Additional Settings - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE 9.1 - WORKSTATION User Manual

If you want more functionality during restoration, write a standalone version of Acronis
True Image Workstation to the rescue disk. Then you will be able to configure the
restore task using Restore Data Wizard, use Acronis Snap Restore or Acronis Universal
Restore etc.
Under Advanced tab you can select full, safe or both Acronis True Image Workstation
loader version. The safe version does not have USB, PC card or SCSI drivers and is useful
only in case the full version does not load. If you want the computer, booted from the
media, to be accessible for remote control with Acronis True Image Management Console,
add Acronis Bootable Agent to the media. If you have other Acronis products, such as
Acronis Disk Director Suite, installed on your computer, the bootable versions of these
programs' components will be offered as Advanced as well.
In case you check Do not place additional components if there is no free space box,
the program will try to write at least Acronis True Image Workstation to media, short of
space.

6.3.10 Additional settings

1. Validate backup archive upon operation completion
The default setting – disabled.
You can choose to check the backup data integrity. Verification will be performed
immediately after the archive is created.
To check data from an incremental backup, you must have all previous incremental backup
files and the initial full backup. If any of successive backups is missing, validation is
impossible.
To check data from a differential backup, you must have the initial full backup as well.
However, if you created several differential or both incremental and differential backups
based on the same full backup (and therefore, in the same folder), you will need ALL of
these successive backups to validate the archive.
2. Overwrite data on a tape without user confirmation
The default setting – disabled.
A full backup, when created on a tape drive, overwrites all data stored on the tape (see One
of the fastest ways of cloning a Windows system is to deploy its image to a different
computer.
However, the deployment will not be a success if the target hardware is incompatible with
the most critical drivers included in the image. The restored system may be unbootable
because startup drivers and components, used by the source system, cannot operate on a
different motherboard, processor etc.
Using Microsoft System Preparation Tool (sysprep) does not solve this problem, because
Sysprep allows replacing drivers only for Plug-and-Play devices (sound cards, network
adapters, video cards etc.). As for system HAL and boot device driver, they must be identical
in the source and target computers (see Microsoft Knowledge Base, articles 302577 and
216915).
Acronis Universal Restore technology provides an efficient solution for hardware-independent
system restoration by replacing the crucial HAL and hard disk controller drivers.
Acronis Universal Restore does not conflict with Microsoft System Preparation Tool
(sysprep). If you got accustomed to using Sysprep, you can use both tools on the same
system.
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