How to Use Acronis to Backup & Restore From an External USB Drive
When you store your digital pictures, music and video on your computer, you can easily share them with friends and family through email or upload them to sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. However, hard drives eventually fail, and you can lose all of your data if you don't have it backed up. Acronis True Image lets you do full system images or file backups to a network location, another internal hard drive, CDs or DVDs, and external USB drives.
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Instructions
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Backup
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Connect the USB drive you want to use for your backup. The drive should be at least 75 percent as large as the hard drive you are backing up to ensure that the compressed backup image file fits on the drive.
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Open Acronis True Image and click "Back Up." Click "Disk and Partition Backup" to backup an entire drive or partition.
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Click the check box next to the drive you want to backup. This is normally your "C:" drive, though you can backup multiple drives or partitions to one backup.
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Click the "Down" arrow next to Destination and click "Browse." Click the USB drive that you want to store your backup image on. Click "OK."
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Enter a name for the backup file in the "Backup Name" text box. If you intend to store multiple backups of your system, include the date of the backup in the file name. Click "Back Up Now."
Restore
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Connect the USB drive with your backup image. Open Acronis True Image.
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Click "Recover Last Version" to restore your most recent backup. Click "Explore and Recover."
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Click the check boxes next to the drives that you want to restore. Click "Recover Now."
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Tips & Warnings
Create an emergency boot disk to start Acronis from a CD or DVD and restore a backup if your system drive won't boot or you are transferring your system to a new hard drive. Click "Tools and Utilities," then "Bootable Rescue Media Builder." Select "Acronis True Image Home 2011 (Full Version)" to provide support for your external USB drive. You can also boot into Acronis from your installation disk.
