Acronis True Image Boot Disk

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No.
You don't need the Secure Zone UNLESS you are using the same HD to store
your system AND the image backups.
 
Just purchased ATI 11 Home but cannot find how to backup files to CD RWs..
No index in the user guide!
Any offer to steer please?
Thanks,brett
 
brett said:
Just purchased ATI 11 Home but cannot find how to backup files to CD RWs..
No index in the user guide!
Any offer to steer please?
Thanks,brett
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On the menu or screen (call it what you want) there is 'backup'.
Backup inplies files and folders, or drive, or partitions.

You'll get another choice after you pick backup.
 
breett - the option to back up to "removeable media (DVD/CD)" is available
at the point you are asked to indicate a target for the back up - simply
select your CD RW drive.
 
After selecting Backup and following it through, there is no sign anywhere
of any option to backup to "removable media" (ATI 11Home) ! Nor is there
visible an option for indicating a target for the backup ! Maybe my version
of ATI is missing something. It came from the Acronis CD Boxed and sealed.
Grateful for suggestions- it's driving me mental.
brett
 
brett - I have used several backup utilites and consider Acronis the best -
I use bothe version 10 and 11.

Proceedure is as follows:
1. Backup and Restore
2. Backup
My Computer
Disk and Partitions 3. Partition Selection
Disk 1
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4. Source Files Exclusion (No options here)
5 Backup Archive Location
This is where you select removeable drive (CD)
5. Right Panel
Scroll - select CD-RW drive
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6. Drive will be listed in "File Name" box give sit a name and "Next"
will be viable.
 
At 5, I think it's the left panel. Brett, it looks just like the Windows
Explorer window. Scroll down to My Computer, click on the + sign, and it
should show you your drives.

Hope this helps!

Jo-Anne
 
Hi AJR and Jo-Ann,
I followed AJR's plot but got to CD-RW drive D a different way but like your
5 Jo-Ann. However the "next" was greyed out stopping me from getting the
CD-RW drive from working. A check of this drive shows it is "working OK" .
The Drive is NEC DVD+RW - ND3450A which came with the desktop Dell. I shall
have to check with Dell or NEc to see what next to investigate.
Brett
 
You have to create a filename at the drive (on the blank line labeled File
Name near the bottom of the Acronis screen) before you can proceed. For the
best information on starting out with this program, download the pdf by
Grover Hatcher, who is on the Acronis support forum:

http://www.wilderssecurity.com/supportfiles/gh-acronis-backup1.pdf

It was a lifesaver for me. He includes screenprints, so you can see what to
do.

Jo-Anne
 
And I can assure you, once you master the procedure you will never look
back! Watch out though, the 'progress' display doesn't kick in until some
minutes after the backup begins, so yo may at first think nothing is
happening. In my case, the outboard disk I image onto has a blinking light
but my own laptop's disk light does not turn on I surmise because the
reading is done in rapid 'bites' (no pun intended) or perhaps the disk
activity light only lights up on a write - not a read?

Having said that, I invested in Acronis (and the external drive) having had
a four-five week tussle reinstalling all my apps and settings after a virus
infection. Now I always take an image before any major download. I have had
to step back twice, and each time it has gone perfectly.
 
brett said:
Just purchased ATI 11 Home but cannot find how to backup files to CD
RWs.. No index in the user guide!
Any offer to steer please?
Thanks,brett
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Do you really mean CD, not DVD? CDs hold about 650Mby.
It would take a dozen of them merely to back up My Documents
on my machine, and around 60 to back up my whole C: partition
uncompressed. TI's compression would help. Some.
Even DVDs involve a management problem: my last compressed
backup would use seven. What I actually use is a removable,
via USB2.0, drive, which can easily hold several generations of
C: backups.
 
Jo-Anne - Big differesnce between Left and Right - Thanks for pointing that
out. - and will emphasize to brett - you must provide a file name to have
access to "Next"./
 
Brett, why not consider backing up your system to another HD, like an
external enclosure HD, which is a lot better approach?

