Backup and recovery tab

The Backup and recovery tab provides quick access to all of the program functionality related to data backup and recovery.

If you have not created any backups yet, the program will offer to create a new backup or add an existing backup. If you have at least one backup, the screen will display the list of your backups.

The toolbar

See the toolbar commands description in Backup toolbar.

The backups area

The area shows the backups you already have. It provides access to all operations with the existing backups and allows you to start recovery of your data.

• Back up now - adds a new backup version to the existing backup or replaces the existing backup version, depending on the backup scheme being used.
• Start (available for a nonstop backup only) - starts nonstop backup protection.
• Stop (available for a nonstop backup only) - suspends nonstop backup protection.
• Recover - click to recover data.

When a backup box is collapsed, the backup and recovery operations can be started by clicking the appropriate icons. These icons, along with the Operations menu icon (a gear), appear when you move the pointer over a box area.

You can collapse and expand the backup box by clicking the triangle near a backup name.

Operations menu

Clicking the gear icon in the box of a selected backup or right-clicking in the free area of the box opens an Operations menu containing the following items:

• View log - click to open the log for the current backup.
• Expand - expands the selected backup box (available for collapsed boxes).
• Collapse - collapses the selected backup box into a narrow stripe (available for expanded boxes).
• Explore and recover - opens the Backup Explorer window, where you can select any version of the backup.
• Open location - opens the folder containing the backup files.
• Edit settings - allows editing of the current backup settings.
• Recreate backup settings (available only for backups manually added to the backup list) - allows configuring the settings for image, file, and e-mail backups created by a previous Acronis True Image Home 2012 version. This item may also appear for backups created on another computer and added to the backup list without importing their settings.

  Without backup settings, you will be unable to perform certain operations. Specifically, you cannot refresh the backup by clicking Back up now. Also, you cannot edit and clone the backup settings and schedule.

• Validate - starts backup validation.
• Delete - deletes all backup versions of the current backup at their location. Be careful, because the deletion cannot be undone.
• Create shortcut - creates a shortcut on the Desktop. With the shortcut you can run a backup without starting Acronis True Image Home 2012.
• More - opens the following additional items:
  • Consolidate versions - you can delete the backup versions you no longer need while maintaining the consistency of the backup.
  • Clone settings - clones the current backup settings when you need to create several similar backups. Clone the backup settings and then introduce the required changes.
  • Move... - click to move all the backup files to another location. The subsequent backup versions will be saved to the new location.

    If you change the backup destination by editing the backup settings, only new backup versions will be saved to the new location. The earlier backup versions will remain in the old location.

  • Remove from the list - removes the current backup from the backup list shown in the My backups area. This operation also turns off the scheduling of the removed backup (if a schedule was set), but it does not delete the backup files.
• Clean up... (available for Nonstop Backup only) - opens the Cleanup dialog box where you can delete the backup versions you no longer need. The backup chain will not be corrupted.

In case of Nonstop Backup and Online backup, the Operations menu will have less items. The Operations menu of backups created on another computer and added to the backup list without importing the backup settings will also have less items.