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  • Page 1 User's Guide Acronis True Image 9.0 Home Compute with confidence www.acronis.com...
  • Page 2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006. All rights reserved. “Acronis”, "Acronis Compute with Confidence", “Acronis Snap Restore”, “Acronis Recovery Manager, “Acronis Secure Zone” and the Acronis logo are trademarks of Acronis, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
  • Page 3 Making telecommunication data transmission of the software. Acronis has the right to terminate this license if there is a violation of its terms or default by the original purchaser. Upon termination for any reason, all copies of the software must be immediately returned to Acronis, and the original purchaser shall be liable to Acronis for any and all damages suffered as a result of the violation or default.

  • Page 4: Table Of Contents

    1.4.3 Suppor ed file systems ....................8 1.4.4 Suppor ed storage media .................... 8 1.5 Technical support......................9 Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Home installation and starting ......10 2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Home ................. 10 2.2 Extracting Acronis True Image Home ................11 2.3 Running Acronis True Image Home ..................
  • Page 5 7.1.3 Setting up monthly execution..................45 7.1.4 Setting up one-time execution ................... 45 7.2 Managing scheduled tasks ....................46 Chapter 8. Managing Acronis Secure Zone ............47 8.1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone................... 47 8.2 Resizing Acronis Secure Zone ................... 48 8.3 Deleting Acronis Secure Zone................... 48 Chapter 9.
  • Page 6 Installation modes jumpers................73 BIOS ........................74 B.2.1 Setup utility....................... 74 B.2.2 Standard CMOS setup menu ................75 B.2.3 Arranging boot sequence, advanced CMOS setup menu ........76 B.2.4 AwardBIOS ....................... 77 B.2.5 Hard disk initialization errors................80 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 7: Chapter 1. Introduction

    PCMCIA) removable media drives, as well as CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, magneto-optical, Iomega Zip and Jaz drives. If you are going to install a new hard disk drive, Acronis True Image Home will help you transfer information from the old one in minutes, including operating systems, applications, documents and personal settings.

  • Page 8: System Requirements And Supported Media

    • Ext2/Ext3 • ReiserFS • Linux SWAP If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis True Image Home can copy data using a sector-by-sector approach. 1.4.4 Supported storage media • Hard disk drives • Networked storage devices •...

  • Page 9: Technical Support

    1.5 Technical support Users of legally purchased copies of Acronis True Image Home are entitled to free technical support from Acronis. 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.

  • Page 10: Chapter 2. Acronis True Image Home Installation And Starting

    Bart PE plug-in tab. The plug-in files will be placed to the installation folder along with other program files. When installed, Acronis True Image Home creates a new device in the Device Manager list (Control Panel -> System -> Hardware -> Device Manager -> Acronis Devices ->...

  • Page 11: Extracting Acronis True Image Home

    2.2 Extracting Acronis True Image Home When installing Acronis True Image Home, 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 a setup file: •...

  • Page 12: Chapter 3. General Information And Proprietary Acronis Technologies

    When you back up files and folders, only the data, along with the folder tree, are compressed and stored. Backing up disks and partitions is performed in a different way: Acronis True Image Home stores a sector-by-sector snapshot of the disk, which includes the operating system, registry, drivers, software applications and data files, as well as system areas hidden from the user.

  • Page 13: Acronis Secure Zone

    Recovery Manager and Acronis Snap Restore features (see below). Acronis Secure Zone is always available for archive creation as long as there is space for the backup file. If there is not enough space, older archives will be deleted to create space.

  • Page 14: Acronis Startup Recovery Manager

    With this feature, if the operating system won't load for some reason, you can run Acronis True Image Home by itself to restore damaged partitions. As opposed to booting from Acronis removable media, you will not need a separate media or network connection to start Acronis True Image Home.

