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1 Introduction
In this section
What is Acronis® True Image™ 2015? ....................................................... 3
New in this version ..................................................................................... 3
System requirements ................................................................................. 4
Install, update or remove Acronis True Image 2015.................................. 4
Trial version information ............................................................................ 5
Acronis Customer Experience Program ..................................................... 6
Sending feedback to Acronis ...................................................................... 6
Technical Support ...................................................................................... 7
1.1 What is Acronis
®
True Image™ 2015?
Acronis True Image 2015 is an application that protects all information on your Mac, including the
operating system, applications, settings, and all of your data. To protect your Mac, you need to
perform two easy operations:
1. Create a complete backup of your Mac.
This saves your operating system files and all your data to a file called backup. You can store this
file in local or network storage or upload it on Acronis Cloud. Refer to Backing up to local or
network storage (p. 9) and Backing up to Acronis Cloud (p. 10) for details.
2. Create Acronis bootable media.
This is a removable drive containing boot files. When your Mac cannot start up, this media allows
you to start an Acronis recovery environment and use your backup to rollback your Mac to a
healthy state. Refer to Creating bootable rescue media (p. 16) for details.
After performing these two steps, you can be sure that you will be able to repair your Mac OS X and
recover your lost documents in a few minutes.
Key features:
Backup of selected disks or entire Mac contents to local or network storage (p. 9) or to Acronis
Cloud (p. 10)
Creating bootable rescue media (p. 16)
Mac OS X recovery in the bootable media environment (p. 18)
Recovery of specific files and folders under Mac OS X (p. 20)
1.2 New in this version
Customer feedback form—The new feedback form is the easiest way to tell us what you think
about Acronis True Image 2015, to suggest a new feature, to report a problem, or just to tell us
thank you. Your messages help us find out what we do right and what needs to be corrected.
With your personal contribution, we will make Acronis True Image 2015 better together. Refer to
Sending feedback to Acronis (p. 6) for details.
Custom backup exclusions—Before you start a backup, you can manually specify files and folders
that do not need to be backed up. This will reduce the backup size and speed up the backup
process. Acronis True Image 2015 allows you to exclude data two ways: by pointing out a specific
item or by using a mask to exclude several files at once. Refer to Excluding items from backups
(p. 12) for details.
