Acronis True Image 2015 - User Guide - Manual (Page 36)

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If you do not have an Acronis account, click Create account, type your email address,
password, and then click the Create account button. Refer to Subscription information (p.
20) for details.
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Your external drive—When an external drive is plugged into your computer, you can select it
from the list.
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Browse—Select a destination from the folder tree.
If possible, avoid storing your system partition backups on dynamic disks, because the system partition is
recovered in the Linux environment. Linux and Windows work with dynamic disks differently. This may
result in problems during recovery.
7. [optional step] Click Options to set the options for the backup, including Schedule (p. 39),
Scheme (p. 41), and Password protection (p. 49). For more information see Backup options (p.
37).
8. Perform one of the following:
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To run the backup immediately, click Start backup.
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To run the backup later or on a schedule, click the arrow to the right of the Start backup
button, and then click Later.
When you back up your data to Acronis Cloud, the first backup may take a considerable amount of time to
complete. Further backup processes will likely be much faster, because only changes to files will be transferred
over the Internet.
4.2 Backing up files and folders
To protect files such as documents, photos, music files, video files, there is no need to back up the
entire partition containing the files. You can back up specific files and folders.
To back up files and folders:
1. Start Acronis True Image 2015.
2. On the sidebar, click Backup.
3. To add a new backup, click the plus sign at the bottom of the backup list, and then type a name
for the backup.
4. Click the Backup source icon, and then select Files and folders.