Acronis Server Cloud Backup - User Guide - Manual (Page 115)

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6 Useful information
In this section
Protecting your system .......................................................................... 115
Deciding where to store your backups .................................................. 116
Making sure that your rescue media can be used when needed .......... 118
Testing that your backups can be used for recovery ............................. 123
Migrating your system from an HDD to an SSD ..................................... 123
Scheduling .............................................................................................. 128
Choosing columns for viewing in wizards .............................................. 130
Backup information ................................................................................ 130
Timeout settings .................................................................................... 131
6.1 Protecting your system
To protect your system, please take the necessary precautionary measures:
1) To protect your system from a disaster, you need to make a full backup of your system. We
strongly advice you to create a system backup as soon as possible.
2) Whenever possible, you should store your system backup on a hard drive other than your primary
disk C:, preferably on an external one. This gives an additional guarantee that you will be able to
recover your system if your primary hard disk drive fails.
3) Because recovery of your system after a failure in most cases will be done after booting from the
rescue media, you must create the rescue media (see Creating bootable rescue media (p. 93)) and
then test it as described in Making sure that your rescue media can be used when needed (p. 118).
4) It is recommended to scan your system partition for viruses before backing it up.
Backing up your system partition
If you want to use your external drive for storing the backup, attach and power it on before starting Acronis
Small Office Backup.
1. Start Acronis Small Office Backup, and then click Disk and partition backup.