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
1.5 Customer technical support .................................................................................................... 14
2 Acronis True Image Home installation and startup ............................................................... 16
2.1 Installing Acronis True Image Home ....................................................................................... 16
2.2 Extracting Acronis True Image Home ...................................................................................... 16
2.3 Running Acronis True Image Home ........................................................................................ 17
2.4 Upgrading Acronis True Image Home ..................................................................................... 17
2.5 Removing Acronis True Image Home ...................................................................................... 17
3 General information and proprietary Acronis technologies ................................................... 19
3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images ........................................... 19
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups ............................................................................. 19
3.3 Backup file naming conventions ............................................................................................. 20
3.4 Acronis Secure Zone™ ............................................................................................................. 21
3.5 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager ........................................................................................ 22
3.5.1 How it works .................................................................................................................................................. 22
3.5.2 How to use ..................................................................................................................................................... 22
3.6 Viewing disk and partition information .................................................................................. 23
3.7 What is Try&Decide™? ............................................................................................................ 23
3.8 Acronis DriveCleanser, File Shredder, and System Clean-up .................................................. 24
3.9 Support for Zip format ............................................................................................................ 24
3.10 Acronis Nonstop Backup ......................................................................................................... 24
3.11 Booting from system image tib files ....................................................................................... 25
3.12 Acronis Universal Restore ....................................................................................................... 25
3.12.1 Purpose of Acronis Universal Restore .......................................................................................................... 25
3.12.2 General principles of Acronis Universal Restore ......................................................................................... 26
4 Preparing for disaster recovery ............................................................................................ 27
4.1 How to best prepare for a disaster ......................................................................................... 27
4.1.1 Recommendations for testing that your backups can be used for recovery ............................................ 27
4.1.2 Additional recommendations ....................................................................................................................... 28
4.2 Testing bootable rescue media ............................................................................................... 28
4.3 Creating a custom rescue CD .................................................................................................. 30
