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1.1.2 What is True Image 2013 Plus Pack by Acronis?
True Image 2013 Plus Pack is an add-on to True Image 2013. It is purchased separately, has a
separate license, and is installed from its own setup file. True Image 2013 must be installed on your
computer before the True Image 2013 Plus Pack can be installed. True Image 2013 Plus Pack adds the
Acronis Universal Restore option for use during recovery. True Image 2013 Plus Pack also installs
Acronis WinPE ISO builder and provides support for dynamic disks.
Here are the features of True Image 2013 Plus Pack in more details:
Support of dynamic disks – operations with dynamic disks expand the range of hard drive
configurations supported by True Image 2013. Dynamic disks offer greater flexibility for volume
management and may provide benefits in computers with more than one hard drive.
Users of True Image 2013 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. 100).
Acronis WinPE ISO builder – This program adds True Image 2013 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 True Image 2013 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. 175).
1.1.3 True Image 2013 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.
True Image 2013 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.
So, a version represents a point in time to which the system or data can be restored. To put it
another way, backup versions represent full, incremental and differential backups - see Full,
incremental and differential backups (p. 39).
