Table of contents
1 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................9
1.1 What is Acronis® True Image Home? ........................................................................................ 9
1.2 Acronis True Image Home basic concepts ...............................................................................10
1.3 New in Acronis True Image Home 2010 ..................................................................................12
1.4 System requirements and supported media ...........................................................................13
1.4.1 Minimum system requirements .................................................................................................................. 13
1.4.2 Supported operating systems ...................................................................................................................... 13
1.4.3 Supported file systems .................................................................................................................................. 13
1.4.4 Supported storage media ............................................................................................................................. 14
2 Acronis True Image Home installation and startup ................................................................ 15
2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Home ........................................................................................15
2.2 Extracting Acronis True Image Home ......................................................................................15
2.3 Running Acronis True Image Home .........................................................................................16
2.4 Upgrading Acronis True Image Home ......................................................................................16
2.5 Removing Acronis True Image Home ......................................................................................16
3 General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ................................................... 18
3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ............................................18
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups ..............................................................................18
3.3 Backup file naming conventions ..............................................................................................19
3.4 Acronis Secure Zone™..............................................................................................................20
3.5 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .........................................................................................21
3.5.1 How it works .................................................................................................................................................. 21
3.5.2 How to use ..................................................................................................................................................... 22
3.6 Viewing disk and partition information ...................................................................................22
3.7 What is Try&Decide™? ............................................................................................................22
3.8 Acronis DriveCleanser, File Shredder, and System Clean-up...................................................23
3.9 Support for Zip format .............................................................................................................23
3.10 Acronis Nonstop Backup ..........................................................................................................24
3.11 Booting from system image tib files ........................................................................................24
3.12 Acronis Universal Restore ........................................................................................................24
3.12.1 Purpose of Acronis Universal Restore ......................................................................................................... 24
3.12.2 General principles of Acronis Universal Restore ......................................................................................... 25
4 Preparing for disaster recovery ............................................................................................ 26
4.1 How to best prepare for a disaster ..........................................................................................26
4.1.1 Recommendations for testing that your backups can be used for recovery............................................ 26
4.1.2 Additional recommendations....................................................................................................................... 27
4.2 Testing bootable rescue media ...............................................................................................27
4.3 Creating a custom rescue CD ...................................................................................................30
