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insurance against accidental deletion (or change) and file damage, file-level backups are an essential part of a good backup strategy. But file-level backups alone are not sufficient for two main reasons: 1) If your startup hard drive completely fails, you won't be able to do any work at all until you've replaced it; and 2) Reinstalling an operating system and applications from their original CDs or DVDs is a lengthy and arduous procedure that you could avoid (or speed up greatly) with an image of your hard disk. You should create images of your primary disk and any other volume you normally use. If you have multiple partitions on a drive, it is advisable to include all of them in the image, because failure of the hard drive in most cases will mean that all the partitions it contains also fail. Here are some more recommendations you can use to plan your backups. You should also keep your personal data separate from your operating system and applications. Such an arrangement allows speeding up the creation of data disk (or partition) images and reduces the amount of information you will need to restore. 5.2 Performing backup 1. Start Seagate BlackArmor Backup 2. Choose Backup and Restore in the lower area of the sidebar and the Create backup task item will be selected by default. 3. Select what type of data you want to back up. Seagate BlackArmor Backup offers you the following backup types: My Computer (image backup of any set of disks/partitions) My Data (file-level backup of any set of files, folders, or an entire file category) System State (file-level backup of system files, drivers, etc.) My E-mail (file-level backup of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Windows Mail settings and messages). My Application Settings (file-level backup of Windows applications settings) File-level backup operations are supported only for the FAT and NTFS file systems. Selecting a backup type starts the Backup Wizard, which will guide you through the steps of creating a backup task. You can also start the Backup Wizard by choosing Operations -> Backup in the main menu and then selecting a backup type. Depending on the backup type chosen, the number of steps in the Backup Wizard may change. For example, in case of backing up the System State, the program backs up predefined data and requires the minimum number of settings for configuring a backup task. 5.2.1 Selecting data for backup When the Backup Wizard screen appears, select the data you wish to back up (in case of choosing the System State, this step will be omitted). My Computer - select the disks or partitions to back up. You can select a random set of disks and partitions. The wizard's right pane shows the hard drives of your computer. Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Acronis. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 2009 Seagate Technology LLC. All Rights Reserved. 25

Section	Page
Chapter 1. Introduction	7
1.1 What is Seagate BlackArmor® Backup?	7
1.2 Advantages	7
1.3 System requirements and supported media	8
1.3.1 Minimum system requirements	8
1.3.2 Supported storage media	9
1.3.3 Supported operating systems	9
1.3.4 Supported file systems	9
1.4 License policy	9
1.5 Technical support	10
Chapter 2. Seagate BlackArmor Backup installation and startup	12
2.1 Installing Seagate BlackArmor Backup	12
2.1.1 Installing Seagate BlackArmor Backup	12
2.2 Extracting Seagate BlackArmor Backup	13
2.3 Running Seagate BlackArmor Backup	13
2.4 Removing Seagate BlackArmor Backup	13
Chapter 3. General information	14
3.1 The difference between file archives and disk/partition images	14
3.2 Full, incremental and differential backups	14
3.3 BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone	15
3.4 Viewing disk and partition information	15
3.5 Try&Decide	16
3.6 BlackArmor DriveCleanser, File Shredder, and System Clean-up	16
3.7 Support for Zip format	16
Chapter 4. Getting to know Seagate BlackArmor Backup	18
4.1 BlackArmor One-Click Protection	18
4.2 Program workspace	20
Chapter 5. Creating backup archives	24
5.1 Selecting what data to back up	24
5.2 Performing backup	25
5.2.1 Selecting data for backup	25
5.2.2 Selecting the target archive location	27
5.2.3 Scheduling	28
5.2.4 Backup method	29
5.2.5 Source files exclusion	30
5.2.6 Selecting the backup options	31
5.2.7 Setting automatic consolidation	32
5.2.8 Providing a comment	33
5.2.9 The operation summary and the backup process	33
5.3 Fine-tuning your backups	33
5.3.1 Archive protection	33
5.3.2 Source files exclusion	34
5.3.3 Pre/post commands	34
5.3.4 Compression level	34
5.3.5 Backup performance	35
5.3.6 Archive splitting	36
5.3.7 File-level security settings	36
5.3.8 Error handling	36
5.3.9 Additional settings	37
5.3.10 Backup reserve copy settings	37
5.3.11 Creating a custom data category for backups	38
5.4 Making reserve copies of your backups	39
Chapter 6. Restoring backup data	40
6.1 Restore under Windows or boot from CD?	40
6.1.1 Network settings in rescue mode	40
6.2 Restoring files and folders from file archives	40
6.3 Restoring disks/partitions or files from images	44
6.3.1 Starting the Restore Wizard	44
6.3.2 Archive selection	44
6.3.3 Restoration method selection	45
6.3.4 Selecting a disk/partition to restore	46
6.3.5 Selecting a target disk/partition	47
6.3.6 Changing the restored partition type	47
6.3.7 Changing the restored partition size and location	48
6.3.8 Assigning a letter to the restored partition	48
6.3.9 Setting restore options	48
6.3.10 Restoration summary and executing restoration	49
6.4 Setting restore options	49
6.4.1 Files to preserve during restoration	49
6.4.2 Pre/post commands	49
6.4.3 Restoration priority	50
6.4.4 File-level security settings	50
6.4.5 Additional settings	50
Chapter 7. Try&Decide	51
7.1 Using Try&Decide	54
7.1.2. Try&Decide options	54
7.2 Try&Decide usage examples	54
Chapter 8. Scheduling tasks	57
8.1 Creating scheduled tasks	57
8.1.1 Setting up once only execution	58
8.1.2 Setting up upon event execution	58
8.1.3 Setting up daily execution	59
8.1.4 Setting up weekly execution	60
8.1.5 Setting up monthly execution	60
8.2 Managing scheduled tasks	61
Chapter 9. Managing BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone	62
9.1 Creating BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone	62
9.2 Resizing BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone	64
9.3 Changing password for BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone	65
9.4 Deleting BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone	66
Chapter 10. Creating bootable media	67
Chapter 11. Other operations	70
11.1 Validating backup archives	70
11.2 Operation results notification	72
11.2.1 Email notification	72
11.2.2 WinPopup notification	73
11.3 Viewing Tasks and Logs	74
11.4 Consolidating backups	76
11.5 Removing backup archives	79
Chapter 12. Exploring archives and mounting images	81
12.1 Searching	81
12.2 Google Desktop and Windows Search integration	83
12.3 Mounting an image	90
12.4 Unmounting an image	92
Chapter 13. Transferring the system to a new disk	94
13.1 General information	94
13.2 Security	95
13.3 Executing transfers	95
13.3.1 Selecting Clone mode	95
13.3.2 Selecting source disk	95
13.3.3 Selecting destination disk	96
13.3.4 Partitioned destination disk	97
13.3.5 Selecting partition transfer method	97
13.3.6 Cloning with manual partitioning	98
13.3.7 Cloning summary	100
Chapter 14. Adding a new hard disk	101
14.1 Selecting a hard disk	101
14.2 Creating new partitions	101
14.3 Disk add summary	102
Chapter 15. Security and Privacy Tools	104
15.1 Using File Shredder	104
15.2 BlackArmor DriveCleanser	105
15.3 Creating custom algorithms of data destruction	108
15.4 System Clean-up	109
15.5 System Clean-up Wizard settings	110
15.5.1 \	110
15.5.2 \	110
15.5.3 \	111
15.5.4 \	112
15.5.5 \	112
15.5.6 \	113
15.6 Cleaning up separate system components	113
Appendix A. Partitions and file systems	114
Appendix B. Hard disks and BIOS setup	117
B.1 Installing hard disks in computers	117
B.1.1 Installing a hard disk, general scheme	117
B.1.2 Motherboard sockets, IDE cable, power cable	118
B.1.3 Configuring hard disk drives, jumpers	118
B.2 BIOS	119
B.2.1 Setup utility	119
B.2.2 Standard CMOS setup menu	120
B.2.3 Arranging boot sequence, advanced CMOS setup menu	121
B.2.4 Hard disk initialization errors	122
B.3 Installing a SATA hard drive	123
B.3.1 Steps for installing a new internal SATA drive.	123
Appendix C. Hard Disk Wiping methods	125
C.1 Information wiping methods’ functioning principles	125
C.2 Information wiping methods used by Seagate BlackArmor Backup	126

