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Selecting a hard drive results in selecting all partitions on that drive. If a hard drive has more

than one partition, you may want to select individual partitions for backing up. To do so,

click on the Down arrow at the right of the drive's line. Select the desired partition(s) in the

displayed partition list. By default the program copies only the hard disk sectors that contain

data. However, sometimes it might be useful to make a full sector-by-sector backup. For

example, perhaps you deleted some files by mistake and want to make a disk image before

trying to undelete them because sometimes un-deleting may create havoc in the file system.

To make a sector-by-sector backup, select the

Use the sector-by-sector approach

box.

Please note that this mode increases processing time and usually results in a larger image

file because it copies both used and unused hard disk sectors. In addition, when configuring

a sector-by-sector backup of a complete hard disk you can include in the backup unallocated

space on the hard disk by selecting

Back up unallocated space

. Thus you will include in

the backup all physical sectors on the hard drive.

My Data

- select the file category(s) to back up:

documents, finance, images, music,

and

video

. Each category represents all files of associated types found on the computer’s

hard drives. Furthermore, you can add any number of custom categories containing files and

folders. The new categories will be remembered and displayed along with the above. You

can change contents of any custom or default file category (edit the category) or delete it.

The default file categories cannot be deleted.

For more information on custom categories see

5.3.11

Creating a custom data category for

backups

. If you do not want to keep custom contents of the current backup by creating a

data category, simply select the files/folders from the tree. This set will be effective only for

the current backup task. File filtering can be applied to manually added folders in the

optional

Source files exclusion

step.

My Application Settings

- back up custom settings of Windows applications. This is a

subset of file-level backup that backs up predefined folders and requires minimum user

selections. The program displays a list of supported applications that has been found on the

computer, sorted by categories. You can select a random set of categories and applications.

It is important to note that the program backs up only your settings, and not the application

executable files. If an application seems to malfunction or ceases to run, reinstall it using the

last updates and then recover your settings from the backup.

To select all the supported applications found on the computer for backing up, check the

Installed Applications box. For instant messenger applications, the program will back up both

the settings and history.

The list of supported applications will be expanded gradually. Updates will be available with

new program builds or via the Internet.

My E-mail -

Seagate BlackArmor Backup offers a straightforward way to back up messages,

accounts and settings for Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002, 2003, 2007, Microsoft Outlook

Express, and Windows Mail. E-mail backup is a subset of file-level backups that backs up

predefined folders and requires minimum user selections. However, if need be, you can

select Microsoft Outlook components and folders individually. The list of supported e-mail

clients will be gradually built up. Updates will be available with new program builds or via the

Internet.

You can select the following items:

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Copyright (c) 2000-2009 Acronis. All rights reserved.

Copyright (c) 2009 Seagate Technology LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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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