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1 Introduction
1.1 What is Acronis® True Image Home?
Acronis True Image Home is an integrated software suite that ensures security of all information on
your PC. It can back up the operating system, applications, settings and all of your data, while also
securely destroying any confidential data you no longer need. With this software, you can back up
selected files and folders, Windows applications' settings, settings and messages of Microsoft e-mail
clients — or even the entire disk drive or selected partitions. Acronis Online Backup will allow you to
store your most important files on a remote storage, so they will be protected even if your computer
gets stolen or your house burns down. Acronis Nonstop Backup continuously saves changes in your
system and files (as often as every five minutes) allowing you to rollback easily to any point in time if
the need arises.
Should your disk drive become damaged or your system attacked by a virus or malware, you can
recover the backed up data quickly and easily, eliminating hours or days of work trying to rebuild your
disk drive's data and applications from scratch.
Acronis True Image Home provides you with all the essential tools you need to recover your
computer system should a disaster occur, such as losing data, accidentally deleting critical files or
folders, or a complete hard disk crash. If failures occur that block access to information or affect
system operation, you will be able to recover the system and the lost data easily.
The unique technology developed by Acronis and implemented in Acronis True Image Home allows
you to perform exact, sector-by-sector disk backups, including all operating systems, applications and
configuration files, software updates, personal settings, and data.
Acronis True Image Home helps you protect your identity as well. Simply deleting old data will not
remove it permanently from your computer. Acronis True Image Home now includes Acronis
DriveCleanser that permanently destroys files and wipes personal information from partitions and/or
entire disks, as well as a wizard that cleans up your Windows system of all traces of user activity.
You can store backups on almost any PC storage device: internal or external hard drives, network
drives or a variety of IDE, SCSI, FireWire (IEEE-1394), USB and PC Card (formerly called PCMCIA)
removable media drives, as well as CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R/RW, BD-R, BD-RE, magneto-optical,
Iomega Zip and Jaz drives.
When performing scheduled backup tasks, Acronis True Image Home automatically selects a backup
mode (full, incremental, differential) in accordance with the backup policy set by the user.
If you are going to install a new hard disk drive, Acronis True Image Home will help you to transfer
information from the old one in minutes, including operating systems, applications, documents, and
personal settings. After migrating to the new hard disk you can destroy all confidential information on
the old one securely. This is the recommended procedure if you intend to donate, throw away, or sell
the old hard disk drive.
Wizards and a Windows Vista-style interface will make your work easier. Just perform a few simple
steps and let Acronis True Image Home take care of everything else! When a system problem occurs,
the software will get you up and running in no time.