  • Page 15: How O Use

    10 minutes. The larger the image size, the more time you save. 3.5.2 How to use To be able to use Acronis Snap Restore in case of system crash, prepare as follows: 1. Install Acronis True Image Home.
  • Page 16 (connection type, device type, size, etc.); partition information includes both physical (sectors, location, etc.), and logical (file system, free space, assigned letter, etc.) parameters. You can change the width of a column by dragging its borders with the mouse. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 17: Chapter 4. Using Acronis True Image Home

    • Show Log – open the Log Viewer window • Manage Acronis Secure Zone – create, delete and resize a special hidden partition for storing archives (Acronis Secure Zone) • Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager – activate the boot restoration manager (F11 key).

  • Page 18: Available Operations

    • Options – open a window for editing default backup/restore options, setting text appearance (fonts), configuring email/Winpopup notifications etc. The Help menu is used to invoke help and obtain information about Acronis True Image Home. Active Tasks pane The Active Tasks pane displays the scheduled and currently-being-executed tasks. It features its own toolbar.
  • Page 19 Click the very right button on a tasks pane toolbar at the bottom of the window. See details 10.2 Viewing logs • Manage Acronis Secure Zone Click Manage Acronis Secure Zone, then follow the Wizard’s instructions. See details in Chapter 8. Managing Acronis Secure Zone • Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Click Activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager, then follow the Wizard’s instructions.

  • Page 20: Chapter 5. Creating Backup Archives

    You also may not be able to boot the restored operating system. Therefore, it is recommended that you select only files and folders containing user data. To back up a disk or partition, use image backup. 5. Click Next. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...
  • Page 21 If you are going to create a differential backup, select the full backup which will be a base, or any of the existing differential archives. Either way, the program will create a new differential archive file. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...
  • Page 22 For example, saving the archive to another hard disk will protect your data if the primary disk is damaged. Data saved to a network disk or removable media will survive even if all your local hard disks are down. You can also use Acronis Secure Zone (see details 3 3 Acronis Secure Zone ) for storing backups.
  • Page 23 18. You may want to see the log when the task is completed. To view the log, click the Show Operation Logs button on the toolbar. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 24: Backing Up Disks And Partitions (Image Backup)

    For example, saving the archive to another hard disk will protect your data if your primary disk is damaged. Data saved to a network disk or removable media will survive even if all your local hard disks are down. You can also use Acronis Secure Zone (see details 3 3 Acronis Secure Zone ) for storing backups.

  • Page 25: Setting Backup Options

    To view or edit the default backup options, select Tools -> Options -> Default Backup Options from the main program menu. You can edit the default (or set the temporary) backup options while creating a backup task as well. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 26: Archive Protection

    If you try to restore data from a password-protected archive, or append an incremental/differential backup to such an archive, Acronis True Image Home will ask for the password in a special window, allowing access only to authorized users.

  • Page 27: Compression Level

    Sizeable backups can be split into several files that together make the original backup. A backup file can be split for burning to removable media. The default setting – Automatic. With this setting, Acronis True Image Home will act as follows.

  • Page 28: File-Level Security Se Ings

    The safe version does not have USB, PC card or SCSI drivers and is useful only in case the full version does not load. If you have other Acronis products, such as Acronis Disk Director Suite, installed on your computer, the bootable versions of these programs’...

  • Page 29: Additional Settings

    In case you check Do not place additional components if there is no free space box, the program will try to write at least Acronis True Image Home to media, short of space. 5.3.9 Additional settings 1. Validate backup archive upon operation completion The default setting –...

  • Page 30: Chapter 6. Restoring The Backup Data

    The boot CD from which you loaded the program does not keep you from using other CDs with backups. Acronis True Image Home is loaded entirely into RAM, so you can remove the bootable CD to insert the archive disk.
  • Page 31 2. Click Next. 3. Select the archive. If the archive is located in Acronis Secure Zone, select it to choose the archive on the next step. If the archive is located on removable media, e.g. CD, first insert the last CD and then insert disks in reverse order when Restore Data Wizard prompts.
  • Page 32 If the latter is the case, the settings will be applied only to the current restore task. Alternatively, you can edit the default options from the current screen. Then your settings 6.4 Setting restore options will be saved as default. See for more information. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 33: Restoring Disks/Partitions Or Files From Images

    6.3 Restoring disks/partitions or files from images To restore a partition (disk) from an image, Acronis True Image Home must obtain exclusive access to the target partition (disk). This means no other applications can access it at that time.

