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Bootable media
A physical media (CD, DVD, USB flash drive or 
other media supported by a machine BIOS as a 
boot device) that contains standalone version 
of Acronis True Image 2015. 
Bootable media is most often used to:
recover an operating system that cannot 
start 
access and back up the data that has 
survived in a corrupted system 
deploy an operating system on bare metal
create basic or dynamic volumes on bare 
metal 
back up sector-by-sector a disk that has an 
unsupported file system 
D
Data synchronization
Data synchronization is a process of keeping 
data identical in two or more synchronized 
folders. These folders may be located on the 
same computer or on different computers 
connected via a local network or via the 
Internet. When you create, copy, modify or 
delete a file or a subfolder in your sync folder, 
the same action is automatically done in the 
other sync folders. And vice versa - when 
something changes in the other sync folders, 
the same change is done in your folder. 
Differential backup
1. A backup method used for saving data
changes that occurred since the last full 
backup version (p. 145) within a backup. 
2. A backup process that creates a
differential backup version (p. 145).
Differential backup version
A differential backup version stores changes 
to the data against the latest full backup 
version (p. 145). You need access to the 
corresponding full backup version to recover 
the data from a differential backup version. 
Disk backup (Image)
A backup (p. 144) that contains a sector-based 
copy of a disk or a partition in packaged form. 
Normally, only sectors that contain data are 
copied. Acronis True Image 2015 provides an 
option to take a raw image, that is, copy all 
the disk sectors, which enables imaging of 
unsupported file systems. 
F
Full backup
1. A backup method that is used to save all
the data selected to back up.
2. A backup process that creates a full
backup version (p. 145).
Full backup version
A self-sufficient backup version (p. 144) 
containing all data chosen for backup. You do 
not need access to any other backup version 
to recover the data from a full backup version. 
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Image
The same as Disk backup (p. 145).
Incremental backup
1. A backup method used for saving data
changes that occurred since the last 
backup version (p. 144) (of any type) 
within a backup. 
2. A backup process that creates an
incremental backup version (p. 145).
Incremental backup version
A backup version (p. 144) that stores changes 
to the data against the latest backup version. 
You need access to other backup versions 
from the same backup (p. 144) to restore data 
from an incremental backup version.