Acronis Server Cloud Backup - User Guide - Manual (Page 7)

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In any event, some functions are available to you without Internet (offline mode).
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All the program functions that can be run from the Windows Start menu are available in the
offline mode. For example, you can create a bootable rescue media and mount images.
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If you have scheduled backups, the new versions of the backups will be created according to the
schedule even in the offline mode.
Compatibility with Acronis Backup & Recovery
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Acronis Small Office Backup can be upgraded to Acronis Backup & Recovery.
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Users of Acronis Backup & Recovery can recover data from disk and partition backups created
with Acronis Small Office Backup.
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If you upgrade your Small Office Backup to Acronis Backup & Recovery, you will not have to
recreate your backups from scratch. All you need to continue your existing backups is to
reconfigure the corresponding backup settings.
1.1.2 Acronis Small Office Backup basic concepts
This section provides general information about basic concepts which could be useful for
understanding how the program works.
Backup and recovery
Backup refers to the making copies of data so that these additional copies may be used to recover
the original after a data loss event.
Backups are useful primarily for two purposes. The first is to restore a state following a disaster
(called disaster recovery). The second is to recover small numbers of files after they have been
accidentally deleted or corrupted.
Acronis Small Office Backup does both by creating disk (or partition) images.
Backup versions
Backup versions are the file or files created during each backup operation. If you do not use
consolidation feature, the amount of versions created is always equal to the amount of times the
backup is executed or to the amount of stored points in time.
So, a version represents a point in time to which the system or data can be restored. To put it
another way, backup versions represent full, incremental and differential backups - see Full,
incremental and differential backups (p. 28).
The backup versions are similar to file versions. This feature allows you to restore a file as it existed
on a particular date and time. A backup version allows you to recover your data in a similar way.
This could be useful when trying to find damaged or deleted files. Simply browse through the backup
versions in the Acronis Backup Explorer until you find the backup version containing the required
files. Additionally, you can recover different saved versions of the found files.
There is one more type of incremental backup version. If you mount a partition in the read-write
mode, the program assumes that the mounted image will be modified and creates an incremental
version to capture the changes. This type of incremental version has somewhat different properties.
For example, it cannot be consolidated.