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Barry's rigs 'n reviews June 15, 2006 Barry's rigs 'n reviews web site By Barry Little Acronis True Image 9.0 Home Backup utiliti

Data rescue and other options are under Tools.

Here are the Daily Parameters for my scheduled backup.

Because the scheduler for Acronis True Image runs as a service under Windows, it needs a valid user account name and password to run.

If everything looks good, click Next to schedule your backup. Scheduled backup job successfully created!

Type in a name for your scheduled job here.

You're good to go!

You can click this button to kick the job off immediately if you want.

Click this button to create another scheduled job.

Click this to go back and make any changes to the selected scheduled backup job.

Click this to change the schedule of the selected backup job.

Click this to delete it...

Let's take a look at Options.

...this to rename it.

...and this to view the log. You'll find all the flexibility you need to schedule Acronis True Image backup jobs with the Schedule Task Wizard.

As we can see under Disk Management, here's the other drive installed to be cloned. Although the drives are of the same capacity, the procedure

Select Clone Disk.

Click Next at the opening screen of the Disk Clone Wizard.

Here, we have two options for the cloning process. Automatic will clone everything from your old hard drive to your new one, and resize the partiti

Manual will give advanced users more control and options for cloning their new drive.

This shows the original drive and what the layout of the new drive will be. Click Next to continue.

Click Proceed to begin the cloning process.

The drive being cloned on boot-up. The amount of time required for cloning your old drive will vary, depending mostly on the size and speed of the s

If for some reason you find the default system fonts used for Acronis True Image's interface lacking, you can change the fonts here.

Here you'll be prompted to shut down your PC and change any jumpers on the new drive to make it the primary drive (if it's an EIDE/ATA har

Restarting Windows and firing-up Acronis True Image's Disk Clone Wizard again, we can see the results of the cloning process. ...also under D

... and My Computer...

If not for the different drive letters, you wouldn't be able to tell them apart. The Acronis True Image Clone Disk Wizard can get the job done

Summary: Highs: Combining the power of image backups with the flexibility of file-by-file backups in one easy-to-use yet surprisingly powerful backu

You can configure the Default backup options here. Acronis True Image archive files can be password protected.

If there are certain files you wish to exclude from your backups, you can do it here under Source files exclusion. Pre/Post commands allows you to r

Here you can adjust the level of compression Acronis True Image uses when creating backups. The main program window has been renamed Pick a Task, wi

The speed of the backup process and the amount of system resources used, are configured under Backup priority.

Backing up to removable media isn't a problem for Acronis True Image. You can let the program do it automatically... ...or choose from a drop-d

Security settings of backed up and encrypted files are managed here.

When backing up to removable media, you have the option of placing either the full version of Acronis True Image on the media, or a One-Click Restore

up and restore specific files and folders, while being able to recover quickly from hard drive failures or other problems that prevents you from booti

If you change none of the backup options, the one that I would strongly recommend that you check off, is Validate backup archive upon its creation c

You can configure how Acronis True Image restores your backups under Default restoration options. Of note is Files overwriting mode where you can ch

Acronis True Image's online Help, Web Support, and the usual About information which displays, among other things, the software's version

Online documentation for Acronis True Image Home 9.0. Part 2: Acronis True Image 9.0 Home >> Like most software sold these days, the Acro

Data rescue functions may also be accessed through the Button Bar. This button activates the wizard for the Acronis Secure Zone.

This button launches the Startup Recovery Manager, which works in conjunction with Secure Zone.

The wizard launched with this button checks Acronis True Image archive file for errors. You should run this on any archive file created which has no

This launches the Bootable Rescue Media wizard.

Acronis True Image logs each backup and restore operation under Windows.

This brings up online help.

Click Next at the Welcome screen to get started. Enter your Serial Number here.

This takes you to Acronis Support Page on the Internet. Acronis True Image 9.0 Home is completely wizard-driven, providing information and instructi

Bootable recovery CDs aren't worth much without a backup. Let's get one started.

The Create Backup Wizard launches. Acronis True Image Home 9.0 combines the power of image-based backup for quick "bare-metal" disaster

...as well as backups of individual files and folders. Normally, you'd have to purchase two separate backup programs to accomplish the same thi

I'm going to create an image backup of the entire disk on this machine, which will return it to its most recent state in the event of a catastrop

After selecting a target backup device and a name for the backup archive file, you're given a choice of full backups...

...incremental backups...

...or differential backups. What's nice about Acronis True Image is that a description is usually provided for various functions in Plain Engli

If you've set the Default options to your liking as previously shown, you can just click Next here.

...or if you rather set the options manually you can do so.

This screen presents you with a number of installation options, with Typical being fine for most users; Custom if you want to individually select op

If, for example, I decided at the last minute that I wanted to change the priority from Low to High, I can do so with just a few mouse clicks.

If you didn't set "Validate backup archive..." as a default, you can also do it here.

Although it's strictly optional, it's also helpful to write a description of what you're backing up.

Here's a summary of our backup. You can go back to make any changes or click Proceed to kick it off.

