Category: ACRONIS

Acronis Backup & Recovery

  • Disk backup advanced options settings Acronis true backup 2020.

    Disk backup advanced options settings Acronis true backup 2020.

    Backup Advanced Options, so Acronis disk backup options and then select the advanced option.

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    Image Creation mode.

    Image Backup sector by sector

    Back up unallocated space

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    Backup Advanced Options Settings Acronis

    Advanced Backup protection

    By default, there is no password protection for backups, to protect your backup, so type a password and confirm a password for the backup protection.

    Advanced AES 128 – to use the 128-bit encryption key
    AES 192 – to use the 192-bit encryption key
    AES 256 – to use the 256-bit encryption key

    If you are doing not want to encrypt the backup and only want to guard a backup with a password then select None.

    acronis backup advanced options protection

    Pre/Post commands.

    This option isn’t available for the backups that use Acronis Cloud as a backup destination. so use custom commands checkbox.

    Pre-command field, Select the Edit button to make a replacement command or select a replacement batch file.
    Post-command field, Select the Edit button to make a replacement command or select a replacement batch file.

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    Backup splitting

    This option isn’t available for the backups that use Acronis Cloud as a backup destination.
    Automatic is the default setting.

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    Backup validation option

    This option isn’t available for the backups that use Acronis Cloud as a backup destination.

    Validate backup when it is created

    Validate backup regularly

    Click Once a month

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    Set the backup scheduler.

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    Removable media settings

    When backing up to removable media, you’ll make this media bootable by writing additional components thereto.
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    Acronis System Report on media
    Place Acronis True Image (64bit) on media
    Place Acronis System Report (64bit) on media
    Ask for 1st media though creating backups on removable media

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    Error handling

    Do not show messages and dialogs despite prepare (silent mode)
    Ignore bad sectors
    Repeat attempt if a backup

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    Computer shutdown

    Stop all current operations once I pack up the pc
    Shut down the pc after the backup is complete

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    Performance.

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    For more details click Acronis Backup Advanced Settings.

    Backup Email Notifications Acronis True Image 2020

  • How to exclude a file or folder from a backup Acronis True Image 2020

    How to exclude a file or folder from a backup Acronis True Image 2020

    Exclude File or Folder from backup

    You can exclude File or Folder from a backup to save lots of space on your backup disk.

    To exclude files from a backup.

    1- Selecting the Exclusions options, select exclude Files matching the following criteria checkbox.

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    2- Select the + sign.

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    Exclude a folder

    3- 1st If you would like to exclude a selected file, type file name, including path, manually. for instance C:\Patch\

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    4- 2nd you can select the… sign option.

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    5- Select the folder you want to exclude and then click ok.

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    6- Now the folder is Excluded.

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    For more details Excluding items from backup

    Backup Email Notifications Acronis True Image 2020

  • How to setup backup email notifications Acronis True Image 2020.

    How to setup backup email notifications Acronis True Image 2020.

    Backup Email Notifications

    To set up e-mail notifications for a backup plan, so under the Backup and Select Options tab and then choose Notifications.

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    Select the Send e-mail notifications about the operation state and then click on show simple settings.
    Type your email address in the To and From field.
    Under server, settings type the SMTP address.
    Acronic Select TLS under encryption options and then set the port of the outgoing mail server.
    Select the SMTP authentication checkbox, and then enter the user name and password.
    Select additional notification settings.

    Click Additional notification setting

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    You can set up for which events you want to receive notifications, so select or clear respective checkboxes.

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    For more details visit Acronis Backup Email Notification

    Acronis True Image 2020 Backup Scheme Settings

  • Acronis True Image 2020 Backup Scheme Settings.

    Acronis True Image 2020 Backup Scheme Settings.

    A backup scheme alongside the scheduler assists you found out your backup strategy. The schemes allow you to optimize backup space for storing usage. Improve data storage reliability, and automatically delete the obsolete backup versions.

    Under Back up, select the Options tab and then choose the scheme options

    acronis backup scheme

    Single version scheme – The program creates a full backup version and overwrites it whenever consistent with the require schedule or once you run the backup manually. during this process, the old version will delete only after a replacement version is made.

    Version chain sche-me – the program creates a sequence of full and differential backup versions and deletes versions older than 6 months.

    Incremental – select to make a full version after every five incremental versions. this is often the default scheme.

    Differential – A differential backup version stores the changes that have occurred since the last full version.

    Custom – select to line up a scheme manually.

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  • How to set backup schedule Acronis True Image 2020.

    How to set backup schedule Acronis True Image 2020.