  • Page 34: Archive Selection

    6.3.2 Archive selection 1. Select the archive. If the archive is located in Acronis Secure Zone, select it to choose the archive at the next step. If the archive is located on removable media, e.g. CD, first insert the last CD and then insert disks in reverse order when Restore Data Wizard prompts.
  • Page 35 ). In a few seconds after pressing Proceed the computer will reboot to the restored system. Log in and start work – no more reboots or other actions are required. For more about Acronis 3.5 Acronis Snap Restore Snap Restore, see When performing Snap Restore, the current Acronis True Image Home version always restores the entire system disk.

  • Page 36: Selecting A Disk/Partition To Restore

    All the data stored on the restored partition will be replaced by the image data, so be careful and watch for non-backed-up data that you might need. 2. Click Next. 3. When restoring an entire disk, the program will analyze the target disk structure to see if the disk is free. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 37: Changing The Restored Partition Type

    In this case, you can restore the partition as Logical to access the data only. By default, the original partition type is selected. Selecting Active for a partition without an installed operating system could prevent your computer from booting. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 38: Changing The Restored Partition File Sys Em

    1. Though seldom required, you can change the partition file system during its restoration. Acronis True Image Home can make the following file system conversions: FAT 16 -> FAT 32, Ext2 -> Ext3. For partitions with other native file systems this option is not available.

  • Page 39: Assigning A Letter To The Res Ored Partition

    6.3.9 Assigning a letter to the restored partition 1. In Windows NT SP6/2000/XP, Acronis True Image Home will assign an unused letter to a restored partition. You can select the desired letter from a drop-down list. If you set the switch to No, no letters will be assigned to the restored partition, hiding it from OS.

  • Page 40: Files Overwriting Mode

    CPU tasks. Increasing of restoration priority may speed up the restore process due to taking resources from the other currently running processes. The effect will depend on total CPU usage and other factors. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 41: File-Level Security Se Ings

    1. You can choose whether to restore files’ date and time from the archive or assign the files the current date and time. 2. Before data is restored from the archive, Acronis True Image Home can check its integrity. If you suspect that the archive might have been corrupted, select Validate backup archive before restoration.

  • Page 42: Chapter 7. Scheduling Tasks

    Chapter 7. Scheduling tasks Acronis True Image Home allows you to schedule periodic backup tasks. Doing so will give you peace of mind, knowing that your data are safe. You can create more than one independently scheduled task. For example, you can back up your current project daily and back up the application disk once a week.

  • Page 43: Setting Up Daily Execution

    If you select daily execution, set the Start time and days on which you want to execute the task: • Every day • Weekdays • Every х days – once in several days (specify the interval). Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 44: Setting Up Weekly Execution

    If the computer is off when the scheduled time comes, the task won’t be performed, but you can force the missed task to launch at the next system startup by checking a box under the Start time fields. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 45: Setting Up Monthly Execution

    Start time fields. 7.1.4 Setting up one-time execution If you select the one-time execution, set the Start time and date on which to execute the task: Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 46: Managing Scheduled Tasks

    To delete a task with confirmation, select it and click Delete the Selected Task on the Active tasks toolbar. To rename a task, select it, click Rename the Selected Task on the Active tasks toolbar, enter the new task name and press Enter. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 47: Chapter 8. Managing Acronis Secure Zone

    1. Before creating the Acronis Secure Zone, you may want to estimate its size. To do so, start a backup and select all data you are going to backup into the Acronis Secure Zone. At the Set Backup Options step choose Set the options manually, then set the compression level.