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insurance against accidental deletion (or change) and file damage, file-level backups are an

essential part of a good backup strategy. But file-level backups alone are not sufficient for

two main reasons:

1) If your startup hard drive completely fails, you won’t be able to do any work at all until

you’ve replaced it; and 2) Reinstalling an operating system and applications from their

original CDs or DVDs is a lengthy and arduous procedure that you could avoid (or speed up

greatly) with an image of your hard disk.

You should create images of your primary disk and any other volume you normally use. If

you have multiple partitions on a drive, it is advisable to include all of them in the image,

because failure of the hard drive in most cases will mean that all the partitions it contains

also fail.

Here are some more recommendations you can use to plan your backups. You should also

keep your personal data separate from your operating system and applications. Such an

arrangement allows speeding up the creation of data disk (or partition) images and reduces

the amount of information you will need to restore.

5.2

Performing backup

1. Start Seagate BlackArmor Backup

2. Choose

Backup and Restore

in the lower area of the sidebar and the

Create backup

task

item will be selected by default.

3. Select what type of data you want to back up.

Seagate BlackArmor Backup offers you the following backup types:

My Computer

(image backup of any set of disks/partitions)

My Data

(file-level backup of any set of files, folders, or an entire file category)

System State

(file-level backup of system files, drivers, etc.)

My E-mail

(file-level backup of Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Outlook Express, and Windows

Mail settings and messages).

My Application Settings

(file-level backup of Windows applications settings)

File-level backup operations are supported only for the FAT and NTFS file systems.

Selecting a backup type starts the Backup Wizard, which will guide you through the steps of

creating a backup task. You can also start the Backup Wizard by choosing

Operations ->

Backup

in the main menu and then selecting a backup type. Depending on the backup type

chosen, the number of steps in the Backup Wizard may change. For example, in case of

backing up the System State, the program backs up predefined data and requires the

minimum number of settings for configuring a backup task.

5.2.1

Selecting data for backup

When the Backup Wizard screen appears, select the data you wish to back up (in case of

choosing the System State, this step will be omitted).

My Computer

- select the disks or partitions to back up. You can select a random set of

disks and partitions. The wizard's right pane shows the hard drives of your computer.