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Backups older than 24 hours are automatically consolidated. Acronis True Image Home 2011 will
keep daily backups for the last 30 days and weekly backups until all Nonstop Backup storage space is
used. The consolidation will be performed every day between midnight and 01:00 AM. The first
consolidation will take place after the Nonstop Backup has been working not less than 24 hours. If
you turn off Nonstop Backup for some time, the consolidation will start after you turn it on again. For
more information see Using Acronis Nonstop Backup (p. 47).
How does manual clean up of Acronis Nonstop Backup storage work? - You can clean up Acronis
Nonstop Backup storage by deleting the backed up data for a certain period of time. For example,
you started Acronis Nonstop Backup of your system partition on August 15, 2010. It has been
protecting your partition since that day. Let's suppose that today is December 15, 2010 and your
Acronis Nonstop Backup storage is almost full. You decide to clean up unnecessary data to free up
some storage space. To clean up the storage, select Operations → Clean up... on the Nonstop
Backup box in the Home window. Acronis True Image Home 2011 displays a window allowing you to
select a period of time for deleting the backup versions created during that period. Let's suppose that
you did not make important changes to the system during a period from September 1 to December
1. Select the period and click OK. The program will delete all backup versions created during the
selected period and consolidate the remaining backup versions to keep their consistency. Let's
consider some cases to explain which data is deleted and which data is kept. First let's consider a
system file, for example, notepad.exe. It was backed up during the initial full backup on August 15
and naturally did not change since then. In this case the file will remain in Nonstop Backup after
clean up. And now suppose you installed a game on September 15, played for some time, and then
uninstalled the game on October 5. In this case all files related to the game will be deleted from
Nonstop Backup. One more example: you started to write your master's thesis using Microsoft Word
on November 16. In this case, all thesis file versions backed up from November 16 to December 1 will
be deleted and only the versions from December 2 to today will remain. To sum up the above, all
data modifications made during the selected period will be lost. All files that did not change since the
initial full backup made on August 15 and all data modifications made before September 1 and after
December 1 will be kept.
How can I pause Acronis Nonstop Backup? - There are two ways to pause Acronis Nonstop Backup:
Right-click the Acronis Nonstop Backup icon on the tray and click Pause;
Start Acronis True Image Home 2011 and click the pause icon on the Nonstop Backup box in the
Home window.
How can I turn off and delete Acronis Nonstop Backup? - To turn off and delete Acronis Nonstop
Backup you can click Operations -> Delete backup on the Nonstop Backup box in the Home window.
3.7 Making reserve copies of your backups
You can create reserve copies of your backups and save them on the file system, a network drive, or
a USB flash drive.
In addition to enhancing the backed up data security with replication, this feature allows you to copy
a set of documents, for example, to a USB stick for working on them at home. So now you can
perform a normal backup and copy the same files to a USB stick or any local hard drive. You have the
choice of making a reserve copy in the form of regular files in their native format, a zip compressed
file, or a tib file (optionally with password protection and encryption). A password-protected reserve
copy can be encrypted only if you choose to encrypt the main backup and an encryption key of the
same length will be used for encrypting the reserve copy.
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