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Please be aware that the Try&Decide cannot track changes in disk partitions, so you will be unable to use the Try&Decide mode for virtual operations with partitions such as resizing partitions or changing their layout. In addition, you must not use the Try&Decide mode and disk defragmentation or disk error checking utilities at the same time, because this can irreparably corrupt the file system, as well as make the system disk unbootable. Seagate BlackArmor Backup will track changes until the BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone is almost full. Then the program will alert you that the time has come to make a decision on whether to apply or discard the changes made so far. If you choose to not heed the alert message, the program will automatically restart the system when the zone is full, discarding the changes in the process of rebooting. At that point, all changes will be lost. If you have chosen Discard Changes and rebooted the computer with multiple operating systems installed, you won't be able to boot other operating systems, except the one used for working in the Try&Decide mode. The second reboot will restore the original MBR and make other operating systems bootable. 7.1 Using Try&Decide Now let's see how to use this feature. First of all, you should decide for yourself which part of your system you want to protect and set the Try&Decide options correspondingly. Those options also provide other settings for the Try&Decide mode. 7.1.2. Try&Decide options You can configure Try&Decide options as required. • Partition protected by T&D - specify the partition you want to protect from unauthorized changes during a Try&Decide session. By default, T&D protects Disk C, though you may choose to protect any other partition in your system. • Alert settings - specify whether Try&Decide should alert you when it uses up all the space allotted for saving virtual changes and after a specified time period has passed. By default all alerts are On. 7.2 Try&Decide usage examples The Try&Decide feature can help you in a variety of ways; here are some examples: There are cases when the installation of antivirus software cripples functionality of some applications; in fact, some programs might even refuse to start after antivirus installation. The Try&Decide feature can help you to avoid such a problem. Here's how: 1. Select an antivirus program and download a trial version. 2. Turn on the Try&Decide mode. 3. Install the antivirus software. 4. Try to work with the applications installed on your computer performing your usual tasks. 5. If everything works without any snags, you can be reasonably sure that there will be no incompatibility problems and can buy the antivirus software. 6. If you encounter any problems, discard the changes in your system and try antivirus software from another vendor. The new attempt might turn out to be successful. 54 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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Please be aware that the Try&Decide cannot track changes in disk partitions, so you will be

unable to use the Try&Decide mode for virtual operations with partitions such as resizing

partitions or changing their layout. In addition, you must not use the Try&Decide mode and

disk defragmentation or disk error checking utilities at the same time, because this can

irreparably corrupt the file system, as well as make the system disk unbootable.

Seagate BlackArmor Backup will track changes until the BlackArmor Backup Secure Zone is

almost full. Then the program will alert you that the time has come to make a decision on

whether to apply or discard the changes made so far. If you choose to not heed the alert

message, the program will automatically restart the system when the zone is full, discarding

the changes in the process of rebooting. At that point, all changes will be lost.

If you have chosen

Discard Changes

and

rebooted the computer with multiple operating

systems installed, you won’t be able to boot other operating systems, except the one used

for working in the Try&Decide mode. The second reboot will restore the original MBR and

make other operating systems bootable.

7.1 Using Try&Decide

Now let's see how to use this feature. First of all, you should decide for yourself which part

of your system you want to protect and set the Try&Decide options correspondingly. Those

options also provide other settings for the Try&Decide mode.

7.1.2.

Try&Decide options

You can configure Try&Decide options as required.

•

Partition protected by T&D

– specify the partition you want to protect from

unauthorized changes during a Try&Decide session. By default, T&D protects Disk C,

though you may choose to protect any other partition in your system.

•

Alert settings

– specify whether Try&Decide should alert you when it uses up all the

space allotted for saving virtual changes and after a specified time period has passed. By

default all alerts are On.

7.2 Try&Decide usage examples

The Try&Decide feature can help you in a variety of ways; here are some examples:

There are cases when the installation of antivirus software cripples functionality of some

applications; in fact, some programs might even refuse to start after antivirus installation.

The Try&Decide feature can help you to avoid such a problem. Here’s how:

1. Select an antivirus program and download a trial version.

2. Turn on the Try&Decide mode.

3. Install the antivirus software.

4. Try to work with the applications installed on your computer performing your usual tasks.

5. If everything works without any snags, you can be reasonably sure that there will be no

incompatibility problems and can buy the antivirus software.

6. If you encounter any problems, discard the changes in your system and try antivirus

software from another vendor. The new attempt might turn out to be successful.