Acronis true image server

Manuals Brands ACRONIS Manuals Software TRUE IMAGE CORPORATE WORKSTATION 8.0 User manual Contents Table of Contents Troubleshooting Bookmarks Quick Links User's GuideAcronisTrue Image Server 8.0for WindowsCompute with confidencewww.acronis.com Need help? Do you have a question about the TRUE IMAGE SERVER 8.0 and is the answer not in the manual? Questions and answers Related Manuals for ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE SERVER 8.0 Summary of Contents for ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE SERVER 8.0 Page 1 User's Guide Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows Compute with confidence www.acronis.com... Page 2 Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005. All rights reserved. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. OS/2 is a registered trademark of IBM Corporation. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Page 3 G. Making telecommunication data transmission of the software. Acronis has the right to terminate this license if there is a violation of its terms or default by the Original Purchaser. Upon termination for any reason, all copies of the Software must be immediately returned to Acronis, and the Original Purchaser shall be liable to Acronis for any and all damages suffered as a result of the violation or default. Page 4: Table Of Contents .......................... 13 CRONIS ECURE 3.2.1 Creating Acronis Secure Zone ......................14 3.2.2 Resizing Acronis Secure Zone ......................15 3.2.3 Deleting the images in Acronis Secure Zone ..................16 3.2.4 Deleting Acronis Secure Zone ......................17 ....................18 CRONIS TARTUP ECOVERY ANAGER ........................ Page 5 11.2 ....................... 74 REATING BOOTABLE MEDIA 11.3 ............................. 74 IEWING LOGS CHAPTER 12. TROUBLESHOOTING ......................76 12.1 ............76 ECOVERING CRONIS MAGE ERVER INDOWS 12.2 ......................76 REQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS 12.3 ........................... 79 ECHNICAL SUPPORT Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 6: Chapter 1. Introduction Disk cloning and new disk deployment Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows can be used to clone an image onto multiple servers. For example, a company purchased several servers and needs the similar environment on each of them. Traditionally, IT manager should install operating system and programs on each of them. Page 7: What's New In Acronis True Image Server 8.0 For Windows To restore your system after a failure, you simply use a previously created image. By default, Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows image files have “.tib” extension and can contain images of several partitions or disks. Page 8: Software Usage Terms And Conditions But the

Cost in time and disk space will be as little as one tenth as much. Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows stores only those hard disk parts that contain data (for supported partition types). This reduces image size and speeds up image creation and restoration. Page 9: Chapter 2. Installation And Running Therefore, it is strongly recommended that you create one. However, you can do that after the installation as well. After installation of Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows is completed, you should restart your server. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 10: Running Acronis True Image Server 8.0 For Windows Installation and running When installed, Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows creates a new device in the Device Manager list (Control Panel → System → Hardware → Device Manager → Acronis Devices → Acronis TrueImage Backup Archive Explorer). Do not disable or uninstall this device, as it is necessary for connecting images as virtual disks (see Chapter 6 “Browsing and restoring particular files”... Page 11: Chapter 3. General Program Information • Create Image – create a disk (partition) image. • Restore Image – restore a disk (partition) from a previously created image. • Explore Image – connect an image as a virtual drive. • Unplug Image – disconnect the connected virtual drive. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 12 • Show Log – opens a window with logs. • Options – font and email/Winpopup notification settings. The Help menu is used to invoke help and information about Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 13: Status Bar You can change columns width by dragging their borders with mouse. Acronis Secure Zone Acronis Secure Zone is a special hidden partition for storing disk and partition images. Usual applications can’t access it for image security purposes. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 14: Creating Acronis Secure Zone Acronis Secure Zone can be located on any local disk. It’s created at the expense of the unallocated space, if it’s available, or at the expense of partitions free space. A server can have only one Acronis Secure Zone. Page 15: Resizing Acronis Secure Zone In the next window, enter the size of the zone or drag the slider. After this, you will be prompted to activate Acronis Recovery Manager, to be able to start Acronis True Image at boot time by pressing F11

