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    Acronis True Image 2009 question

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Ocelot, Mar 5, 2009.

  1. Ocelot

    Ocelot Notebook Consultant

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    Hey,

    I was thinking about getting this program and was wondering about a couple of things:

    Can I specify what folders to exclude in the creation of an image of my hard drive? For example, can I tell it exclude my users/music directory?

    Would I be able to load up that image file and selectively restore certain files from it?
     
    Ocelot, Mar 5, 2009
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  2. gerryf19

    gerryf19 I am the walrus

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    It depends...you can certainly do it during normal back ups--not sure if you can exclude files or folders during disk images.

    restoring can be done in several ways, but yes, you can selectively restore things--specifically, if you make a drive image, you can mount the drive and just copy the files you want. I don't know if you can restore an entire disk image and opt out of certain files, though...

    you can download the user manual from their site
     
    gerryf19, Mar 5, 2009
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  3. jakejm79

    jakejm79 Notebook Consultant

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    Maybe a better alternative would be to have a separate partition for the Music and other data, alternatively you could just move it there briefly while you make the image.
     
    jakejm79, Mar 6, 2009
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  4. MaXimus

    MaXimus Notebook Deity

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    It's very easy, you can specifiy which folders to include or exclude in the backup imagre ratehr than just backing up the entire partition dude.

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    MaXimus, Mar 6, 2009
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