CD R/Ws can be problematic, and are very limited in capacity and speed
(compared to using another HD, for example).
 
Jo Anne, the Wilder pdf looks great, printed it off to read in slow time.
Having bought Acronis I plan to give try and give it a good run before
relegating it to the shelf.
Thanks for advice, I wonder if Acronis have built it into their wish list
.....
brett
 
brett said:
Jo Anne, the Wilder pdf looks great, printed it off to read in slow time.
Having bought Acronis I plan to give try and give it a good run before
relegating it to the shelf.
Thanks for advice, I wonder if Acronis have built it into their wish list
....
brett
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The Acronis User Guide has 16 Chapter Headings which have sub-headings.
Perhaps surprisingly, Chapter 5 of TrueImage11_ug.en.pdf , entitled:

Chapter 5. Creating backup archives (with the following sub-headings)
5.1 What data to back up?
5.2 The backup procedure ***
5.3 Setting backup options

[has answers to your backup procedure questions.]

*** "5.2 The backup procedure
5.2.1 My Computer backup
Create a backup image of any set of your computer’s hard disks and
partitions or back up the system state.
1. Invoke the Create Backup Wizard by selecting Operations -> Backup in
the main program menu, and then select My Computer."

5.2.5 Selecting the backup destination
Select the destination location for the backup. If your choice is other
than Acronis Secure Zone or a backup location, specify the archive name.
If you are going to create a new archive (i.e. perform a full backup),
enter the new file name in the Folder line, or use the file name
generator (a button to the right of the line)."

I quoted these parts of the Acronis User Guide to demonstrate that
reading the User Guide can be quite useful in learning how to solve
perplexing problems. Also if the information content of the Chapter
Headings seems too disorganized, one can do a search/find for keywords,
such as "backup" which will locate the word in the .pdf document, and
this works a great deal like an average quality level index.

I wonder why Microsoft doesn't publish a User Guide full of pictures
like that Hatcher pdf? Surely they have enough money for documentation.
Software companies must not have heard a picture is worth a 1000 words.
 
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away Microsoft did print such
documentation, but the dark forces of evil financial droids said "Hey we can
make more money if ....".

JS

Stephen Harris said:
brett said:
Jo Anne, the Wilder pdf looks great, printed it off to read in slow
time. Having bought Acronis I plan to give try and give it a good run
before relegating it to the shelf.
Thanks for advice, I wonder if Acronis have built it into their wish list
....
brett
Click to expand...

The Acronis User Guide has 16 Chapter Headings which have sub-headings.
Perhaps surprisingly, Chapter 5 of TrueImage11_ug.en.pdf , entitled:

Chapter 5. Creating backup archives (with the following sub-headings)
5.1 What data to back up?
5.2 The backup procedure ***
5.3 Setting backup options

[has answers to your backup procedure questions.]

*** "5.2 The backup procedure
5.2.1 My Computer backup
Create a backup image of any set of your computer’s hard disks and
partitions or back up the system state.
1. Invoke the Create Backup Wizard by selecting Operations -> Backup in
the main program menu, and then select My Computer."

5.2.5 Selecting the backup destination
Select the destination location for the backup. If your choice is other
than Acronis Secure Zone or a backup location, specify the archive name.
If you are going to create a new archive (i.e. perform a full backup),
enter the new file name in the Folder line, or use the file name generator
(a button to the right of the line)."

I quoted these parts of the Acronis User Guide to demonstrate that
reading the User Guide can be quite useful in learning how to solve
perplexing problems. Also if the information content of the Chapter
Headings seems too disorganized, one can do a search/find for keywords,
such as "backup" which will locate the word in the .pdf document, and this
works a great deal like an average quality level index.

I wonder why Microsoft doesn't publish a User Guide full of pictures
like that Hatcher pdf? Surely they have enough money for documentation.
Software companies must not have heard a picture is worth a 1000 words.
Click to expand...
 
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