Specified, an incremental image will be created. Otherwise the program will create a complete image file. The default value for this parameter is “true”. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 72: Script Usage Examples The script for backing up to tape (tapeN specifies the tapes numbers): . Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 73: Chapter 11. Other Operations Its name will appear in the File Name field and the Next button will be enabled. Click Proceed to continue. The checking progress will be indicated in the new window. You can cancel checking by clicking Cancel. After checking is complete you will see the results window. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 74: Creating Bootable Media Other operations 11.2 Creating bootable media In some cases, Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows can be run only from a special bootable diskette or CD. Such a case might be if your server does not boot up normally. Page 75 The three buttons to the left control message filters: the white cross in the red circle filters error messages, the exclamation sign in a yellow triangle filters warnings, and the “i” in the blue circle filters information messages. You can also change column width by dragging their borders with mouse. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 76: Chapter 12. Troubleshooting To fix it, you will have to recover the program. To do this, run Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows installer again. It will detect Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows on your server and will ask you if you want to recover (update) or remove it. Page 77 \\computer\folder. If there’s no Network icon in My Computer, it means either there are network problems, or that Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows is trying to use the wrong drivers. Contact our technical support ([email protected]) and provide all network adapter specifications and the network adapter manufacturer’s name. Page 78 How can I burn Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows images to DVD? Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows can burn images to DVD in Windows, if you have DVD UDF recording software installed. The DVD disk must be formatted. Page 79: Technical Support Image Server 8.0 for Windows is loaded from its boot disk. There is another way to burn an image to a DVD. Using Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows, you can create an image

Windows NT/2000/XP), or hiberfil.sys (a file that keeps RAM contents when the computer goes into hibernation). Page 24: Selecting Image File Size If there's not enough space, Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows will warn you and wait for your decision. You can try to free some additional space and continue or stop Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows , free some space and re-execute the procedure. Page 25: Selecting Data Compression Level If you need to create an image automatically on CD-R/RW, DVD-RW or DVD+R/RW media or a tape, Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows will ask you to insert a new disc (tape), when the previous is full. Page 26: Protecting Images With Passwords Image password protection If you try to restore data from a password-protected image, Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows will ask for the password in a special window, allowing access only to authorized users. Page 27: Image Creation Script Image creation script In the next window, you will see a disk(s) image creation script that will list all operations to be performed, along with their brief descriptions. Image creation script Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 28: Selecting Image Creation Priority Creating a partition (disk) image All operations of a partition (disk) image creation in an archive file are delayed in Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows. A partition (disk) image creation script is created first, and then it’s executed. Page 29: Winpopup Notification To set up the WinPopup notification, enable the respective parameter in Tools → Options → Notification → WinPopup: At that point you will need to provide the network name of the PC to which you want the notification sent. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 30: Chapter 5. Restoring A Disk (Partition) From An Image As mentioned above (see "Running Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows "), Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows can be run in several ways. However, disk restoration is always performed just one way. We recommend that you restore disks using Windows, only using other methods if Windows doesn’t load. Page 31: Checking Image Integrity Before Restoration However, the contents of such an image will still require a password. If an image was protected with a password, Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows will ask for it. The Next button will be disabled until you enter the correct

Key. Alternatively, you can activate this feature later from main program window. Page 16: Deleting The Images In Acronis Secure Zone Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows uses the following scheme to clean up Acronis Secure Zone: • If there is not enough free space in Acronis Secure Zone to create an image, then Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows deletes the most old full image with all subsequent incremental backup images. Page 17: Deleting Acronis Secure Zone Select partitions to which you want to add the space freed from Acronis Secure Zone. In the next window, you will see an Acronis Secure Zone deletion script containing a list of briefly described operations to be performed on partitions (disks). Page 18: Acronis Startup Recovery Manager Acronis Secure Zone can be located on basic disks only. (A basic disk is a physical disk without any dynamic disks.) If a server has only dynamic disks, you will not be able to create the Acronis Secure Zone. Page 19: Supported File Systems • XFS • JFS If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows can copy data using a sector-by-sector approach. For XFS and JFS file systems partition resizing feature is not supported. Page 20: Backing Up To Tape Drive General program information Backing up to tape drive The current version of Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows supports SCSI tape drives. It can store images on and restore them from tape, store large images to multiple tapes, and append incremental images on to a tape with the existing images. Page 21: Chapter 4. Creating A Partition (Disk) Image Selecting image location Specify image file location on a storage device: • Acronis Secure Zone (see "Acronis Secure Zone") • Hard disk • Network disk Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 22: Selecting Image Mode Remember, if your disk becomes physically damaged, an image stored on the same disk will be inaccessible. Selecting image mode At this point, you must decide if you need to create a complete or incremental partition (disk) image. Copyright © Acronis, Inc., 2000-2005... Page 23: Creating An Incremental Image Image mode selection A full image contains all hard disk data, so it takes a lot of space. Acronis True Image Server 8.0 for Windows does not include swap file information (win386.swp under Windows 98/Me and pagefile.sys under