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Do I have to back-up emails separately or are these included when I choose a differential "Laufwerk"-Backup? Is the "Laufwerk"-Backup the most comprehensive backup type yielding a mirror image of my computer?
[Note that I am using a German version of Acronis True Image Home 2012 and don't know the exact translation of the expression "Laufwerk"-Backup (Drive Backup?).]

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The most comprehensive backup in order:

disk mode sector by sector backup--it get's everything warts and all.

Disk mode -- it gets all the used space onthe source disk except the full page and hiberantion files, which windows jsut rebuilds when it boots after a restore so they aren't needed for a restore.

Partion -- this gets all the used space in a partition (logical drive)

File back -- it gets only the files you specify.

If you are using Outlook then any of the above backups that includes the outlook directory and the user directory containing the otulook archive (pst) file) will in effect, backup up your emails.

Whether you choose differential, incremental, or full does not matter in this regard as that only controls whether a particular backup operation adds to a full backup an entire new backup or jsut those sectors that have changed since the last backup. You should think of an inc or diff as being part of a set or chain of files that sarts with a full.