  • Page 48: Resizing Acronis Secure Zone

    The opposite situation might arise if either partition lacks free space. 3. Select partitions from which free space will be used to increase Acronis Secure Zone or that will receive free space after the zone is reduced.
  • Page 49 Zone deletion might take several minutes or more. Please wait until the whole procedure is finished. Acronis Secure Zone deletion will automatically disable Acronis Startup Recovery Manager if it is activated and destroy all backups stored in the zone. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 50: Chapter 9. Creating Bootable Media

    Chapter 9. Creating bootable media You can run Acronis True Image Home on a bare metal or on a crashed computer that cannot boot. You can even back up disks on a non-Windows computer, copying all its data sector-by-sector into the backup archive. To do so, you will need bootable media with the standalone Acronis True Image Home version.
  • Page 51 When using 3.5” diskettes, you will be able to write on a diskette (or a set of the diskettes) only one component at a time (for example, Acronis True Image Home). To write another component, start Bootable Media Builder once again.

  • Page 52: Chapter 10. Other Operations

    Tools group or click Validate Backup Archive on the toolbar. 2. Click Next. 3. Select the archive to validate. If the archive is located in Acronis Secure Zone, select it to choose the archive on the next step.

  • Page 53: Managing System Restore

    Windows versions do not feature System Restore, therefore, under these operating systems Manage System Restore tool is unavailable.) If you run Acronis True Image Home regularly, this feature in your operating system is redundant. You can turn it off, freeing up to 12% of your hard disk space, directly from Acronis True Image Home.
  • Page 54 If you turn off System Restore on any disk or partition, all previously created restore points for that disk (partition) will be deleted. Please make sure you do not need those restore points before proceeding. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 55: Chapter 11. Mounting An Image As A Virtual Drive

    , steps 1-9). The current version of Acronis True Image Home can mount an image archive only if all its volumes reside in the same directory. If your archive spans several CD-R/RW discs and you wish to mount the image, you should copy all volumes to a hard disk drive or network drive.
  • Page 56 4. Click Next. 5. If you selected an archive containing incremental images, Acronis True Image Home will suggest that you select one of the successive incremental images by its creation date/time. Thus, you can explore the partition state to a certain moment.

  • Page 57: Unmounting An Image

    To disconnect the virtual disk, click Unmount Image and select the disk to unmount. You can also unmount the disk in Windows Explorer by right-clicking on its icon and selecting Unmount. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 58: Chapter 12. Transferring The System To A New Disk

    Please note the following: if the power goes out or you accidentally press RESET during the transfer, the procedure will be incomplete and you will have to partition and format or clone the hard disk again. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 59: Executing Transfers

    12.3.2 Selecting source disk If the program finds several partitioned disks, it will ask you which is the source (i.e. the older data disk). Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 60: Selecting Destina Ion Disk

    After you select the source disk, you have to select the destination where the disk information will be copied. The previously selected source becomes grayed-out and disabled for selection. If either disk is unpartitioned, the program will automatically recognize it as the destination and bypass this step. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 61: Partitioned Des Ination Disk

    If you selected the manual mode, the program will ask you what to do with the old disk: • Create a new partition layout – All existing partitions and their data will be deleted (but they will also be cloned to the new disk, so you won’t lose them) Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 62: Destroying The Old Disk Data

    12.3.7 Destroying the old disk data If you elected to destroy the old disk data in the previous step, you will have to select the destruction method now: • Quick – quick one-pass destruction • Normal – multipass destruction Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 63: Selecting Partition Transfer Method

    The second method takes more time, but makes it impossible to recover data afterwards, even with special equipment. The first method is less secure, but is still suitable for most cases. 12.3.8 Selecting partition transfer method Acronis True Image Home will offer you the following data transfer methods: • As is •...

  • Page 64: Partitioning The Old Disk

    Further, you will be able to use the unallocated space to create new partitions or to enlarge the existing partitions with special tools, such as Acronis Disk Director Suite. As a rule, "as is" transfers are inexpedient, as they leave much unallocated space on the new disk.

