Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 4
CHAPTER 1. INSTALLING ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE AND GETTING STARTED .6
1.1 ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE SYSTEM PACKAGE ...................................... 6
1.2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ................................................................. 6
1.3 INSTALLATION................................................................................. 6
1.4 REPAIRING/UPGRADING ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE.............................. 7
1.5 REMOVING THE SOFTWARE............................................................. 7
1.6 USER INTERFACE ............................................................................. 7
1.7 STARTING WORK WITH ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE ............................... 8
CHAPTER 2. CREATING DISK/PARTITION IMAGES........................................ 9
2.1 SELECTING PARTITIONS TO IMAGE ............................................... 10
2.2 IMAGE ARCHIVE LOCATION .......................................................... 11
2.3 COMPRESSION LEVEL.................................................................... 13
2.4 IMAGE ARCHIVE SPLITTING .......................................................... 14
2.5 PROTECTING AN ARCHIVE FILE WITH A PASSWORD ..................... 15
2.6 IMAGE ARCHIVE COMMENTS ........................................................ 16
2.7 AN ARCHIVE FILE CREATION SCRIPT............................................ 17
CHAPTER 3. RESTORING A DISK/PARTITION FROM AN IMAGE .................. 18
3.1 SELECTING AN ARCHIVE FILE ....................................................... 19
3.2 SELECTING A PARTITION TO BE RESTORED .................................. 21
3.3 SELECTING A DESTINATION PARTITION ........................................ 22
3.4 SELECTING THE RESTORED PARTITION TYPE AND FILE SYSTEM .23
3.5 RESIZING A PARTITION.................................................................. 25
3.6 SELECTING A PARTITION LETTER.................................................. 26
3.7 SELECTING THE NEXT PARTITION TO BE RESTORED .................... 27
3.8 PARTITION RESTORATION SCRIPT WINDOW ................................. 28
3.9 PARTITION RESTORATION PECULIARITIES .................................... 29
3.10 PECULIARITIES OF RESTORATION FROM REMOVABLE MEDIA...... 30
CHAPTER 4. RESTORING INDIVIDUAL FILES................................................ 31
APPENDIX A. PARTITIONS AND FILE SYSTEMS.............................................. 36
A.1 HARD DISK PARTITIONS................................................................ 36
A.2 FILE SYSTEMS................................................................................ 36
A.2.1 FAT16......................................................................................................37
A.2.2 FAT32......................................................................................................37
A.2.3 NTFS........................................................................................................38
A.2.4 LINUX EXT2 .............................................................................................38
A.2.5 LINUX EXT3 .............................................................................................38
A.2.6 LINUX REISERFS ......................................................................................38
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