How to use Acronis Backup & Recovery : Local backup

After install acronis backup and recovery family edition in last post I’l continue with backup tutorial.

To start backup using backup and recovery family follow these steps :

Open Acronis Backup and Recovery

Click Start -> All Programs -> Acronis -> Acronis Backup & Recovery 10 Management Console

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Program will open and focus on the right side, thereis two main things to consider :

1. Backup

Create a backup plan to protect data on the machine

2. Recover

Recover the data from a backup archive created by your backup plan.

Click on Back up

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What to back up

Acronis Backup and Recovery will detect hard drive installed and recognized it as ‘items to back up’, as you see on the picture 2 disk with total 30 GB space.

Click on Change… for setting what data to back up.

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Select disks and volumes to back up, just pick the partition.

Click OK.

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As you see, items to back up is set to Disk 1 (C)

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Where to back up

Click Change... on the right side of where to back up section.

I create folder backup on partition E and pointing it as backup path, E:\backup\

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Click OK to continue.

How to back up

Choose Back up now, start back up immediately after the plan is created.

Click OK.

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Backup process will start and located in Backup plans and task section, complete with the state.

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When the backup process task successfully done, task information will display confirmation window.

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The process itself depend on the backup size and computer speed, for 1,3 GB data in drive C it take around 4 minute.

How about other backup schema like FTP?

I’ll post about backup your data using Acronis Backup & Recovery to FTP server soon.

2 Responses to “How to use Acronis Backup & Recovery : Local backup”

  1. How to use Acronis Backup & Recovery : FTP backup | Computer Tips & Tricks says:
    July 15, 2009 at 6:10 pm

    [...] Local backup using acronis backup and recovery already written in previous post. In this tutorial I’ll continue with another schema that mostly used : FTP backup. [...]

  2. How to restore your computer using Acronis Backup and Recovery | Computer Tips & Tricks says:
    July 18, 2009 at 6:27 pm

    [...] Using local backup, backup save in the same place as system reside but in different partition ( partition E) [...]