Backing Up To Tape Drive - ACRONIS TRUE IMAGE CORPORATE WORKSTATION 8.0 User Manual

Be careful! When you run Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation using Acronis Startup
Recovery Manager (before Windows has started) or from bootable rescue media (diskette or
CD), drive letters might sometimes differ from Windows notation.
To activate Acronis Startup Recovery Manager, click Activate Acronis Startup
Recovery Manager.
Acronis Startup Recovery Manager cannot be activated if Acronis Secure Zone is
missing on the hard disk. If you have not created this Zone before, you will be
prompted to do it (see section 4.2.1 above), then Acronis Startup Recovery Manager
will be activated. Otherwise, Acronis Startup Recovery Manager will be activated
immediately.
When Acronis Startup Recovery Manager is activated it overwrites the Master Boot Record
(MBR) with its own boot code. If you have any third party boot managers installed, then you
will have to reactivate them after activating the Startup Recovery Manager. For Linux loaders
(e.g. LiLo and GRUB) you might consider installing them to a Linux root (or boot) partition
boot record instead of MBR before activating Acronis Startup Recovery Manager.
4.4

Backing up to tape drive

The current version of Acronis True Image Corporate Workstation 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.
If you have a SCSI tape drive connected to your workstation, the list of devices
available for image storage and restoration will be extended with a name
corresponding to the drive type.
Images are created on and restored from tapes in the same way as from other
devices, with the following exceptions.
1. If you are to use data tapes previously used by other programs, their contents
will be cleared
2. A new, full image can be stored on an empty tape only. If you use tapes that
already contain data, their contents will be cleared and overwritten
3. Incremental images can be appended to the tape containing the previous image,
either full, or incremental
4. You don't have to provide a filename to store an image on or restore it from a
tape
You might experience short pauses that are required to rewind the tape.
Low-quality or old tape, as well as dirt on the magnetic head, might lead to pauses that can
last up to several minutes long.
Running Acronis True Image (locale console)