    Backup Schedule Acronis under Backup. Select the Options tab and select the Schedule tab that will allow you to specify the backup and validation schedule settings.

    Backup Schedule Acronis

    Open Acronis backup and then select the schedule

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    Daily – Every the operation starts once or twice a day (for example, every 1 hour, 2 hours) Once a day select hours and minutes manually, Twice a day select the time when you want to start back up.

    Weekly – Select the days on which you want to start the weekly backup job, set the operations to start time, select hours and minutes.

    Monthly – Select the days of the month on which you want to start the monthly backup job, set the operations to start time, select hours and minutes.

    Upon Event – the backup job will start, when an external device is connect, User login, User logoff, System shutdown or restart, System startup with delay (in minutes).

    Nonstop – Data changes are backed up automatically, with the shortest interval of five minutes. For more details Click here Nonstop Backup

    Do not schedule – The Backup Schedule Acronis, the scheduler will be turned off for the current operation. The backup will run when you click Back up now.

    Advanced settings

    Backup only when the computer is lock or screensaver is running
    Wake up the sleeping/hibernating computer
    Prevent the computer from going to sleep/hibernate
    Run missed operations at the system startup with suspension (in minutes)

    For more details click Acronis True Image 2020 Scheduling

    Acronis True Image 2020 Backup Scheme Settings.

  • How to Restore Entire Computer from Backup Acronis True Image 2020

    How to Restore Entire Computer from Backup Acronis True Image 2020

    In this blog, I am going to restore the Entire computer backups. Acronis True Image must be installed on the Windows computer in order to perform recovery under Windows.

    How to restore Windows PC in Acronis True Image 2020.

    Restore Entire computer from the backup

    1- Start Acronis True Image 2020 and then click the Backup option.

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    2- Under the backup option, so select the down arrow option and then select Add existing backup.

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    3- Browse your network location path, select your Acronis backup the one you want to restore and then click the add button.

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    4- Under Recovery, Select recovery options to set the options for the backup, including Schedule, Backup scheme, Notification, Exclusions and Advanced and then click the Recovery now button.

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    5- Computer restart is require to complete the recovery process and click the Restart button.

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    6- Acronis True Image recovering operation is in progress.

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    7- Successfully restored.

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    For more details click here

    Restore entire computer using Bootable Media, How to create a bootable media Create Acronis 2020 Bootable Media

    Restore Entire Computer from backup using Acronis Bootable Media

    Attach the external drive if it contains the backup to be used for recovery and make sure that the drive is powered on or if your backup is on a network shared drive then connect a network cable. First, you need to change the boot order in computer BIOS so as to make your rescue media device (CD, DVD or USB flash drive).

    1- Boot from the rescue media. Wait while the bootable environment is loading.

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    2- Welcome to Acronis True Image 2020, so Select Recovery option.

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    3- Select Disk Recovery (Recover your entire computer from the backup.

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    4- Then select the Browse button.

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    5- Browse your Acronis backup, Select your backup to be used for recovery and then click on ok.

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    6- Select an Acronis backup from which you want to restore and click on the Next button.

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    7- Under the recovery method, select Recover whole disks and partitions and click on next.

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    8- Recovery your system to a previous point in time, select a Recovery Point and click next.

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    9- On what to recover screen locate the system disk and mark the checkbox and click next.

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    10- Acronis True Image analyzing destination partition Where we need to restore.

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    11- Select a destination of Disk 1 and click next.

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    12- Deletion of all the partitions on the destination hard disk drive click ok.

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    13- Read the summary of the operations and click the Proceed to start recovery.

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    14- Acronis recovery operation in progress.

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    15- Acronis True Image successfully recovered, click ok. Remove the rescue bootable media and boot from the recovered system partition. After ensuring that you simply have recovered Windows to the state you would like, restore the first boot order.

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    for more details on how to recover the entire computer

  • How to Backup Entire Computer Acronis True Image 2020.

    How to Backup Entire Computer Acronis True Image 2020.

    In this blog, I would like to make a backup entire computer backup job Acronis True Image 2020. once we take the entire Windows backup, Acronis True Image backs up all our internal hard drives, including OS, installed programs, system settings, and every one our personal data, photos, music, and documents.

    Backup the Entire Windows 10 PC

    1- Open Acronis True Image 2020, so select the Backup option, Type a backup name and then click source type.

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    2- Select the Entire PC (Backup of your operating system, applications, and data).

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    3- Select a destination option.

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    4- Now you can select a destination for the backup, To Acronis Cloud, Your External drive. Acronis True Image also detects NAS in the network and displays it in the list of available destinations, If you want to take backup to network shared folder, then select Browse.

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    5- Select your network shared folder where you want to save backup and then click ok.

