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What happen when user changes stuff during backup process?

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I am wondering, say if the acronis true image is backup, and the user modified files/apps subsequently before the backup is completed, will the modification be captured?

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Jack, welcome to these user forums.

The simple answer to your question is no.  Once an Acronis backup task has commenced then a snapshot of the data as it was at the point when the backup was started is used to write to the backup file - any changes caused by the user continuing to use the system or its programs / applications would not be captured.

This is also true for certain programs that store changes in memory and only write those changes to disk when either the user saves them or closes the program, such as MS Outlook or Word for example.