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I have read a number of FAQs and posts here and searched a bit on the web but have not satisfied myself I fully understand how to create a disk image.

I have successfully created a full backup and selected incremental.

When performing the back up I was looking for the term "image" it does not appear in any selection I found/made.

The ultimate goal in the near term was to create a system image of machine so I could restore the entire system if required.  Periodically I plan to create an image and independently backup daily as two separate processes. 

I am stuck on the nomenclature used in the help file/glossary but I don't see the term "Full Image Backup"  as a choice.

Protect everything to recover anything with an exact replica of your system disk or a selected partition. In the event of data loss, you can easily recover whatever you need – from your full system to an individual file or folder.
 
Can anyone point me to info that clarify terminology or the process to create an image vice a file backup?

"Full Image Backup - Protect everything to recover anything with an exact replica of your system disk or a selected partition. In the event of data loss, you can easily recover whatever you need – from your full system to an individual file or folder."

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Pete, there is a little bit of licence being taken in the use of the term 'image' in the context that your are asking about.

This partially comes from the product name, Acronis True Image which in turn partially ascribes to some of the capabilities of the product to create a backup 'image'.

It also comes from a certain amount of laziness in using the term image to cover a number of different backup types.

The definitive explanation is given in the ATI 2018 User Guide Glossary.

Disk backup (Image)

backup that contains a sector-based copy of a disk or a partition in packaged form. Normally, only sectors that contain data are copied. Acronis True Image 2018 provides an option to take a raw image, that is, copy all the disk sectors, which enables imaging of unsupported file systems.

Image

The same as Disk backup.

Your successful full backup with its subsequent incremental backup are a backup image for the purpose of this topic.  

Ok, Than you.

Pete