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    6- Select the Options tab to set the options for the backup, including Schedule, Backup scheme, Notification, Exclusions, and Advanced.

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    7- Here you can set a Schedule for backup or select the Do not schedule option so if you want to run the backup task manually using the Backup now button.

    acronis 2020 backup schedule

    8- Here you can select a Backup scheme.

    acronis 2020 backup scheme

    9- Select email notification, free disk space warning and etc.

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    10- Exclusions option.

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    11- Set the Advanced options.

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    12- Select the Back up now button, or select the down arrow button to select another start time option.

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    13- Backup entire computer Acronis job is in progress.

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    14- Acronis true image 2020. The entire computer backup job successfully completed.

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    For more details please visit the Acronis website Full PC backup.

    How to install Acronis True Image 2020

    How to restore an Entier Computer in Acronis True Image 2020

    Backup Entire Computer with Acronis True Image 2020 Bootable Media

    How to Create a Bootable Media

    Backup Entire Computer Bootable Media

    Attach the drive if it contains the backup to be used for recovery. Confirm that the drive is powered on.

    First, you need to change the boot order in computer BIOS.

    So as to make your rescue media device (CD, DVD or USB flash drive).

    1- Boot from the Acronis bootable media and then press any key to boot from CD or DVD.

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    2- Welcome to Acronis True Image 2020, On the Home screen, then select back up.

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    3- Select Disk and Partition Backup

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    4- Select partitions to backup and click on Next.

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    5- Select create a new backup archive and click the browse button.

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    6- Select the location where you want to save the backup, click the Generate name button to generate a name and then click on ok.

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    7- After selecting the backup location then click on next.

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    8- Read the summary of operations and then click the Proceed button to start the backup operation.

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    9- Acronis backup operation in progress.

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    10- Acronis True Image Backup operation succeeded so click on ok.

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  • How to install Acronis True Image 2020.

    How to install Acronis True Image 2020.

    Install Acronis True Image 2020 is an integrated software suite that ensures the safety of all of the knowledge on your PC. It can copy your documents, photos, email, and selected partitions, and even the whole disc drive, including OS, applications, settings, and every one of your data.

    Download Acronis Image 2020.

    Acronis 2020 System Requirments

    Install Acronis with an Administrator account.

    You can’t change the installation location path, During the installation of Acronis True Image on Windows disk drive.


    1- After downloading, so, double click on AcronisTruImage 2020 exe file to run the setup.

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    2- Acronis 2020 setup wizard, so click the Install button.

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    3- Acronis 2020 installation is in progress.

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    4- Acronis Installation completed successfully.

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    For more details, click here How to install Acronis True Image 2020

    Read more: How to Create an Acronis Survival Kit for Acronis 2020.

    Backup Entire Computer Acronis 2020

  • Installing Acronis Disk Director 12.

    Installing Acronis Disk Director 12.

    Using Acronis Disk Director, We can create basic & dynamic volumes, Also we can Move, Resize, Split, Copy & merge volumes without any data loss, We can assign volume and label letters, format and set volumes active.

    Minimum Requirements Recommended

    Computer processor 800 MHz or faster 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
    System memory 256 MB 512 MB or more
    Screen resolution 800600 pixels 1024768 pixels or higher
    Installation disk space 150 MB
    Another hardware mouse, CD/DVD recording drive, or a flash disk for bootable media creation

    Supported operating systems

    Windows XP/Vista/7/Windows8/Windows10
    Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016

    Download Acronis Disk Director 12, Click Here

    Install Acronis Disk Director

    1- Run the Acronis Disk Director 12 installation file and then click Install Acronis Disk Director 12.

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    2- So, click on Next.

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    3-  Select I accept this agreement and then click Next.

    acronis disk director license agreement

    4- Select Yes, I want to participate in the Acronis Customer Experience Program (ACEP) and then click on next.

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    5- Enter the license key and then click Next.

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    6- Enter the license key and then click Next.

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    7- Click Next.

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    8- Select install for all users that share this machine and then click Next.

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    9- Review the installation information and then click Proceed to start the installation.

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    10- Acronis disk directory installation completed, so click Close.

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    Resizing a volume in the Acronis disk directory.

    1- Double click on Acronis Disk Directory to open.

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    2- Select the volume that you want to resize, and then click Resize volume.

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    3- Specify the new size of the volume, by typing it or by moving the slider and then click ok.

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    4- Click Commit pending operations.

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    5- Review the volume details and then click continue.

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    6- Click ok to add the pending volume resizing operation.

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    7- After restarting.

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    8- After Restarting.

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    How to Create a volume in Acronis Disk Director.

