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1.1.2 What is Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack?
Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack is an add-on to Acronis True Image Home 2012. It is
purchased separately, has a separate license, and is installed from its own setup file. Acronis True
Image Home 2012 must be installed on your computer before the Acronis True Image Home 2012
Plus Pack can be installed. Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack adds the Acronis Universal
Restore option for use during recovery. Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack also installs Acronis
WinPE ISO builder and provides support for dynamic disks.
Here are the features of Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack in more details:
Support of dynamic disks – operations with dynamic disks expand the range of hard drive
configurations supported by Acronis True Image Home 2012. Dynamic disks offer greater
flexibility for volume management and may provide benefits in computers with more than one
hard drive.
Users of Acronis True Image Home 2012 Plus Pack have the Universal Restore feature available to
them. Acronis Universal Restore lets you restore an image of a Windows operating system to a
different hardware environment. You can restore information on independent computers
regardless of the hardware used on the independent computer. This may come in handy, for
example, after replacing a damaged motherboard or when deciding to migrate your system from
a desktop to a laptop. For more information see Acronis Universal Restore (p. 97).
Acronis WinPE ISO builder – This program adds Acronis True Image Home 2012 plug-in to WinPE
(Windows Preinstallation Environment) distributions based on any of the following kernels:
WinPE 1.5, 2.x, 3.0. To be able to create or modify PE 2.x and 3.0 images, you must have
Windows Automated Installation Kit (AIK) installed. Running Acronis True Image Home 2012 in
the preinstallation environment may provide better compatibility with your computer’s
hardware because the preinstallation environment uses Windows drivers. For more information
see Creating WinPE-based rescue media (p. 168).
1.1.3 Acronis True Image Home 2012 basic concepts
This section provides general information about basic concepts which could be useful for
understanding how the program works.
Backup and recovery
Backup refers to the making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to recover
the original after a data loss event.
Backups are useful primarily for two purposes. The first is to restore a state following a disaster
(called disaster recovery). The second is to recover small numbers of files after they have been
accidentally deleted or corrupted.
Acronis True Image Home 2012 does both by creating disk (or partition) images and file-level backups
respectively.
Backup versions
Backup versions are the file or files created during each backup operation. If you do not use
consolidation feature, the amount of versions created is always equal to the amount of times the
backup is executed or to the amount of stored points in time.
