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Table of contents
1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................4
1.1 What is Acronis® True Image™ 2016? ....................................................................................... 4
1.2 New in this version .................................................................................................................... 4
1.3 System requirements ................................................................................................................. 5
1.4 Install, update or remove Acronis True Image 2016 ................................................................. 5
1.5 Trial version information ........................................................................................................... 6
1.6 Acronis Customer Experience Program ..................................................................................... 7
1.7 Sending feedback to Acronis ..................................................................................................... 7
1.8 Technical Support ...................................................................................................................... 8
2 Backup ............................................................................................................................9
2.1 Basic concepts ............................................................................................................................ 9
2.2 What you can and cannot back up ..........................................................................................10
2.3 Backing up to local or network storage ...................................................................................10
2.4 Backing up to Acronis Cloud ....................................................................................................11
2.5 Scheduling ................................................................................................................................13
2.6 Excluding items from backups .................................................................................................14
2.7 Selecting a data center for backup ..........................................................................................16
2.8 What is Acronis Cloud? ............................................................................................................16
2.8.1 Creating an Acronis account ......................................................................................................................... 17
2.8.2 Subscription to Acronis Cloud ...................................................................................................................... 17
2.9 Parallels Desktop support ........................................................................................................17
2.10 Backup list icons .......................................................................................................................18
3 Creating bootable rescue media ..................................................................................... 19
4 Recovery ....................................................................................................................... 21
4.1 When do I recover my Mac? ....................................................................................................21
4.2 Recovering your Mac ...............................................................................................................21
4.3 FAQ about Boot Camp partition ..............................................................................................23
4.4 Recovering files from local backups ........................................................................................23
4.5 Recovering files from Acronis Cloud ........................................................................................24
5 Protecting family data .................................................................................................... 26
5.1 What is family data protection? ..............................................................................................26
5.2 Adding a new device ................................................................................................................26
5.3 Backing up any computer ........................................................................................................26
5.4 Recovering data with Online Dashboard .................................................................................27
6 Archiving data................................................................................................................ 28
6.1 What is data archiving? ...........................................................................................................28
6.2 Data archiving vs. Online backup .............................................................................................28
