................................................................................................10 1.10 Technical Support ....................................................................................................................11 2 Backup .......................................................................................................................... 12 2.1 Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................12 2.2 What you can and cannot back up ..........................................................................................13 2.3 Backing up to local or network storage ...................................................................................14 2.4 Backing up to Acronis Cloud ....................................................................................................15 2.5 Notarized backup .....................................................................................................................17 2.5.1 Using Blockchain technology ........................................................................................................................ 18 2.5.2 Verifying file authenticity .............................................................................................................................. 19 2.5.3 Manual verification of a file's authenticity .................................................................................................. 20 2.6 Backing up mobile devices .......................................................................................................20 2.6.1 Acronis Mobile ............................................................................................................................................... 21 2.6.2 Local destination of mobile backups ........................................................................................................... 22 2.7 Backing up a Facebook account ...............................................................................................23 2.8 Backing up an Instagram account ............................................................................................23 2.9 Scheduling ................................................................................................................................25 2.10 Backup encryption ...................................................................................................................26 2.11 Backup retention rules.............................................................................................................26 2.12 Excluding items from backups .................................................................................................27 2.13 Connection settings .................................................................................................................29 2.14 Network settings for backup ...................................................................................................30 2.15 Backup activity and statistics ...................................................................................................31 2.16 Laptop power settings .............................................................................................................32 2.17 Notifications .............................................................................................................................32 2.18 What is Acronis Cloud? ............................................................................................................33 2.18.1 Creating an Acronis account ......................................................................................................................... 34 2.18.2 Subscription to Acronis Cloud ...................................................................................................................... 34 2.19 Parallels Desktop support ........................................................................................................34 2.20 Backup list icons .......................................................................................................................36 2 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2018 2.21 Sorting backups in the list ........................................................................................................37 3 Creating bootable rescue media ..................................................................................... 38 4 Recovery ....................................................................................................................... 39 4.1 When do I recover my Mac? ....................................................................................................39 4.2 Recovering your Mac ...............................................................................................................39 4.2.1 FAQ about Boot Camp partition................................................................................................................... 41 4.3 Recovering your files ...............................................................................................................41 4.4 Recovering cloud data from any device ..................................................................................42 4.5 Recovering your Facebook account .........................................................................................44 4.6 Recovering your Instagram account ........................................................................................44 4.7 Searching backup content .......................................................................................................45 4.8 Network connection transfer rate ...........................................................................................45 5 Protecting family data .................................................................................................... 46 5.1 What is family data protection? ..............................................................................................46 5.2 Adding a new device ................................................................................................................46 5.3 Backing up any computer ........................................................................................................46 5.4 Recovering data with Online Dashboard .................................................................................47 6 Archiving data................................................................................................................ 48 6.1 What is data archiving? ...........................................................................................................48 6.2 What is excluded from archives? .............................................................................................49 6.3 Cloud archiving vs. Online backup ...........................................................................................49 6.4 Archiving your data ..................................................................................................................50 6.4.1 Network settings for archiving ..................................................................................................................... 51 6.4.2 Archive encryption ........................................................................................................................................ 52 6.5 Accessing your archived files ...................................................................................................52 7 Tools ............................................................................................................................. 53 7.1 Acronis Active Protection ........................................................................................................53 7.1.1 Protecting your data from ransomware ...................................................................................................... 54 7.1.2 Acronis Active Protection settings ............................................................................................................... 55 3 Copyright © Acronis