Acronis True Image 2017 NG - Manual (Page 2)

2 Copyright © Acronis International GmbH, 2002-2017
Table of contents
1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................4
1.1 What is Acronis® True Image™? ................................................................................................ 4
1.2 New in this version .................................................................................................................... 4
1.3 System requirements ................................................................................................................. 5
1.4 Install, update or remove Acronis True Image 2017 ................................................................. 6
1.5 Trial version information ........................................................................................................... 7
1.6 Acronis Customer Experience Program ..................................................................................... 7
1.7 Sending feedback to Acronis ..................................................................................................... 8
1.8 Technical Support ...................................................................................................................... 9
2 Backup .......................................................................................................................... 10
2.1 Basic concepts ..........................................................................................................................10
2.2 What you can and cannot back up ..........................................................................................11
2.3 Backing up to local or network storage ...................................................................................12
2.4 Backing up to Acronis Cloud ....................................................................................................13
2.5 Notarized backup .....................................................................................................................14
2.5.1 Using Blockchain technology ........................................................................................................................ 15
2.5.2 Verifying file authenticity .............................................................................................................................. 16
2.5.3 Manual verification of a file's authenticity .................................................................................................. 17
2.6 Backing up mobile devices .......................................................................................................17
2.6.1 Acronis True Image for mobile devices ....................................................................................................... 18
2.6.2 Local destination of mobile backups ........................................................................................................... 19
2.7 Scheduling ................................................................................................................................19
2.8 Backup encryption ...................................................................................................................20
2.9 Backup retention rules.............................................................................................................21
2.10 Excluding items from backups .................................................................................................21
2.11 Network settings for backup ...................................................................................................23
2.12 What is Acronis Cloud? ............................................................................................................24
2.12.1 Creating an Acronis account ......................................................................................................................... 25
2.12.2 Subscription to Acronis Cloud ...................................................................................................................... 25
2.13 Parallels Desktop support ........................................................................................................26
2.14 Backup list icons .......................................................................................................................27
2.15 Sorting backups in the list ........................................................................................................28
3 Creating bootable rescue media ..................................................................................... 30
4 Recovery ....................................................................................................................... 31
4.1 When do I recover my Mac? ....................................................................................................31
4.2 Recovering your Mac ...............................................................................................................31
4.2.1 FAQ about Boot Camp partition................................................................................................................... 33
4.3 Recovering files from local backups ........................................................................................33
4.4 Recovering files from Acronis Cloud ........................................................................................34