And away we go! Acronis True Image can backup open files in the background Backup successful!

Here's the log. One of my favorite improvements to Acronis True Image is the automatic verification of the image backup file as soon as it&apos

Okay, the first thing you should do after getting True Image Home 9.0 installed on your machine, is create a bootable Acronis True Image disc. You c

Interestingly enough, the Rescue Media wizard is called the Acronis Media Builder. But that's OK, just go ahead and click Next.

Leave both of these checked and click Next.

Select your CD or DVD burner here and click Next.

You can click the Back button to make any last-minute changes to your installation choices. If everything is cool, then click Proceed to install the

Make sure you've got a blank 650 or 700MB CD-R or CD-RW disc in your burner and click Proceed. It's thinking... Rescue disc created!

Set your Primary CD or DVD-ROM drive as the first boot device in your BIOS, if it isn't already. Then boot your PC with the Acronis True Image

You'll briefly see this as your PC boots from the rescue disc.

Here's the Acronis Rescue Media main screen. As you can see here, you can launch either the Full or Safe version of Acronis True Image, or go d

The Acronis True Image splash screen is briefly displayed.

And here it is. Not only does it look like the Windows version, but it's just as easy and intuitive to use — compared to other products that us

Whether you have a single hard drive or a pair of fire-breathin' Raptors in a RAID array, the one limitation you'll run into when using imag

Adios!

Select Recovery in Acronis True Image.

The Recovery Wizard launches.

...and we're done. Reboot to complete the installation. I strongly recommend that if you select one of the two last installation options, you

Select the backup image with the folders and/or files you want to recover.

Select Restore specified files or folders.

Select the folders or individual files that you want to restore.

Accept the default restore options or set them manually.

You can adjust these options here as needed if you wish. Otherwise leave the defaults and move on.

Set your overwrite options here, and click Next.

We're ready to proceed. This'll be quick.

All done! Files and folders restored. Mission accomplished! Acronis True Image provides an initial recommendation of the size of the zone based on

Now let's look at the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager and Secure Zone.

The Startup Recovery Manager allows you to boot Acronis True Image directly from your hard drive before Windows loads by pressing the <F11> ke

Acronis True Image's clean, user-friendly interface hasn't changed much from previous versions. After all, why mess with a good thing?

In order for the Startup Recovery Manager to be active on your system, you must set aside some available disk space to install the Secure Zone — a spe

...let's move the slider and make it something more reasonable, like this. Activate the Startup Recovery Manager.

Processing... Here's a summary of the actions that will be performed. If you click Cancel at this point, no changes to your hard drive will b

The Startup Recovery Manager is installed in the MBR (Master Boot Record) and your partition is resized for the Secure Zone on reboot. Secure Zone s

When Windows restarts, open Disk Management. Although you can see the Secure Zone here, it is hidden from normal Windows applications.

The Secure Zone is available to Acronis True Image under Windows, and Acronis True Image bootable rescue media. Here it is in Acronis True Image und

When you perform backups to the Secure Zone, you don't need to assign a name to the archive files.

The next time you reboot your system, this is what you'll see — the Acronis Startup Recovery Manager. Press the <F11> key...

...and the Startup Recovery Manager will launch...

...and load Acronis True Image. This is very handy to have on a laptop, by the way. A heads-up if you're running multiple operating systems an

If you'd rather use the menu bar, you can access Acronis True Image's main functions through Operations.

were periods of slowdowns that ranged from minor to moderate, but the system was more responsive than I expected it to be as Snap Restore chugged away

This launches the Mount Image Wizard.

Select the backup archive file. You should be a natural at this by now!

This is the partition in the archive file that Acronis True Image will assign a logical drive letter to. Click Next to continue.

You can mount the image as read-only or read/write, which allows you to make changes to folders and files within the image. Pretty cool stuff!

Click Next here. Acronis True Image assigns the next available drive letter to the image file and mounts it. Done!

Here it is under My Computer. As you can see, everything is here...

...right down to each individual file. When you're through with the mounted image, just select Unmount Image from Acronis True Image's m

Select the image drive and click Next. Click Proceed to complete the operation...

...and the drive has been unmounted. << Part 2: Acronis True Image 9.0 Home Part 4: Acronis True Image 9.0 Home >> When you are fini

Acronis True Image's appearance can be tweaked to your liking through View.

The Schedule Task Wizard. Once again, you can select either the entire drive or individual folders. Let's select the Files and folders option

Select the folders you want to back up. Here I have the all-important My Documents folder where many applications will automatically store your impo

Enter any files or file-types you want to exclude here.

Choose an existing backup file to append the changes to here — in this case the full backup we just did.

Choose the type of backup and click Next. Since I want to run this backup frequently, either an incremental or differential backup will work here.

You have the option of password protecting your backup here.

Unless you are backing up to a server that requires authentication, you can leave this at the default setting. Otherwise provide your login and pass

Once again, choose either the default backup options or set them manually, if you choose.

Enter a description for the backup (optional but again, always helpful).

Here's where you choose when your backup runs and how it runs. If you just want to get the scheduled job set up, but can't make up your mi