    1- Open Acronis Disk Director > Select unallocated space and click Create volume.

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    2- Click Next.

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    3- Select the unallocated volume, Maximum volume size and click next.

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    4- Click Finish.

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    5- Click Commit pending operations.

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    6- Review the newly created volume details and click continue.

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    7- Volume Created Successfully.

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    Merging basic volumes using Acronis disk director.

    1- Select the volume that you need to be merged and click Merge volume.

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    2- Select another volume you need to merge Select main volume and click ok.

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    3- Select Commit pending volume.

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    4- Click continues.

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    5- Click OK.

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    6- After Merge Volume.

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    Read more: Acronis Disk Director: Comprehensive Guide.

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  • How to Restore Backup Image Physical Server Acronis 11.5 Bootable

    How to Restore Backup Image Physical Server Acronis 11.5 Bootable

    In this guide, I am going to restore the Acronis backup image to the physical server using Acronis backup & recovery 11.5 bootable disk.

    Restore Acronis Backup Image to Physical Server Bootable Disk

    1- Boot the target machine with Acronis bootable media and then choose system boot from CD/DVD.

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    2- So, select the Acronis backup & recovery 11.5.

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    3- Now select Recover.

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    4- Acronis recovery data, under what to recover and then select required.

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    5- Acronis data to recovery selection, so select Browse.

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    6- Select a backup archive that contains data you want to restore .tib file desired to be restored and then click ok.

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    7- After selecting the backup location, go to the Archive view tab, and select the backup archive that you want to restore. In the Backup contents, section selects the partitions or disks that you want to recover and then click ok.

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    8- Under where to recover, so select clear all.

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    9- Under where to recover select required.

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    10- Select a target partition for the restore and then click ok.

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    11- Under where to recover, select Properties.

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    12- Specify the hard disk size and you can change the partition size as you want and click ok.

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    13- Under Task, select recovery options.

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    14- Acronis recovery data, addition settings, click ok and review the details and click OK to start the operation.

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    15- Acronis backup and recovery Disk volume recovery started.

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    16- Recovery disk/volume completed successfully, click close.

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    17- Remove Acronis bootable disk from CD/DVD drive and restart the workstation after restarted windows server running.

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  • Server Backup Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Bootable Disk

    Server Backup Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5 Bootable Disk

    In this blog, I will explain how to take Windows server backup using Acronis backup and recovery 11.5 bootable disk.

    First, we need to create a Bootable Disk with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5. How to build an Acronis Bootable Media.

    Windows Server Backup Acronis 11.5 Bootable Media

    1- Insert Acronis bootable disk into your CD/DVD drive and then the PC boot choice to CD/DVD after booting and select Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5.

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    2- So select Back up now.

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    3- Under what to back up and select Required.

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    4- Select Data to back up Disks/volumes select disk 1 C drive and then click ok.

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    5- Under Where to Back up then select Required.

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    6- Backup archive location you can save it to an external drive or network drive, then type backup name and click on ok.

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    7- Under how to backup you can select the backup type (Full, Incremental, Differential) and here you can schedule the backup job, Under parameters, you can also select a backup option and then click ok.

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    8- Windows Server Backup Acronis bootable media Running Backup process.

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    9- Acronis backup completed successfully and then click on close.

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  • Creating Bootable Media with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5.

    Creating Bootable Media with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5.

    You can restore the system without any operating system installed with an Acronis image after creating bootable media with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5. Acronis Bootable Media of any Acronis backup product is a one-of-a-kind recuperation surrounding for restoring images. Additionally, it permits you to create images, clone difficult disk drives, partition new challenging disk drives besides having to boot into Windows.

    Steps to Creating Bootable Media Acronis 11.5

    1- Open Acronis Backup and Recovery application then from the most menu, so click Tools and choose to Create bootable media.

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    2- Welcome to Acronis media builder so click next.

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    3- Acronis license to use and then click on Next.

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    4- Select the way the disks and volume will be represented and then click next.

    acronis bootable media type

    5- Linux kernel parameters, click next.

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    6- Select Acronis Backup & Recovery components to place on the bootable media and click Next.

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    7- Acronis bootable media builder, click next.

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    8- Select the Acronis media output ISO Image and click on next.

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    9- Select the destination where you want to save the Acronis bootable ISO file and click next.

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    10- You do not have to add the drivers now. You can do this later when you apply Acronis Universal Restore to a machine, click next.

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    11- Review the bootable media builder details and click Proceed to start the process.

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    12- Acronis Bootable media successfully created, click ok.

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    For more details click Create Bootable Media

    How to Backup Entire Computer Acronis Bootable Media