You will be able to run Acronis True Image Home 2011 from the removable media on a bare-metal system or a crashed computer that cannot boot. In other words, a bootable recovery environment, a standalone Acronis True Image Home 2011 version and the backed up data, will be written to the removable media. If you choose a removable media as the backup destination (for instance, an USB hard drive), it will be made bootable by default. To do this, select the appropriate backup on the main screen and then click Edit backup settings in the Operations menu.

For information on the default content of that data see What personal data is protected by One-click Backup.Īfter the selected items are backed up, you can change the default settings for My computer backup and personal data backup. The program also lets you enable continuous protection of your personal data.

You may need to recover that partition if your system crashes. In case of Windows 7 the program will also back up the System Reserved partition. After completing a new full backup, the program will delete the old one to save disk space.

You can choose another destination for backups by clicking the down arrow to the right of the destination and browsing for a destination you prefer.īy default, Acronis True Image Home 2011 will schedule subsequent full backups of the system partition once a month. When you choose to protect your critical data, the program will offer to back up the system partition and your personal data to a destination it considers the optimum place for backups (see the destination selection algorithm below). Once One-Click Backup is set up (this takes just a few moments), one click provides full-time protection. The Acronis One-Click Backup tool allows you to begin protecting your critical data as soon as you install Acronis True Image Home 2011.

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