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1 Getting started
1.1 What is True Image™ Lite 2013 by Acronis
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True Image Lite 2013 by Acronis is a software product that ensures the security of data on your PC.
With this software, you can continuously back up selected files and folders by using two main
utilities:
Acronis Nonstop Backup
This utility continuously saves changes in your files, as often as every five minutes. If needed, you
can rollback easily to any point in time.
Acronis Online Backup
This utility allows you to store your most important files on Acronis Cloud, a special secure
remote storage. Your data will be protected even if your computer is lost, stolen or destroyed.
True Image Lite 2013 allows you to recover your photos, videos, documents and other personal data
should a disaster occur, such as losing data, accidentally deleting critical files or folders, or suffering a
complete hard disk crash.
You can store backups on almost any PC storage device.
Windows-style interface and wizards will make your work easier. Just perform a few simple steps and
let True Image Lite 2013 take care of everything else! When a system problem occurs, the software
will get you up and running in no time.
1.2 True Image Lite 2013 basic concepts
This section provides general information about basic concepts which could be useful for
understanding how the program works.
Backup and recovery
Backup refers to making copies of data so that these additional copies can be used to recover the
original after a data loss event.
Backups are useful primarily for two purposes. The first is to restore a state following a disaster
(called disaster recovery). The second is to recover small numbers of files after they have been
accidentally deleted or corrupted.
Since True Image Lite 2013 protects only your files and folders, and not your disks and partitions, it
serves only the second purpose. The full version of True Image 2013 does both by creating disk (or
partition) images and file-level backups respectively.
Backup versions
Backup versions are the file or files created during each backup operation. If you do not use
consolidation feature, the number of versions created is always equal to the number of times the
backup is executed or to the amount of stored points in time. So, a version represents a point in time
to which the data can be restored.
