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Acronis True Image


What is Acronis True Image?
	Acronis True Image is an easy to use backup and restores application for home and home office user that can protect family pictures, videos, audio, and important documents stored on your home PC.

Who are the main users Acronis True Image intend to?
	Acronis True Image 9.0 is intended for use at home and in the home office. It is a tool that enables you to protect and recover data on your PC. It's easy-to-use wizards walk you through the steps required to protect and recover your data, including: Creating bootable media which will enable you to start your computer when the operating system becomes unstable and you can't boot your machine Creating and scheduling backup procedure to protect all the information held on your system and backing up specific files and folders, like your My Documents folder or your most recent tax return Recovering your data in case of system crash.

What is full, incremental and differential backup?
	Full backup contain all data at the moment of backup creation. It forms a base for further incremental or differential backup or is used as a standalone archive. A full backup has the shortest restore time as compared to incremental or differential ones. Incremental backup file only contain data changed since the last full or incremental backup creation. it is smaller and takes less time to create. If one full image and several incremental were created, all of these images must be saved in the same folder in order to be able to restore the data. If one of incremental images or full image is deleted, there is no way to restore the set, since all images are dependent on each other. Differential backup creates an independent file, containing all changes against the initial full archive. To restore a differential image, Acronis True Image must match the differential image with the original image.

What storage devices does Acronis True Image 9.0 support for saving images to restoring images from?
	Acronis True Image 9 supports the following storage devices: Hard disk drives Networked storage devices CD-R(W) DVD-RW, DVD+R(W)* ZIP?, Jazz? and other removable media P-ATA (IDE), S-ATA, SCSI, IEEE1394 (Firewire) and USB 1.0 / 2.0 drives, PC card storage devices * — requires third-party DVD packet-writing software to be installed. This software is generally provided with DVD drives when you purchase them

What is a sector-by-sector back up (raw image)?
	The sector-by-sector method allows you to create an image of all sectors of the selected partition. This image will contain not only sectors with data but also sectors that are free. As a result, this image will be equal in size to the disk being imaged, as there is no data compression. This method is useful if a partition being backed up is not supported by Acronis True Image 9.0 or is corrupted. In this case, all sectors of this partition are included in this image and will be restored.

Does Acronis True Image 9.0 support computer hard disks with Linux file systems and Linux operating system?
	Yes, it does. Acronis True Image 9.0 supports the following Linux file systems: Ext2, Ext3, ReiserFS, Reiser4, and Linux Swap. Acronis True Image 9.0 also works with any other unknown file system in special sector-by-sector mode. If the software cannot identify the file system, it simply creates an exact image of every sector on the disk. The standalone version of Acronis True Image 9.0 can be run from a bootable media on any PC (x86 compatible), independent of the operating system installed.

Is Acronis True Image 9.0 compatible with Norton GoBack?
	Acronis True Image 9.0 is compatible with Norton GoBack, but for specific Acronis True Image functions you will need to disable Norton GoBack: If you use the standalone version of Acronis True Image 9.0. If you want to restore an image archive. If you want to manage (create, resize or delete) Acronis Secure Zone. Please note that after restoring an image archive the history of Norton GoBack stored on the target hard drive is automatically lost

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