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Hi all,
I'm a potential TI 2010 customer and I'm wondering if it can be configured to automatically and silently backup my laptop to a network share on my home network, when it detects that it's on my home network and the SMB share is available.

Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks

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Hello Michael,

I will try to give you the full answer regarding backup to network share using Acronis True Image Home 2010.

Using Acronis True Image Home 2010 you can schedule backup task to a network share. Here is an example how to perform it. Let's suppose you want to back up your system partition.

1. Start Acronis True Image Home and click the My Disks link under Back Up on the Welcome screen.

2. Select the check box of your system partition on the Source selection screen.

3. When you are connecting to a networked computer, in most cases you will need to provide the network credentials (user name and password) to access a network share. To do this, select the Use NT authentication box and enter the user name and password into the appropriate fields.

Pressing the Test authentication and connection button allows testing the ability of the computer to connect to the selected network share. If testing results in an error message, check whether you provided the correct credentials and enter the right credentials for the network share. When the Use NT authentication box is left unselected, the computer will try to log on to the share with the credentials used for logging on to Windows. Having provided the required information, click OK to continue. Choose a target archive for the backup task being configured - you can either add a new backup to an existing archive or create a new one. It is better to use meaningful names, e.g. Disk_C.tib.

4. Carefully read the Summary of actions to be performed during backup and click Proceed if you are satisfied with the backup task settings, otherwise click Options on the Summary screen to change the settings.

5. The first optional step offers to schedule the backup task. Scheduling together with a backup method and automatic consolidation rules allows implementing a desired backup strategy.

6. Choose a backup method. For a more detailed explanation of the methods see Full, incremental and differential backups. Let's reiterate that selection of the backup method may depend on the desired backup strategy.

7. At the next step you may exclude certain files and folders from backup, e.g. temporary ones.

8. Set the options for the backup task being created. You can choose to validate the backup immediately after its creation, though it can be done later.

9. Set the automatic consolidation rules when required by the chosen automatic backup archive management strategy.

10. If you wish, provide comments to the backup. You will also be able to add comments later.

11. Click Proceed when you are satisfied with the backup task settings.

I would recommend you download free trial version of Acronis True Image Home 2010 and test it yourself. 

Let us know if you have any further questions.