  • Page 65: Cloning Summary

    Cloning a non-system disk or a disk containing an operating system, but one that is not currently active, will proceed without reboot. After you click Proceed, Acronis True Image Home will start cloning the old disk to the new disk, indicating the progress in a special window.
  • Page 66 Having provided the new location and size, click Next. You will be taken two steps back to the partition layout. You might have to perform some more resizing and relocation before you get the layout you need. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 67: Chapter 13. Adding A New Hard Disk

    If the cursor turns to four arrows, it is pointed at the partition, so you can move it to the left or right (if there is Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 68: Disk Add Summary

    The disk add summary contains a list of operations to be performed on disks. After you click Proceed, Acronis True Image Home will start creating and formatting new partitions, indicating the progress in a special window. You can stop this procedure by clicking Cancel.

  • Page 69: Appendix A. Partitions And File Systems

    However, this does not mean you can have only four operating systems on your PC! Applications called disk managers support far more operating systems on disks. For example, Acronis OS Selector, a component of Acronis Disk Director Suite, enables you to install up to 100 operating systems!

  • Page 70: Fat32

    Officially introduced with its version 7.2 of the Linux operating system, Ext3 is the Red Hat Linux journaling file system. It is forward and backward compatible with Linux ext2. It has multiple journaling modes and broad cross-platform compatibility in both 32- and 64-bit architectures. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 71: Linux Reiserfs

    A.2.6 Linux ReiserFS ReiserFS was officially introduced to Linux in 2001. ReiserFS overcomes many Ext2 disadvantages. It is a 64-bit journaling file system that dynamically allocates space for data substructures. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 72: Appendix B. Hard Disks And Bios Setup

    7. Set the boot sequence to A:, C:, CD-ROM or some other, depending on where your copy of Acronis True Image Home is located. If you have a boot diskette, set the diskette to be first; if it is on a CD, make the boot sequence start with CD-ROM.

  • Page 73: Installation Modes Jumpers

    CS – cable select for master/slave: the purpose of the hard disk is determined by its physical position with respect to the motherboard • PK – jumper parking position: the position where one can put the jumper if it is not necessary in the existing configuration Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 74: Bios

    BIOSes, items of the extended setup heavily depend on computer and BIOS version. Below we describe the general principles of initial hard disk configuration, and then configuration (sample) in AwardBIOS. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 75: Standard Cmos Setup Menu

    Method of translation of sector addresses. (Translation LBA/ Method) Large/Auto For example, to demonstrate the main features of Acronis True Image Home, we used a Quantum Fireball TM1700A hard disk as one of the disks in our examples. Its parameters have the following values:...

  • Page 76: Arranging Boot Sequence, Advanced Cmos Setup Menu

    SCSI hard disks. This order is broken if you change the boot sequence in BIOS setup. If, for example, you specify that booting has to be done from hard disk E:, numbering Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 77: Awardbios

    Type [Auto] <Enter> to select the type of the IDE drive. [User Type HDD] allows you to set each entry on your own. Warning: Ultra DMA Mode 3/4/5 can be enabled only when BIOS detects Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...
  • Page 78 New versions of AwardBIOS menu have the Boot item. The screen of the Boot menu, which is responsible for adjusting the boot sequence, looks like this: AwardBIOS Setup Utility Main Advanced Power Boot Exit 1. ATAPI CD-ROM [None] Boot Sequence: Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...
  • Page 79 Boot Virus Detection [Enabled] Quick Power On Self Test [Enabled] Press <+> to move the Boot up Floppy Seek [Enabled] Device up the list, or Full Screen Logo [Enabled] <-> to move it down the list Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

  • Page 80: Hard Disk Initialization Errors

    However, it appears, for example, when the boot program finds no operating system on the hard disk, or when the primary partition of the hard disk is not set as active. DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...
  • Page 81 • hard disk parameters in BIOS setup • jumpers on the controller (master/slave) • interface cables It is also possible that the device is out of order, or the hard disk is not formatted. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2006...

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