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6.6.5 Network connection speed limit ................................................................................................................ 140
6.6.6 Notifications ................................................................................................................................................. 141
6.6.7 Exclusions ..................................................................................................................................................... 142
6.7 Recovery from Acronis Cloud ................................................................................................143
6.7.1 Recovering data from online backups ....................................................................................................... 143
6.7.2 Selecting a version to recover .................................................................................................................... 144
6.7.3 Disk recovery from Cloud ........................................................................................................................... 144
6.8 Removing data from Acronis Cloud .......................................................................................149
7 Useful information ............................................................................................................. 150
7.1 Protecting your system ..........................................................................................................150
7.2 Deciding where to store your backups ..................................................................................151
7.2.1 FTP connection ............................................................................................................................................ 152
7.2.2 Authentication settings ............................................................................................................................... 153
7.3 Making sure that your rescue media can be used when needed ..........................................153
7.3.1 Selecting video mode when booting from the rescue media .................................................................. 157
7.4 Testing that your backups can be used for recovery .............................................................158
7.5 Migrating your system from an HDD to an SSD .....................................................................158
7.5.1 Preparing for migration .............................................................................................................................. 158
7.5.2 Migrating to SSD using the backup and recovery method....................................................................... 163
7.6 Scheduling ..............................................................................................................................163
7.6.1 Daily execution parameters........................................................................................................................ 165
7.6.2 Weekly execution parameters ................................................................................................................... 165
7.6.3 Monthly execution parameters ................................................................................................................. 166
7.6.4 Upon event execution parameters ............................................................................................................ 166
7.7 Searching backups and their content ....................................................................................166
7.7.1 Searching ...................................................................................................................................................... 166
7.7.2 Using Windows Search with Acronis True Image 2014 ............................................................................ 167
8 Tools and utilities .............................................................................................................. 172
8.1 Acronis Startup Recovery Manager .......................................................................................173
8.2 Creating bootable rescue media ............................................................................................174
8.2.1 Acronis Media Builder ................................................................................................................................. 175
8.2.2 Creating BartPE disc with Acronis True Image 2014 ................................................................................. 179
8.2.3 Creating WinPE-based rescue media ......................................................................................................... 181
8.2.4 How to prepare a USB flash drive for Acronis Media Builder .................................................................. 187
8.3 Creating factory bootable media ...........................................................................................188
8.4 Trying system changes safely ................................................................................................189
8.4.1 What is Try&Decide .................................................................................................................................... 189
8.4.2 Starting the Try mode ................................................................................................................................. 192
8.4.3 Stopping the Try mode ............................................................................................................................... 192
8.4.4 Try&Decide options and notifications ....................................................................................................... 192
8.4.5 Try&Decide: typical use cases .................................................................................................................... 194
8.5 Working with Acronis Secure Zone ........................................................................................195
8.5.1 Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................................... 196
8.5.2 Acronis Secure Zone location ..................................................................................................................... 197
8.5.3 Selecting partitions ...................................................................................................................................... 197
8.5.4 Size of Acronis Secure Zone ........................................................................................................................ 198
8.5.5 Managing Acronis Secure Zone .................................................................................................................. 198
8.5.6 Acronis Secure Zone summary ................................................................................................................... 201